Time flies when you're outlasting Prime Ministers

he wasn't on stage, but he was on the grass, searching for the beat, and throwing that miniature ass... ladies and gentlemen, show your love for the pure joy & European pelvic stylings of Señor Juan Jamón 🎉 #SuperBowl

Exactly this. And if anyone wants to read more into the history of the sugar trade in Puerto Rico and how ex enslaved people rebuilt their lives and livelihoods as farmers, contributing to the economic growth of the country, this eye opening book is a great read

🎬 ‘The Warriors’ opened in theaters 47 years ago, February 9, 1979

#BlackHistoryMonth

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill says she won't attend the National Governors Association dinner if her fellow Democrats Wes Moore and Jared Polis aren't invited by the White House. "No, I will not be going. This is ridiculous."

#OTD Feb 10, 1960: Lunch counter protest Raleigh, North Carolina. Unidentified photographer From "Freedom Now! Forgotten Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement" by Martin A. Berger #History

This photograph appeared in an 1899 history of Puerto Rico published shortly after the U.S. invasion of the island. Its original caption “A Colored Belle of Puerto Rico” articulates prevailing North American racial hierarchies at the turn of the twentieth century, asserting rigid

#OTD, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the bill to enact the Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing discrimination based on race, sex, religion, or national origin. What did it take to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964? More on our searchable museum: s.si.edu/3P4CwI6

World-renowned opera singer Leontyne Price turns 99 today.

Happy 99th Birthday to a true legendary DIVA, 19-time Grammy Award winner, Leontyne Price. The first Black leading performer at the Metropolitan Opera 👑🎂❤️ #BlackHistoryMonth #LeontynePrice

This image brings together six women who played major roles in Black liberation, community organizing, and political education during the 1960s and 1970s. Angela Davis, Kathleen Cleaver, Denise Velez, Afeni Shakur, Assata Shakur, and Elaine Brown were central figures in

She makes and sells cat accessories while using her black cat as a model

In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in S. Carolina when 9 year old Ronald McNair refused to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics, and died in 1986, one of the astronauts on the Challenger space shuttle. That same library is now named after him.

Yes, it was that bad in the South I grew up in. Even universities were blind to simple justice. I’m sorry to say UVA did not distinguish itself either. Buried history is useless history. Tell the truth, often, during this #250th year.

I am the Chief Human Resources Officer of a mid-cap professional services firm. Last Tuesday I eliminated 700 positions. I told the board it was AI. I told the press it was AI. I told the employees -- in a company-wide email at 6:47 AM, before most of them had coffee -- that

Happy birthday to Sérgio Mendes, born on this day in 1941!

OTD, the DS9 episode "Far Beyond The Stars," in which Sisko has a vision from the Prophets of himself as Benny Russell, a science fiction writer fighting for civil rights in the 1950s, writing about the commander of a space station. Directed by Avery Brooks. #StarTrek

“I Shot the Sheriff” by Bob Marley and the Wailers was released as a single on this day in 1973.

Good news for the Gateway Tunnel: the 2nd Circuit’s order today means the $200 million owed to the project must be released immediately by the Trump administration. If they don’t, we’ll continue to see them in court, and continue to win.