Ken L. Spear

Husband, father, educator, psalmist and writer. Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
~ BTW

[Ken L. Spear @KenLSpear]

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@SIEDAHGARRETT Absolutely!

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@SIEDAHGARRETT @billboard @GlenBallard Thank you for the timeless classic!

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[amber ruffin @ambermruffin]

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[Stacey Patton @DrStaceyPatton]

It grates my soul to hear Black people my age & younger say, "We are not our ancestors."

Yep, you're right. You are NOT our ancestors because y'all need a "trigger warning," "a safe space," and some "self care" just to watch a documentary about all that our ancestors endured.

[theGrio.com @theGrio]

Mississippi’s congressional delegation is urging President Joe Biden to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to civil rights leader Medgar Wiley Evers.

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[Ken L. Spear @KenLSpear]

my daylist right now: groovy lounge early morning
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[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

George Crum invented the Potato chips. Thanks to him, our mindless television watching became a bit more delicious.

—The potato chip was invented in 1853 by George Crum. Crum was a black American chef at the Moon Lake Lodge resort in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. French fries were popular at the restaurant, and one day a diner complained that the fries were too thick. Although Crum made a thinner batch, the customer was still unsatisfied. Crum finally made fries that were too thin to eat with a fork, hoping to annoy the extremely fussy customer. The customer, surprisingly enough, was happy – and potato chips were invented!

Crum’s chips were originally called Saratoga Chips and potato crunches. They were soon packaged and sold in New England – Crum later opened his own restaurant.

William Tappendon manufactured and marketed the chips in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1895. In the 1920s, a salesman named Herman Lay sold potato chips to the southern USA (selling the chips from the trunk of his car). In 1926, Laura Scudder (who owned a potato chip factory in Monterey Park, California) invented a wax paper potato chip bag to keep the chips fresh and crunchy. With further technology, innovation, and a countless number of variations and flavors, potato chips have only grown in popularity over the years!

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[Tariq Nasheed 🇺🇸 @tariqnasheed]

Get involved with the making of this historic upcoming documentary film on the true origin of Hip Hop, #MicrophoneCheck at https://t.co/2kylZbuPcz

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Sign placed in front of the Memphis Zoo, Tennessee, stating the only day of the week that blacks were allowed to visit, 1959

The city had “Negro Thursdays’’ where black citizens could visit the Brooks Museum, the Memphis Zoo and Pink Palace Museum.

[MJ Tapes @MJTAPES]

MJ did not play about his band or his background dancers being tight 😭

[Jurnee Smollett @jurneesmollett]

This is so sweet. Appreciate you. Truly. I don’t take it lightly. 🙏🏽

[Matt Price (Mr. Make It Happen) @MrMake1tHappen]

NFL Sunday is tomorrow.. what’s on the menu 👀👀

[theGrio.com @theGrio]

Three books that explore and celebrate the diversity of American culture were awarded Kirkus Prizes on Wednesday night, with each winner receiving $50,000.

James McBride’s “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” won in the fiction category.

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[BLACK ARCHIVES @blackarchivesco]

Crawford, Mississippi. Photograph by Birney Imes (1979)

[Ken L. Spear @KenLSpear]

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[Ken L. Spear @KenLSpear]

So proud of the achievements of my young wordsmiths in Creative Writing at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School. #BTWexcels