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If you become a slave of God and go the right way, you will aways be victorious.
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🚨 BREAKING:

THE UNITED NATIONS HAS ADOPTED THE NEW WORLD MAP SHOWING THE TRUE SIZE OF AFRICA THANKS TO TOGO WHO PUSHED THE RESOLUTION.

THE CURRENT MAP FOR CENTURIES WAS DELIBERATELY DRAWN TO MAKE PEOPLE THINK AFRICA IS AS SMALL AS ICELAND WHEN IT IN FACT IS MORE THAN 14 TIMES BIGGER AND EUROPE, THE US, INDIA AND CHINA CAN FIT INTO AFRICA ALL AT ONCE.

THE RESOLUTION WAS VOTED MASSIVELY IN FAVOUR AND ONLY THE USA VOTED AGAINST IT.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA FOR RECLAIMING THEIR RIGHT AND THANKS ESPECIALLY TO THE REPUBLIC OF TOGO FOR MAKING THE MOVE 👏👏👏

[Ram Singh Verma @RamSingh_369]

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[SoulFood66 @BlackAndNative1]

The Floaters - Float On (1977)

[Sarah 🎻🧢 @Expressfisv5pv]

Dr. Dre, Kurupt, Snoop Dogg
& Nate Dogg - The Next Episode

[SoulFood66 @BlackAndNative1]

The Brothers Johnson - Strawberry Letter 23 (1977)

[Music over time🎻 @Peal8888]

You feel it the second the camera finds him.

Black-and-white footage. Matching suits. Perfect steps. And right in the center of The Temptations stands David Ruffin—sunglasses, sharp jawline, that unmistakable intensity—leaning into the mic like the song belongs only to him. The crowd is already moving. Sixty-one years later, the clip still stops the scroll.

That performance isn’t just nostalgia. It’s the exact moment a background singer became the defining voice of Motown’s golden era.

Before “My Girl,” Ruffin was still the new guy. Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams handled most of the leads. Ruffin had the range and the edge, but Motown hadn’t fully unlocked him yet. Then Smokey Robinson saw what others had missed.

It happened on the package tours. Smokey heard Ruffin’s distinctive voice—mellow yet gruff—during the Motown live shows and knew he had something special. He wanted to write something genuinely sweet for that voice, a song that would make the girls swoon instead of just admire from a distance.

So he and Ronald White wrote “My Girl.”

They didn’t keep it for the Miracles. Smokey has said more than once that if David Ruffin hadn’t been in The Temptations, the song might never have existed in that form. He shaped the melody and the feeling around Ruffin’s tone. Then, at the Apollo Theater in New York, between shows (they were doing four or five a day), Smokey took the group down to the stage where there was a piano and taught them the song while they created their own background harmonies on the spot.

Back in Detroit the track came together quickly. James Jamerson laid down that heartbeat bass line—three notes that still announce the song before a single lyric arrives. Robert White’s guitar answered it. Paul Riser wrote the string and horn arrangements that lifted everything into pure Motown sunshine. When Ruffin stepped to the mic, the contrast was perfect: a voice that could command attention singing words of pure gratitude and wonder.

Released just after Christmas 1964, the single climbed steadily. By March 6, 1965, it sat at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100—the group’s first. It also topped the R&B chart. Suddenly the new guy was the main guy. In the years that followed, Ruffin remained front and center on a string of Temptations classics—from “It’s Growing” and “Since I Lost My Baby” to “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” “I Wish It Would Rain,” and “(I Know) I’m Losing You.” The classic five-man lineup became untouchable.

But the real magic of “My Girl” isn’t chart history. It’s the way the song still works on the body. Those opening bass notes hit and people stand up without thinking. Fathers play it when they walk their daughters down the aisle. Crowds of every age sing the “talkin’ ’bout my girl” part like it’s brand new. Otis Williams, the last original Temptation still with us, has said the song breaks down barriers. He’s not exaggerating. Put it on in a room full of strangers and watch the temperature change.

Ruffin’s delivery is the reason. He doesn’t over-sing it. He lets the joy sit inside the grain of his voice. There’s swagger and sincerity at once. You believe every word about sunshine on a cloudy day because he sounds like a man who just discovered it.

Sixty-one years on, the video still does the same job the record did in 1965. It introduces David Ruffin not as a legend already carved in stone, but as a man stepping into his moment—glasses catching the light, body locked into the choreography, voice carrying a simple truth that somehow never gets old.

That’s why the clip keeps circulating. Not because we miss the past. Because the feeling it captures is still current. A great voice meeting the right song at the exact right time. And every time those first bass notes drop, a new generation of American music lovers feels it the same way the first one did.

My girl.

Talkin’ ’bout my girl.

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"Ain't Nobody" almost never happened. Rufus initially rejected the song because its unusual drum machine pattern and minimalist arrangement sounded too different from the band's previous material. Keyboardist David "Hawk" Wolinski insisted on keeping it, believing it had the potential to become something special. According to Wolinski, producer Quincy Jones later wanted Michael Jackson to record the song for Thriller but he refused because he believed it belonged to Chaka Khan and Rufus.

Released in 1983 as one of the studio recordings on the live album Stompin' at the Savoy, "Ain't Nobody" became Rufus and Chaka Khan's final hit together. The song reached No. 1 on the Billboard R&B chart, No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart. It also won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1984. Its innovative blend of funk, R&B and electronic production helped transform it into a timeless classic that continues to be sampled and covered decades after its release.

[Love Music @khnh80044]

This classic was the No. 1 song 61 years ago. This guy could really sing!
Do you know the song or the singer? 🤔

[SoulFood66 @BlackAndNative1]

Switch - There'll Never Be (1978)

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Natalie would never treat him like this.

[SoulFood66 @BlackAndNative1]

Bill Withers 🕊️ - Lovely Day (1977)

[TizzyWoman 🗽 ☮️ ~ Keep moving forward @tizzywoman]

Settle with this for 2:47 minutes and enjoy!

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[60's and 70's media @afteralldzyears]

Minnie Riperton- Lovin' You (1974)

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Modern-day Chinese scientists trace and believe that the Chinese originated from Africa.

[tojo @Tojord]

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[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Black American family life in Georgia, 1949.

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Discover how European powers redrew the map of Africa, creating artificial borders that continue to shape nations and fuel conflict to this day. A look at the history behind modern African boundaries. https://t.co/PotU35wksu
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