Chris Devoe

[Soma Das @somadwrites]

@fasc1nate This never gets old

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1927, actor and film director Sidney Poitier, was born.

Here is a powerful interview from him in 1968 addressing how he was being treated by the press.

He rips into journalists after only being asked questions surrounding race.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Sister Rosetta Tharpe is credited as the Godmother of Rock ‘N’ Roll. Before Elvis, Johnny Cash or Little Richard, there was Sister Tharpe- A Black woman who forged her own sound in a male dominated industry. She does not get the credit she deserves.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

So who taught a young Jack Daniel how to distill what would become the world’s best-selling whiskey?

Nathan "Nearest" Green, an enslaved Black master distiller, taught distilling techniques to Jack Daniel, founder of the Jack Daniel Tennessee whiskey.

—Uncle Nearest, as he was fondly called by family and friends grew up in Lynchburg, Tennessee, and began working on the farm of a country preacher and distiller in Lincoln County around the mid-1800s. It was there that he learned the skill of distilling and specialized in a process of distillation known as sugar maple charcoal filtering which was also called the Lincoln County Process.

Nearest was such a skilled distiller in the process he specialized in but he kept working with the preacher in the Lincoln County and fortunately it was there that Jack Daniels met him.

In the mid-1850s, Jack Daniels who was just a young white boy from a large family and who also lost his mother to a sudden illness at the age of four months began working as a chore boy for the preacher whom Uncle Nearest worked for.

It is said that Jack Daniels was a curious young boy who kept asking about the smoke coming up through the hollow on the 338-acre property and why men kept hurrying back and forth from that area which he was never allowed to go with mules and wagons.

He never stopped asking, until the preacher whim he worked for decided to give in to his curiosity took him to the area on the property where the smoke came from.

As later described in the boy’s biography, it is said that the preacher introduced the young boy to a “coal-black negro” which was uncle Nearest.

He introduced Uncle Nearest by saying “This is Uncle Nearest. He’s the best whiskey maker I know of”. The preacher went further to ask Nearest to teach the young (Jack Daniels) everything he knew about distilling and also the process of sugar maple charcoal filtering. A request Nearest obliged and taught the young boy the special filtration process of the Tennessee whiskey.

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[NAACP @NAACP]

Sandra Bland would have been 37 today.

We'll continue to say her name and fight for justice against police brutality. Black people deserve to grow old.

Sending love to her loved ones. 🖤

[Chris Devoe @ChrisDevoe]

I just emailed my Representative and Senators to demand a ceasefire. Will you?

https://t.co/Q6ZnGIVYQ3

[Criterion Collection @Criterion]

Goodnight to the great Richard Roundtree, seen here in the iconic opening of SHAFT ('71)—Gordon Parks's groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era & introduced a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in the star's career-defining role as John Shaft.

[Chris Devoe @ChrisDevoe]

Elon Musk Left a South Africa That Was Rife With Misinformation and White Privilege https://t.co/FXUAkfcCKZ

[Chris Devoe @ChrisDevoe]

Playing music tonight ⁦@ArgosyEAV⁩ 9-1AM In the Brig game room w/ ⁦@gnosis⁩

[Chris Devoe @ChrisDevoe]

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[Chris Devoe @ChrisDevoe]

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[ACLU @ACLU]

ReNika Moore, director of our Racial Justice Project, breaks down today's Supreme Court decision on Affirmative Action, and the impact it will have on equality in higher education.

[Smithsonian’s NMAAHC @NMAAHC]

#OnThisDay in 1865, General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, TX to read Order No. 3, which affirmed the end of slavery in the states of the former Confederacy. This momentous occasion has been celebrated as #Juneteenth — a combination of “June” & “19th” — for over 150 years.

[The Root @TheRoot]

Andre 3000 Better Not Be Playing With Our Emotions https://t.co/5XPtZeWf8p

[Steven Donziger @SDonziger]

The "Cop City" referendum campaign needs resources to succeed. To support it, click on this link: https://t.co/dxuBzsmAUW

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

Like a slave who ran away to a free state, the 1857 Fugitive Slave Act allowed an enslaver to kidnap that free person and return them to slavery. Women who travel to get an abortion in a state that still provides them can be prosecuted in the state that bans them. America.

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

One year ago the Supreme Court stripped away the constitutional protections of abortion and left the question to the states. Many states banned abortion and certain reproductive healthcare for women. These laws are based on the 1857 Fugitive Slave Act.

[Chris Devoe @ChrisDevoe]

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[Commercial Appeal @memphisnews]

An image of Martin Luther King, Jr., is reflected in Justin Pearson's glasses before he and his supporters march to the Shelby County Board of Commissioners meeting, where a vote to reinstate him to the House of Representatives will take place. Updates: https://t.co/JgqVYYg98h

[W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell]

In case @bethanyshondark (or anybody else) actually wants to know what “woke” really means vs. what it has been turned into. #UnitedShades

h/t @michaelharriot