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In 1974, Redbone became the first Native American rock group to reach the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart with their hit “Come and Get Your Love.”
The band used to begin their televised performances of the song with a traditional “Hail” song and dance, in order to proudly assert their Indigenous identity before a wide audience.
Fantasia tells the crowd that her mic is on and proves she’s not lip-syncing by tapping the mic during her recent performance at the Black Wall Street Legacy Festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Michael Jackson had 3,000 dancers auditioning…and he picked HER.
This Sri Lankan Odissi queen brought 2000-year-old temple fire to the “Black or White” video and absolutely cooked MJ on the highway 😤
Nobody talks about this part… but it’s lowkey one of the coldest cultural moments in music history.
Look at her explaining how thrilling it felt . ❤️
Dylan Harper is mature years beyond his age.
Castle was about to snap, and a tech or ejection changes everything.
For a rookie to have this kind of presence of mind to play peacemaker and protect his teammate like this is insane.
🚨 DAMN.
Ruby Bridges said the moment she finally understood what was happening during school integration was when a little white boy told her:
“My mom said I can’t play with you because you’re a nigger.”
She was SIX.
And she said hearing that felt like “a huge weight lifted,” because suddenly everything made sense.
Why the classrooms were empty.
Why adults were screaming.
Why U.S. Marshals had to escort her to school.
Not because of anything she did.
Just because of the color of her skin.
A six-year-old child realizing an entire country was angry at her for existing.
Mel Gibson spent $70M of his own money making two consecutive films in languages nobody on Earth speaks conversationally. They generated $733M at the box office.
The Passion of the Christ. Aramaic, Hebrew, and Latin. $30M self-financed after every studio in Hollywood passed. Gibson marketed and distributed it himself through Newmarket Films. It opened on Ash Wednesday 2004 and grossed $612M worldwide, held the domestic R-rated box office record for 20 years, and remains the highest-grossing self-financed film in cinema history. His personal take cleared $400M.
Two years later he did it again. Apocalypto. Entirely in Yucatec Maya. $40M budget. Zero Hollywood actors. His lead, Rudy Youngblood, was working at a Lowe's in Texas when Gibson pulled him from a general casting call. Youngblood had less than a month to learn Yucatec Maya, performed every stunt himself including a 175-foot waterfall free fall and sprinting in front of a live 200-pound jaguar. The stunt coordinator called him "the purest athlete I've ever met." The film tripled its budget at $120M worldwide.
The part nobody talks about: the language barrier was the competitive advantage. When your audience can't understand a word of dialogue, every frame has to communicate through blocking, expression, sound design, and camera work. Both films play identically whether you speak English, Mandarin, or Swahili. The subtitles are almost beside the point.
Two dead languages. Two unknown casts. $733M. Gibson funded every dollar himself because nobody in the industry believed the math would work.
The math worked.
Youngest player to play in the PL.
Youngest player to start a PL match.
Youngest player to score a PL goal.
Youngest player to win the PL trophy.
16-year-old Max Dowman did all of that while studying for his GCSEs 😮🏆