DeJaVu? Is this #StudentsProtestingInjustice 4/22 of today or 1969? Or both?

April 23, 1968: Columbia Student Occupation - Zinn Education Project zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/colu…

How one family owned and ran the largest Black-owned farm in Albemarle County — for generations bit.ly/4487Tck

Massive faculty walkout at Columbia today in solidarity with suspended student protestors.

Faculty wore sashes reading “We support students” & are calling on the schools to unsuspend students from Barnard and Columbia who participated in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.

In practice, colonialism, with its implications of racial superiority, was replaced by a combination of neo-colonialism and government by local elites who too often had learned to despise their own African traditions...
-Julius Nyerere

CLAUDINE, directed by Bronx-born blacklisted director John Berry, was released 50 years ago today. The cast: Diahann Carroll (nominated for an Oscar), James Earl Jones, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Tamu Blackwell, and Roxie Roker. Music by Curtis Mayfield.

Fire 🔥! Thanks for sharing & for spitt’n dis Dr. Ayo Sekai, PhD & drop’n the mic 🎤 too! Where are the poets? Allison Wiltz Psy.M. Timothy D Jones Fahima Seck Poets House Academy of American Poets Black Women Radicals PoetryOutLoud Poets & Writers

Voice Of Our Ancestors Channel 'Africa is our home. We didn't come here on the Mayflower; we came here on slave ships, and we were brought here against our will.' - Malcolm

Thanks to everyone who listened to & shared the short clip from the 2024 Spelman Founders Day address. In case you'd like to hear the full 15min talk, here's a captioned version. The spicy section that's circulating is towards the end: bit.ly/RuhaSpelmanTalk

🦝 Stephen A. Smith Stephen A Smith going on @foxnews, an anti Black, white supremacist, news outlet, and comparing Donald Trump being prosecuted for paying a porn star hush money with historical, Black, civil rights figures, and freedom fighters like Martin Luther King Jr,

What exactly are they celebrating?

HE MADE IT!!!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

On this day in 1939, Billie Holiday recorded the first great protest song of the Civil Rights Movement, 'Strange Fruit’

The Chilling Story of Strange Fruit and Billie Holiday.

A THREAD!

This Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 man planted 35 thousand baobabs for the happiness of Burkina Faso.

His name is Salifou Ouedraogo, see for yourself how beautiful the greenery is, let's plant trees because it's good for the family.
Millions of hearts for dad Ouédraogo.
#Africa

Bam! So whatcha think of this #Nas joint? Timothy D Jones Isa S Bigini aka Nahila S Dr Configa (PhD) Fahima Seck Hiphopscholar HipHopMomma PBSpeaks #HipHopEd Carla Kibble #GhettoGovtOfficialz #WutangFamilia Lee Jones, Ph.D. Walter M. Kimbrough The Hip Hop African Christopher Emdin Chuck D Chance The Rapper SPEECH love mercy do justice Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar

Today, 4/18/24 at 6pm EST listen to #UMustLearn on WPFW89.3 talking w/ #DrKmtShockley about #CultureWar & #GapBusters ! EMcNeil2, Ed.D. Isa S Bigini aka Nahila S Ron Wright’81 Dr. Openly Black Conscientização, M.A. Ph.D edwin mayorga Carla Kibble #GhettoGovtOfficialz #WutangFamilia A. L. Reeves Dr. Lindsey Pollock Jason Harris Thx YouTube

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“You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.” - James Baldwin

Walter Rodney's view was that intellectuals needed to put themselves in service of the masses. His own life exemplified this. As David Hinds explained, Rodney’s “classroom was out there among the masses.”

Mansa Musa, The Wealthiest Man Ever!

Mansa Musa, whose full name is Mansa Musa Keita I, is one of the most celebrated figures in African history, particularly known for his reign over the Mali Empire in the 14th century, from around 1312 to 1337. He is often cited as one of the

Ready? Coming up on 4/26 & 4/27 Free #DC in-person ⁦Howard University⁩ & online ⁦The SNCC Legacy Project⁩ event! ⁦Dr. Openly Black Conscientização, M.A. Ph.D⁩ ⁦Rhone Fraser, Ph.D. ❤Makeda 🔥🇧🇸 ⁦iMiXWHATiLiKE! Fahima Seck Dr. Melvin G. Brown ⁦Walter Greason kinspire2 ⁦Greg Carr ⁦Hasan Kwame Jeffries Jonathan Stith