Just.Dwayne

Making the most of my Human experience. Loving Life & Saying How I Feel 🖤🖤🖤♋🌃💨💨😤

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1965, Muslim minister and human rights activist, Malcolm X, was assassinated.

[Just.Dwayne @uabuac]

@NavyFederal Very very disappointing 😞

[THC Humor 💹🧲 @THChumor]

What I need at the end of the day

[Steven Spruill @SpruillSteve]

BLACK BOYS ROCK!👨🏿‍⚕️
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[Ancient Kemite @ancientkemite]

The human being was created to be the image of God on Earth. The Creator living thru His Creation. Amen-Ra experiencing Earthly life thru Ausaru.

If I don't see myself as a god, I am negating my human purpose. That's why the first thing they did was attack our god image.

[Just.Dwayne @uabuac]

Holidays without my grams never gets easier. I just want to cry in the shower but I can't. My locs are fresh.

[Just.Dwayne @uabuac]

@7ems_ This looks fun af

[Just.Dwayne @uabuac]

@CancerTerms Yep cause how much is it going to cost me. And it's not always money for the cost.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Congo is silently going through a silent genocide. Millions of people are being killed so that the western world can benefit from its natural resources.

More than 60% of the world’s cobalt reserves are found in Congo, used in the production of smartphones.

Western countries are providing financial military aid to invade regions filled with reserves and in the process millions are getting killed and millions homeless.

Multinationals mining companies are enslaving people especially children to mine.

[Terms of Cancer @CancerTerms]

#Cancer are instantly annoyed by people who don't give straight answers.

[Black, Blessed & Unbothered @MelanatedTalk]

You know this was an amazing flight. I love seeing all of these Black pilots and I want to see more!
Stay happy family! 😊
#Pilot
#FlightAttendant
#BlackTwitter
#BlackJoy

[Blavity @Blavity]

The kids don’t know nothing about this one! 😜 // #RP: taybabi82 via TT

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

“Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor --
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now --
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.”

― Langston Hughes

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Activist Dion Diamond sitting on a counter stool during a civil rights sit-in, Arlington, 1960. He sat there being insulted, harassed, hit and was arrested multiple times for doing it and he’s still alive today.

—It was in the year 1960, at the height of racial segregation in the United States, Dion Diamond, a black man, had grown tired of having his rights constantly trampled on.

"Crazy Diamond" they called him at that time, this man entered the premises and went directly to the white area, sat down and stayed there without flinching. Sometimes groups of people gathered around him, threatening and insulting him and "Crazy Diamond" kept sitting without moving an inch.

Dion said "I would sit down, and they would tell me that they couldn't attend to me and I didn't move, groups of up to 15 or 20 people would come to tell me to get out and I didn't flinch, I would only leave if they threatened to call the police"

Just by sitting down, this activist made many people stand up and fight for change, with an act as simple as sitting down.

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[Just.Dwayne @uabuac]

Hey #Netflix could yall add parking wars??? Thanks

[Tamorah Shareef Muhammad @ModestyQueen19]

Men are the maintainers but that doesn’t mean they don’t deserve love!

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1991 Comedian John Elroy Sanford a.k.a Redd Foxx, died of a heart attack 🕊

Did you know that he and Malcolm X were best friends and worked together as dishwashers at the same restaurant in Harlem in the 1940s. The staff called Foxx “Chicago Red” and Malcolm “Detroit Red”.

—Remembering Redd Foxx (Dec 9, 1922 – Oct 11, 1991)—

He portrayed Fred G. Sanford on the television show Sanford and Son and starred in The Redd Foxx Show and The Royal Family. His film projects included All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960), Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970), Norman... Is That You? (1976) and Harlem Nights (1989).

Red Foxx was birth named John Elroy Sanford in St. Louis, Missouri and raised in Chicago's South Side.

His father, Fred Sanford, an electrician and auto mechanic from Hickman, Kentucky, left the family when Foxx was four years old. He was raised by his half-Seminole mother, Mary Hughes, from Ellisville, Mississippi, his grandmother and his minister.

Foxx attended DuSable High School in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood with future Chicago mayor Harold Washington. Foxx had an older brother, Fred Jr., who provided the name for his character on Sanford and Son.

In the 1940s, he met Malcolm Little, later known as Malcolm X. In Malcolm's autobiography, Foxx is referred to as "Chicago Red, the funniest dishwasher on this earth." He earned the nickname because of his reddish hair and complexion.

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[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In 1899, Isaac R. Johnson patented a folding bicycle frame that could be folded or taken apart.

This invention made it easy to store bikes.

Isaac R. Johnson was born sometime in 1812 in New York. While he was not the first to invent the bicycle frame, he was the first black man to invent and patent one, particularly one that could be folded or disassembled for easy storage.

In fact, Isaac Johnson's version of the bicycle frame is similar to the version we ride today, as modern bicycles have the same pattern, but they do not fold up. Johnson's version was a folding frame that could be stored in small spaces; it was frequently used while traveling and on vacation.

The patent was originally filed for by Isaac R. Johnson in April of 1899, and it was assigned the publication number: US634823 A. The only information we have about Isaac R.
Johnson comes from the information he filled out when he filed his patent.

We know he lived in Manhattan, New York, based on this documentation. According to the paperwork, this bicycle frame is an improved version of any previous bicycle frame due to its ability to be disassembled and stored in a truck or other small storage area.

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[Kevín @KevOnStage]

People can’t tell this fit grandma, daughter, or grandma. “They’re shocked”.