"Look how FAR FORWARD they're pushing THIS BEFORE they push the BLACK RACE thing... how many HUNDREDS of years we were saying 'we were put into slavery' and all that. But all of a sudden, this small minority's kicking up a stink -- within the last, what -- TEN years they've been coming on?"

         

🕊🔥💥MAMA SAID: "The percentage of transgender people - they just make up a minority of the world. Why are we giving them so many 'rights'? You, earlier on - you mentioned it's the same as race. Look how far forward they're pushing this before they push the Black Race thing. Before the freedom of it. Look how far - how many hundreds of years we were saying 'you put us into slavery' and all that. But all of a sudden, this small minority's kicking up stink -- within the last, what -- ten years they've been coming on? And everybody's getting confused and you're going towards that..."💥🔥🕊

🕊️🕯️QUOTES of the century for MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Day • 2022🕯️🕊️

     

🕊️ Whosoever (still) hath ears to hear, let them hear...🕊️

🕊️🕯️R.I.P. • Quite Possibly THE GREATEST To Ever Grace The Silver Screen • SIDNEY POITIER (1929-2022)🕯️🕊️

 

Sidney Poitier has many legacies, but his acting should not be lost among them

He will rightly be remembered as an aspirational icon and for being nearly the sole representative of African-Americans in mainstream cinema for nearly a decade, but he was first and foremost a phenomenal actor.

Adam Howard | THE GRIO

Sidney Poitier, one of the last remaining icons of Hollywood’s golden age, has died at age 94. Much ink will be spilled, and rightfully so, about his significance as a cultural icon of the civil rights era who made history at not just the Oscars but at the box office, too.

Jesuit Order Pledges to Raise $100M in 'Reparations' to Black Descendants of Slavery; BUT (once again) WHERE is the money REALLY going?

      

📺☝️LISTEN carefully! • "Be ye wise as serpents... and always read the fine print... "

A Stolen Legacy: California Beachfront Town Grapples with Seizure of Black-Owned Hotel In 1920s

    

          Bruce’s Lodge resort/Bruce Family circa 1915. (Photo provided/Manhattan Beach Historical Society)

Matt Bruce | ATLANTA BLACK STAR

An L.A. County official recently announced plans to possibly return a $75 million beachfront property to the family of a Black couple that once owned it.

The news comes 97 years after policymakers in Manhattan Beach wrested the property away from the family as part of a power move to oust Black people from the Southern California city.

Charles and Willa Bruce were among the first landowners in the coastal town when they bought a patch of land on the shores for less than $2,000 in 1912.

Malcolm X's family releases letter alleging FBI, police role in his death

 

Civil rights leader's family urge investigation into letter suggesting security forces behind his death in 1965 shooting

Mana Rabiee | REUTERS

NEW YORK, Feb 21 - Members of Malcolm X's family have made public what they described as a letter written by a deceased police officer stating that the New York Police Department and FBI were behind the 1965 killing of the famed Black activist and civil rights advocate.

KJV BROMANCE: Why Do Black Christians Have Such an Affection for the King James Bible?

    

Black Apolodemic | MEDIUM

I was raised in the Black Baptist Church. There is a lot of tradition, pomp and circumstance in the Black Baptist Church as there is throughout most Black Christian Churches. There are also some artifacts. One such artifact is the pew.

The church pew two main purposes: they seat congregants in the front and hold items on the back. On the back of every pew, there is a place holder for fans, books and communion cups. In the Black Baptist church, you will only find two books in the back of every pew: the King James Bible (KJV) and the New National Baptist Hymnal.

📺 WATCH: Origins of African-American English

 

☝️5 minute video shonuff breaks it down right quick!☝️

New York's Planned Parenthood will remove founder's name over her views on eugenics

Allison Gordon | CNN

If Margaret Sanger sounds familiar, it's because you might have encountered her in history class.

A nurse and educator, Sanger opened in 1916 the first birth control clinic in the United States, which was illegal at the time. Her arrest and conviction led to a court ruling said that physicians could prescribe contraceptives to women for medical reasons. In 1923, Sanger opened a new clinic staffed by female doctors which eventually became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

QUEEN OF THE HIGHWAY • R.I.P. • 'Good Times' actress and 'Movin' on Up' singer JA'NET DUBOIS has passed away

DuBois sang and wrote the theme song to “Jeffersons”

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ja’Net DuBois, who played the vivacious neighbor Willona Woods on “Good Times” and composed and sang the theme song for “The Jeffersons,” has died.

Watch: MARVIN GAYE • Motown Documentary • RARE • 1986

BIG✊ • I remember seeing this back in the day... Hard to find cable TV documentary produced by Motown Productions about the life and musical career of Marvin Gaye. Many are of the opinion it's the best one that has been made. RARE interviews, footage & performance with many other legends. Narration by Smokey Robinson.

The Court Jester

Trailblazing Explorer Barbara Hillary, First Black Woman to Reach North and South Poles, Dies at 88

Tanasia Kenney | ATLANTA BLACK STAR

Barbara Hillary, the trailblazing adventurer who made history as the first African-American woman to reach the North and South Poles, has died. She was 88 years old.

Who was Uncle Tom? Another forgotten black hero...