Phoenix Reed

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

“Italy can have Ethiopia when I am the emperor of Rome” - Menelik II of Ethiopia

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

The memories of colonization and brutality. They were uncivilized.. and they abused the indigenous people all over the world.

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

"The white man will try to satisfy us with symbolic victories rather than economic equity and real justice."

[NaomiOsaka大坂なおみ @naomiosaka]

文化

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

In 1963, the famous photographer Richard Avedon took a picture of a man named William Casby. William Casby, born in 1857, was 106 years old at the time. In his hands, he was holding his great-great-granddaughter, Cherri Stamps-McCray.

The image amazes me because the elderly gentleman holding his descendant so tenderly, was born into slavery more than a century prior. Casby would eventually live until 1970, dying at the age of 113.

His great- and great-grandchildren are alive today, and many of them remember him.

It puts into perspective just how relatively recent slavery existed. Because as faraway and distant as it may feel now. Even in modern-day America, there are people who have active memories of talking to former slaves.

Look at more amazing historical photos: https://t.co/dQjceOPkrz

[Nora @Heal_within96]

African hairstyles before Colonialism. They're all beautiful. May they all rest in eternal peace.

[nat ♥️ @khaj_nat]

Beautiful traditional Nubian Dance || Sudan 🇸🇩🫶🏾

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Beautiful image of several African women with their natural hair, taken from Madagascar 🇲🇬 in the last centuries.

[WELCOME TO BLACK TWlTTER  @blacktwiterthrd]

Black American Women in the 1960s

[Afrocolectiva @afrocolectiva]

Bendiciendo tu TL con el arte de Harmonia Rosales.

[Historiae Āfricānae @africanae9732]

Good morning African history fans!

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

💯

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1925, Muslim minister and human rights activist, Malcolm X was born. Gone, but not forgotten.

Rest in Power.

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

"I shall teach the Black man to see Beauty in his own kind." Marcus Mosiah Garvey

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

A Beautiful People We Are 🖤

[Frank @frankonX_]

Bambara woman

Fulani woman

Soninke woman

Mandinka woman

19th century engravings, from the book Esquisses sénégalaises, by David Boilat

[Historical Africa @historical_Afr]

A young woman from the Boya tribe (also known as Larim and Langorim) in South Sudan 🇸🇸 showing the scarifications on her back. The symmetrical patterns form a stunning mosaic of scars.

Scarification has been widely used by many tribes to mark milestone stages in both men and women's lives, such as puberty and marriage. Tribe members unwilling to participate in scarification were generally not included in the group's activities, and are often shunned from their society.

📷 anibal_bueno

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Patrice Lumumba was right when he said you will find more traitors than colonizers at the root of Africa’s suffering. This is the reality of Africa today. 🤦🏽‍♂️

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Ladies from Central Louisiana, posing for a photo, 1938