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Jazz the Professor
@LikeButta3
Listening requires a certain skill set. Knowledge is power. Class is always in session. Come prepared. Very low tolerance for conscientious stupidity.
Sep 18, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
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#OTD Michael Franks (Sept 18, 1944). Singer/songwriter, musician. Considered a leader of the quiet storm movement. He’s recorded with a variety of well-known artists, such as Patti Austin, Art Garfunkel, Brenda Russell, Joe Sample, & David Sanborn.
#History #Jazz


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Image #OTD Michael Franks (Sept 18, 1944). Singer/songwriter, musician. A leader of the quiet storm movement, he’s recorded with a variety of well-known artists, such as Patti Austin, Art Garfunkel, Brenda Russell, Joe Sample, David Sanborn.

Your Secret's Safe With Me
#History #Jazz
Jun 25, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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#OTD June 25, 1910: Congress passes the Mann Act. AKA the White-Slave Traffic Act, made it a crime to take women across state lines for immoral purposes. This was used to arrest boxing champ Jack Johnson who traveled with white girlfriends.
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#History #Racism #OTD June 25, 1910: Congress passes the Mann Act. AKA the White-Slave Traffic Act. It was used to prosecute Johnson.

“And certain unfair persons, piqued because I was champion, decided if they could not get me one way they would another”
Jack Johnson
#History #Racism
May 22, 2023 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
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#OTD Whitman Mayo joined the ancestors (Nov 15, 1930- May 22, 2001). Known his character “Grady Wilson” on the 1970s TV show Sanford & Son. A Korean War vet, he joined the New Lafayette Theater repertory company in NYC, he later taught drama at Clark-Atlanta U.
#History ImageImageImageImage #OTD Whitman Mayo joined the ancestors (Nov 15, 1930 - May 22, 2001). Known his character “Grady Wilson” on Sanford & Son. A Korean War vet, he joined the New Lafayette Theater repertory company in NYC, he later taught drama at Clark-Atlanta U.

Best of Grady
Pt.1
#History
May 22, 2023 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
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#OTD Claude McKay joined the ancestors (Sept 15, 1889 – May 22, 1948). Jamaican writer, poet & central figure in the Harlem Renaissance. In 1919 McKay wrote "If We Must Die", one of his best known works.
#History
blackpast.org/african-americ… #OTD Claude McKay joined the ancestors (Sept 15, 1889 – May 22, 1948). Jamaican writer, poet & central figure in the Harlem Renaissance. In 1919 McKay wrote "If We Must Die", one of his best known works.
Bio Pt.1
#History
May 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
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#OTD May 22, 1877: African American intellectual, Pan Africanist Alexander Crummell delivered an an address before the American Geographical Society delivered in Chickering Hall in NYC. Crummell demonstrated his appeal to one such audience.
#History
blackpast.org/african-americ… #OTD May 22, 1877 Alexander Crummell gave an address before the American Geographical Society in NYC.
Crummell was an African American intellectual who was widely respected among European Americans.
Bio Pt.1
#History
May 22, 2023 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
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#OTD Langston Hughes joined the ancestors (Feb 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967). Poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, early innovator of the literary art form called jazz poetry, He is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
#History
blackpast.org/african-americ… #OTD Langston Hughes joined the ancestors (Feb 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967). Poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, early innovator of the literary art form called jazz poetry, He is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
Bio Pt.1
#History
May 21, 2023 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
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#OTD Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – Mar 9, 1997). AKA Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls. Rapper, songwriter. Known for his laidback lyrical delivery. Considered one of the greatest rappers of all time.
#History #MusicIsLife
blackpast.org/african-americ… #OTD Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – Mar 9, 1997). AKA Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls. Rapper, songwriter. Known for his laidback lyrical delivery. Considered one of the greatest rappers of all time.
#History
May 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
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#OTD May 21, 1961: Rev Dr MLK Jr spoke at 1st Baptist Church in Montgomery, AL. A white mob gathered outside & held him & the Freedom Riders under siege inside the church until federal marshals & Alabama Nat’l Guard could escort them out.
#History
calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti… #OTD May 21, 1961: MLK Jr spoke at First Baptist Church regarding a white mob that gathered outside the church & held King & the Freedom Riders under siege inside the church until the next morning, when federal marshals & the Alabama Guard escorted them out.
#History
May 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
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#OTD Toussaint L'Ouverture (May 20, 1746 - Apr 7, 1803), Haitian general, leader of the Haitian Revolution. He 1st fought against the French, then for them, then finally against France again for Haitian independence.
#History
blackpast.org/global-african… #OTD Toussaint L'Ouverture (May 20, 1746 - Apr 7, 1803), Haitian general, prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution. He 1st fought against the French, then for them, then finally against France again for Haitian independence.

Mini Bio
#History
May 20, 2023 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
SONG THREAD:
Jalal Mansur Nuriddin was a poet & musician.
He was one of the founding members of The Last Poets. A group that evolved in the 1960s out of the Harlem Writers Workshop in NYC.

His word is bond...
Mankind Pt.1 (1993)

#1
#MusicIsLife #SpokenWord #RealTalk Jalal Mansur Nuriddin - Mankind Pt.1 (1993)

🎶”Hyped up fantasizing, theorizing, idolizing en masse. Circumscribing and depriving ‘cause of money and class”🎶

#2
#MusicIsLife #SpokenWord #RealTalk
May 17, 2023 • 8 tweets • 8 min read
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#OTD May 17, 1980: Miami, FL had a major race riot caused by the beating death of Black motorcyclist Arthur McDuffie ar the hands of Miami police officers. 17ppl were killed, hundreds injured.
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#History #OTD May 17, 1980: Miami, FL had a race riot caused by the death of Black motorcyclist Arthur McDuffie by Miami police officers.

“While the Miami area enjoyed an economic boom, for residents of Overtown & Liberty City, the years had been hard”
Pt.2
#History #PoliceBrutality
May 2, 2023 • 10 tweets • 8 min read
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#OTD May 2, 1963: Over 1000 Black children peacefully protested racial segregation in Birmingham, AL. Known as the Children's Crusade, the widely-publicized police brutality shocked the nation and spurred major civil rights advances.
#History
calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti… #OTD May 2, 1963: Over 1000 students skipped classes, gathered at the 16th Street Baptist Church & marched to downtown Birmingham, AL. to protest. Hundreds were arrested & placed in police wagons, school buses and jailed. It was known as “The Children’s Crusade”.
#History
May 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
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#OTD Kenneth B. Clark joined the ancestors (Jul 24, 1914-May 1, 2005). Sociologist, along w/his wife & collaborator, Mamie P. Clark, studied the self-image of black children & the “harm & benefit” thesis of civil rights & desegregation law.
#History
blackpast.org/african-americ… #OTD Kenneth B. Clark joined the ancestors (Jul 24, 1914 - May 1, 2005). Sociologist who studied the self-image of black children w/groundbreaking doll studies. Black children, when asked to choose a doll most like themselves, they mainly choose the white dolls.
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May 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
#OTD Sterling Allen Brown joined the ancestors (May 1, 1901-Jan 13, 1989). Professor, folklorist, poet, literary critic, 1st Poet Laureate of D.C. He was editor of “The Negro in American Fiction” & “Negro Poetry and Drama” & coeditor of the anthology “The Negro Caravan”.
#History ImageImageImageImage #OTD Sterling Allen Brown joined the ancestors (May 1, 1901– January 13, 1989). Professor, folklorist, poet, literary critic & 1st Poet Laureate of the D.C. He chiefly studied Black culture of the Southern U.S. and was a full professor at Howard University.
Bio Pt.1
#History
Apr 25, 2023 • 5 tweets • 6 min read
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#OTD Dexter Gordon joined the ancestors (Feb 27, 1923 – Apr 25, 1990).Jazz saxophonist part of the influential early bebop musicians, with greats such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie & Bud Powell. His career spanned over 40yrs.
#History #Jazz
blackpast.org/african-americ… ImageImageImageImage #OTD Dexter Gordon joined the ancestors (Feb 27, 1923 – Apr 25, 1990).Jazz saxophonist part of the influential early bebop musicians, with greats such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie & Bud Powell. His career spanned over 40yrs.
#History #Jazz
Apr 25, 2023 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
#OTD Ella Fitzgerald (Apr 25, 1917 – Jun 15, 1996). AKA “First Lady of Song”, singer noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation & "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
#History #Jazz
blackpast.org/african-americ… #OTD Ella Fitzgerald (Apr 25, 1917 – Jun 15, 1996). AKA “First Lady of Song”, singer noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation & "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.

Ella…🎤🎧
#History #Jazz
Apr 23, 2023 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
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#OTD Apr 23, 1951, 16yr-old Barbara Johns led her classmates in a strike to protest substandard conditions at Robert Russa Moton High School (now a museum) in Prince Edward County, VA. Her actions ultimately lead to the landmark Brown v Board decision.
Pt.1.
#History #OTD Apr 23, 1951, 16yr-old Barbara Johns led her classmates in a strike to protest the substandard conditions at Robert Russa Moton High School (now a museum) in Prince Edward County, VA. Her actions would ultimately lead to the landmark Brown v Board decision.
Pt.2
#History
Apr 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
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#OTD Granville Tailer Woods (Apr 23, 1856-Jan 30, 1910). Inventor who held over 60 patents. Inventions include steam boilers, furnaces, incubators, auto air brakes. His work assured a safer/better public transportation system in the U.S.
#History
blackpast.org/african-americ… #OTD Granville Tailer Woods (Apr 23, 1856 – Jan 30, 1910). Inventor who held more than 60 patents in the U.S. He was the 1st African American to be a mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War.
Bio Pt.1
#History
Apr 20, 2023 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
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#OTD Rubin "Hurricane" Carter joined the ancestors(May 6, 1937–Apr 20, 2014). American-Canadian middleweight boxer, wrongfully convicted of murder, later released after serving almost 20yrs in prison.

Mini Bio Pt.1
#History
#OTD Rubin "Hurricane" Carter joined the ancestors(May 6, 1937–Apr 20, 2014). American-Canadian middleweight boxer, wrongfully convicted of murder, later released after serving almost 20yrs in prison.

Mini Bio Pt.2
#History
Apr 19, 2023 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
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#OTD Charles “Cholly” Atkins joined the ancestors (Sept 30, 1913–Apr 19, 2003). Dancer, vaudeville performer, he later became house choreographer for artists on the Motown label (Temptations, Gladys Knight & The Pips & The Four Tops).
#History
blackpast.org/african-americ… ImageImageImageImage #OTD Charles “Cholly” Atkins joined the ancestors (Sept 30, 1913–Apr 19, 2003). Dancer, vaudeville performer, he later became house choreographer for artists on the Motown label (Temptations, Gladys Knight & The Pips & The Four Tops).

Coles and Atkins : Soft Shoe (1963)
#History
Apr 19, 2023 • 10 tweets • 8 min read
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#OTD Apr 19, 1995: The Oklahoma City bombing occurs. The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of 6. It was carried out by domestic terrorists Timothy McVeigh & Terry Nichols.
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#History #OTD Apr 19, 1995: The Oklahoma City bombing occurs. The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of 6. It was carried out by domestic terrorists Timothy McVeigh & Terry Nichols.
Pt.2
#History