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I love melanin is a chance for people to close all the learning gaps they face when they’ve only taught about European history throughout their school careers. I love melanin is an opportunity to connect and educate those about places they’ve never had a chance to visit or change any prejudices formed through media manipulation. I love melanin is a message of black and brown unity, pride, power and resolve. email: [email protected]
11/04/2020
The American Colonization Society founded Liberia in 1821 as a place for free African Americans to migrate to. More than 10,000 made the journey across the Atlantic, aided by the society, until Liberia declared independence in 1847. Joseph Jenkins Roberts, a freed slave from Virginia, became the first president.
10/19/2020
We love to see it!
10/19/2020
A word.
10/16/2020
Did you know?
10/16/2020
The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was an all-Black battalion of the Women’s Army Corps, whose main function was to ensure mail delivery to troops fighting in World War II and to boost morale. Nicknamed the “Six Triple Eight,” the battalion’s motto was “No Mail, No Morale.”
10/16/2020
Do you believe in cultural appropriation or do you think there is a thin line between what is and what isn’t?
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We want to know!
02/07/2020
Is art imitating life here? Do you believe that black people are targets or simply in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Let us know in the comments!
02/06/2020
The 1st Rhode Island Regiment (also known as Varnum's Regiment, the 9th Continental Regiment, the Black Regiment, the Rhode Island Regiment, and Olney's Battalion) was a regiment in the Continental Army from Rhode Island during the American Revolutionary War (1775–83). It was one of the few units in the Continental Army to serve through the entire war.
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The unit went through several reorganizations and name changes, like most regiments of the Continental Army. It became known as the "Black Regiment" because it had a large number black soldiers in its ranks. It is regarded by some as the first black regiment, despite the fact that its ranks were not exclusively black.
02/06/2020
“Yes, I glorify Blackness. I love it! I love it in all shade from light Black to blue Black. Black, Black, Black. I relish it! I love it! And I make no apologies for it. I glorify Blackness”. ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏿✊🏼
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02/04/2020
Keeth Smart became the first American to reach No. 1 in the world in saber fencing and later won a silver medal at the 2008 Olympics.
02/03/2020
Hold what?
Did you or your folks wait until the end? Or were y’all carrying on!! Let us know in the comments!
02/03/2020
The Fultz Quadruplets were the first identical Black quad babies born in the United States. The Fultz girls became baby celebrities, while Fred Klenner, the white doctor who delivered them into the world, exploited them for fame and money.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The Fultz Quads – Mary Louise, Mary Ann, Mary Alice, and Mary Catherine – were born on May 3, 1946 at Annie Penn Hospital in Reidsville, N.C. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The Quads’ parents, sharecropper Pete and deaf-mute mother Annie Mae, lived on a farm with their six other children but were too poor to care for the babies. Multiple births were rare at the time and the equipment to care for underweight babies wasn’t as prevalent as it is in modern times.
