🧵 Since 1641, the Black man's ability to perform in combat was questioned by White commanders. The question should have been not whether he could fight—but why.
Meet Black patriot First Lt. John R. Fox. (cont)
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Historical records indicate that the Greenwood District, famously known as Black Wall Street, spanned anywhere from 35 to 40 square blocks in Tulsa, Oklahoma within the streets of Greenwood, Archer & Pine.
Hence the name of the GAP Band.
Historical records indicate that the Greenwood District, famously known as Black Wall Street, spanned anywhere from 35 to 40 square blocks in Tulsa, Oklahoma within the streets of Greenwood, Archer & Pine.
Hence the name of the GAP Band.
Ntozake Shange was born on this day in 1948 in Trenton, N.J. Shange was a novelist, playwright and poet whose groundbreaking work addressed issues of race and feminism. She’s best known for her “choreopoem,” for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. /1
Jupiter Hammon was born on this day in 1711 at Lloyd Manor on Long Island, N.Y. Hammon is known as the founder of African American literature and the first Black poet to have his work published in North America. Many of his poems subtly criticize slavery. /1
After a decade of ownership by Bob and Nancy Maynard, the newspaper had won hundreds of awards for editorial excellence
Today in history, 1919: Growing tension between white and black workers in the Union Stockyards explode into a full-blown race riot that results in the lynching of a Black man, Will Brown, the deaths of two white rioters and the attempted lynching of Omaha Mayor Edward P. Smith. /1