Jonathan L. Strickland 🇺🇸 ❤️🔱🖤

Re Recording Mixer/ Supervising Sound Editor @illsoundsllc

[solé @layxsnv]

A whole lot of yall didn’t get raised like this so I get it‼️

[Anime Tweets @AnimexTwts]

😭

[Mibbs O.E. @mibbsOE]

What they not teaching us in U.S. history class. But I digr……nah fuck that. You racist Mfs can still SMD

[Jonathan L. Strickland 🇺🇸 ❤️🔱🖤 @JonnyiLL]

@R3dJ0k3r

[Mrs Hellfighter ᥫ᭡ 🇺🇸 ✊🏾🏹 @luv_ambitions]

City of Detroit raising the Juneteenth Flag ❤️🔱🖤🇺🇸

[Marie Isabella @MarieIsabellaB]

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[princss6 @princss6]

Public Service Announcement.

[🥷🏾 @Andrey25_]

Michael Jackson in “Leave Me Alone”, 1988

[Memory Card @MemoryCardFiles]

The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)

[O.T.G @ParisEighty]

Make The Music 2000 · Rahzel · 1999

[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

Stunning Back to the Future (1985) artwork by Julien Verge.

[WithoutHistory @WithoutHistory]

Her name was Hazel Bryan (now Massery)

She’s still alive today.

It was not that long ago.

Always act righteously. Regardless of the time.

[Dustin Fitzharris @TheDustinFitz]

Today in 1983, “Reading Rainbow,” starring LeVar Burton, premiered.

[Pastor Ben @BenjaminPDixon]

This is how your children behave when they swarm Black people

And you think Karmelo Anthony was WRONG for FEARING FOR HIS LIFE

around that mob of racist troglodytes?

GTEFOHYBACs

[Darlyndear🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 @Darlyn215]

Daniel Smith, Believed to Be the Last Child of Enslaved People, Dies at 90 https://t.co/IwjZ5d0pOi

[Creole Louisiana 🇺🇸 @bAnthonYsr]

A little something to brighten up your day‼️☀️

[Dwann B 🇺🇸 @dwannb]

June is Black Music Month. Im celebrating all month the legends that created ALL American music.

[Queer Latifah ✨ @TheAfrocentricI]

There are estate sales and than there are Black Estate Sales!

[#BMH365 🎶🎤 @BlackMusicHstry]

This rare, unedited footage of an archival outtake from the landmark 1995 PBS/BBC ten-part documentary series Rock & Roll (produced by WGBH and filmed by Elizabeth Deane). In this incredible raw interview clip, legendary songwriter Dorothy LaBostrie pulls back the curtain on the true history of American Rock and Roll music.

While recounting how she cleaned up Little Richard's raw, underground roadhouse lyrics in just fifteen minutes to write "Tutti Frutti" at Cosimo Matassa's J&M Studio, LaBostrie strips away the commercialized myth of the genre. She firmly re-anchors the birth of Rock and Roll in its true origin: the resilience, survival, and creative genius of Black Americans navigating the hardships of the mid-century South.

When asked by the interviewer how Rock and Roll and the Blues truly began, LaBostrie bypassed the standard talk of record labels and studio equipment. Instead, she spoke directly to the socioeconomic realities and systemic oppression faced by Black communities in Mississippi and Alabama, explaining how systematic struggle was transmuted into a global musical revolution:

“Where I would go to Jackson, Mississippi, down in Meridian, Mississippi, those places where people had such a hard time as I said, and they would give out their event in song. You couldn't fight what was going on down there, so you get in the corner and make up a song, get a rub board or whatever it may be. And it was sad, but beautiful.” —Dorothy LaBostrie