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[zellie @zellieimani]

bell hooks wrote, “Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power — not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.”

[TraceyBNYC @TraceyB_nyc]

@ColPamStevenson Happy Birthday

[Sank, MD @pagingdrsank]

When you minimize OBGYNs to “just pregnancy and babies”, you inherently neglect a vast majority of women whose lives may never intersect with pregnancy. Women need care outside of pregnancy. Our bodies are more than just temporary homes for babies.

[Netflix @netflix]

Lenny Kravitz surprises Michelle Buteau to congratulate her on Survival of the Thickest Season 2!!!!

[Earl Landix 🇺🇸 @EarlLandix]

Black Americans through the years.

[Black, Blessed & Unbothered @MelanatedTalk]

Black men are so fine!
That’s it. That’s all.
#BlackMen #BlackLove #BlackCulture
#Dallas 🤩❤️🤩

[TraceyBNYC @TraceyB_nyc]

@kylenabecker Sending condolences to her loved ones during this difficult time. 🙏🏽

[TraceyBNYC @TraceyB_nyc]

@GovAndyBeshear Thank you

[TraceyBNYC @TraceyB_nyc]

@GovAndyBeshear Thank you

[TraceyBNYC @TraceyB_nyc]

I had the opportunity to see them perform and they are exceptional.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Nashville was given the Nickname ‘Music City’ by England's Queen Victoria after receiving the Fisk University Jubilee Singers in her court in 1873. The group, made of mostly those formely enslaved, put Nashville on the musical map. —Fisk University opened in Nashville in 1866 as the first American university to offer a liberal arts education to “young men and women irrespective of color.” Five years later the school was in dire financial straits. George L. White, Fisk treasurer and music professor then, created a nine-member choral ensemble of students and took it on tour to earn money for the University. Every one of these students had been enslaved. The group left campus on October 6, 1871. Jubilee Day is celebrated annually on October 6 to commemorate this historic day. The first concerts were in small towns. Surprise, curiosity, and some hostility were the early audience response to these young black singers who did not perform in the traditional “minstrel fashion.” One early concert in Cincinnati brought in $50, which was promptly donated to victims of the notorious 1871 fire in Chicago. When they reached Columbus, the next city on tour, the students were physically and emotionally drained. Mr. White, in a gesture of hope and encouragement, named them “The Jubilee Singers,” a Biblical reference to the year of Jubilee in the Book of Leviticus, Chapter 25. Continued perseverance and beautiful voices began to change attitudes among the predominantly white audiences. Eventually skepticism was replaced by standing ovations and critical praise in reviews. Gradually they earned enough money to cover expenses and send back to Fisk. In 1872 they sang at the World Peace Festival in Boston and at the end of the year President Ulysses S. Grant invited them to perform at the White House. In 1873 the group grew to eleven members and toured Europe for the first time. Funds raised that year were used to construct the school’s first permanent building, Jubilee Hall. Today Jubilee Hall, designated a National Historic Landmark by the US Department of Interior in 1975, is one of the oldest structures on campus. The beautiful Victorian Gothic building houses a floor-to-ceiling portrait of the original Jubilee Singers, commissioned by Queen Victoria during the 1873 tour as a gift from England to Fisk.

[CSPAN @cspan]

Earvin “Magic” Johnson (@MagicJohnson) receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

[CSPAN @cspan]

Denzel Washington receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

[Kevin Powell @poetkevinpowell]

Andre 3000’s new album is chill, peaceful, exactly what he wanted to do. No, he is not master musician, I was not expecting that, nor was I expecting him to rap, sing. How many people even have courage to be free, to be all of who we are, are not stuck in past, forever forever?

[TraceyBNYC @TraceyB_nyc]

@DeborahNArcher @ACLU Congratulations!!!

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

8 years ago…Remember:

Ethel Lance
Rev. Depayne Middleton-Doctor
Tywanza Sanders
Rev. Clementa Pinckney
Cynthia Graham Hurd
Susie Jackson
Daniel Simmons
Sharonda Coleman-Singleton
Myra Thompson

#MotherEmanuel #Charleston #EndRacism #EndAntiBlackHate

[reporting for duty. @nathanlately]

EGOT WINNER VIOLA DAVIS. 🏆 #GRAMMYs

[Julian Glover @JulianDGlover]

The event just keeps getting bigger & better! @HUDgov Sec. Marcia Fudge will also give special remarks at the @BrookingsInst & @natfairhouse “Examining Racial Bias in Home Appraisals” event featuring a viewing of an excerpt from my ABC doc “Our America: Lowballed”.

[Richie Floyd @richiejfloyd]

If you the house speaker debacle is interesting, you should check out your local city council

[TraceyBNYC @TraceyB_nyc]

Amen!!!

[Eunique Jones Gibson @eunique]

Exceedingly abundantly above all you could ask or think kind of year!!!