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Black matters in Alabama

[AlaBlackma @alablackma]

Diversity is no longer about one group. It's about America and how we navigate it together--from cradle to grave. Institutions/corporations that get it will win. @UofAlabama's Dr. Christine Taylor is driving the change the university desperately needs. https://t.co/JuhOVCx0Ym

[AlaBlackma @alablackma]

Growing up in Dolomite, @TownsJeremy had a dream (@NFL) , but Janice Towns had another (medical school). Jeremy knew not to mess with mom so after fulling his dream, Town is at @usacollegeofmed. Young athletes, always have two dreams. https://t.co/TZppc7dbIg @JaredJayBBoyd

[AlaBlackma @alablackma]

Lonnie Johnson was a tinkering child in Mobile. He built a go-cart with a lawnmower engine and scraps, and once almost burned the house down marking rocket fuel. An eventual engineer from @TuskegeeUniv he invented the super-soaker, earning millions. He now owns 100+ patents.

[AlaBlackma @alablackma]

Game knows (and honors) game. #TheWakandaEffect https://t.co/uYc4U49x3q

[Dr. Hadiyah Green @drhadiyahgreen]

Lonnie Johnson is an inventor and engineer who holds more than 100 patents. He is best known as the the inventor of the Super Soaker water gun. However, most of his patents are #energy related. #BlackPantherMovie #wakanda energy in real life. #blackhistorymonth #rolemodel.

[AlaBlackma @alablackma]

Help my @aldotcom colleague @StarrDunigan celebrate Alabama youth who are affecting positive change in their neighborhood, school or city. #BlackMagicProject https://t.co/LqJ47vbbSS

[AlaBlackma @alablackma]

There's no @DoubtCBS about the Mobile native's talent or passion. An #LBGT advocate, @Lavernecox is 1st transgender person nominated for an acting #Emmy and 1st to appear on @TIME 's cover. She first caught us, of course, in #OrangeIsTheNewBlack She recently released 1st single.

[AlaBlackma @alablackma]

If you live in Mobile, you may recognize Kennith Moorer as your USPS carrier, quietly providing for his family. If you're a long-time rap fan, you'll know him as "DJ K-Rock", spinnin' the beats behind legendary @mclyte Great portrait by @JaredJayBBoyd https://t.co/mh48PGCUrq

[AlaBlackma @alablackma]

Born in Montgomery in 1899. Percy L. Julian left the South for DePauw U. He pioneered the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs, laid foundation for steroids and birth control pills, earned more than 130 patents, and was first black chemist in the National Academy of Sciences,

[AlaBlackma @alablackma]

After losing 2 people she loved to dreaded c-disease, @drhadiyahgreen wants to ensure no one has to choose death or the awful life of chemo. An @AlabamaAMTruth alum, she won $1.1 million grant after becoming 1st to cure cancer in mice using lasers. @MSMEDU https://t.co/C2YvVVnm17

[AlaBlackma @alablackma]

What is a revolutionary? Who today embodies its spirit and legacy--a legacy shaped, in part, by the girl from Birmingham whose house in the neighborhood soon known as "Dynamite Hill" was bombed when she was just 6. @AngelaDavis_ fought for change in the 60s and is still doing so.

[AlaBlackma @alablackma]

@ProfJeffries I mentioned you in this column today: https://t.co/ZewHuzp7sx

[AlaBlackma @alablackma]

Someone--federal judges, no less--finally called a ... well, never mind. Suffice it to say the courts saw through @GDale_Schools ruse and ruled it cannot form a new school system because parents don't want their kids to attend school with black kids: https://t.co/utfai909PV

[AlaBlackma @alablackma]

This should be amazing. https://t.co/JEk8Bf8LW8

[Ben H. Raines @BenHRaines]

Hey, I’m Ben Raines and I'm hosting an AMA about my possible discovery of the last American slave ship, Clotilda! Join me, Mobile historian John Sledge, and anthropology professors Greg Cooke and John Bratten on Thursday at 1:30 in Reddit’s r/History subreddit!

[AlaBlackma @alablackma]

All weren't born in Alabama, but we've long claimed them as our own: six young men who stole Tuskegee's freshmen talent show and went on to define funk for a generation. What's your fav #Commodores song? We're debating "Just to be Close..." and "Brick House." @LionelRichie

[AlaBlackma @alablackma]

Never forget how vile and hypocritical 45 has been, is, and always will be. https://t.co/jGO54HKo98

[Dr. Scott Bowman @DrScottBowman]

@tedlieu @santanaraymond @dr_yusefsalaam @ShaunKing - If there's going to be a discussion w/ Trump on the importance of #dueprocess, please do not forget to remind him of this as well! His (adult) staff only lost their jobs, not years off their lives! #CentralParkFive

[AlaBlackma @alablackma]

It's been 16 years since we rooted for Jackson-Olin's #VonettaFlowers as she barreled down a mountain in Salt Lake City in a bobsled. As you root for "everybody black" in the #WinterOlympics2018, remember the Alabamian who was the 1st African-American to win Winter Games gold.

[AlaBlackma @alablackma]

Since an @AlabamaAMTruth professor spoke confidence into this brilliant young man, he has soared at @HarvardHBS and in his native Gadsden. Now, Kevin Ferguson II is a prestigious @SchwarzmanOrg scholar. Watch him. https://t.co/LX8AQKAMib

[AlaBlackma @alablackma]

Born in Florence, AL, Oscar DePriest moved to Chicago in the 1880s. In real estate. he specialized in blockbusting: moving black families into all-white neighborhoods. A Republican, he was Chi's first black Alderman and was elected in the U.S. Congress in 1928, serving 6 years.

[AlaBlackma @alablackma]

Before he was Norman Wiltin in #TheWire or Freddy Hayes in #HouseofCards, #RegECathey graduated from J.O. Johnson HS in Huntsville, his birthplace. R.I.P., sir. https://t.co/67ufRz8W5Q

[AlaBlackma @alablackma]

The man who would become baseball home run king grew up us 1 of 8 children in the poor, Mobile, AL neighborhood known as "Down the Bay." At 15, in 1949, he tried out for the Brooklyn Dodgers but didn't make the team. At 17, he earned $10 a game with the Mobile Black Bears.