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God Bless my beautiful roommate. -@MoTheAbstract
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shesbombb: rihannas birthday.
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Y?Makeup Artistry by YaYa Brown: Dorthy Dandridge "Black Beauty History"

ymakeupbyyaya:

Singer, actress. Born November 9, 1922, in Cleveland, Ohio, Dorothy Dandridge sang at Harlem’s famed Cotton Club and Apollo Theatre and became the first African American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for best actress.

Dandridge’s mother, the actress Ruby Dandridge, urged her two…

(Source: biography.com)

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nevoneblount: You’ve heard of Maya Angelou. I’m sure you heard of Toni Morrison. Alice Walker. Maybe even Zora Neale Hurston. But I’m sure you’ve never heard of Ann Petry. But you should have. Mrs. Petry was the first African American woman to sell over one million copies of a novel. Her novel, The Street, did just that. Petry was born on October 12, 1908 in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Her family was classified as middle class and she was raised in a predominantly white neighborhood. Petry was initially dissuaded to write, causing her to go to school to become a pharmacist. It wasn’t until she was married and moved to Harlem, NY that she began to take writing seriously.  The Street was published in 1946 and is her most popular novel to date. Mrs. Petry passed away on April 28, 1997.  Happy Black History Month.
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Bob Marley.
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feedmerevolution: Assata Shakur, Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army member was wrongfully accused for the alleged murder of a New Jersey state trooper, named Werner Foerster. Her and her fellow BLA member Zayd Malik Shakur were involved in a shooting leaving her wounded, her BLA brother dead, and one police officer dead. The surviving officer testified that he saw her pull a gun out of her purse but later admitted to lying and not even seeing a weapon. Medical evidence and Assata’s testimony states that she was shot twice with her hands raised in the air showing that she was not a threat. Assata was never convicted of any charges but was sentenced to 26 to 33 years based on her being at the scene if the crime. Upon hearing the verdict, Shakur said that she was “ashamed that I have even taken part in this trial” and that the jury was “racist” and had “convicted a woman with her hands up”. the judge told the court attendants to “remove the prisoner” and Shakur replied: “the prisoner will walk away on her own feet”.Assata’s treatment was inhumane and un-American. She was left in solitary confinement for months at a time, harassed by police, and beaten almost to paralysis.  Assata escaped out of the maximum security wing of the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey in 1979 and moved to Cuba.  She has been living there since 1984. 1969, J. Edgar Hoover the director of the FBI for 48 years declared, “the Black Panther Party, without question, represents the greatest threat to internal security of the country”; he pledged that 1969 would be the last year of the Party’s existence. No statement was made about any other non black group like the kkk. He felt they were the biggest internal threat to the “country”. What do you think he meant by country? Till this day the FBI has labeled her as a terrorist and offers a million dollar reward. The fact that they labeled her as a terrorist for nothing and stepped up her reward from 50,000 to 1,000,000 since 2005 is ridiculous;this country will never change. Stay strong sistah they will NEVER find you. http://www.assatashakur.org/
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