A gardener on country road in Jamaica. 1890s
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A gardener on country road in Jamaica. 1890s
Here is an intriguing collection of rare photos that shows the life in Jamaica from between the 1860s and 1890s. (1/9) #blackhistory #blacksky #addtoblacksky
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we are feeling deeply. He loved us. He made us all feel at home. Warm. He made us feel seen. He made us feel safe. With or without T'Challa, he was a King. Ibaye." (7/7)
I noticed all of this during the height of the Black Panther wave, when every time you logged into social media, Boseman and company were doing interviews and being shuffled from press junket to press junket. And I am realizing that this part of the loss is something (6/7)
who touched him frequently, who laughed and smiled with their eyes, who felt comfortable laying a head on his shoulder, who didn't hesitate to comfort him with physical touch, who weren't uncomfortable with their hands in his or his arms wrapped around their waist. (5/7)
with tenderness and with genuine love. So many times, women have to be [pig]ed around men. We have to be mindful of our body language, so as to not give off the wrong impression or invite unwelcome advances. But it was so common to see Chadwick surrounded by Black Women (4/7)
When he called Black Women "my sisters", he meant that too. And we needn't have known him personally to know that he meant it. All you have to do is look at how the Black Women around him smiled. How they were at ease in his presence. How they touched and embraced him (3/7)
most go out of their way to prove that they don't hold any special affinity for us - they strive to be seen as perfectly egalitarian, so as to not risk any opportunities or lose fans. Not this man. When Chadwick called his costars Queens, he meant it. (2/7)
"Black Women loved Chadwick Boseman. Admired him. Cared for him. And he felt all of those things for us as well. There are only a small handful of Black Male actors in Hollywood who consistently sing the praise of Black Women. In fact, 1/7 #movie #chadwickboseman #blackmen #blacksky #addtoblacksky
arrested when you're #whitepeople #police #whitedevil
(1/2) #blackfamily #cosplay #addamsfamily #blacksky #addtoblacksky
In the Fast and Furious franchise... the emasculation of Roman (Tyrese Gibson). In the first two movies he was the alpha but returning in movie five alongside Dwayne Johnson he was relegated to the clown. #movie #blackactors #blacksky #addtoblacksky
West Midlands is 77% whyte: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Mi... (2/2)
"The West Midlands Police area has again recorded the highest rate of knife crime offences in [england] and Wales" I won't share the source bc it's biased and if I share it, it will increase its profile validating its prejudiced views (1/2) #whitepeople
So it's in their interest that racism against BP is perpetuated.] Proof: bsky.app/profile/audu... (3/3)
Cuz as... you know non [Black], other [ethnicities/races] can go through life and not even have to think about what they are." [This snippet doesn't mention how non BP profit from the suffering of BP. As long as most racism is directed at BP, non BP escape it. (2/3)
@MalcolmJamalWar, our Black King shared the text below: "But when people say why do [Black People] make everything about race? We live in a society where every single day we are forced to think about race. (1/3) #blackpeople #whitepeople #hispanic #latino #asian #blacksky #addtoblacksky
Dyson drops libel case against Channel 4 programme that alleged it mistreated workers pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/dy... #workingclass
increase in interracial marriages in South Africa." www.ijr.org.za/2017/07/atti... "South African census figures suggest a decreasing number of first language Afrikaans speakers in South Africa from 13.5% in 2011 to 10.6% in 2022" Source: wikipedia (2/2)
"More than three decades later, a study conducted by researchers at North-West University in Mahikeng show that the odds of an individual marrying someone of the same race as themselves decreased from 303:1 in 1996, to 95:1 in 2011 – thus, an 1/2 #whitepeople #blackpeople #blacksky #addtoblacksky
Nobody 2 released in 2025 Great sequel. Great violence www.imdb.com/title/tt2899... #movie #blackactors #RZA
In 2024, the National Park Service listed the courthouse as a National Historic Landmark. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles... (32/32)
next married Henrietta Williams. They had Houston's only child in 1940, Charles Hamilton Houston, Jr. In 2023, Loudoun County named the courthouse where Houston defended George Crawford the "Charles Hamilton Houston Courthouse." (31/33)
"judicial enforcement of private right constitutes state action for the purpose of the fourteenth amendment." Death …Houston died from a heart attack on April 22, 1950, at the age of 54. Personal life In 1924 Houston married Gladys Moran. They divorced in 1937. He (30/33)
what was a 22-year campaign, in concert with lawyers he had trained, in order to overturn the constitutionality of restrictive covenants. This was achieved in the US Supreme Court ruling in Shelley v. Kraemer (1948). The court ruled that (29/33)
contemporary sociological and other studies to demonstrate that such covenants and resulting segregation produced conditions of overcrowding, poor health, and increased crime that adversely affected African-American communities. Following Corrigan, Houston contributed to (28/33)
restrictive housing covenants... The Court ruled in Corrigan v. Buckley (1926) that such restrictions were the acts of individuals and beyond the reach of the constitutional protections. As the NAACP continued with its campaign in the 1940s, Houston drew from (27/33)
schools and all of that… As Special Counsel to the NAACP, Houston dispatched Thurgood Marshall, Oliver Hill and other young attorneys to work a litigation campaign of court challenges to equalize teachers' salaries. Houston also directed the NAACP's campaign to end (26/33)
was that "All right, if you want it separate but equal, I will make it so expensive for it to be separate that you will have to abandon your separateness." And so that was the reason he started demanding equalization of salaries for teachers, equal facilities in the (25/33)
no comparable facility for [Black People] existed within the state. In the documentary "The Road to Brown", Hon. Juanita Kidd Stout described Houston's strategy related to segregated schools: When he attacked the "separate but equal" theory his real thought behind it (24/33)
have dismantled privilege more quickly.] In Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada (1939), Houston argued that it was unconstitutional for Missouri to exclude [Black People] from the state's university law school when, under the "separate but equal" provision, (23/33)
obviate the fears whites expressed that integrated schools would lead to interracial dating and marriage. {Why have such whites never considered putting in place programs to make white people better human beings and therefore more attractive to each other bc that would (22/33)
Ferguson (1897). He orchestrated a campaign to force southern districts to build facilities for [Black People] equal to those for whites, or to integrate their facilities. He focused on law schools because, at the time, mostly males attended them. He believed this would (21/33)
challenge prosecutorial strategies that exclude [Black People] from juries. Houston's strategy on public education was to attack segregation by demonstrating the inequality resulting from the "separate but equal" doctrine dating from the Supreme Court's Plessy v. (20/33)
systematically excluded [Black People] from juries, in part because they were not on the voter rolls, having been disenfranchised across the South since the turn of the century by state barriers to voter registration. In the 21st century, attorneys continue to have to (19/33)
Supreme Court reversed the lower court's decision and ordered a new trial. Hollins was tried a third time, again before an all-white jury, and was convicted in 1936. He was sentenced to life in prison, where he died in 1950. At the time, Oklahoma and southern states (18/33)
appeal another murder case in which the defendant was convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to [execution]. The defense team had challenged the all-white jury during the trial, but the conviction was upheld by the appeals court. Hearing the case a certiorari, the (17/33)
South. He defended African-American George Crawford on charges of murder in Loudoun County, Virginia, in 1933, and saved him from the electric chair. In the related Hollins v. State of Oklahoma (1935), Houston led an all-[Black] legal team before the US Supreme Court to (16/33)
Through his work at the NAACP, Houston played a role in nearly every civil rights case that reached the US Supreme Court between 1930 and Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Houston worked to bring an end to the exclusion of African Americans from juries across the (15/33)
as the first special counsel for the NAACP, serving in this role until 1940. In this capacity he created litigation strategies to attack racial housing covenants and segregated schools, arguing several important civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. (14/33)
He influenced nearly one-quarter of all the [Black] lawyers in the United States at the time…. Houston believed that the law could be used to fight racial discrimination and encouraged his students to work for such social purpose. Houston left Howard in 1935 to serve (13/33)
by the Association of American Law Schools and the American Bar Association. Bringing prominent attorneys to the school as speakers and to build a law network for his students, Houston served as a mentor to a generation. (12/33)
1935, Houston served as Vice-Dean and Dean of the Howard University School of Law. He developed the school, beginning its years as a major national center for training [Black] lawyers. He extended its part-time program to a full-time curriculum and gained accreditation (11/33)
Madrid. After his return, he was admitted to the Washington, DC bar in 1924 and joined his father's practice. Career When several [Black] lawyers were refused admission to the American Bar Association in 1925, they founded the National Bar Association... …From 1929 to (10/33)
first [Black] student elected to the editorial board of the Harvard Law Review and graduated cum laude… He earned a bachelor's of law in 1922 and a S.J.D. from Harvard in 1923. That same year he was awarded a Sheldon Traveling Fellowship to study at the University of (9/33)
no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back. After his return to the U.S. in 1919, he entered Harvard Law School. He was the (8/33)
chastised for, during a brief detail as a Judge Advocate, finding a Black sergeant not worthy of prosecution, Houston wrote later: The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was (7/33)
at Howard University... As the U.S. entered World War I, Houston joined the U.S. Army as an officer. The military was racially segregated. From 1917 to 1919, he served as a First Lieutenant in the United States Infantry,... with service in France. After being (6/33)
segregated local schools, entering M Street High School... at the age of 12 and graduating at age 15. He studied at Amherst College... and graduated as valedictorian in 1915 at the age of 20, the only [Black] student in his class. He returned to D.C. and taught [english] (5/33)
Biography Early years …His father William Le Pré Houston, the son of a former slave, had become an attorney and practiced in the capital for more than four decades. Charles' mother, Mary (born Hamilton) Houston, worked as a seamstress. Houston attended (4/33)
having trained and mentored a generation of [Black] attorneys, including Thurgood Marshall... the first Black Supreme Court Justice. He recruited young lawyers to work on the NAACP's litigation campaigns, building connections between Howard's and Harvard's university law schools. (3/33)
Damn you, Sonequa, you made me cry. Half of the vets at the groups sessions are Black.
A graduate of... Harvard Law School, Houston played a significant role in dismantling Jim Crow laws, especially attacking segregation in schools and racial housing covenants. He earned the title "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow". Houston is also well known for (2/33)
Charles Hamilton Houston (September 3, 1895 – April 22, 1950) was [a Black] American lawyer. He was the dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP first special counsel (1/33) #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blacklawyers #blacksoldiers #blackfirsts #blackleaders #blacksky #addtoblacksky
of himself, you know? Not worse, but... not better. It's like when you lose someone, you don't know who you are without 'em. --- He is just angry. But he is not gonna -scare me off. www.imdb.com/title/tt2202... (2/2)
The award winning My Dead Friend Zoe released in 2024 starring #SonequaMartinGreen My grandmother... when she died, [my grandfather] became a different version 1/2 #movie #blackmovie #greatmovie #blackactors #EdHarris #MorganFreeman #GloriaReuben #AssiaLauren #RichPaul #blacksky #addtoblacksky
prolonged physical restraint. Source: Institute of Race Relations (2/2)
Olaseni Lewis, a 23-year-old [british] man, [was executed] on 3 September 2010 at Bethlem Royal Hospital in London, [united kingdom], after [pigs] subjected him to (1/2) #blacklivesstillmatter #blackmen #blackpeople #blackbritish #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blacksky #addtoblacksky
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calmly handles the situation and frees the animal within seconds. The ease with which he does it is what makes this video so surprising. Sometimes the simplest actions leave the strongest impact. (2/2)
@docuquest_official shared the text and video below. What looks like a dangerous moment turns into something completely unexpected. A shepherd notices a snake entangled with his goat, but instead of panic or struggle, he (1/2) #goat #snake #predators
Positivity is toxic when it invalidates others valid experiences. Stop invalidating the experiences of Black People Invalidating the experiences of Black Men can condition us not to share our feelings, which can in turn nurture insecurity and our overcoming that in other negative ways. #blacksky
Black british Black Woman led movie Fast Girls released in 2012 available on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsdI... One of the sisters in the movie, Lashana Lynch, has more recently starred as 007 in No Time to Die 2021 #blackmovie #movie #blackwomen #blacksky #addtoblacksky
*(2/2) I watched the offending material and Ricky Gervais is definitely transphobic Apologies for my ignorance. My policy is not to delete my posts for transparency. Transphobia is rampant in the uk; so he's definitely playing to the Manchester audience in SuperNature. bsky.app/profile/audu...
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The Naked Gun released in 2025 when white celebrities are found innocent the media is silent Bill Cosby was found innocent; but this movie makes a revolting joke about him involving body fluids It's a movie that shows other Black People positively so I cannot rate it 1 #movie
the world responds to the lie of white privilege irl. www.imdb.com/title/tt1058... (1/2)
The Invention of Lying released in 2009 This might be the only thing in which I find Ricky Gervais funny/interesting or perhaps his humor is growing on me :) How the world responds to his lies is very similar to how (1/2) #movie #greatmovie #greatcomedy
www.imdb.com/title/tt3750... (2/2)
www.imdb.com/title/tt3291... (1/2)
"You only live once... ...but if you do it right once is enough" Mae West
I ain't afraid to be me Muhammad Ali
frantically begins to put them on. The second guys says, "What are you doing? Sneakers won’t help you outrun that bear." "I don't need to outrun the bear," the first guy says. "I just need to outrun you." (2/2)
Two campers are walking through the woods, when a huge brown bear suddenly appears in the clearing about 50 feet in front of them. The bear sees the campers and begins to head toward them. The first guy drops his backpack, digs out a pair of sneakers, and (1/2)
definitely didn't look up from what I was doing more because I am so engrossed in what I do and he touched me on the shoulder as further acknowledgement. Nice to have a manager who knows the score, who understands touch. So now we have a better rapport. (2/2)
I now have five managers... lol One of the bigger managers actually sits next to me. The other day he brushed me as he walked past whilst I was seated down and apologised immediately for doing so and I remember hearing him saying so so probably responded and (1/2)
Yesterday as I walked somewhere... someone clipped the back of my shoe as they were walking and apologized immediately audibly and I just showed my palm to them in acknowledgement without breaking my stride : )
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Peter O'Toole passed off as an Arab in Lawrence of Arabia released in 1962 which sounds racist to me. #movie #whitepeope #arab
I were travelling here just as I have done to all those other cities across the world and I achieve this by mindfulness throughout my day lol (2/2)
I have had some great experiences living abroad and made some wonderful life long friends; but now I am at a point where I also start to experience my hometown as a travelling experience too, by which I mean that I choose to experience it as I would if (1/2)
I love Bob (Marley) : )
You need a little chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star
get behind the glass where they keep the valuables! LEARN to value yourself more! If you don't, no one else will! (2/2)
Please remember: If you're not being treated with love and respect, check your price tag. Perhaps you have marked yourself down. It's YOU who tells people what you're worth by what you accept. Get off the clearance rack and (1/2)
"Yeah, please." So, still being unable to see the stranger he shouts, "Where are you?" And the stranger replies, "I'm over here, on your swing." (6/6)
it would be the right thing to help him." So the husband gets out of bed again, gets dressed and goes downstairs. He opens the door, and not being able to see the stranger anywhere he shouts, "Hey, do you still want a push??" And he hears a voice cry out, (5/6)
pick the kids up from the baby sitter and you had to knock on that man's house to get us started again? What would have happened if he'd told us to get lost??" "But the guy was drunk," says the husband. "It doesn't matter," says the wife. "He needs our help and (4/6)
