Ashley Forest

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[Kalan Hooks @KalanHookstv]

HISTORY: Alabama A&M’s Marching Maroon and White the first HBCU to lead the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade:

(via: @USATODAY)

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In 1898, the federally appointed postmaster for Lake City, South Carolina, Frazier Baker, was lynched, along with his baby daughter, Julia. This was a lynching by bullets, which also hit his wife, Lavinia and four of their children. The crime which incensed the white mob that descended on their house (also the town post office)? That of being a black postmaster - no more, no less. And no one was ever convicted.

White supremacists all over the South were infuriated at President McKinley's postings of Black federal employees; he had spoken out against lynching in order to secure the Black vote when he was running for president. This sentiment led directly to the massacre in Wilmington later that year, which destroyed the Black prosperity in that North Carolina port and turned the previously majority-Black town majority-White, practically overnight. It also dismantled the rising and theretofore successful Fusionist party, a coalition of working class Blacks and Whites.

This picture was taken after Lavinia Baker and her five surviving children escaped and relocated up to Boston; the faces say it all.

People love to talk about 'get over it' and 'slavery was so long ago' and 'Black people love to be victims' - when the issue is truly systemic and not dismantled in a day. We will be fighting the results of how our society was formed (and how that formation is protected by white supremacy to this day) for a long time. And let's not forget that the white poor (and that of every other race) also get left behind in this scheme which only benefits the few.

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[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1951, Henrietta Lacks died at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Her cells were taken without her knowledge in 1951 (HeLa Cells) and became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, gene mapping, vitro fertilization & more

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[The Black Wall Street Times @TheBWSTimes]

Fred Richard helps #TeamUSA 🇺🇸 secure its first 💪🏾 World Championship medal 🏅 in 9 years!!! What a moment ❣️🤸🏿‍♂️#gymnastics #blackboyjoy #Antwerp2023 #WorldChampionship

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

The Slave Bible — How The Bible was Selectively Edited to Instill Obedience.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

The Tignon laws of the 18th century were laws that banned black women from exposing their natural hair in public.

Their hairdos was obscuring the status of the white women and this threatened the social stability. The law would control colored women “who dressed too elegantly..”

Resembling today’s West African Gele, a tignon is a type of head-covering. It is a large piece of material wrapped or tied around the head to form a kind of turban concealing the hair.

Tignons were worn by free and slave Creole women of African descent in Louisiana from 1786. Historically, their prevalence was as a result of sumptuary laws passed in 1786 under Governor Esteban Rodriguez Miró.

These prescribed and enforced appropriate public dress styles for women of color in a white-dominated society. Hence, they were made as a way of regulating the appearance of black women in the U.S.

During the period, when black enslavement in America was at its peak, and places like New Orleans was unique in its high population of gens de couleur libres (free people of color), black women’s beauty and features often attracted white men who approached them as suitors.

This enraged white women who perceived them as competitors. Evidently, African women competed openly with white women through elegant dressing, including adorning their textured hair with gems, beads, and other accents that made them stand out from white women and possessing great beauty.

To take care of this perceived menace, series of sumptuary laws birthing the Tignon Law were put in place in order to stop white men from pursuing and engaging in affairs with women of colour, “while also being a class signifier,”

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[FOX5 Las Vegas @FOX5Vegas]

Well, that's one way to wake up! 🤪 The Sphere in Las Vegas started Friday morning off by displaying a giant emoji on its Exosphere. Check out the display from our FOX5 Strat Cam.

[TMZ @TMZ]

#RIP 💔🕊 https://t.co/fogaxMCwgR

[Ashley Forest @AshleyForest16]

Is RiRi pregnant again?!?!

[Colorado Avalanche @Avalanche]

Got our groove back.

#GoAvsGo

[Ashley Forest @AshleyForest16]

First week at the DEN Airport as the newest Public Information Officer - completed! Not only did I receive a warm and opening welcome but my input and perspective was also well received. Ambitiously looking forward to my future with DEN! 🛫

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.

The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.

[ABC News @ABC]

Amazon has provided Ring doorbell footage to law enforcement 11 times this year without the user’s permission, a revelation that’s bound to raise more privacy and civil liberty concerns about its video-sharing agreements. https://t.co/e4HdAkaTiR

[Disney+ @DisneyPlus]

We’re back, Witches. 🧹

Hocus Pocus 2, an Original movie event, is streaming September 30 on #DisneyPlus. #HocusPocus2

[Ashley Forest @AshleyForest16]

Congratulations to the
@Avalanche on winning the #StanleyCup

[Ashley Forest @AshleyForest16]

Congratulations to the
@Avalanche on winning the #StanleyCup

[Ashley Forest @AshleyForest16]

I knew I was getting older, the moment I got excited when I bought my carpet cleaner today and decided to test an area to see it how it cleaned. #adulting #AdultingAndStuff #gettingolder #homeowner

[Colorado Avalanche @Avalanche]

That's two.

#GoAvsGo

[Colorado Avalanche @Avalanche]

That’s a SHUTOUT.

#GoAvsGo