Who Is Your Favorite Black Historical Figure?

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Who's your favorite black historical favorite? Or one of your favorites, if you there is more than one.

Huey P. Newton

 

[The 2020 New Member]

noob saibot

 

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noob saibot

negged

 

[The 2020 New Member]

negged

james baldwin.

 

[BocaRear]

Marvin Gaye

 

[Gifted one]

Toss up between Malcolm and Marcus Garvey

 

[Chesirecatdaddy]

Dessalines
Dutty Bookman
Toussaint
Malcolm X
Mansa Musa

there's tons really

 

[Midrash]

W.E.B. Dubois & John H. McWhorter(still alive)

 

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james baldwin.

why? also now to spend my own thread but, are you aware of statements made by Eldridge Cleaver in Regards to Baldwins work?

 

[The 2020 New Member]

why? also now to spend my own thread but, are you aware of statements made by Eldridge Cleaver in Regards to Baldwins work?

no i just like the books that i've read by him.

 

[IronFist]

Elijah Muhammad
Frederick Douglass
Noble Drew Ali
Father Allah- Clarence 13X ( First 9 Born/ 14 Born of Medina)
Dr Ben Carson

 

[kp404]

W.E.B. Du Bois
Robert F. Williams
Huey P. Newton
Kwame Ture
H. Rap Brown
Eldridge Cleaver
Frederick Douglass
Benjamin E. Mays
Carter G. Woodson
William Monroe Trotter
Robert Chrisman
Toussaint
Malcolm X
James Baldwin
James Weldon Johnson
E.E. Just
Fritz Pollard
Redd Foxx
dikk Gregory
bell hooks
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Paul Robeson
Medgar Evers
Fannie Lou Hamer
Alonzo Herndon
Hosea Williams (before the Reagan fukkery)

These individuals (and there are so many more but these are off the top of my head) that I believe contributed in a progressive manner to the black experience and their example serves me well in these years

 

[Raava]

A. Philip Randolph
Katherine Dunham
Booker T. Washington
Josephine Baker
MaLCOLM X
Thurgood Marshall
W. E. B. Du Bois
Ida B. Wells

There are so many

 

[Remy Danton]

Carter G Woodson
Frederick Douglass
Elijah Muhammad
Mae Jameson
WEB Dubois
Denmark Vessey

 

[HideoKojima]

Kanye Omari West