BK born and bred hip-hop head into politics. Educated in Microelectronics and Capitalism. I am always on the side of the people! SM and MBA RIP Phife Dawg
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Black Owned Beauty Supply 425 Uvalde Rd, Houston, Texas 77015. #wealthtransfer #beautysupply #economicdevelopment #unity #economicblueprint @bbblockspodcast
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When the price of your prescription went up, Republicans voted for it. When the subsidy helping you afford coverage disappeared, Republicans voted for it. When the investigators got fired, Republicans voted for that too. There's a vote they didn't plan for - yours. Cast it early for Democrats. #VoteEarlyDay
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Q: Amy Acton's stepfather was indicted for rape. Now that you know all that, sir, do you change your mind about the ad?
Trump: No. I don't care
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He drove his wife to one of the best hospitals in America for a planned caesarean. A routine one. Her second.
Charles Johnson watched her blood collect in a catheter bag for ten hours while he asked for help.
Kira Johnson died at 2:22am.
Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, 12th April 2016. Kira Johnson was 39. She spoke five languages, raced cars, ran marathons. The caesarean was scheduled. Everything about it was routine.
Her son Langston was delivered at midday.
By the afternoon her husband could see blood in her catheter. He told a nurse. He was told they would check.
He asked again. And again. A CT scan was ordered and then not performed. He has described being told, at one point, that his wife was simply not a priority right now.
He stood in a corridor for ten hours asking people to look at his wife.
They took her back to theatre just after midnight. There were three litres of blood in her abdomen. She died shortly after.
Her son Langston was twelve hours old.
Charles Johnson has spent the decade since as one of the most effective advocates in American maternal health. He founded 4Kira4Moms. He has testified before Congress. The federal Black maternal health legislation introduced in recent years carries work he pushed for.
He talks about one thing more than any other, and it is not the medicine.
It is the ten hours. He was standing right there, in the building, awake, articulate, asking. And it made no difference at all.
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ANGEL REESE TONIGHT:
30 POINTS
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10/16 FGM
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Reality is the predominantly rural & suburban White Texans who keep electing Republicans aren’t actually winning anything but the freedom to die of Whiteness without interference from a functional social safety net. Their electoral “victory” ultimately amounts to self-sabotage.
Take note that I’m specifying White Texans because they’re always the most outraged with me that the system isn’t working as they think it should as if they don’t vote every election to fuck the system up. I tell them to contact @GregAbbott_TX.
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Happy 70th Birthday, Dr. Mae Jemison. A doctor, scientist, & NASA astronaut. Dr. Jemison holds nine doctorate degrees in the humanities, science, and engineering. She was the first Black woman in space. #AKA1908 #Trailblazer 🩷💚🥳🎂🎊
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North Carolina A&T students marched an hour each way to vote on the first day of early voting after their campus polling site was removed by the Guilford County Elections Board. Proud 👏🏽
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Nobel prize winning psychiatrist: It's clear Trump has dementia. That combined with control of our nuclear arsenal is a threat to the world. That is why "steps to remove Trump from office must be undertaken with the greatest urgency." My interview: youtu.be/PprfjmmuWAs?si=qkVe…
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MISSING: Have you seen Serenity?
17-year-old Serenity has been missing from Katy, Texas, since Sept. 6, 2026. She may have traveled to Brooklyn, New York
If you know anything about Serenity’s whereabouts, please call NCMEC at 1-800-THE-LOST or the Harris County Sheriff’s Office at 713-221-6000.
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Black jockeys won fifteen of the first twenty-eight Kentucky Derbies.
By 1921 there were none. Not fewer — NONE. They were removed from the sport entirely and it took sixty-nine years before another Black jockey rode in the Derby.
Isaac Murphy was the best of them. He was born enslaved in Kentucky. He won the Derby three times — the first jockey ever to do it and rode with a win rate he reported at around forty-four per cent, a figure no modern jockey approaches.
As prize money and prestige grew, white jockeys organised to force Black riders out — boxing them in on the rail, refusing to ride against them, pressuring owners.
Racing associations stopped licensing them.
Within twenty years, an entire profession that Black men had dominated since before the Civil War was simply emptied.
This is the pattern that repeats everywhere in this archive and almost nobody names it: Black excellence does not get pushed out of the poor jobs. It gets pushed out of the jobs that become lucrative.
We must never forget our history
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Isiah Thomas is back
The former Knicks coach & president has been appointed to the board of the Knicks
Thomas will join the board of directors when the Knicks become a standalone public company the first week of the season
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The first free Black town in the Americas was founded in Mexico in 1618 — by a man who fought Spain for nearly forty years and forced the crown to sign a treaty with him.
Gaspar Yanga. He is said to have been of royal descent from West Africa, sold into the Veracruz sugar region.
Around 1570 he escaped into the highlands with a group of others and built a community in the mountains.
They lasted for almost four decades — farming, raiding supply convoys on the road from the coast, absorbing new escapees.
In 1609 Spain sent a real military expedition to finish them. Yanga's people, outnumbered and outgunned, fought them to a standstill in the mountains.
So Yanga did something extraordinary: he opened negotiations and sent terms. A free settlement, self-governed, with its own officials, in exchange for peace.
The crown agreed. The town was established in 1618 as San Lorenzo de los Negros.
It still exists. In 1932 it was formally renamed Yanga. There is a statue of him in the square.
Nearly two centuries before Haiti, an African man in Mexico beat an empire to a written agreement and got a town out of it.
That is the first free Black municipality in this hemisphere, and it is in none of your schoolbooks. This is why we have created an ebook that outlines parts of our history that were deliberately hidden from us
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A 5 year old black girl was shot in the head on her way home because a white man, jeremy porter, 47, says he got the wrong car. zah'layah walton had just asked her mum for a hot pocket. He admitted firing five shots. he's charged with capital murder. she was 5
say her name
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Althea Gibson was the first Black American to win Wimbledon.
Althea Gibson was born on 25 August 1927 in Clarendon County, South Carolina, and grew into one of the most groundbreaking athletes of the 20th century. She was a professional tennis player and later a professional golfer, becoming one of the first Black athletes to break the color barrier in international tennis at a time when segregation and discrimination were deeply entrenched in both sports and society.
In 1956, Gibson made history as the first African American to win a Grand Slam title, claiming victory at the French Championships. Her dominance continued the following year when she won both Wimbledon and the US Nationals (the precursor to today’s US Open). She repeated the feat in 1958, firmly establishing herself as the world’s top player, and was named Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press in both years.
Across her career, Gibson won a total of 11 Grand Slam titles: five in singles, five in doubles, and one in mixed doubles. Her achievements earned her induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame as well as the International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame.
In the early 1960s, Gibson once again broke barriers by becoming the first Black athlete to compete on the Women’s Professional Golf Tour, extending her impact beyond tennis. Because of her role in challenging racial barriers in elite sports, she was frequently compared to Jackie Robinson.
Gibson’s cultural influence reached beyond athletics when she became the first African American to appear on the cover of Time magazine on 26 August 1957, followed by a Sports Illustrated cover on 2 September 1957. Althea Gibson passed away on 28 September 2003, leaving behind a legacy as a pioneer who reshaped opportunities for generations of athletes who followed.
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