Angela Bassett, actress born

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Schooled By Youtube: In Memory of Malcolm X….Unapologetic & Uncompromising

Schooled By Youtube: In Memory of Malcolm

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Black Fact of the Day: May 19, 2020- Brought to you by Black365

Black Fact of the Day: May 19, 2020- Brought to you by Black365 Human Rights leader and outstanding orator Malcolm X aka El-Hajj Malik El- Shabazz was born in Omaha, NE, 1925. Brought to you by the Black365 Calendar.

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Sick and tired of being sick and tired: Time to fight RIGHT!

Now “Big Floyd,” as he was affectionately called by family and friends, is dead, Chauvin is facing charges and the American “justice” system is under attack by angry protesters who are all “sick and tired of being sick and tired,” as Fannie Lou Hamer famously

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Black Panther Party

Black Panthers redirects here. Black nationalism

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Dash, Julie (1952- )

Filmmaker Julie Dash was born on October 22, 1952 in Queens, New York. She received her B.A. in film production from City College of New York in 1974 and went on to earn a two-year fellowship to the Center for Advanced Film Studies at the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles. At AFI, Dash

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22

1952

Malcolm X Day RBG Flag Raising Mon. May 20th

WE ARE RAISING THE RBG FLAG ON MONDAY THE 20TH IN HONOR OF MALCOLM X DAY!!!

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(1982) Audre Lorde, “Learning from the 60s”

In February, 1982, Audre Lorde delivered the address, “Learning from the 60s” as part of the celebration of the Malcolm X weekend at Harvard University. Her presentation appears

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Robert Hayden

Robert Hayden , in full Robert Earl Hayden, original name Asa Bundy Sheffey (born August 4, 1913, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.—died February 25, 1980, Ann Arbor, Michigan), African American poet whose subject matter is most often the black

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1980

Stevie Wonder, Rep. Ayanna Presley, Rev. Al Sharpton and More to Pay Tribute to Malcolm X's Birthday

Stevie Wonder, Rep. Ayanna Presley, Rev. Al Sharpton and More to Pay Tribute to Malcolm X’s Instagram

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Motown Museum To Welcome Back Visitors July 15

Motown Museum today announced it is reopening its doors on Wednesday, July 15, offering guests a safer, more personalized museum experience in the wake of

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Wallace Fard Muhammad

Wallace D. Fard aka Wallace Fard Muhammad /f ə . ˈ r ɑː d/ (born February 26, 1877[2]) was a co-founder of the Nation of Islam. He arrived in Detroit in 1930 with an obscure background and several aliases, and taught a distinctive form of Islam to members of the citys African-American

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Feb

26

1877

Huey P. Newton

Huey Percy Newton was an African American leader and co-founder of the Black Panther Party. He was the youngest of seven children born to Armelia Johnson and Walter Newton on February 17, 1942 in Monroe, Louisiana and named after the former Governor of Louisiana, Huey Long. His family was not very

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Aug

22

1989

Top 10 Most Famous Black Actors of All Time

Hollywood is a giant industry which provides work to hundreds of actors. At the advent of this industry only white actors ruled the silver screen and the blacks were given only minor roles. As the time progressed, blacks were given the voice in the society and eventually allowed white collar

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Tina Turner

Name at birth: Anna Mae Bullock

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Fela Kuti

Fela Kuti , byname of Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, also called Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (born October 15, 1938, Abeokuta, Nigeria—died August 2, 1997, Lagos), Nigerian musician and activist who launched a modern style of music called Afro-beat, which fused American blues, jazz, and funk with

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Aug

2

1997

Rhetorical Analysis: Compare and Contrast Four Speeches on Civil Rights

Common Core Standards

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Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Debate

Malcolm X Goes BEAST MODE On White Liberal (1963) - Duration: 5:13. MALCOLMSREVENGE 725,316 views

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28

1963

Black Fact of the Day: June 25, 2020- Brought to you by Black365

What’s Love Got to Do with It, starring Angela Bassett, made its U.S. debut on June 25, 1993. Brought to you by the Black365 Calendar. Find out more at Black365.com

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Malcolm X resigned from the Nation of Islam

Malcolm X resigned from the Nation of Islam.

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1964

Black Power movement

The Black Power movement was a political movement to achieve a form of Black Power and the many philosophies it contains. The movement saw various forms of activism some violent and some peaceful, all hoping to achieve black empowerment. The Black Power movement also represented socialist

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A Cultural History of the Zoot Suit

In the 1944 Tom & Jerry short The Zoot Cat—only the thirteenth cartoon ever made starring that famous duo—Toms would-be girlfriend lays it on him straight: Boy, are you corny! You act like a square at the fair, a goon from Saskatoon. You come on like a broken arm. Youre a sad apple, a long

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Caribbean People Stand in Solidarity Against Anti-Black State Violence in the USA

We stand in solidarity with the family, friends and community of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade, the African Americans and all those living in America of all races, genders, sexualities, abilities, ages, religions and ethnicities who have come out in their millions publicly to

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Common, Angela Davis, Pete Rock, Ilyasah Shabazz to honor Malcolm X

Portrait of American political activist and radical civil rights leader Malcolm X (1925 - 1965) as he holds an 8mm movie camera in London Airport, London, England, July

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(1964) Malcolm X’s Speech at the Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity

Malcolm X’s life changed dramatically in the first six months of 1964. On March 8, he left the Nation of Islam. In May he toured West Africa and made a pilgrimage to Mecca, returning as El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. While in Ghana in May, he decided to form the Organization of Afro-American Unity

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Common Stereotypes About Africa

In the 21st century, there’s never been more focus on Africa than now. Thanks to the revolutions sweeping through North Africa and the Middle East, Africa has the world’s attention. But just because all eyes happen to be on Africa at the moment doesn’t mean myths about this part of the world have

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MLK " Last Speech" 1968

the great the great I been to the mountain top speech

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Aug

27

1967

Black Indians: A Personal and Historic Journey

William Loren Katz has devoted his life to researching and writing African American history. In the following account written to describe the reissue of one of his most successful books, Black Indians, he describes how he became an historian of African America and particularly the black

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Marcus Garvey, "The Negro Moses"

Did Garvey, in his espousal of the repatriation of blacks to Africa, forsake the rights of African Americans in

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African American History and Women Timeline 1940-1949

During the 1940s and 1950s, many African Americans from the South migrated to the North to work in industry there, in what is called the Great

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