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[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

The pain a mother feels after losing her child is unimaginable. Christine needs our support as she grieves the loss of Nolan. We stand with the Wells family during this incredibly difficult time and send them our love!

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

The message today is Nolan Wells.

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[FOX8 WGHP @myfox8]

Woman charged in hit-and-run that killed former North Carolina college athlete sentenced to 30 days in jail | Tap the link in our bio for the full story.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the Earth as though I had a right to be here."

—James Baldwin

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting in Charlotte NC after a Black woman who ran a RED LIGHT, hitting a 25-year-old White man out for a run, and DROVE AWAY while he DIED ON THE STREET...

...was sentenced to ONLY 30 DAYS in jail.

Yes, you read that right... THIRTY DAYS.

His name was Lance Sotelo.

Lance grew up in Dalton, Georgia, and was a cross-country MVP in high school.

He came to Queens University of Charlotte and ran cross country and track and field for SIX YEARS.

He was the student body president.

On January 14th, Lance was doing the thing he loved most, he was out for a run in Charlotte NC

At 5:47 in the evening, police say 28-year-old Q'Laundra Hood was ran a red light and she hit him, hard.

...and then she drove away.

She left him in the road and kept going.

Lance Sotelo died right there on the streets of Charlotte.
He never even made it to a hospital.

He didn't have life insurance, his family had to start a GoFundMe just to bury their son.

Hood turned herself in and pleaded guilty to felony hit-and-run and involuntary manslaughter.

And on Tuesday, a courtroom packed with Lance's family and friends watched the judge hand down the sentence.

30 days in jail. And probation.

Thirty days and $765 restitution.

WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

My beautiful mother.

#CorettaScottKing

[CARDIA 🐦���⬛ @CCardib2]

Scar lip hid that pregnancy better than Cardi wtf 😭 he’s a cutie 😍

[Dami’ Adenuga @DAMIADENUGA]

A lot is going on behind the scenes😳….watch till end

[Camsiyo @Camsiyonna1]

For The Love Of A Child🎬

[BET @BET]

September 20, 1999, Cita entered the chat before we even HAD chats. #CitasWorld was truly its own era on BET. The commentary, the attitude, the LOOKS?! Cita was one of one. AI couldn’t replicate this if it tried. 😂 If you grew up watching Cita, this throwback is for you. 📺🖤 #BET

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Sixty-eight years ago, while signing copies of Stride Toward Freedom in Harlem, Daddy was stabbed in the chest with a letter opener and nearly lost his life.

He survived, and what followed revealed something essential about his commitment to nonviolence. Even after experiencing violence so personally, he refused to allow hatred to determine his response.

Nonviolence was not simply something my father preached. It was a discipline he chose, even when the cost was deeply personal.

#MLK #Nonviolence365 #BelovedCommunity

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1970, rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix died at 27 years old.

James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix was a Black American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose mainstream career lasted only about four years, yet he completely changed what musicians believed could be done with an electric guitar. Born in Seattle, Washington, in 1942, Hendrix began playing guitar as a teenager and largely taught himself. After serving briefly in the U.S. Army, he entered the professional music world through the Chitlin’ Circuit, the network of venues where Black performers could work during segregation.

Before becoming a star himself, Hendrix spent years playing behind other Black artists. He toured with the Isley Brothers, worked with Little Richard and performed with Curtis Knight and the Squires. Those years exposed him to blues, R&B, soul and rock and roll while allowing him to develop a style that was becoming increasingly unlike anyone else's. His career changed dramatically after former Animals bassist Chas Chandler saw him perform in New York and persuaded him to move to London in 1966.

In Britain, Hendrix formed the Jimi Hendrix Experience with Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell. Success came quickly with songs such as “Hey Joe,” “Purple Haze” and “The Wind Cries Mary.” His 1967 debut album, Are You Experienced, introduced audiences to a guitarist who seemed to treat the instrument as something entirely new. His performance at the Monterey Pop Festival that year helped make him a major star in the United States, and Electric Ladyland reached number one on the American album chart in 1968.

Hendrix's influence went far beyond his ability to play fast or perform spectacular solos. He experimented with distortion, feedback, the wah-wah pedal, recording effects and extremely loud amplification, turning sounds that had once been considered unwanted noise into deliberate parts of his music. His playing drew heavily from Black blues musicians while pushing the electric guitar into psychedelic rock and new forms of studio experimentation. Generations of rock, blues, funk, metal and alternative guitarists would later build upon techniques Hendrix helped popularize.

One of his most famous appearances came at Woodstock in 1969, where his interpretation of “The Star-Spangled Banner” used distortion and feedback to transform the familiar national anthem into one of the defining musical moments of the era. Hendrix remained one of the world's biggest performers until his death in London on September 18, 1970, at only 27 years old.

Hendrix left behind just three completed studio albums with the Jimi Hendrix Experience during his lifetime, but his influence has lasted for more than half a century. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Experience in 1992 and continues to appear near the top of rankings of history's greatest guitarists. His career was remarkably short, but the vocabulary he created for the electric guitar permanently changed popular music.

[𝘾𝙈 @charlesmore25]

Eric Murphy and his wife Jasmin Lawrence daughter of legendary comedian and actor Martin Lawrence have officially welcomed a beautiful baby girl into the world!

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Nat King Cole, poses with a fan, Gladys Knight, age 7 in 1951.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Tupac shot two off-duty police officers who were beating a Black man on Halloween in 1993. The charges were dropped.

[Plies @plies]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Why Wouldn’t He Try It Again Y’all (Meaning All The Weirdos & Sellout Azz N*ggaz) Believed Him Last Time!!!! Lie To Them Some More They Love It!!! “Give Me Some Pw*ssy & I’ll Pay U If I Win At The Casino”….. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 #Plies He Gone Give Y’all 5 Stacks!!! 🤣🤣

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Coretta Scott King was the third of four children born to Obadiah “Obie” Scott and Bernice McMurry Scott in Marion, Alabama. She was born at her family’s home in 1927, with her paternal great-grandmother, Delia Scott, who had been born into slavery, serving as midwife. Coretta grew up in a family that placed enormous value on education, independence and hard work, despite living under the restrictions and violence of Jim Crow Alabama.

Her mother, Bernice, was known for her musical talent and singing voice, an influence that would later be reflected in Coretta’s own love of music. Although Bernice’s formal education ended after the fourth grade, she worked as a school bus driver, church pianist and alongside her husband in the family’s businesses. Coretta’s father, Obie, was an entrepreneur who operated several businesses, including a barber shop, general store and lumber mill. His success as a Black businessman also brought hostility from white residents. After he refused to sell his lumber operation to a white logger, his mill was burned. Experiences like these exposed Coretta at an early age to the realities of racism and the determination required for Black families to build economic independence in the segregated South.

Her family history stretched directly back into slavery. On her father’s side, Coretta’s grandfather Jefferson Scott was the son of formerly enslaved parents, Willis and Delia Scott. Her maternal grandfather, Martin Van Buren McMurry, became a landowner and acquired a substantial farm despite having little formal schooling. A self-taught reader, he strongly encouraged education and became an important influence on Coretta’s intellectual development. Her family’s experiences represented only a few generations separating enslavement from land ownership, entrepreneurship and the pursuit of higher education.

Perhaps the clearest expression of the values Coretta inherited came from her mother, who was determined that all of her children would attend college. Coretta later remembered Bernice saying, “My children are going to college, even if it means I only have but one dress to put on.” Coretta would eventually attend Antioch College and study music at the New England Conservatory of Music before becoming one of the most influential civil and human rights activists of the 20th century. Long before she became Coretta Scott King, however, the foundations of her activism had already been laid by a Black Alabama family determined that racism, poverty and limited opportunity would not dictate what their children could become.

[Larenz Tate @LarenzTate]

51. YA DIG.
Blessed. Grateful. Thankful. Love. 🙏🏾🤲🏾🙌🏾🤎
#Virgo September 8th ♍️

[Wild Clips @JCFights]

I can’t even imagine the pain she went through.

[Zatima @ZatimaOnBET]

MADAM SAID: “PREGNANT… BUT MAKE IT FASHION!” 😍🔥🤰🏽

NO ONE DOES PREGNANCY LIKE EVA MARCILLE! 👑

When you’re naturally a WALKING MODEL, even the baby bump becomes a whole editorial! 📸🔥

Eva is gorgeous.

MADAM DOES NOT MISS! 👏🏾👑 #AllTheQueensMen