SHANIECE :)

LIVING THE BEST LIFE I CAN 🥰

[Rap Alert @rapalert6]

Megan thee Stallion stars in a new mental health commercial for Seize the Awkward.

[Nee🦋 @Denesha_Yvette]

The way I would’ve went tf in! Wtf do you mean ?

[X-Tok @X_tik_tok]

Mama said kick your ass. #CoachPrime #ColoradoBuffs #ColoradoState #Colorado

[PETA @peta]

💔 #RIPLOLITA 💔

What they did to you is unforgivable.

You were so close to freedom at a sanctuary, but time ran out.

Now you’re finally free from all the pain and suffering.

[🌈 @autommmmarie]

Evidently eviction notices are being served for the few houses that remain in Maui. At a loss for words at this point. The greed and cruelty of the rich knows no bounds. The guillotine needs brought out…like immediately. I’m so serious

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

If the child on the left was old enough to pick cotton and the child on the right was old enough to attend Klan rallies, then today's children are old enough to learn about both of these and how they've led us to where we are today.

[Cookiee Kawaii @cookieekawaii]

I hope this goes viral.

I spoke about Dipshit …aka Diplo multiple times. I also spoke on how it’s crazy for any woman let alone black women to support this man in ANWAY. I’m so glad Shelly is speaking out & telling her story.

[Gabrielle Union @itsgabrielleu]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[BET @BET]

Dancer #OShaeSibley life was taken from him while celebrating and dancing after a Beyoncé concert at a gas station in Brooklyn.

We dance to remember and honor him, and we will continue to dance and hold space for our LGBTQ+ brothers and sisters. Rest in power King 🖤🕊

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

My favorite story of the Women’s World Cup is these women succeeding in spite of the lack of resources they have. Their country needs to get behind them financially. The success of women in sports is often undermined by lack of investment.

[C.J. Lawrence @CJLawrenceEsq]

O’Shae Sibley was stabbed to death for voguing at a gas station. Someone killed him for dancing because they hated witnessing his joy and comfort with who he was as a human being- a gay Black man. Someone violently took his life because he was LIVING. And that’s heartbreaking

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Happy birthday Henrietta Lacks! Henrietta died of cancer in 1951, but cells taken from her are still being used today for medical research! Her breakthrough contributions to modern medicine have changed and saved many lives. Today, we thank her for her gift!

[Marisa Renee Lee @MarisaReneeLee]

I desperately need your help. This is my cousin Imani Serafina Roberson and as of today, she has been missing for two weeks. Imani is a twenty-nine year old mother of four, and on Sunday July 16th, she had dinner at her mother’s home and has not been seen since.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

AMAZING! There are so many influential and powerful figures like piano prodigy Hazel Scott within our #BlackHistory. We must celebrate all of our legendary talents who came before us, to spotlight their accomplishments! 👏🏾🎹
🎥: IG/knowyourcaribbean

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Self-taught, child prodigy piano player, Sugar Chile Robinson.

—Born on December 28, 1938, Sugar Chile Robinson as he was widely known proved to be a child prodigy emerging as a self-taught piano player at a year and half old.

The jazz pianist and singer played for President Truman in 1946 at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, becoming the first African-American to be invited to the presidential home at a mere age of seven.

He was one of the first African-American child stars to be a household name. While still a kid, he had a record, billboard chart, sports and a gig with the Count Basie Orchestra as well as movie appearances even when African-Americans were few on the big screen.

He began touring major theaters, setting box office records in Detroit and California. In 1949 he was given special permission to join the American Federation of Musicians and record his first releases on Capitol Records, “Numbers Boogie” and “Caldonia”, both reaching the Billboard R&B chart.

In 1950, he toured and appeared on television with Count Basie and in a short film ‘Sugar Chile’ Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet. The following year, he toured the UK, appearing at the London Palladium.

However, by the 1950s, Robinson returned to school and his fame faded. He stopped recording in 1952.

Later he said: “I wanted to go to school… I wanted some school background in me and I asked my Dad if I could stop, and I went to school because I honestly wanted my college diploma.”

Having given up his musical career entirely, he focused on his academic studies earning a degree in history from Olivet College and one in psychology from the Detroit Institute of Technology. In the 1960s, he worked for WGPR-TV, and also helped set up small record labels in Detroit and opened a recording studio.

The Detroit, Michigan native’s legacy is enduring but his decision to drop music came at a great cost.

The blues singer in 2016 got invited to the White House by former president Barack Obama to be part of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after 70 years.

On how tough life got, his small apartment shared with a niece had no beds and a piano. They had been sleeping on blow up beds for the past five years after a household fire destroyed his belongings.

In 2017, Music Maker Relief Foundation came to the star’s aid putting him on the monthly sustenance program, sending beds and a piano to his residence while resolving the eviction action he faced.

Questions abound bordering on royalties and if he made good money from his music or if he squandered the wealth he made? There’s also talk of how he failed to keep a balance rejecting music for so long yet the college degree he so craved for not securing him a better life. Whatever the outcome, Frank Isaac Robinson in 2016 was inducted into the Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame.

Sugar Chile Robinson will be celebrating his 84th Birthday on December 28th 2022—

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

During the 1940s it was rare for a black person to have control over large amounts of land.

In 1944, a group of white men brutally lynched Rev. Isaac Simmons, a Black minister & farmer, so they could steal his land in Amite County, Mississippi which was over 270 acres

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