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Michelle Obama - Stunning First Lady, Princeton & Harvard Graduate, Grammy Award Winner, Stirring Orator, Author, Mother, Intellect and Forever Wife Of Our Beloved and Spectacularly Brilliant President Barack Obama.
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#ObamaPresidentialCenter
#ObamaAppreciation
#BlackHistory
June 19, 2026 at 4:35 AM
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A Black spy saved George Washington’s life, helped win the Revolutionary War, and still had to buy his freedom.

If America really loved Black history, James Armistead Lafayette would have his own blockbuster spy movie by now. Instead, we get another reboot of Batman.

#BlackHISTORY
February 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom, but also a reminder: freedom delayed is freedom denied. #Juneteenth #BlackHistory #FreedomDay #NeverForget
June 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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#blackwomen #blackhistory #blackpoets #blacksky #addtoblacksky
A Boston monument to Phyllis Wheatley. Earliest known African poet in US and first woman to publish a book.
August 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Nintendo, Atari, & Sega happened because of him, Jerry Lawson. #BlackHistory
February 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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"There may not be as much humanity in the world as one would like to see, but there is some. There's more than one would think."

Happy 101st birthday to #JamesBaldwin!

#OnThisDay #BlackHistory #humanity
August 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Did you know that back in 1947, a journalist named Orrin C. Evans and his brother, George J. Evans Jr., made history by launching All Negro Comics Inc. in Philadelphia? It was the first Black-owned comic book publishing company in the U.S.! #blackhistory
February 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Wow.
Rest in Peace, "Smitty."

⭐️Hal Williams⭐️

Halroy Candis Williams
December 14, 1934 – July 15, 2026

#BlackHistory #TVsky
July 16, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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"Take My Hand" #mural of Harriette Tubman, in Dorset Maryland - Michael Rosato #artist

#StreetArt #WallMural #murals #art #HarrietteTubman #CivilRights #BlackSky #BlackHistory
December 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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The 6888 Battalion
#blackhistory

The 6888 was the only all-Black U.S. Women's Army Corps unit to serve overseas during the war. My
Aunt Willie Belle Irvin served in the 6888 battallion. My family thanks Tyler Perry for bringing this story to Netflix.
February 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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The Six Triple Eight.

Absolutely Oscar worthy.

A march so powerful I cried like a baby.

#BlackHistory
Image from the movie The Six Triple Eight. Front of photo shows the back of Kerri Washington, standing atop, speaking to the 6888 battalion standing in front of her. 5 rows of women, with lines so long the women are disappearing into the background. The women are standing between rows of airplane hangers, rows of fighter jets are seen in the very back of the image. Photo of The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, also known as the "Six Triple Eight". Members of the Battalion in a May 1945 parade honoring Joan of Arc where she had been burned at the stake. The 6888 CPD Battalion was a predominantly Black battalion of the US Women's Army Corps. The battalion's mission was to clear a backlog of mail bags that filled hangars in Birmingham, England. The women's motto was "No mail, low morale". The battalion's mission was to label, sort, and clear millions of pieces of mail, including letters, photographs, and gifts
December 30, 2024 at 6:08 AM
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Mary Mahoney (b. #OTD in 1845): First African American to graduate from a professional nursing school (1879) & earn a nursing license in the US.

+ Co-founder, Nat'l Assn of Colored Graduate Nurses, 1908
+ One of the first women in Boston to register to vote in 1920 (19A)

#WomenInSTEM #blackhistory
A formal, black-and-white studio portrait of Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845–1926), the first African American to graduate from a professional nursing school in the U.S. and a co-founder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. Captured from the shoulders up, Mahoney faces forward with a serene yet resolute expression, her gaze steady and intelligent. She is dressed in her professional nursing attire, featuring a crisp, high-collared white blouse adorned with a large, dark-patterned silk bow at the neck. Her dark hair is topped with a traditional pleated white nurse’s cap trimmed with a thin black ribbon. The composition is centered against a soft, mottled neutral background, creating a mood of profound dignity and quiet strength.
May 7, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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Today in Black History: On Aug. 25, 1927, tennis legend Althea Gibson was born in Silver, SC. The daughter of sharecroppers, she rose from Harlem’s courts to win Grand Slams, shatter racial barriers in tennis, and later break ground as the first Black woman on the LPGA tour.

#BlackHistory
Althea Gibson - Early Life, Championships & Legacy | HISTORY
Trailblazing athlete Althea Gibson became the first great African American player in women’s tennis. She won a string...
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August 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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• @natblacktheatre #Blackhistory is the heartbeat of American history.
In every innovation, every cultural shift, every rhythm that changed the sound of a generation, our fingerprints remain.

#blackhistory #blacksky

📽 : @malindipress
February 28, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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MLK Jr. called her "The Mother of the Movement."

Septima Poinsette Clark, educator & civil rights activist, died #OTD in 1987 at age 89.

The Woman Who Schooled the #CivilRights Movement: ti.me/2HOZQ9s #history #blackhistory
A black-and-white portrait of Septima Poinsette Clark, a pioneering African-American educator and civil rights activist, seated at a desk in a library. She is an elderly woman with short gray hair, wearing cat-eye glasses, a textured tweed jacket, a white blouse with a large white bow tie, and gazing thoughtfully just past the camera with her hands clasped. Tall bookshelves filled with leather-bound volumes line the background on both sides, evoking a scholarly atmosphere. Bob Fitch photography archive, © Stanford University Libraries
December 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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The "Freedom Wall" Buffalo, N.Y. - African-American Heritage Corridor.

28 portraits of notable #CivilRights leaders, including: Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Angela Davis, Thurgood Marshall, Frederick Douglass ...

#BlackSky #BlackHistory #StreetArt #art #murals
#WallMural #AfricanAmericanHeritage
December 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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🌿💐 Women's History Month
Celebrating Our Queen 👑💐
Michelle LaVaughn Obama ♥️

The 1st Black First Lady Of
The U.S. Keep Rising ✊🏽🇺🇸✊🏻

☆ #BlackHistory #BlackSky ☆

☆♡•°♥️💚💜🧡💙💛♥️°•♡☆
March 7, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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At 13, Dr. Bernard Harris Jr. dreamed of space — by 1995, he became the first Black astronaut to walk in it. Now, he's being inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. His journey proves that when we embrace infinite possibilities, history is made. #BlackHistory
Black Astronaut Made Space History in 1995. Now He's Getting Inducted into Hall of Fame (Exclusive)
Dr. Bernard Harris Jr., a decorated astronaut who became the first Black person to perform a spacewalk in 1995, is being inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 31.
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June 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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#VisibilityBrigade #NewJersey #NJ #ICE #CivilLiberties #DueProcess #GovernmentAccountability #PeacefulProtest #PeoplePower
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February 5, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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Inspired by themes from his film 'Nope,' Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw is producing a documentary series unraveling the whitewashed mythology of cowboys in American history.
#BlackHistory
March 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Trans people exist. Always have. Always will.

“No Pride for some of us, Without liberation for all of us!” – Marsha P. Johnson

#blackhistory #yallmeansall
February 3, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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African American Female Astronauts.
Isn't it out of this world?
#blackhistory
February 11, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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On this day April 21, 2003, we lost this beautiful soul, Nina Simone. She was a singer, songwriter and civil rights activist.

Her creative music style of which she called it as being, “Black Classical Music,” was a blend of gospel, blues, folk and pop. RIP🕊️

#NinaSimone
#BlackHistory
April 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Gladys Mae West (1930-now), a Black mathematician, made pivotal contributions to GPS technology through her precise satellite geodesy calculations. Her once-overlooked work is now foundational to GPS. She was inducted into the AF Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2018. #BlackHistory
An elderly Gladys Mae West wearing glasses and a warm smile is seated in a striped chair. She is wearing a black hat, a navy blue blazer, and a colorful scarf with shades of pink, white, and gray. She holds a cane in her lap and appears to be in a well-lit indoor setting with a blurred background featuring framed artwork on the wall.
February 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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For folks who enjoy archival photos, Texas Highways did a nice #Juneteenth piece documenting celebrations over the past 160 years. #TexasHistory #BlackHistory #BlackTexasHistory

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The History of Juneteenth in Photos
Junteenth commemorates the issuance of General Order No. 3 in Galveston, informing enslaved people of their freedom and the end of the Civil War.
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June 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM