A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.
He knows his time is running out.
So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.
He died 5 months later.
This is that lecture.
The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later
Ida B Wells
WEB Du Bois
Geronimo Pratt
Sojourner Truth
Bayard Rustin
Fannie Lou Hamer
Angela Davis
Diane Nash
Bobby Seale
Kwame Ture
James Baldwin
Shirley Chisholm
Ralph Bunche
Asa Phillip Randolph
Medgar Evers
Martin Delany
Mary Church Terrell
Reminder that the civil rights movement was not just random people who had enough one day. They were carefully and militantly trained political activists who deployed strategic forces to end Jim Crow segregation. Never forget them.
It is such a tragedy that women are taught to fear aging. To hate it, when aging is such a beautiful process. The wrinkles are the process of every smile, every laugh, every frown. It is the history of the life you’ve lived. Embrace it.
Especially the good things, the big amazing breakthroughs! The love, the family, the friends, the beauty, the joy.. don't ever think it can't happen to you too!
“To all my little Black girls who are watching me right now - your colour is not a curse. You are not a trend, you are not unfortunate. You are worthy, you are capable and you are more powerful than you can imagine.” 🫶🏾❤️
Anok Yai
#BlackHistoryMonth
i remember my 9th grade english teacher printed out an article of what happened to him, and passed it out to all of us. she said fuck the book, we learning about this today. all of us were distraught, especially because we were his age. rest in power little one.
It made me emotional when he said “at the beginning I was quiet because I didn’t want to embarrass myself or be a hassle” there so many black kids silencing themselves because they don’t want to be seen as a hassle. fuck that. be a hassle!!! 😤 take up space. love this so much.