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#Repost @the.root
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Sixty-nine years ago today, the Little Rock Nine walked into Central High School and into history.

On Sept. 25, 1957, nine Black students entered the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School under the protection of federal troops, after facing threats, harassment and efforts to keep them out.

Today, we remember Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown Trickey, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed Wair and Melba Pattillo Beals for their courage and for believing they deserved the same access to education as anyone else.

#civilrights #education #littlerocknine #blackhistory by @worrell

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#Repost @historybeforeus
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Some buildings don’t just survive history, they hold it.

In Adams, Tennessee, the 1859 constructed Masonic Lodge and General Store stands as a powerful piece of the community’s past. Its story reaches back to enslaved labor, local commerce, fraternal life, and the violent tobacco conflicts that shook this region during the era of the Night Riders.

This episode explores why preserving places like this matters. Once these structures disappear, we lose more than wood and brick, we lose access to the stories that shaped entire communities.

Join me as we step inside one of Adams’ most important historic spaces and unpack the history connected to it.

📍@portroyalstatehistoricpark

#tennesseehistory #ancestors #masoniclodge #blackpatchwars historybeforeus by @worrell

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#Repost @attorneycrump
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Repost from @blackmillionaires_ :(Kyra Harris Bolden is a Michigan Supreme Court justice and the first Black woman to serve on the state’s highest court. She joined the court on January 1, 2023, after being appointed by Gov.
Gretchen Whitmer.
Bolden grew up in Southfield, Michigan, and graduated from Southfield Public Schools. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Grand Valley State University and her Juris Doctor from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law.
Before joining the Supreme Court, she worked as a criminal defense attorney, served as a judicial law clerk in Wayne County’s Third Circuit Court, and practiced civil litigation with the Detroit law firm Lewis & Munday.
She was elected to the Michigan House of
Representatives in 2018, representing the 35th District, and was reelected in 2020. While in the Legislature, she worked on criminal-justice issues and helped pass measures involving medically frail prisoners, compensation for people who were wrongtully imprisoned, and address confidentiality for domestic-violence survivors.
Her family history has also been an important part of her public story. Her great-grandfather was killed in Tennessee in 1939, and Michigan officials have described that history as helping shape her interest in justice and the law.
Bolden continues to serve on the Michigan Supreme Court as of 2026. She also serves as chair of Michigan’s Commission on Well-Being in the Law for a term running through the end of 2027.
Source: @kyrahbolden) by @worrell

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#Repost @harvardseye
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The story of John Young .. The inventor of the buffalo wings #explorepage by @worrell

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#Repost @adivunsolicited
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From the Caribbean to Brazil to the American South, the former colonies of the Americas were built on the bodies of enslaved Africans and stolen Indigenous land. Yet the version we were taught has been softened and stripped of names, so the empires behind it could pose as the heroes who “ended” it. The truth is sitting in their own archives, written in their own handwriting.

Jamaica, sold today as paradise, is one of the clearest examples.

Thomas Thistlewood came to Jamaica from England in 1750. He oversaw the Egypt sugar estate and later bought land and enslaved people of his own. For 36 years he kept a daily diary: 37 volumes, over 10,000 pages, now held at Yale. Between notes on weather and gardening, he recorded whippings, torture, and the systematic sexual abuse of enslaved women. Historian Trevor Burnard counted 138 women he recorded abusing, nearly all of them enslaved.

He was an ordinary overseer. That’s how normal the violence was.

📌 Close to a million enslaved Africans were brought to Jamaica. At emancipation in 1834, about 311,000 enslaved people remained. Planters worked people to death and bought replacements.
📌 When Britain abolished slavery, it paid £20 million in compensation to slave owners. The enslaved received nothing.
📌 The loan behind that compensation was finally paid off in 2015, partly with taxes from Black Britons.
📌 The Windrush generation came to rebuild Britain after WWII, staffed the NHS and public transport, and decades later faced detention and wrongful deportation.

“We ended slavery” leaves out who profited, who got paid, and who is still paying.

📚 READ FURTHER
• Douglas Hall, In Miserable Slavery
• Trevor Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire
• Vincent Brown, Tacky’s Revolt
• Richard S. Dunn, A Tale of Two Plantations
• Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery
• Nicholas Draper, The Price of Emancipation
• David Olusoga, Black and British
• Amelia Gentleman, The Windrush Betrayal
• Hilary Beckles, Britain’s Black Debt
• UCL Legacies of British Slavery database

#BlackHistory #jamaica #caribbean #windrush slaveryfacts by @worrell

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#Repost @blackwealtharmy
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They don’t teach this in schools.

In 1865, the U.S. Congress created a bank specifically for freed people and told them to trust it with everything they had. Families deposited their wages, their savings, everything they owned. By 1874, over 61,000 depositors had saved nearly $3 million, over $63 million in today’s dollars. Then Congress let white trustees gamble with the deposits. The bank collapsed. Congress refused to reimburse anyone. Frederick Douglass invested his own money trying to save it and called the experience being “married to a corpse.”

Not one trustee faced consequences. Not one family was made whole. And W.E.B. Du Bois later wrote that what happened to those 61,000 families set back Black financial progress more than almost anything else in that era. History is on trial. Swipe to see the evidence.
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Stories like this are exactly why I created ERASED: 25 Black Legends History Tried to Bury.
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25 people who built, fought, and created in spite of systems designed to stop them. Their stories are inside.
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63 pages. 25 untold stories. Unfiltered truth.
📖 Full details in bio. @blackwealtharmy
💬 Drop GUILTY or NOT GUILTY below. 👇🏾 by @worrell

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#Repost @aistoryarchistories
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Black history facts you didn’t learn in school… #history #facts #blackhistory #reels by @worrell

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#Repost @latina
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As we close out Black History Month in the U.S., we remember and honor the work of Peruvian choreographer, activist, and composer, Victoria Santa Cruz. Her 1978 poem “Me Gritaron ¡Negra!” serves as a powerful tribute to affirming her Black identity in the face of racism.

Santa Cruz was famously known for producing works that centered the neglected & forgotten Black experience in Peru.

Despite her passing in 2014, Santa Cruz’s impact and legacy will continue to live on. by @worrell

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#Repost @realsensicalsense
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Africa is Sanction-proof if we just organise.

#africa #black #panafrica #thoughts facts by @worrell

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#Repost @naspora.co
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Raye Montague was a Black computer programmer who revolutionized naval design in 1971 by creating a computer-generated warship design in just 18 hours. Despite her work transforming the industry, she was not officially recognized as an engineer until years later.

🎥 @walkingintourdestiny

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#Naspora by @worrell

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#Repost @shabakakush
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How they tried to hide Black African achievements.
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#nubian #africanhistory #black #african history by @worrell

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