Suzie N-W

Appreciate life, loved ones and nature💜

[Kenny @Kehinde_Slitz]

This is an exceptional speech.

Notice how she engages the audience.

She pauses for effect, smiles, and uses the right inflection.

When the audience claps, she waits, reveling in the applause.

This is a good example of how to deliver an engaging speech.

My favorite quote from her is:

"Remember, if all you see is all you see, then you don’t see all there is to be seen."

Do watch till the end!

Great job from @CrystalAsige @OneYoungWorld

[FeelGoodTales @feelgoodtale]

@historyinmemes NASA has formally renamed its Washington, D.C., headquarters for Mary W. Jackson.

She was the space agency's first Black female engineer, as told in the book and movie, "Hidden Figures."

[Keke Palmer @KekePalmer]

I’m no guru on successful relationships 😅. But I believe that love should honor individualism even in partnership. If I’m not good as an individual how can I be good in union? If love means compromising my passion, ambition or dreams then it’s not the love for me. Because if I lose myself, I will eventually lose you too or worse, blame you.

[Trussell @TrussellUK]

🚨 1.5 MILLION emergency food parcels were provided by food banks in our network between April and September.

This is the highest number of parcels our network has ever distributed in 6 months.

And this is likely to get worse – unless the government steps up to make change. ⤵️

[Black British Book Festival @BBBookFestival]

We're deeply saddened by the loss of Benjamin Zephaniah, a pioneering Dub Poet and Author whose energy, vibe, and unapologetic work paved the way for Black British Writers. We're forever grateful for his contributions and commitment. He’s legacy will live on forever.

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[Every Movie Plug @everymovieplug]

One of the best and quality movies on Netflix

[Dionne Warwick @dionnewarwick]

I have more than 2 songs? I just learned something today.

[BLAM UK @BLAMCharity]

🎉Wishing Diane Abbott a happy 70th birthday, a phenomenal woman who was the first Black Woman MP in the UK! We're proud of her achievements, despite the challenges she’s faced! She paved the way for Black Women MPs, and we're excited to see more Black Women in Parliament! 🙌🏾✨

[Simone Biles @Simone_Biles]

@cubbieXbrando @mhdksafa 🩷 when this video was circulating, her parents reached out. It broke my heart to see, so I sent her a little video 🩷

there is no room for racism in any sport or at all !!!!

[Misan Harriman @misanharriman]

I struggled in school and dropped out of university. Last year I walked into the
@NPGLondon
and signed my prints that are now part of their permanent collection. PLEASE embrace the beauty and potential of what you are. You never know where it will take you. #dyslexia #fearnot

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

How Successful Black Communities Were Burnt Down Through Race Riots https://t.co/ffdvQcl8hW

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Selma Burke was a sculptor and a member of the Harlem Renaissance movement, best known for a bas relief portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

She never received credit for her portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt which was later featured on the US dime.

—In 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt sat for a portrait by a young African-American artist from Mooresville. That artist was Selma Burke.

However, John R. Sinnock’s signature is on the dime, and he receives credit for the work while Burke’s portrait, which she spent two years working on, is only recognized as an inspiration and model for the final image used on the coin. According to Lisa E. Farrington, author of “Creating Their Own Image, The History of African-American Women Artists,” Sinnock made “barely perceptible alterations.”

HONORS

As well as a sculptor, Burke was also a lifelong student and educator, winning numerous awards and fellowships. She earned her first degree from Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina and eventually graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia.

She started her first art school in 1940, eventually starting her second in 1946, and opened the Selma Burke Art Center in Pittsburgh, which operated from 1968 to 1981.

Burke is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She received several honorary doctorate degrees during her lifetime, including one awarded by Livingston College in 1970 and one from Spelman College in 1988.

Milton Shapp, then-governor of Pennsylvania, declared July 29, 1975, Selma Burke Day in recognition of the artist's contributions to art and education. Her papers and archive are in the collection of Spelman College.

Burke was a member of the first group of women – along with Louise Nevelson, Alice Neel, Georgia O'Keefe, and Isabel Bishop – to receive lifetime achievement awards from the Women's Caucus for Art, in 1979. She received the award from President Jimmy Carter in a private ceremony in the Oval Office.

She received a Candace Award from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women in 1983 and the Pearl S. Buck Foundation Women's Award in 1987.

She died in 1995 at the age of 94.

[Madonna @Madonna]

34 years ago I made a commercial with Pepsi to celebrate the release of my song Like a Prayer.
The commercial was immediately canceled when I refused to change any scenes in the video where I was kissing a black saint or burning crosses.
So began my illustrious career as an artist refusing to compromise my artistic integrity.

Thank you @pepsi for finally realizing the genius of our collaboration. 😄

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

46 years ago today, Stephen Bantu Biko, an anti-apartheid activist, and founder of the Black Consciousness Movement died in a prison cell in Pretoria.

20 years later, an Apartheid Security Police, Gideon Nieuwoudt, admitted to murdering him.

Rest in Power

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Cover of The Times @thetimes Magazine out today...

Thank you @deborahross 😊

Please RT
for the benefit of those who want to stop us all calling out this disgraceful Tory government...
We aren't stopping 💪🏼

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

NEWS
Gillian Keegan's department gave £1m from the schools' rebuilding budget in May to a firm where her husband Michael is a non-executive director...@DailyMirror

Dept says no conflict of interest..

Should Keegan just resign now?

Shambolic

[Marverine Cole @TVMarv]

'The family & friends of Gboyega Odubanjo are asking for the help of his community through... fundraising, the purpose of it is to support in his final arrangements and continue on his legacy. We are launching a foundation for low-income Black writers': https://t.co/kVkNdgQt19

[Dementia UK @DementiaUK]

“We didn’t get any support after Mum’s dementia diagnosis. I had to give up work and care for her full-time.”

Families like Julie’s are watching loved ones struggle with dementia and being left to deal with it alone.

Will you stand in solidarity with families facing dementia?

[Suzie N-W @Suzi3NW1]

🙏🏾

[Prof. Pragya Agarwal @DrPragyaAgarwal]

I saw this shared elsewhere and I am blown away and haunted by these words. Such power, beauty, resistance. Rest in peace.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1956, the White Citizens Council and Klan launched full-scale rioting in Clinton High School when it became the first school to be integrated in the South. It was bombed two years later.