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New Film Documents Mamie Till-Mobley’s Fight for Justice for Her 14-Year-Old Son, Emmett Louis Till
I remember learning about Emmett Till as early as third grade and then again, in about sixth grade. Now, Whoopi Goldberg and Danielle Deadwyler will star in Chinonye Chukwu’s upcoming film “Till,” about Mamie Till-Mobley’s fight for justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Louis Till. All American star Jayln Hall has been cast to play… Continue reading
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Black History Fun Fact Friday – The Forgotten Legacy of A.D. King
On July 20, 1969, the world watched as America walked on the moon. In Black America, something very different was happening. We were in the middle of the Harlem Cultural Festival, a series of music concerts held in Harlem, Manhattan, and New York City during the summer of 1969 to celebrate black music, culture, and… Continue reading
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The Black Plague
They treated them like The Black Plague. This walking pestilence ravaging the Earth. Walking all proud-like and powerful all royalty-like and purposeful infecting generations of people with its culture, music, dance, and cornrolls. This was a virus that needed to be controlled. They could not have this thing infecting people with all this hope. COVID-19… Continue reading
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Murder She Wrote
No, it wasn’t suicide the freedom in her chest the genuine in her throat and the explosion of awareness she didn’t try to hide packing a strap never hesitating to open fire leaving trails of Earthquakes lingering at your side pen to paper creating a new world of gun smoke white dope and fienes who… Continue reading
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