Reconstructing Black Facts

Black people have overcome so much. We’ll keep on overcoming the trials and tribulations put in front of us.

Haven’t posted in a while. Here’s the reason why. Graduated from Temple University with a Bachelor in Liberal Studies with a focus in Africology 🥹

RIP Migo’s Rapper, Takeoff.

Loving African culture and African love.

We lost two Black icons today. Two Black inspirations. Bill Russell and Nichelle Nichols both died at their respective ages of (88) and (89) years old. From the first in*******al on screen kiss to an inspirational basketball player, both of their lives should be remembered greatly.

Maybe if they stopped trying to hide the truth… we would know how deep our roots are.

Constance Baker Motley (September 14, 1921 – September 28, 2005) was the first Black woman to attend Columbia Law School. In 1964 she became the first African-American woman elected to the New York State Senate. Two years later, President Lyndon Johnson appointed her as the first Black woman to become a federal judge. Motley was also a leading figure in the desegregation of Southern universities and public spaces.
After graduating from Columbia's Law School in 1946, she was hired by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) as a civil rights lawyer. As the fund's first female attorney, she became Associate Counsel to the LDF, making her a lead trial attorney in a number of early and significant civil rights cases including representing Martin Luther King Jr., the Freedom Riders, and the Birmingham Children Marchers. She visited Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. while he sat in jail, as well as spent a night with civil rights activist Medgar Evers under armed guard.
In 1950, she wrote the original complaint in the case of Brown v. Board of Education. The first African-American woman ever to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, in Meredith v. Fair she won James Meredith's effort to be the first black student to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962. Motley was successful in nine of the ten cases she argued before the Supreme Court. The tenth decision, regarding jury composition, was eventually overturned in her favor. She was otherwise a key legal strategist in the civil rights movement, helping to desegregate Southern schools, buses, and lunch counters.
Motley was also the first African-American woman appointed to the federal judiciary, serving as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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Marian Anderson was a beautiful singer and the first Black woman to sing for an inauguration of a President, John F Kennedy.