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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth!

In February, we are highlighting Black voices to be heard, people to be seen, and stories to know.

Keep an eye on this thread for Wikipedia articles all month long 🧵👇🏽

Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode buses into the segregated Southern US in 1961 to challenge the non-enforcement of Supreme Court rulings that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. w.wiki/4kwJ

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📷 Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0

During their medal ceremony in the 200-meter running event of the 1968 Summer Olympics, athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised a black-gloved fist during the US national anthem, while turning to face the US flag. w.wiki/3qpv

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Activist and writer Alicia Garza co-founded the #BlackLivesMatter movement in 2013. She has organized on issues of health, anti-racism, ending police brutality, and violence against LGBTQ+ people of color w.wiki/3jkC
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📷 Citizen University, CC BY 3.0

Introducing: the father of modern Chicago blues 🎵

Muddy Waters was an award-winning artist whose signature style of "raining down Delta beatitude” sparked an international blues resurgence. w.wiki/3oP9

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📷 Jean-Luc Ourlin, CC BY-SA 2.0

Selma Burke was an American sculptor who created many public art pieces, often portraits of famous Black Americans. Her best-known work is a portrait of US Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt that may have inspired his profile found on the dime. w.wiki/4ntW
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Named by @TIME as one of the world's most influential people, Virgil Abloh was a @LouisVuitton artistic director & founder of @OffWht. His transformative design bridged streetwear & luxury fashion. w.wiki/3pyk
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📷 Myles Kalus Anak Jihem, CC BY-SA 4.0

Angela Davis is a Marxist philosopher, political activist, and author of several books on class, feminism, race, and the US prison system. Learn more about her life and career: w.wiki/3iCU

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📷 Oregon State University, CC BY-SA 2.0

Before being named “Singer of the Millenium” by BBC Radio, Brazilian Elza Soares survived military dictatorship, child marriage, and poverty. Her career spanned over six decades, and she received a Latin Grammy. w.wiki/4nGi
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📷 Callanga, CC BY-SA 4.0

Known as the "longest-running African-American holiday" and "America's second Independence Day," #Juneteenth became a federal holiday in the US in 2021, after being a celebration of African-American culture for over 150 years. w.wiki/_zZ2C

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Investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones received the Pulitzer Prize in 2020, for her work on The 1619 Project with @nytimes, "which seeks to place the enslavement of Africans at the center of America’s story." w.wiki/_zB2o

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📷 ABRAJI, CC BY 2.0

On this day in 1990, Nelson Mandela woke up in a prison cell for the final time. The anti-apartheid revolutionary later became president of South Africa; now, he's revered as an icon of social justice. w.wiki/3f

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📷 John Mathew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0

#SayHerName is a social movement started in 2014 that seeks to raise awareness for Black female victims of police brutality and anti-Black violence in the US. Learn more: w.wiki/4nZT

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📷 The All-Nite Images from NY, NY, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0

Professor, activist, and historian @DrIbram authored the @nytimes best seller "How to Be an Antiracist". He co-founded @the_emancipator, reimagining 19th-century abolitionist newspapers in the US w.wiki/3qFy
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📷Oregon State University, CC BY-SA 2.0

Ida B. Wells was an American journalist and leader of the women's suffrage & civil rights movements. She was posthumously honored by @PulitzerPrizes in 2020 for her coverage of violence against Black Americans during the era of lynching.
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The Harlem Cultural Festival was a series of events celebrating Black music, culture, and identity. The 1969 musical concerts, known as Black Woodstock, are the basis of @questlove’s documentary, "Summer of Soul" w.wiki/4pVD
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📷Gind2005, CC BY-SA 3.0

Marsha P. Johnson was an American gay liberation activist and self-identified drag queen. An outspoken advocate for gay rights, Johnson was a prominent figure in the Stonewall uprising of 1969. w.wiki/xPa

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📷Eden, Janine and Jim, CC BY 2.0

One of the best-selling music artists of all time, Prince was a pioneering musician described as "a master architect of funk, rock, R&B and pop," with a prolific output of 39 albums released during his life. w.wiki/vo

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📷 Levi Seacer, CC BY-SA 4.0

It has been one month since the passing of André Leon Talley. He was a fashion icon and journalist, @voguemagazine editor-at-large, and advocate for emerging designers and diversity in the fashion industry. w.wiki/4pW5

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📷 David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0

The Montgomery bus boycott began after Rosa Parks (pictured) was arrested for her refusal to surrender her seat to a white person, and ended one year later, when the US laws that segregated buses were declared unconstitutional. w.wiki/4pW6

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Poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, columnist, and one of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Langston Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. w.wiki/3o9q

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Meet @ayotometi: human rights activist, community organizer, former executive director of @BAJItweet and co-founder of @Blklivesmatter.
Learn about her work advancing migrant rights and racial justice worldwide: w.wiki/4qZn
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📷 Web Summit, CC BY 2.0

In 1794, Richard Allen founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the 1st independent Black denomination in the US. With his wife Sarah, Allen also operated an Underground Railroad station for enslaved people fleeing to free states. w.wiki/4rJN #BlackHistoryMonth

Brazilian Marielle Franco was a city councilor who advocated for Black women and people from the favelas, and a critic of police brutality. In 2018, Franco was shot and killed by two former police officers. w.wiki/4qZs
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📷 Mídia Ninja, CC BY-SA 2.0

Bayard Rustin was an influential leader in social movements for over 40 years. He fought for gay rights and racial justice, served as a consultant for Martin Luther King Jr., aided refugees, and advocated for workers. w.wiki/4qZt

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Along with her work as a physicist, professor, and author, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (@IBJIYONGI) is an advocate for advancing diversity in science. More about her impact and work with theoretical cosmology: w.wiki/4qZy

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“I heard it through the grapevine” 🎵

With a four-octave vocal range, Marvin Gaye helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s. He left a legacy as the “Prince of Soul.” w.wiki/3iAY

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Known for her vocals and improv skills, Billie Holiday had one of the most recognizable voices in jazz music. Her style pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo—she said she wanted her voice to sound like an instrument. w.wiki/3iV6

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