mixed NAS "The World Is Yours" on the JAY-Z "Dead Presidents" beat 🗽🗽
flipped JAY over a NAS beat earlier after that medley mashup at last night’s concert
only right to flip NAS over JAY-Z next
used the Tip Mix vocals cause it sounded better. Should I drop a longer version??
mixed JAY-Z’s "Where I'm From" on the NAS “NY State of Mind" beat 🗽🗽
Hov & Nas just shared the stage last night for Jay’s 30th Anniversary & did a crazy medley, so had to flip it asap
Should I drop the full version??
Nas on a Jay beat later today, stay tuned..
Happy birthday to Capital Steez, who would have been 33 today.
Steez founded Pro Era with producer Powers Pleasant, coming up with the idea on the way home from one of his early Brooklyn shows. Joey Bada$$ and CJ Fly rounded out the group's founding core shortly after. His freestyles were always dense with wordplay, even when he was clearly just riffing off the top of his head.
RIP Capital Steez 🕊️
Before Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, and before Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass engaged in an ideological debate over integration versus nationalism. This is a document which compiles the letters which they shared between each other.
https://t.co/Bj07V2eiHG
Brother Malcolm always told the TRUTH. The proof is in Michael Jackson supreme abiliites.
“We’ve got a step all our own. We have a step that nobody can do but us, because we have a reason for doing it that nobody can understand but us."
~Malcolm X~
Her name is Dr. Marian Croak.
She is an engineer and inventor who helped develop Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), the technology that allows phone calls and other communication to travel over the internet.
That same technology is used in platforms like Zoom, FaceTime, and WhatsApp calls.
A Black woman built the infrastructure that keeps the world talking.
This is Black history.
Her legacy lives in every call you make.
A Black man created ranch dressing — and most people never knew.
Kenneth “Steve” Henson, born in Nebraska in 1918, was a plumber who cooked for his crew in Alaska. One day he mixed buttermilk, mayo, herbs, and spices… and ranch was born.
In 1954, he and his wife bought land near Santa Barbara and named it Hidden Valley Ranch. Guests loved the dressing so much they begged to take jars home. By 1957, stores were selling his dry mix. Orders exploded. Factories followed.
In 1972, Clorox bought the recipe and the name for eight million dollars. Ranch went nationwide. By 1992, it was America’s #1 dressing.
But the man behind it? Nearly erased.
Every salad, every wing, every fry dipped in ranch — that’s his legacy. He mattered. He was the blueprint.
. ❤️💛💚🖤
Wiz Khalifa’s parenting moment is going viral after his 13-year-old son Bash called him while on livestream about a kid trying to fight him at the mall.
Wiz talked Bash through the situation, giving him advice about de-escalating, protecting himself if needed and staying out of bad situations.
“Nah, don’t do that, bro. Don’t get into no fight... De-escalate the situation, and if you have to, then protect yourself, but don’t put yourself in no situation where you know some sh*t like that is going to go down,” Wiz said.
He later told his chat that he doesn’t care if people clip the moment or criticize his parenting, making it clear that his son is his responsibility. 💯
Happy birthday to the late choreographer, activist and educator Katherine Dunham.
For more than 30 years, she directed the Katherine Dunham Dance Company, the only self-supported black dance company in America at the time. She was often called the “Mother of Black Dance.”
Fred Hampton Jr visiting his father's gravesite. His gravestone was shot up with bullets. Fred Hampton, revolutionary leader of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, was executed by the police, who discharged 90 rounds of ammunition while he lay in bed. ❤️💚🖤
These are actual Freedom Riders, now elderly, sitting together decades after risking their lives to challenge segregation in the American South.
he original courageous Freedom Riders movement began in 1961.
The first group, organized by Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), had 13 original Freedom Riders:
• 7 Black riders
• 6 white riders
They left Washington, D.C. on May 4, 1961, riding interstate buses into the Deep South to challenge segregation in bus terminals after Supreme Court rulings had already declared it unconstitutional.
After brutal mob attacks in Alabama, including the firebombing of a bus in Anniston and savage beatings in Birmingham and Montgomery, more activists joined. The movement quickly expanded beyond the original 13.
By the end of 1961, more than 400 Freedom Riders had participated across the South. Many were arrested and sent to Mississippi’s notorious Parchman Prison.
Hezekiah Watkins
At just 13 years old, Watkins became the youngest Freedom Rider ever arrested. His involvement happened almost by accident when he went to the Jackson, Mississippi, Greyhound station to see the riders arrive. In the chaos, he was swept up by police and sent to the notorious Parchman State Penitentiary. Initially placed on death row to intimidate him, he spent several days in the prison before being released. This traumatic experience did not deter him; he went on to become a lifelong activist, dedicated to educating others about the struggle for justice in Mississippi.
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
A rare figure in the movement, Mulholland was a white woman from a privileged Southern background who turned her back on social expectations to fight for racial equality. By the time she joined the Freedom Rides, she was already a seasoned activist involved in sit-ins. In 1961, she was imprisoned in Parchman for over two months. She later became the first white student to enroll at Tougaloo College, a historically Black institution, and was a primary organizer for the 1963 March on Washington. She famously survived a near-lynching during the Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in.
Ameen Tuunagane (Willie James)
Known during the movement as Willie James, Tuunagane was a relentless civil rights organizer and Freedom Rider. He was part of the waves of activists who traveled to Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge Jim Crow laws. His work extended far beyond the buses; he was deeply involved in voter registration drives and community organizing, often operating in high-risk areas where the threat of police and vigilante violence was constant. His commitment focused on the intersection of political power and basic human dignity.
Carol Ruth Silver
A recent law school graduate at the time, Silver joined the Freedom Rides to put her legal principles into practice. She was arrested in Jackson and, like many others, served time in Parchman Penitentiary. During her incarceration, she kept a secret diary on scraps of paper, documenting the harrowing conditions and the psychological tactics used by guards. Her later career was defined by this experience; she became a prominent lawyer and politician in San Francisco, continuing her advocacy for civil rights and educational reform for decades.
Kredelle Pettway
Pettway was a dedicated activist who participated in the movement during the height of the 1960s racial tensions. As a young woman, she joined the ranks of those demanding the desegregation of public facilities in Alabama and Mississippi. Her contribution highlights the essential role of local youth and women in maintaining the momentum of the movement. She faced the constant threat of the Ku Klux Klan and state-sanctioned violence, standing firm in the belief that the "separate but equal" doctrine was a moral and legal failure.
You are cordially invited to “the most thrilling party of the year.”
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM. Conceived and filmed by genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves. Directed by David Greaves. In select theaters October 16.
Harlem, 1972. You are invited to a party at the home of Duke Ellington.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM opens in select theaters October 16. Teaser trailer tomorrow.