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“No label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and no religion is more important than the human being.”
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Black Culture

Happy Halloween: Nine Mythical African Creatures Who May Keep You Up Tonight

October 31, 2020
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Alexa, Play Geto Boys My Mind is Playing Tricks on Me “This year Halloween fell on a weekend”…..a Saturday to be exact. A Saturday of a full moon. A Saturday that falls on Daylight Savings Time. The perfect combination for shenanigans and fuckery. What are the fucking odds that the…

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Black History

On This Day: The 1968 Olympics and the Iconic Moment That Almost Wasn’t

October 16, 2020
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On October 16th, 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, two Black American track and field stars, stood on the Olympic podiums to receive their medals and made a statement that resonated through sports, this country, and the world. It is one of the most iconic moments in sports history, Black…

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Black History

#OnThisDay: The Founding of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense

October 15, 2020
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On this day (and/or around it) in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense was founded. The Black Panther Party had one initial purpose: to patrol Black neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality. It grew into a movement used to empower black communities and provided a…

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Black Excellence

Flowervillain = MF Doom + Tyler the Creator

October 13, 2020
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Apparently I am late to the party. In Fall of 2019, a remix album combining the Black musical genius of Tyler the Creator and MF Doom was released under the name Flowervillain.  This remix album, Flowervillain II, quietly dropped on September 29, 2019. On September 30th, Flowervillain released the Deflowered…

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Black History

On This Day: Thurgood Marshall Was Sworn In As The First Black Supreme Court Justice

October 2, 2020
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American Democracy is in shambles. I do not think this is a bad thing (will get in to that in a later post). The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the modern day Susan B. Anthony, has left a void in the Supreme Court that President Pumpkin Spice,…

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