The Berry Brothers, the sensational flash tap and acrobatics dance team that found fame in nightclubs, stage and film, comprised three blood brothers, Ananias, James, and Warren. Encouraged by their mother, they perfected their unique dance style from from the eccentric dancer

August 15, 1985 — Rapper, entrepreneur & community activist Nipsey Hussle was born.

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On this day in 1904, a mob of white men in Marengo County, Alabama, lynched Rufus Lesseur, a 24-year-old Black man, for allegedly frightening a white woman. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

Quilt Codes & the Underground Railroad: How Enslaved People Used Quilts as Maps to Escape To Freedom.

Queen Ranavalona III was the last sovereign of the kingdom of Madagascar.

On this day in 1923, an estimated 1,000 white men and women participated in a Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony just outside of Warwick, New York. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

Civil Rights activist, Gloria Richardson with the greatest “Boy Bye” as she removes the rifle of a National Guardsman from her way during a 1963 Civil Rights Protest.

On this day in 1889, a Black man named Walter Asbury was lynched by a mob of white people in Chatham County, Georgia. His body was left hanging the entire next day to terrorize the Black community. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

On this day in 1963, James Meredith received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Mississippi, becoming the first black man to graduate from the school. He was the first black student to attend the University of Mississippi.

Zulu Women in South Africa, 1915.

Bass Reeves, the real Lone Ranger. Bass Reeves was the first African American commissioned to serve as a deputy marshal west of the Mississippi River. He brought to justice over 3,000 criminals and killed fourteen outlaws during his years as a marshal.

On this day in 1916, white mobs in Florida and Texas lynched seven Black people. This terroristic violence was carried out just months before the U.S. entered WWI, in a fight to protect democracy and freedom. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

Did You Know that a Black enslaved man was Responsible for Saving America from a SmallPox Epidemic Onesimus (potrait unavailable) introduced the idea of vaccination based upon the African practice of inoculation in Libya,to help mitigate spread of smallpox 💉THREAD💉

Goldie Williams, Arrested For Vagrancy & Refused to Unfold Her Arms and Stop Making This Face For Her 1898 Mugshot. (Omaha, Nebraska)