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[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘fraught.’
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[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

These are your words of the week

graduate
Ebola virus
slush fund
Neanderthal
edulcorate
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[Dontdo Names @SeeLineWoman]

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[Dontdo Names @SeeLineWoman]

I MISS TWEETDECK! Bring it back!

[Dontdo Names @SeeLineWoman]

Altho I do enjoy Threads more than ole Twitter, why do I return to this defunct neighbrhood? My abandonment issues just won't let me walk away. How Ya'll doing outchere in Flon's atmosphere?

[Dontdo Names @SeeLineWoman]

You See....

[kevin blue @kevinblue345]

Elon Musk is really in court arguing that being forced to treat Black people fairly is an attack on his “freedom.”

His company xAI is suing the state of Colorado because a law said “hey maybe your AI shouldn’t discriminate against Black people in jobs, loans, insurance,

[Dontdo Names @SeeLineWoman]

Unwind and Vice are Married https://t.co/xFwdw7XiML

[Dontdo Names @SeeLineWoman]

I've been to 9. You?

[𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 @Matt_Pinner]

I've been to 2, you ?

[Dontdo Names @SeeLineWoman]

This is funny as hell

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

How Morocco won the AFCON 2025

[Dontdo Names @SeeLineWoman]

I used to love this MFer, but put his ass under the jail. Nip/tuck his trunk with a side complimentary labatomy bcz WTF????
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[Strictly 4 My X’ers @Lizzs_Lockeroom]

Happy #InternationalWomensDay    #LadiesFirst 🙌🏾

[Dontdo Names @SeeLineWoman]

It really is going to come down to liberty or death!

[Dontdo Names @SeeLineWoman]

Not only does orange dude have neighbor hating neighbor, he's also commandeered a human trafficing ring via his terrorist organization icey, he starts war...

[Dontdo Names @SeeLineWoman]

Temptations Break...

[MP10 @MusicPills10]

The Temptations performing "My Girl" on the Ed Sullivan Show, in 1967.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Annie Minerva Turnbo Malone was the first Black, female millionaire with a reported $14 million in assets, generated from her beauty and cosmetics company in 1920. She employed Madame C.J Walker! Annie Malone was a chemist entrepreneur, philanthropist, educator and lived up until the grand age of 87.

In the 1900s, Annie moved with her older siblings to Lovejoy, (now known as Brooklyn, Illinois.) While experimenting with hair and different hair-care products, she developed and manufactured her own line of non-damaging hair straighteners, special oils, and hair-stimulant products for black women. She named her new product “Wonderful Hair Grower”. To promote her new product, Turnbo sold the Wonderful Hair Grower door-to-door. Her products and sales began to revolutionize hair-care methods for all Black Americans.
In 1902, Turnbo moved to a thriving St. Louis, where she and three employees sold her hair-care products door-to-door. As part of her marketing, she gave away free treatments to attract more customers.

Due to the high demand for her product in St. Louis, she opened her first shop in 1902 at 2223 Market Street. She also launched a wide advertising campaign in the black press, held news conferences, toured many southern states, and recruited many women whom she trained to sell her products.

One of her selling agents, Sarah Breedlove Davis, later known as Madam C. J. Walker, operated first in St. Louis and later in Denver, Colorado, until a disagreement led Walker to leave the company. Walker allegedly took the original Poro formula and created her own brand of it (this is disputed). This development was one of the reasons which led then Turnbo to copyright her products under the name "Poro" because of what she called fraudulent imitations and to discourage counterfeit versions.

Poro may have received this name from a Mende word for devotional society or it may be a combination of the married names of Annie Pope and her sister Laura Roberts. Due to the growth in her business, in 1910 Turnbo moved to a larger facility on 3100 Pine Street.

n 1917, Malone opened the Poro College in St. Louis, the first institution devoted to the study and teaching of black cosmetology. The school had over 75,000 trained agents worldwide. Even Madam C.J. Walker once worked as one of Malone’s Poro agents.

By the 1920s, Malone was a multi-millionaire and deeply ingrained in philanthropy. She served on the board of the St. Louis Colored Orphan’s Home and financed two full-time scholarships for at each Historically Black College and University in the country. She also made a $25,000 donation to help build the St. Louis Colored YWCA.

[Dontdo Names @SeeLineWoman]

Where are the Black-Excellence pubic schools in the US?

[Dontdo Names @SeeLineWoman]

Every Day is Work! #BobMarley

[Dontdo Names @SeeLineWoman]

Live life to the fullest...

[Dontdo Names @SeeLineWoman]

Buck

[Liberta Cherguia 🇪🇺 @MbarkCherguia]

If this dog was yours, what would you name it?

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

For all those who love baking, but want the task to be made easy as possible. Anna M. Mangin foresaw your needs. She invented the pastry fork in 1891.

In 1891, Anna M. Mangin invented the pastry fork — a simple but practical kitchen tool designed to mix pie crusts, cookies, butter, and flour without having to knead everything by hand.

She was granted U.S. Patent No. 470,005 on March 1, 1892.

At a time when few women — and even fewer Black women — were recognized for their inventions, Mangin created a tool that reduced the physical strain of mixing and mashing. The pastry fork could also be used to beat eggs, mash potatoes, and prepare dressings.

In 1893, her invention was exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Initially, women and people of color were largely excluded from participation. After continued pressure for representation, a limited number of exhibits were allowed — including Mangin’s pastry fork.

Though it occupied only a small space in the exhibition hall, one writer described it as “the only thing of its kind at the patent office.”

Anna M. Mangin may not be a household name, but her invention represents something larger — innovation, persistence, and the often overlooked contributions of African American women in everyday life.

Sometimes history isn’t only about grand speeches or major political events. Sometimes it’s about the tools in our kitchens — and the people who made them easier to use.