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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Frank Greene was a Silicon Valley pioneer and one of the first Black Americans to earn a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. He helped develop a high-speed memory chip. ↓Read↓ buymeacoffee.com/africanarchi...

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

J. Marion Sims “the father of modern gynecology” purchased Black women slaves and used them as guinea pigs for his untested surgical experiments. ↓Read↓ buymeacoffee.com/africanarchi...

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A spectator at the Selma to Montgomery march with a sign condemning police killings presages the grievances of today’s Black Lives Matter movement. Photograph: Steve Schapiro

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

in 1955, Claudette Colvin,15, was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white woman on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was arrested 9months before Rosa Parks, but NAACP didn't want her to represent their organization because she was 15 and pregnant. buymeacoffee.com/africanarchi...

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"The paradox of education is precisely this: that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Jack and Abby Landlord, Savannah, Georgia, 1875

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

2 boxing legends, Muhammad Ali and joe Frazier. “We are stone enemies in the ring and best friends outside the ring.” —Joe Frazier

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Malcolm X talking to Babatunde Olatunji, a Nigerian drummer and educator (left) and a Nigerian student, at Nigeria Independence Party in Harlem, New York City.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Portrait of six generations of a family, Selma, Alabama, 1893.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Barack and Michelle Obama in their living room with their newborn daughter Malia(1998).

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A father and sons at Penn Station, New York City, 1948.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

3 messengers, 3 murders, 3 wives widowed. "you can kill a man but you can't kill an idea."

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

A segregated Summerville, South Carolina Schoolhouse, 1905.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The African Renaissance Monument, Located in Dakar, Senegal.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Attendees of the Convention for Former Slaves, 1916.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Proud mother, Mrs. Cleveland Owens, hears of son Jesse's Olympic triumphs in Berlin, 1936.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

“Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's son, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.” —Ella Baker

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Over 400 Years of Institutional Racism. Slavery (1619-1865) Black Codes (1865-1866) KKK (1865-) Jim Crow (1877-1954) Redlining (1934-1968) War On Drugs (1971-) Mass Incarceration (1973-) Three Strikes Law(1993-)

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Teenagers waiting to get paid for cotton picking in 1939 in Mileston, Mississippi

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

What our ancestors were doing on 4th of July 1776.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

“Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.” —John Henriek Clarke

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself" —Malcolm X

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Honoring all those enslaved people that built the U.S Capitol.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

In 1938, Jack Johnson was speeding when he was stopped by a policeman. He issued him a $50 ticket. Jack handed him a $100 bill, to which the policeman proclaimed "I can't make change for that much!" Jack replied, "keep it, as I will be making the return trip at the same speed."

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

"When children attend schools that place a Greater value on Discipline and Security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending Prep schools for PRISON." — Angela Davis

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Malcolm X relaxing with two of his daughters a day before he was assassinated.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto. " — Carter G. Woodson

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Mary Smith became the first Black woman NFL cheerleader in 1970, joining the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and breaking barriers in professional sports and entertainment.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

James Earl Jones with his father Robert Earl Jones together on stage in the 1962 production “Moon on a Rainbow Shawl.” Robert divorced James’ mother before he was born. He did not come to know him till the mid 1950’s, about 20 years later.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Ted Ross, Nipsey Russell, Michael Jackson and Diana Ross rehearsing for the 1978 movie The Wiz

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The City of Boston has a 10-foot tall bronze sculpture in the South End depicting Harriet Tubman leading a group of people up North to freedom, the first memorial erected in Boston to a woman on city-owned property.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

W.E.B Du Bois with members of the Fisk University class of 1888.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

13 year old Stevie Wonder and 21 year old Muhammad Ali, 1963

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” —Martin Luther King Jr

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

“The first world was made out of the blood and sweat of the third world.” — Winnie Mandela

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” —Angela Davis

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

On this day in 2009, Singer, songwriter, and dancer Michael Jackson died at age 50.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Whitney Houston, Roberta Flack, Nick Ashford, Valerie Simpson, and Diahann Carroll on the opening night of Ashford & Simpson’s first restaurant, The Sugar Bar Restaurant in NY.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

No other race is told to forget their history!

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

June 23, 1888: Abolitionist Frederick Douglass received one vote from the Kentucky delegation at the Republican convention in Chicago, effectively making him the 1st Black American candidate to have his name placed in nomination for U.S. president (The nomination went to Benjamin Harrison)

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Marvin Gaye with his mom Alberta...........

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Young boy during the 1930s in Montgomery, Alabama

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