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  1. Rhapture

    Today is Breonna Taylors birthday

  2. Patriarch

    RIP Dr Afrika

    Influenced a lot of us to become vegan. Huge loss for us. A gain for the ancestors.
  3. Rhapture

    R.I.P. B.I.G.

    Notorious B.I.G. was shot and killed 22 years ago today by Jessie Karangu WASHINGTON (CIRCA) — Rap sensation Notorious B.I.G. (a.k.a. Biggie Smalls) was shot and killed on March 9, 1997 — 22 years ago today. The artist was leaving a party in Los Angeles and departed in an SUV. As the...
  4. Ya' Cousin Cleon

    Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel getting pulled up on by people over #HarithAugustus MURDER

    :salute:fukk him and Eddie Johnson look at this PUNK bytch run brehs close to him speak on him :salute:to the indie/local journos back in the chi
  5. JadeB

    Martin Luther King Jr.'s Original New York Times Obituary

    Martin Luther King Jr.’s Original New York Times Obituary The obituary, which was published on April 5, 1968, celebrated the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a prophet of a crusade for racial equality and a voice of anguish for millions of people. Image Dr. King being congratulated after the...
  6. JadeB

    Keorapetse Kgositsile, esteemed South African poet and the father of Earl Sweatshirt, has died

    Here's a sample of his poetry: NO SERENITY HERE - Poem by Keorapetse Kgositsile An omelette cannot be unscrambled. Not even the one prepared in the crucible of 19th century sordid European design. When Europe cut up this continent into little pockets of its imperialist want and greed it was...
  7. Jimi Swagger

    Simeon Booker, civil rights pioneer and journalist, 1918-2017

    The man from Jet who battled Jim Crow At the Till murder trial, Simeon Booker (foreground) and fellow black journalists were segregated from the regular reporter pool and forced to work at a small card table in the back of the courtroom Madison Darbyshire DECEMBER 15, 2017 Before Barack...
  8. Jimi Swagger

    Missouri v. Celia, a Slave: She killed the white master raping her, then claimed self-defense

    Celia was facing the gallows when she went on trial in 1855 for the murder of the white slave owner who had been raping her. She warned the white slave owner that the rapes had to stop. Celia, 19, had endured five years of assaults by Robert Newsom, the Missouri widower in his 70s who’d...
  9. Jimi Swagger

    The Heritage of Slavery (1968) w/ Fannie Lou Hamer & Lerone Bennett, Jr.

    Her birthday was October 6, 1917
  10. Neuromancer

    Someone educate a NYC nikka on bay area hip-hop.

    I grew up listening to East coast groups, and some West coast acts because my dad did some articles for hip-hop magazines. But I never really knew much about the Bay and their scene until like the early 00's some one hip me. @Ronnie Lott I know you're from the bay (I think) educate a breh.
  11. loyola llothta

    Remembering activist and civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael, who died on this day 18 years ago

    Rest In Power:wow:
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