'A person that's born in the middle-class and have always had things somewhat decent, he can't make a decision for me because he...don't know how I feel.' - Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) Activist and humanitarian.

While Caitlin Clark is a tremendous basketball player, the women's top scoring record belongs to a Black woman, Pearl Moore. Clark ended her career with 3,951 points. Moore ended hers with 4,061. The 5-foot-7 guard once scored 60 points in a game.
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Clyde, Clyde, Clyde!

The always dressed Walt 'Clyde' Frazier who led the New York Knicks to their only two championships in the 1970s.

If the atrocities of slavery were reversed...

Innocence...

Natural beauties Sanaa Lathan ('Love and Basketball') and Phylicia Rashad ('The Cosby Show').

A family preparing for passage on the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948.

The Windrush is remembered for bringing one of the first large groups of post-war West Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom.

On April 20, 1986, Michael Jordan scored 63 points in a playoff game against Boston, setting a post-season scoring record. Despite Jordan’s achievement, the Bulls lost in double overtime, 135-131. The Celtics swept the three-game series and went on to win the NBA championship.

My parents couldn’t get served on their honeymoon in Miami.

In 1961, the first NBA Boycott was led by Bill Russell, K.C. Jones, Sam Jones, and Satch Sanders after some were refused service in Kentucky. 

Modern sports needs the 1964 Civil Rights Act to survive. #BidenHarris

This month in 1964, 'The Way You Do The Things You Do' peaked at No. 1 on billboard's Hot R&B chart.

#OnThisDay in 1939, legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday stepped into a 5th Avenue studio and recorded “Strange Fruit,” a song written by Jewish civil rights activist Abel Meeropol, a high school English teacher upset about the lynchings of Black Americans — more than 6,400

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“A brain tumour changed her life. Her nerves are badly damaged! But today she opened a car door…..walked…..opened a gym door…..walked and sat down ..BY HERSELF 💪🏿💪🏿 what a lady”

Laura Coates better win an award and get a raise for her reporting on this. Grace under pressure 🫡

Apr 19, 1987: The Simpsons cartoon 1st appears as series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show. #80s

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Faces Of Black America.

Columbus, Mississippi aka the “friendly city.”