antoinette norris

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired- Fannie Lou Hamer

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Happy birthday to B. B. King, born on this day in 1925!

[DC Public Schools @dcpublicschools]

On this day, we remember six members of the DCPS family we lost 25 years ago: students Asia Cottom, Bernard Brown, and Rodney Dickens, and teachers Hilda Taylor, James Debeuneure, and Sarah Clark.

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[Hip Hop Golden Age @HipHopGoldenAge]

"I got a letter from the government the other day
I opened and read it, it said they were suckers..." #BlackSteelInTheHourOfChaos #PublicEnemy @PublicEnemyFTP

[Boston Radio Watch®️ @bostonradio]

37 years ago tonight, April 1, 1989, Corey Glover and Living Colour performed “Cult of Personality”(1988) on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. The song peaked at #13 on Billboard’s Hot 💯.

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

A simple message with big meaning: "I am somebody." We are grateful to Rev. Jesse Jackson for helping teach generations of children to believe in themselves and in one another. Thank you for being part of our neighborhood. 💛💚

[Renee @PettyLupone]

Just to update everyone, Surya Bonaly is looking good and still got it. Bless. ⛸️

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This is the NYC village Parade and it’s definitely one of a kind and fantastic as they’re dancing to Thriller by the late great Michael Jackson! 👇👇👇👇

[Michelle Crypto Coach @michellecrrjn]

Written by a teenage Michael Eugene Archer aka D’Angelo. Heartbreaking to hear he passed away at 51 today! #RIPDAngelo

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Rest in peace, D’Angelo…

Today, the music world is mourning the loss of a true soul pioneer. According to multiple reports, the legendary singer Michael Eugene Archer, better known as D’Angelo, has died at the age of 51 after a quiet battle with pancreatic cancer.

From his breakthrough debut Brown Sugar to the richly complex Voodoo and his long-awaited return with Black Messiah, D’Angelo’s work changed the shape of modern R&B and neo-soul. He blurred lines between genres — infusing gospel, funk, jazz, hip-hop — always with a raw emotional core.

He wasn’t just an artist; he was a guiding light. His legacy will live on in every artist who strives for authenticity, depth, and a connection beyond the mainstream.

To his family, his children, his collaborators, and every fan whose heart he touched — may you find strength in his music, comfort in memories, and peace in the knowledge that his voice will echo forever.

Rest well, D.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms.

‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms.

But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Eddie Palmieri, the pianist, composer and bandleader who helped usher in New York City’s golden age of salsa, has died at 88. https://t.co/VUPseEd9SK

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

The duet between Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines in WHITE NIGHTS (1985). Blends ballet and tap, choreographed by Twyla Tharp, and is a showcase of two dance legends.

[Council of DC @councilofdc]

49 years ago, on this date in 1976, @wmata Metrorail service began operating

[Bourbon Podcast @bourbonpodcast1]

Always Fine Bourbon.
Cheers. 🥃

[CBS Sports @CBSSports]

MARYLAND MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TERPS WIN IT!

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1977, Civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer died in Mississippi. Rest in Power!

—Fannie Lou Hamer was a voting rights activist and civil rights leader. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi Freedom Summer
for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

On June 9, 1963, Hamer was on her way back from Charleston, South Carolina with other activists from a literacy workshop. Stopping in Winona, Mississippi, the group was arrested on a false charge and jailed. Once in jail, Hamer and her colleagues were beaten savagely by the police, almost to the point of death.

Released on June 12, she needed more than a month to recover. Though the incident had profound physical and psychological effects, Hamer returned to Mississippi to organize voter registration drives, including the "Freedom Ballot Campaign", a mock election, in 1963, and the "Freedom Summer" initiative in 1964.

Later she became the Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, attending the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in that capacity.

Her plain-spoken manner and fervent belief in the Biblical righteousness of her cause gained her a reputation as an electrifying speaker and constant activist of civil rights.

LEGACY:
✊🏿There is a Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden in Ruleville, Mississippi. It was rededicated by the city on July 12, 2008.

✊🏿The Fannie Lou Hamer Civil Rights Marker (part of the Memorial Garden) was unveiled on May 25, 2011.

✊🏿A statue of Fannie Lou Hamer was unveiled in October 2012 at the Memorial Garden.

✊🏿In 1970 Ruleville Central High School held a "Fannie Lou Hamer Day". In 1976 the City of Ruleville celebrated a "Fannie Lou Hamer Day".

✊🏿Sweet Honey in the Rock, the Washington DC-based African American female a cappella singing group, wrote and recorded a song called "Fannie Lou Hamer."

✊🏿Dark River, an opera about Hamer written by composer and pianist Mary D. Watkins, premiered in November 2009 in Oakland, California.

✊🏿95 South's "All of the Places We've Been" by Gil Scott-Heron with Brian Jackson was a standard at any Gil Scott-Heron show. The song was his tribute to Fannie Lou Hamer, as he stated in his DVD of a 2001 concert, New Morning: The Paris Concert.

✊🏿On Oct. 6, 2012 (the 95th anniversary of Mrs. Hamer's birth), an acclaimed new musical inspired by the life of Fannie Lou Hamer -- titled and written by Felicia Hunter -- had its world premiere in New York City to sold-out audiences. Hunter currently is seeking to take the work to Broadway.

[antoinette norris @afnorris]

@PoPville Noooo 😡

[National Mall NPS @NationalMallNPS]

HAPPENING NOW: 5th graders from Watkins Elementary School are reading Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the same place where #MLK spoke in 1963. Thanks & congratulations to our inspiring speakers. #WashingtonDC

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Inventions that would not exist without Black Women.

—A THREAD—

Valerie Thomas, NASA physicist, invented 3D Movies

In 1977, she began to develop the illusion transmitter, the 1st mechanism that allowed images to be viewed in 3D using concave mirrors & rays of light.

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

Coco hit the Mutombo finger wag 👆

Tough.

(via @usopen)