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msh skeeta @melodymocha.blacksky.app · 15/02/2025

The smiles and neck bops get me every time. 🤌🏾 youtu.be/QNV2OuZRpno?...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

#OTD Mar 1, 1921: Idaho amended its anti-miscegenation law adding restrictions on interracial marriage. Idaho’s 1st anti-miscegenation law in 1864 banned marriage between a white person and "any person of African descent, Indian or Chinese”. #History #BlackSky calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

#OTD Mar 1, 1864: Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the 1st Black woman to earn a medical degree when she graduates from the New England Female Medical Collage. She also wrote one of the 1st medical manuals by a Black doctor in the U.S. and by a woman. #History #BlackSky www.history.com/this-day-in-...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

#OTD Mar 1, 1875: The "Civil Rights Act of 1875" is passed by Congress prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations. This act was later declared unconstitutional by the SCOTUS in 1883 in the "Civil Rights Cases”. #History #BlackSky www.blackpast.org/african-amer...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

#OTD Mar 1, 1780: Pennsylvania passed the Gradual Abolition of Slavery Act becoming the 1st state to began the process of ending enslavement in the western hemisphere. #History #BlackSky aaregistry.org/story/an-act...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

#OTD Feb 24, 1895: Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence. The war ends along with the Spanish–American War in 1898. #History #BlackSky misiones.cubaminrex.cu/en/articulo/...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

#OTD Amanda Berry Smith joined the ancestors (Jan 23, 1837 – Feb 24, 1915). Methodist preacher, formerly enslaved, she founded The Amanda Smith Orphanage and Industrial Home for Abandoned and Destitute Colored Children outside Chicago. #History #BlackSky www.blackpast.org/african-amer...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

#OTD Feb 24, 1920: The Nazi Party (NSDAP) was founded by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus beer hall in Munich, Germany. #History #BlackSky time.com/3712734/1920...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

#OTD Feb 24, 1980: Willie Davenport and Jeff Gadley, the 1st African Americans to represent the U.S. in the Winter Olympics, place 2nd in Lake Placid, N.Y. Their 4-man team finished 12th. #History #BlackSky www.dvidshub.net/image/253938...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

#OTD Katherine Johnson joined the ancestors (Aug 26, 1918-Feb 24, 2020). Mathematician, one of the 1st Black women to work as a NASA scientist. Her calculations of orbital mechanics led to the success of the 1st and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. #History #BlackSky www.nasa.gov/centers-and-...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

#OTD Feb 24, 1865: The Kentucky General Assembly refused to endorse ending enslavement in America when it voted against ratification of the 13th Amendment, which abolished enslavement except as punishment for crime. It wasn’t ratified until 1976. #History #BlackSky calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

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Etomi's Ghost @etomisghost.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

AND, HERE WE ARE AGAIN!!!!

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

🧵 #OTD Feb 20, 1939: 20,000 Americans held a pro-Nazi rally in NYC’s Madison Square Garden. It was billed as a “Pro American Rally”. The rally was sponsored by the German American Bund, who was openly supportive of Adolph Hitler. #History #BlackSky www.npr.org/sections/cod...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

#OTD Feb 16, 1972: Wilt Chamberlain scores his 30,000th point in a basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Phoenix Suns . First player in the NBA to score 30,000 points. #History #NBA #BlackSky

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

#OTD Feb 16, 1974: The Black Panther Vol. 11, No. 8 Artwork by Emory Douglas #History #BlackSky

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

#OTD António Mascarenhas Monteiro (Feb 16, 1944 - Sept 16, 2016). First democratically elected President of Cape Verde from March 22, 1991 to March 22, 2001. #History #BlackSky www.caboverde-info.com/eng/Identity...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

#OTD Feb 16, 1951: The NYC Council passes a bill prohibiting discrimination in assisted housing. #History #BlackSky

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

#OTD Feb 16, 1959: Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on Jan 1. #History #BlackSky www.history.com/this-day-in-...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

#OTD Feb 16, 1923: Bessie Smith made her first recording, “Down Hearted Blues” which sold 800,000 copies. #History #MusicIsLife #BlackSky blackthen.com/february-16-...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

#OTD Feb 1919: The 1st Pan-African Congress opens in Paris. Organized by W. E. B. Du Bois, 57 delegates from 16 countries meet. “The natives of Africa must be allowed to participate in the government as fast as their development permits”. #History #BlackSky aaregistry.org/story/the-pa...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

#OTD Feb 16, 1847: The legislature of Missouri passed an act that prohibited “Negroes and mulattoes” from learning to read and write and assembling freely for worship services. The act also forbade the migration of free Black people to the state. #History #BlackSky calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

#OTD Eddie Robinson (Feb 13, 1919 - Apr 3, 2007). Football coach for 56 years, from 1941 to 1942 and again from 1945 to 1997 at HBCU Grambling State. A record of 408–165–15, he is one of the greatest coaches of all time. #History #BlackSky www.blackpast.org/african-amer...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

#OTD Feb 12, 1971: The Black Panther Vol. 7, No. 25 Artwork by Emory Douglas #History #BlackSky

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

#OTD Feb 13, 1971: The Black Panther Vol. 6, No. 3 Artwork by Emory Douglas #History #BlackSky

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

#OTD Feb 13, 1960: 500 students from Nashville’s 4 Black colleges; Fisk U, Tennessee State, Meharry Medical and Baptist Seminary, went downtown challenging Jim Crow at segregated establishments. They were refused service & faced violence & arrest. #History #BlackSky calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

#OTD Maud Cuney Hare joined the ancestors (Feb 16, 1874 - Feb 13, 1936). Pianist, musicologist, writer, activist. Daughter of famed civil rights leader Norris Wright Cuney, who led the Texas Republican Party during & after the Reconstruction Era. #History #BlackSky www.tshaonline.org/handbook/ent...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

#OTD Feb 13, 1907: Wendell P. Dabney founded ‘The Union’. Cincinnati, Ohio’s oldest Black newspaper. It shaped political and social opinions of Cincinnati's Black citizens. Its motto: "For no people can become great without being united, for in union there is strength." #History #BlackSky

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

#OTD Feb 13, 1920: Rube Foster, C. I. Taylor and owners of 6 other baseball clubs met to form the Negro National League (NNL). It was formed due to Blacks being barred from playing in Major League Baseball. Foster was its president. #History #MLB #BlackSky baseballhall.org/discover-mor...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

#OTD Feb 13, 1892: The 1st Black performers, the World’s Fair Colored Opera Company, appear at NYC’s Carnegie Hall less than 1yr after its opening. Singer Matilda Sissieretta Jones is with the company & made her solo debut at Carnegie 2yrs later. #History #BlackSky blackthen.com/february-13-...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

#OTD Absalom Jones joined the ancestors (Nov 6, 1746 - Feb 13, 1818). Abolitionist, clergyman, who became prominent in Philly, PA. Disappointed at the racial discrimination he experienced in a local Methodist church, he founded the Free African Society with Richard Allen in 1787. #History #BlackSky

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

#OTD Feb 11, 1826: A white man named Alfred Moore of Hertford, NC, offered a $20 reward to any white person who captured “Joe,” an enslaved Black man, and returned him. Joe “escaped” only to see his wife who was sold to another plantation owner. #History #BlackSky calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

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Feb. 11, 1826 | Man Offers Reward for Enslaved Black Man Who “Escaped” to See Wife

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

#OTD Feb 10, 2000: ‘The White Image in the Black Mind:African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925’ by Mia Bay is published. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA #History #BlackSky

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

#OTD Mary Lovelace O'Neal (Feb 10, 1942). Artist, arts educator, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley. Her art has been exhibited widely throughout North America and internationally, with group and solo shows in Italy, France, Chile, Senegal and Nigeria. #History #BlackSky

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

#OTD Roberta Cleopatra Flack (Feb 10, 1939). Singer/songwriter/musician. She is the only solo artist to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year on 2 consecutive years. She had great duets with Donny Hathaway. #History #BlackSky #MusicIsLife www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

#OTD Mary Violet Leontyne Price (Feb 10, 1927). A spinto soprano who was the 1st Black soprano to receive international acclaim. She was the 1st Black to be a leading performer at NYC’s Metropolitan Opera. #History #BlackSky #MusicIsLife www.biography.com/musicians/le...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

#OTD Sylvia L. Hill Williams (Feb 10, 1936 - Feb 28, 1996). Museum director, curator, art historian, scholar of African art. 1st woman to hold the position of Director of the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution. #History #BlackSky blackthen.com/sylvia-l-wil...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

#OTD Feb 10, 1950: Photo promoting Ruby Dee, who had just been signed to play Jackie Robinson's wife Rachel in the biopic 'The Jackie Robinson Story'. Photo by FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images) #History #BlackSky

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Soundz Of Blackness @soundzofblackness.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Good morning! I didn't watch The Super Bowl, but one thing I know is everything Trump touches turns to shit. 💩 Congrats, Eagles and Philly!!!! 🦅🏈🫡👏🏾

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