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Ruby Bridges, born September 8 1954. Sixty one years ago, at only 6 years old, she was the first Black child to desegregate the all white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on 14 November 1960. Image
Ruby Bridges is only 67 years old. The people who threw rocks at Ruby Bridges for trying to go to school are now upset that their grandchildren might learn about them throwing rocks at Ruby Bridges for trying to go to school. Image
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Jan 24
The tragic exploitation of an African woman, Sara Baartman #Thread Image
Sara's life was of hardship. She was born in 1789 in the Camdeboo valley in the eastern part of the Cape Colony in South Africa. It is commonly thought she was born in the Gamtoos valley, but she moved there with her family only years after her birth.
her mother died when she was two and her father, a cattle driver, died when she was an adolescent. She got into domestic service in Cape Town after a Dutch colonist murdered her partner, with whom she had had a baby who died.
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Jan 18
African King, Mansa Abubakar II discovered Americas in 1312. 180 years before Columbus
The Italian sailor / explorer Christopher Columbus has a renowned reputation as the discoverer of the new world in every simple history lesson. This has been globally recognized for over 500 years to date. Education has been in the possession of Europeans
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Jan 17
Sengbe Pieh (1814 – 1879), was a West African man of the Mende people of Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 who led a revolt of many enslaved Africans on the Spanish 🇪🇸 slave ship La Amistad. Pieh freed himself and others from their shackles. They killed the captain, cook, and two other...
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Jan 16
George McLaurin, the first black man admitted to the University of Oklahoma in 1948, was forced to sit in a corner far from his white classmates. But his name remains on the honor roll as one of the three best students of the university. These are his words:
"Some colleagues would look at me like I was an animal, no one would give me a word, the teachers seemed like they were not even there for me, nor did they always take my questions when I asked.
But I devoted myself so much that afterward, they began to look for me to give them explanations and to clear their questions."
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Jan 16
The mainstream media is ignoring the Anti France Protests in #Mali

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Jan 16
The mainstream media is ignoring the Anti French Protests in #Mali #FranceMustGo Image
France has the fourth largest gold reserves of 2,436 tons, without a single gold mine in France. Mali (occupied by France) does not have any gold reserves in its banks, although it has 860 gold mines and produces 50 tons per year. ImageImage
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