Harvard’s real crime? Not bending the knee to Trump and Musk’s authoritarian tantrums. Under the guise of “fighting antisemitism,” they’re extorting universities, gutting free speech, and disappearing students.
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Joan Mulholland transferred from Duke University to HBCU Tougaloo College to fight for equal justice & became a close advisor to Dr. MLK. She is the first white member of Delta Sigma Theta pledged in the 60s. With her son.
In the 1940s, Pepsi saw Black Americans as an untapped niche market while Coca Cola marketed mainly to white people. Pepsi adverts portrayed black people in a positive light, in a time with racial segregation, in spite of facing threats from KKK. Coke’s recipe was heavily influenced by white supremacy and it was marketed mainly to the white middle class while ignoring the Black American market.
During the 1940s, Pepsi launched a “negro markets” department and had black sales representatives promoting the brand in urban areas. They also hired black models to appear in ads, featured in black publications and they also displayed Pepsi in stores that were mostly frequented by black customers. Thus pepsi became popular within the black community while coke within the white community becoming a black V white drink. Pepsi's market share increased by the 1950s and according to statistics (by then), black people were 3 times more likely to buy Pepsi than Coke.
Ultimately both companies eventually began to implement diversity advertising campaigns after realizing that they were missing out on the opportunity to generate billions of dollars in revenue though that still didn’t put an end to the racism within the workforce.
Only our hair grows towards the sun. It defies gravitational force. "My skin absorbs the sun's ☀️ rays and my hair defies gravity. You can't tell me I'm not magical." Unknown. Black and Proud ✊🏿
#OnThisDay in 1865, the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery, was officially adopted into the U.S. Constitution—246 years after enslaved Africans landed in Jamestown, Virginia.
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“Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, well everywhere is WAR.” #War#BobMarley
🎥 Amandla Festival of Unity, Boston 1979.