Jorge E. Trujillo

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[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

When the Zulu People of South Africa 🇿🇦 defeated the British 🇬🇧

—A THREAD—

In 1879, the British army invaded the independent & previously friendly Zulu kingdom, which had been founded by the formidable Nguni warrior Shaka Zulu in 1818.

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Did you know Matthew "Mack" Robinson, older brother to baseball legend, Jackie Robinson, won a silver medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics? He finished 0.4 seconds behind Jesse Owens.

Most people know Jackie Robinson as the man who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947. But fewer people know that athletic greatness ran in the family.

His older brother, Mack Robinson, was one of the fastest men in the world.

At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Mack Robinson won the silver medal in the 200 meter race, finishing just behind the legendary Jesse Owens by only four tenths of a second. Owens won gold with a world record performance, while Robinson secured silver against some of the best sprinters on earth during one of the most politically charged Olympics in history.

Those Olympic Games were held in Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler, who hoped to use the event to promote racist ideas about Aryan supremacy. Instead, Black athletes like Jesse Owens and Mack Robinson embarrassed those theories on the world stage through their talent, discipline, and dominance.

What makes Mack Robinson’s story even more remarkable is the struggle he faced after returning home to America. Despite becoming an Olympic medalist, he still dealt with segregation, discrimination, and limited opportunities because he was Black. Like many Black athletes of that era, international success did not protect him from racism in everyday American life.

Mack worked various jobs after the Olympics and continued competing in athletics, but he never received the level of recognition many white athletes with similar achievements enjoyed. His younger brother Jackie would later face similar hostility when integrating Major League Baseball, enduring racist abuse while changing sports history forever.

The Robinson family story is really about perseverance. Two brothers from the same family challenged racial barriers in different arenas, one on the Olympic track and the other on the baseball field. Both proved their excellence in a country that often tried to deny Black athletes equal respect and opportunity.

Today, Mack Robinson’s silver medal stands as more than just an athletic achievement. It represents Black excellence during a period when the world was filled with segregation, fascism, and racist propaganda. His legacy deserves to be remembered alongside the history made by his younger brother Jackie Robinson.

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Young elegant gentleman poses proudly with his 2 dogs, 1880s.

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Morehouse assembly, 1925.

Morehouse College, founded in 1867, is the oldest Black men’s college in the United States. Its storied history includes Dr. Martin Luther King and many other prominent African Americans among its graduates.

[America’s Ghost @planterspunch7]

@TMZ If it ends up he’s the father of her kids, I don’t see how he survives that...

That being said, we now live in an era where if you’re a star they let you do it.

You can do anything.

[Shane @Shane_B74]

@TMZ In other breaking news, your boss was boys with Epstein and yet not one story about it from you

[Jorge E. Trujillo @em77511]

@supercivicosmx @MetroCDMX parasito ridiculo !!! :)

[Los Supercívicos @supercivicosmx]

Se sube al vagón exclusivo de las mujeres en el @MetroCDMX y para justificar que si puede estar ahí muestra su supuesta charola de inspector del metro. 🫠

[Jorge E. Trujillo @em77511]

@ElenaPoe_ y los que recogemos cuando se puede y hay un bote cerca :)

[Adrián Rubalcava @AdrianRubalcava]

Esta tarde se rescató a un perrito al que se le atoró una patita en una escalera eléctrica de la estación Salto del Agua, Línea 1.
Reconozco la oportuna intervención de la Policía Auxiliar y de Protección Civil del @MetroCDMX, quienes lo liberaron y brindaron primeros auxilios.
Exhortamos a trasladar a los animales de compañía en transportadora, por su seguridad y la de las demás personas usuarias.
Cuidarlos a ellos también es parte del viaje.

[Elle Duncan @elleduncantv]

It’s my 10 yr wedding anniversary and we’re spending it building a house for #HabitatForHumanity in the Sylvan Hills Neighborhood in #ATL. Omar and I have built a beautiful life and our hope is the new home owner can do the same for her family in her new crib! SERVICE is our love language!

[Mercedes Díaz @mechediazortega]

En memoria de la muerte de los pilotos de la Fuerza Aérea Expedicionaria Mexicana, Escuadrón 201, en 1945, la Bandera se iza a media asta.

[Tumisho Masha @TumishoMasha]

Even a blind man could see how evil apartheid was. #wewontforget ✊🏿🇿🇦

[Adrián Rubalcava @AdrianRubalcava]

Gracias a reportes en redes sociales y al aviso de @AgatanCdmx, se detectó a un gatito atrapado en la estructura del Metro.
Reconocemos el gran trabajo del equipo de Protección Civil del @MetroCDMX y del @CTCMetroCDMX, quienes no desistieron hasta lograr su rescate.

#CuidarteEsParteDelViaje

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The Edward W. West family, Boone County, Missouri, 1919

[Lomas Estrella Chaponeros 🇲🇽 @ChaponerosCE]

¡Ya es mañana!

¡¡¡¡Te esperamooooosssss!!!

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Si mariposas del azufre quieres criar... Retama has de llevar (Senna multiglandulosa)

Todo el año podrás ver oruguitas y mariposas

Las tendremos el sábado en nuestra venta ANUAL

¡Te esperamos!

[WELCOME TO BLACK TWlTTER  @blacktwiterthrd]

Micheal B. Jordan admiring a photo of Sidney Poitier, the first black man to win Best Actor at the Oscars in 1964

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This Rihana’s teacher once bought her shoes. Years later, Rihana bought him a house🥹❤️

[Brooklyn Bridge Park @bbpnyc]

A red-tailed hawk seen on Pier 1 in #brooklynbridgepark this morning.