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Burial ceremony of the late, great intellectual, Steve Biko, on the 25th September 1977 in Ginsberg, South Africa.
Over 15,000 persons were present to send him to eternal rest.
Investigation showed that Steve Biko showed NO signs of hunger strike or dehydration before death in detention which the apartheid government claimed was his cause of death.
Doctors confirmed extensive brain damage & bruising, with fatal injuries.
BREAKING: Jeffrey Goldberg from The Atlantic @TheAtlantic has just released the FULL Text Message Chain.
I have provided all texts in this post and the thread below:
CHECK MATE! 🧵
They say "let it go", "it was a long time ago", "forgive and forget"..but we should NEVER FORGET the atrocities committed against US. Yes this is a hard image to look at but this is what they did to our ancestors and is sadly a part of our history.
The scale of The Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx is incredible - two floors, 52,000+ square feet with a dedicated theater/ concert space. Finally, Hip Hop has its own home to celebrate the past, present, and future in the birthplace of the culture - coming late 2025
CPS @ChiPubSchools career training is a gift for underserved communities, Chicago's Next Voices columnist writes https://t.co/oIoT50fWBK @write1kj@LawrenceSpaul17 Great job 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Tell Mr. Smith I said the same 🫡
“Two months ago I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a good job. I had a son. When something happened to the Negroes in the South I said, ‘That’s their business, not mine.’ Now I know how wrong I was. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of all of us” —Mamie Till-Mobley
In May of 1946, The Fultz Sisters or Fultz Quads, became the first identical Black-American quadruplets on record. The Doctor named them and also put them on display for curious onlookers.
The Fascinating and Tragic story of the quadruplets,
A THREAD