Fabio Gomes Trindade, a Brazilian street artist is known for merging urban art with nature, using tree branches and flowers as living expressions of his murals.
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89 years ago today, Jesse Owens won his first Olympics gold medal, he humiliated Hitler at the Berlin Olympics by winning 4 Olympic Gold Medals.
Hitler had hosted the Olympics, intending to be a showcase of Aryan supremacy.
—On August 3, Owens won the 100 m dash with a time of 10.3 seconds.
—On August 4, he won the long jump with a leap of 8.06 metres (26 ft 5 in) (3¼ inches short of his own world record).
—On August 5, he won the 200 m sprint with a time of 20.7 seconds, defeating teammate Mack Robinson (the older brother of Jackie Robinson).
—On August 9, Owens won his fourth gold medal in the 4 × 100 m sprint relay when head coach Lawson Robertson replaced Jewish-American sprinters Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller with Owens and Ralph Metcalfe, who teamed with Frank Wykoff and Foy Draper to set a world record of 39.8 seconds in the event. Owens had initially protested the last-minute switch.
Happy birthday to the legendary Marvin Gaye, born on this day in 1939!
He helped shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo artist with a string of successes, which earned him the nickname "Prince of Motown"…
Michael Jackson refused to perpetuate the whitewashed narrative of Kemet. Despite Steven Spielberg's refusal to support the production of the short film-music video, Michael Jackson stayed resolute
He personally financed his own film to create the classic "Do You Remember the Time."
Today, it remains the only authentic depiction of Kemet as it truly was
Micheal Jackson show-cased the greatness of Black Africans in ancient Egypt (Kemet), in the 90s!! This is the most accurate depiction of the Kemetyu Africans ever put in the mainstream media.
THE RACIST NEANDERTHAL FACELIFT
Neil deGrasse Tyson, author and astrophysicist, discusses the racial biases propagated by the early scientific community. They claimed that Europeans were at the top of the evolutionary hierarchy, while Neanderthals, whom they considered less evolved, were likened to Black people and other races they deemed closer to the apes. However, when it was discovered that Europeans have 1-3% Neanderthal DNA and Africans have none, the scientific community changed its tune. Have a watch and let us know your thoughts on this.
Video credit: @The 92nd Street Y, New York