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CULTURAL DRESS DAY IS HERE! featuring a very special guest on the stage … the FA CUP!!! 🏆 the whole community is very excited to celebrate #blackhistorymonth and all our other cultures together 
Hosts Ibtissam and Khaalida are doing a great job of keeping the crowd engaged between acts @Capital__6
Huge appreciation from the crowd for Lesley and Camilla @Capital__6 🎤
#Blackhistorymonth2022
Spent the day at the British museum with my family connecting to our true history - rediscovering our ancestors through sacred nubian artefacts.
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King Amenhotep III (the grandfather of Tutankhamun) commissioned this lion for the temple of Amun-ra
Spent the day at the British museum with my family connecting to our true history - rediscovering our ancestors through sacred nubian artefacts.
Below,
King Amenhotep III (the grandfather of Tutankhamun) commissioned this lion for the temple of Amun-ra
Colonizations come with name changes hence today they call it Egypt - this is Nubia the black land of Kemet, spreading all the way to present day south Africa.
Every single one of their faces are defaced - king Amenhotep III
His clothing is very symbolic of his status as a king.
His clothing is very symbolic of his status as a king.
#OTD in 1865 Charleston, South Carolina Mayor Charles Macbeth surrendered the city to Lieutenant Colonel A.G. Bennett of the 21st United States Colored Troops. The city had been under siege since the summer of 1863 and its harbor contained Ft. Sumter, where the war began.
Confederate General Beauregard ordered the evacuation three days earlier, nearly four years after he commanded the initial assault of Ft. Sumter in April, 1861. By the afternoon a company of the 54th Mass. (USCT) was helping to extinguish the flames set by the retreating rebels.
Many of the first Union soldiers to enter Charleston were from the USCT and they left a wake of liberation for Black Charlestonians who were legally enslaved the day prior. Days later the 55th Mass. (USCT) walked the streets of downtown singing "John Brown's Body."
#OTD in 1884 the Chicago Tribune reported on Senate hearings regarding the Danville Massacre in Virginia. The massacre took place on November 3, 1883. The Chicago Tribune’s reporting highlights the tension between white Democrats, Black Republicans and voting at the time.
The Danville Massacre (also referred to as the Danville Race Riot) was a violent white backlash to bi-racial democracy in Virginia during the Readjuster movement. The Readjuster Party supported legislation to help alleviate the state's debt incurred during the Civil War.
Danville had thriving majority Black population by the 1880s. Many whites in the area described Black political power as "Negro rule." The Tribune's report quoted a white witness who stated that the Readjusters imposed "the worst rule any people were ever cursed with."
Black horror films that changed the game, a thread 🧵 #BlackHistoryMonth2022
Night of the Living Dead (1968) dir. George A Romero
The first major horror film featuring a Black protagonist. The story follows a group of Pennsylvanians protecting themselves from flesh-eating ghouls.
The first major horror film featuring a Black protagonist. The story follows a group of Pennsylvanians protecting themselves from flesh-eating ghouls.
BLACULA (1972) - dir. William Crain
The story of an African Prince who is turned into a vampire by Count Dracula. It sparked the early wave of blaxploitation horror films.
The story of an African Prince who is turned into a vampire by Count Dracula. It sparked the early wave of blaxploitation horror films.
“The greatest drawback, however, in the administration of big business is the lack of manpower. First and foremost success in business depends upon adequate man power.
Our schools are turning out only partially trained young people with no business experience whatever, and while many of them are good technicians they are for the most part helpless in their new jobs because there is little correlation between the classroom and
the business office. There is not in America today a solitary business college operated by Negroes which utilizes our business organizations as laboratories for its students. Business colleges ought to be operated in centers of Negro business where practical business men
“The early advocates of the education of Negroes were of three classes: first, masters who desired to increase the economic efficiency of their labor supply; second, sympathetic persons who wished to help the oppressed; and third, zealous missionaries who, 1/
believing that the message of divine love came equally to all, taught slaves the English language that they might learn the principles of the Christian religion. Through the kindness of the first class, slaves had their best chance for mental improvement. 2/
Each slaveholder dealt with the situation to suit himself, regardless of public opinion. Later, when measures were passed to prohibit the education of slaves, some masters, always a law unto themselves, continued to teach their Negroes in defiance of the hostile legislation. “
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