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[🌸🦄🩷unicornthorns🩷🦄🌸 @T_Marie60]

I love how pretty the Juneteenth and African American heritage flags are

[BRICK BY BRICK @aincomeinvestor]

A few to begin with, the basics.

[Tarsha ☀️🌛✨ @TruthSeeker4u2]

Black Owned water company’s 💦

[AwakenWith-Chi @AwakenChirp]

African indigenous civilizations before European Invasion 📚

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

[Chi @__Poisonivyyy]

A representation of a Black family where the wife isn't lighter than her husband and the little girl isn't biracial.

[Andrea Bitely @AndreaBitely]

The dark spot in Ohio is where they exclusively look for Michigan drivers.

[Ryan Helton @Ryan_Helton44]

Whenever someone asks me the difference between IMAX and standard formatting I will be sending them straight to Nolan’s doorstep (this website)

[jylfeng @jylfeng]

Attack on Wemby FULL SERIES

[👽⭐️🇸🇳 @BiggySpurs]

Wemby’s year 3:

-Led us to a 60+ win season
-Top 3 MVP
-First Unanimous and Youngest DPOY ever
-Made the All Star game competitive again
-NBA Finals run for his first playoff appearance
-Best Player in the World at 22.

[live from Hell @curlymirmy]

found the coolest bronze cuff at the thrift store. handmade in 1988. and it’s actual bronze. i can’t find a copy of this anywhere and i can’t believe i only spent $8

[Grace Aprilia @GraceApriliyh]

I want this in gold😁

[the culture | magazine @galactamelanin]

🗣️🗣️🗣️

[NBA @NBAWAYOFFS]

at least Draymond was working on his game

[ᴀʟᴇᴄ 🍃 @alecsbutt]

25 years later and this scene still cracks me up 😂

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

The German holocaust true story against the Africans. Long before the holocaust against the Jews.

[Thelonious @KingThelonious]

This shit really changed things culturally.

Like I don’t think people realize this wasn’t a thing before Spike.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Here is what an elephant herd looks like in Tsavo, Kenya in the 1950s.

[mike @painbuiltt]

hell yeah

[(ON HIATUS UNTIL AUGUST) moonie @moonrider64]

WAIT WHEN WAS THERE A RESTORED VERSION