BEAUTIFULLY FLAWED🦋

Moniece La’Shay 🌹 SC : simply_moniece IG : MELANIN___MONROEE

[BEAUTIFULLY FLAWED🦋 @SIMPLY_MONIECE]

This One’s For My Angels! 😇🙏🏾💙✨
There was plenty of days that I wanted to give up because my heart had been broken over and over again but I had to remember that they were still watching me and walking with me.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In 1938, Lloyd Gaines filed a lawsuit after being denied admission to the University of Missouri Law School in 1935 because he was black.

The Court ruled in his favor & required Missouri to admit him or set up a black law school.

He disappeared 3 months later never to be found.

—Lloyd Lionel Gaines was born to the Gaines family in northern Mississippi in 1911. One of eleven children, seven of whom survived illness and accident, he moved with his widowed mother and siblings to St. Louis after the premature death of their father. They found a better, although not easy, life for themselves in Missouri. Gaines excelled in his studies graduating as valedictorian in 1931 from Vashon High School. At Lincoln University in Jefferson City, he graduated with honors and was President of the senior class, while participating in many extra-curricular activities and working to pay for his schooling.
Despite his outstanding scholastic record, the University of Missouri School of Law denied Gaines admittance in 1936 solely on the grounds that Missouri's Constitution called for "separate education of the races." By state law, Missouri would have been required to pay for Gaines to attend the Universities in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, but Gaines was determined to fight for the right to attend law school in his own state university. He sought legal assistance from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which had been working systematically to overturn the ignominious precedent of "separate but equal" established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. Together, they challenged the University of Missouri's admissions policies. In 1938, Gaines won his case before the United States Supreme Court in State of Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada, paving the way for a series of cases that would lead to Brown v. Board of Education's outlawing segregation in public education. In March 1939, only three months after his Supreme Court victory, Lloyd Gaines was last seen in Chicago. He disappeared at age 28 with his promise of attending law school in Missouri unfilfilled. Lloyd Gaines was never to be seen or heard from again.

[Cardi B @iamcardib]

Yeup …He loveeed her

[BEAUTIFULLY FLAWED🦋 @SIMPLY_MONIECE]

Please @chrisbrown! 🥺🙏🏾

[Sarah 🦋 @breezyxmuneca]

Alright, @chrisbrown hear me out..
A CB eras tour, 1 night. 10 albums.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

September 20, 1958, Martin Luther King Jr. in the hospital after being stabbed in a Harlem department store with a letter opener lodged near his heart.

— MLK Jr. Assassination Attempt —

On 20th September 1958, Izola Ware Curry, a 42-year-old mentally disturbed woman, stabbed Martin Luther King, Jr., while he signed copies of his book, Stride Toward Freedom, at Blumstein’s Department Store in Harlem, New York. Curry approached King with a seven-inch steel letter opener and drove the blade into the upper left side of his chest. King was rushed to Harlem Hospital, where he underwent more than two hours of surgery to repair the wound.

Izola Ware Curry was born June 14, 1916 in Adrian, Georgia. She was married to James Curry. The couple lived in Savannah until the late thirties when they separated then Izola Curry moved to New York City. She lived on the top floor of a tenement house at 121 W. 122nd Street in Harlem. She worked as a domestic she was unemployed. Her mind, clouded with thoughts of fear, fear of a false enemy, began fail her. For years, Curry feared the N.A.A.C.P. She believed that the members of the organization were all Communists.

Her life was a series of troubles. Her marriage was troubled. Her life was troubled. Her mind was troubled. Her mind in turmoil, her reasoning gone, she took a letter opener and plunged it into to the breast of Dr. Martin Luther King on September 21,1958 in New York City. She was arrested at the scene and later found to be carrying a loaded gun. During her questioning by police at New York's 28th Precinct, Curry indicated that she believed the NAACP and King had been "boycotting" and "torturing" her. When asked why she stabbed King she replied, "if it wasn't him it would have been me, he was going to kill me." She was committed to Bellevue Hospital for observation and soon found not competent to stand trial.

On October 20, 1958, Curry was committed to Matteawan State Hospital for the criminally insane, where she was diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic. To this day few people, if any, know of the whereabouts of Izola Curry, of even if she is alive. Surprisingly, journalists who would have ordinarily covered the case in great detail have not covered the entire event more. Few, if any, photographs of Izola Ware Curry exist.

Izola Ware Curry died on March 7, 2015 in Queens New York. She was 98.

Ms. Curry died in a nursing home, the last stop in the series of institutions that had been her home for more than half a century. Her death, confirmed by the office of the chief medical examiner of New York City, was first reported by The Smoking Gun, the investigative website.

The stabbing nearly cost Dr. King his life, requiring hours of delicate surgery to remove Ms. Curry’s blade, a seven-inch ivory-handled steel letter opener, which had lodged near his heart. If he had so much as sneezed, his doctors later told him, he would not have survived.

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[KJ @kjjpeg]

Been listening to F.A.M.E all day and I can’t believe Chris Brown gave us this classic at 21

[Complex Pop Culture @ComplexPop]

The legend & comedy icon Bernie Mac passed away 15 years ago today.

You are missed. 👑🕊️

[THUGGA @THUGGABEY]

BLUE’S HEELS???? OMGGGG 😭🔥 SHE EATING HER MOTHA UPPP

[KeyBlade Baddie Protector🗝️❤️ @ayobigteo]

I’m sorry but Black ppl literally do everything better

[ʟᴜᴀɴᴀ; ✨️ @LuhBreezy_]

Release this version, pls @chrisbrown 🥹🔥

[B’DAY 20th Anniversary Updates @B7Album]

Anyone who does the “Shoot Beyoncé or…” trend is weird down. Like look at yourselves

[N✨ @respectfullysis]

Aaliyah’s ad-libs on the og version of Don’t Think They Know >>

[AALIYAH LEGION @AaliyahLegion]

the swoop.

[LIZZO @lizzo]

Ok… last thing. Can I say IM SO PROUD OF MY VOCALS!!! Like… I been working on my voice for the last couple years… some people think I’m a born singer but I’m a rapper first!

I wanna thank God & my vocal coach for getting me here 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

I wish a teacher would…

[Cardi B @iamcardib]

RIP PACO RABANNE

[cocó 🧞‍♀️ @cocoxinaa]

Let’s talk about the WHITE GIRLS @ St Hubert’s & Franklin Towne in Northeast Philly who want to send racist snapchats to my godsister and the other young black girls at the school! Since the school doesn’t want to do anything I decided to blast their faces!

[2000s @PopCulture2000s]

this song never gets old https://t.co/DTn7uZzjeM