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Happy Birthday, Toni Cade Bambara (March 25, 1939 – December 9, 1995)!🎈

Bambara was a Black American author, documentary film-maker, social activist, and college professor.

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Happy 76th Birthday, Dr. Angela Davis! 🎈

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”

— Dr. Angela Y. Davis


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2020-01-26

“Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose
the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution,
but more usually
we must do battle where we are standing.”

— Audre Lorde

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“Marie Sainte Dédée Bazile, known as Défilée and Défilée-La-Folle, is a figure of the Haitian Revolution. She is remembered for retrieving and burying the mutilated body of Emperor Dessalines after his assassination at Pont Larnage.”

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2020-01-01

“Catherine Flon was a Haitian seamstress, patriot and national heorine. She is regarded as one of the symbols of the Haitian Revolution and independence. She is celebrated for sewing the first Haitian flag in 1803.”

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2020-01-01

The Black Panther Party (BPP) for Self-Defense was founded today in 1966 in Oakland, California.

While the founding members were Bobby Seale & Huey P. Newton, we honor leaders of the BPP like Elaine Brown, Afeni Shakur, Kathleen Cleaver & Ericka Huggins.

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2019-10-15

“Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.”

— Florynce “Flo” Kennedy

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2019-08-23

In solidarity with we will honor in Puerto Rico who have always been on the forefront of Black Politics in Puerto Rico & beyond.

We honor Sylvia del Villard (February 28, 1928 – February 28, 1990) an actress, dancer, choreographer & activist.

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2019-07-23

📸: Lorraine Hansberry & Nina Simone singing in a group. 1963. Via New York Public Library.

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2019-05-19

Today is We honor & uplift Black lesbian radicals who have shaped so much of Black political thought, behavior & movement building!

📸: 1971, Albany Gay Rights Demonstration, photo by Diana Davies via NYPL.

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2019-04-26

Today, April 21st is the anniversary of the passing of the great Nina Simone, who passed in 2003. We honor her legacy.

“To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world. Black people. And I mean that in every sense.”

— Nina Simone

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