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This 1850 Southeast D.C. home predates the Civil War and the 1871 Organic Act which incorporated Georgetown and Washington Co. into the District. It is also a former plantation “big house.” An example of how this history of slavery can be hidden in plain sight.
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Was gifted a Green-Book so one of plans for 2022 is to visit some of the sites then friendly to Black travelers to see if these sites still exist and how the areas have changed in 8 decades.
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Someone left flowers for Carter G. Woodson. Perfect way to set off
#BlackHistoryMonth
We need a a win.
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First up is a garage in Columbia Heights. I love alleys so I knew exactly where this was and what was going on today—luxury alley dwellings. Not what was condemned in the mid 20th century. Nice color on bricks along with the “you can’t afford this gray.”
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This is how freedom looks to me as a Black person. To come into the public sphere with purpose and to engage in a decades long fight for creative control and to define and redefine oneself in the US...43 years of Dirty Mind and it still pushes music and Black artistry beyond.
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@ihatedai
I always thought Black folks in Rio feel about this movie they way Black folks in Bmore feel about The Wire. I hate that all these years later this the only avenue so many people know about Afro-Brazil.
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@J_Beezi
@gringatears
New Yorkers who pride themselves on being unhoodwinklable got bamboozled.
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@Oldskoolbball2
I hated Rodman's book so much but loved reading him describe this series. I laughed for weeks when he said Robinson was shaking in the locker room scared.
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@vietbaddie
Who is this guy? I saw pictures of his eating breakfast off a woman’s ass. Now I’m more confused.
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@moafrica_3
@vietbaddie
In this small ass internet world can’t nobody come forward and identify him.
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3017 Sherman Ave. where Zora Neale Hurston stayed while attending Howard. Yet another Negro Renaissance luminary who spent time in D.C. before joining the Great Migration north to Harlem. Happy Birthday. 🖤
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@OfficialSampson
I always liked how Eddie Hazel was holding Billy Bass. They were so young and I believe they’re abroad in this picture.
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Claudia Jones died in England on 24 Dec. 1964, at only 49 years of age. She was born in Trinidad and deported from the “land of the free” for being Communist.
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@mrstealyourwig1
I did hear on Democracy Now that billboards are real cheap right now due to Covid.
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@TheMoonsCraters
@blkwomenradical
I read this book a few years back. Some of the worst housing stock was located near the U.S. Capitol and overwhelmingly populated by Black folks. Today it’s prime real estate.
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@arianathepoet
I feel this so hard! I've been going through it the past few years hearing "bourgie" shift from intraracialist to mainstream parlance.
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@NovGirl91
@adrierising
Scandal really broke my heart. I went from calling myself a Gladiator to not watching by mid season 3.
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@bye_philicia
@YungYinkv
@yallthefeds
When he came out rapping I was so relieved he wasn’t really paralyzed. My dumb ass didn’t think to look it up on the internet.
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@theyblamexone
@RPinHD
Makes me think of how difficult it’s been for MTV to take advantage of Beavis and Butthead through the years.
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@ethanjweiss
Going to that door-to-door knife selling group interview I went to. Was hired by simply showing up, went to the bathroom and never looked back.
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I forgot to post. I only recently noticed the compass in the crosswalk by the new Banneker High. R.I.P. Maryland’s own.
On this day in 1806, Benjamin Banneker died.
In 1753, he created the first functioning clock in the U.S entirely out of wood, it was so advanced it kept accurate time for over 50 years.
During his funeral, all his belongings including the clock were destroyed in a mysterious
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Young Marvin with his Randall Junior High classmates in SW.
Happy birthday to the legendary Marvin Gaye, born
#onthisday
in Washington, D.C. in 1939! Much love for the “Prince of Motown” today and everyday 💝 🧁 💝
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Had this clip of Latifah and the 45 King saved on my phone. I saved it because they are talking bout House/Club Music and the influence of the music and scene on her. R.I.P. DJ Mark the 45 King. Hugs to the Queen. 🖤
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I can’t wait to tap in. Found this picture of Latifah and Pos looking for another one. Ernie Paniccioli on the photo credit.
Tune in to "AOI Radio" Episode 1: "The Prince and The Queen" with special guests
@djprincepaul
and
@IAMQUEENLATIFAH
, airing live on
@applemusic
now.
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After his initial success at Motown Marvin Gaye purchased this home for his parents on the corner of 15th and Varnum Sts. NW, Washington, D.C.
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@joshjenks
I loved her track with Missy Elliott! I feel like that gets left out of the 90s Afro-Futuristic convos.
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@PushBidenLeft
@BreeNewsome
Where’s Blue Maga to say… “You don’t understand how government works?” 🤪
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“D.C. residents experiencing homelessness will soon be prohibited from pitching tents in the K Street underpass between 1st and 2nd streets NE, and all existing tents encamped under the underpass must be cleared by next Thursday.”
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Before heading back to D.C. I had to bring D.C.’s own, Jean Toomer back to one of his former homes. Grove St. in the Village.
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For International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
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I know this is no Wheat Row but so little of old SW remains. I was shocked by these circa 1892 rowhomes in South Capitol St. Only noticed them today due to the lack of traffic near Nats Park. Looks like they’ll be razed soon.
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Couple years ago in historic Harlem I made a pilgrimage to the Elks Lodge from Paris is Burning.
I totally understand. People had mixed feelings about Jennie Livingston and Paris Is Burning from the beginning. (But I guess, that can also be said about any provocative artist and work of art.) I’ve followed the film since preview screenings, when it didn’t seem like there
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@TerrifiedCass
@slashonsleeves
He was appealed to the anti-busing crowd while campaigning in '76 for one.
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"...they want me to remember their memories..." R.I.P. Lucille Clifton
On this day in 2010, Lucille Clifton passed away (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010). Clifton was a poet, writer & educator. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland.
📸: Lucille Clifton. July 29, 1995. Photo by Afro American Newspapers/Gado/Getty Images.
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@niallsteinberg
@moafrica_3
@vietbaddie
There we go. Now I can figure out if he rap or what. Good looking out.
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@Hopey_70
@Purify_toast17
I mean the current genocide and that rampage are related. This conditional morality y’all pulling today is trash.
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@ShadyShein202
@TerrillCharming
Right. Me looking at Maryland and VA with republican governors and police wilding all over.
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R.I.P. Bobby Hutton. He ain’t get killed by the pigs at 17 for this.
Artforum firing their editor for signing a letter of support for a Free Palestine while having Black Panther artist Emory Douglas on their cover is peak art world hypocrisy. The Black Panthers were extremely vocal in their support for Palestine, absolutely shameful.
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@eveewing
And the nephew of one Emmett Till’s murderers is Governor of Mississippi. “It goes and goes.”
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To quote patti smith.
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Birthday love for the Jamaican-American novelist, poet, musician and activist Gil Scott-Heron. This rainy morning I revisited his 1983 film Black Wax, filmed in Washington, DC while he was a professor at the UDC.
Some pictures from around 10th and W then and now.
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@the__prototype
Our people.
Was going through my grandmother’s photo album and there was her sister, her father and I declare.
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Today is Harriet Tubman Day in the state of Maryland where Tubman was born into slavery. I took this picture in Harlem in the summer of 2017. R.I.P. 🖤
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“…in 1938 about 2,000 marched in Washington, DC, with several thousand more lining the streets, to protest the shooting of Wallace McKnight in the back by an officer ‘over a bag of food.’”
In the 1930’s, white police officers in the Jim Crow South killed 4x as many Black people as did civilian lynch mobs.
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Walked by her home to get inspired.
“To think of Georgia Douglas Johnson as only a poet would be to call her out of her name. Add musician, playwright, fiction writer, mother, wife, friend, mentor, intellectual & gracious host [&] one of the most loved & cherished participants of the Harlem Renaissance”
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@SmooveLifeCJ
She fine with him having thin blue line stickers but not affairs. Interesting where people draw their lines.
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Finally got it in my hands. Was expecting the same vinyl as the Purple Rain/God 12 inch but this one is a lot more groovy. Taking a break from my mental mind so I’ll give it a spin when I’m ret. 💜
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Also worth noting that the first Black student admitted, graduated in 1954.
Gallaudet University was federally chartered in DC in 1864 for the deaf and hard of hearing. Maybe it’s just me but this is the first media story I’ve seen covering their contributions to pro-Palestinian student protests against genocide. Much love,
#Gallaudet
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As we celebrate Bob Marley's birth we can't forget about another Jamaican, Una Marson who was born on 9 Feb. 1905. Marson was an activist, poet, playwright, journalist and member of the League of Coloured Peoples. Marson lived in this D.C. in the 1950s.
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A couple years back I learned of Zitkála-Šá (Red Bird) a Lakota writer, music teacher and co-founder of the National Council of American Indians. She lived lived in this Arlington home with her husband. This park was named after enslaver henry clay. Today is her birthday.
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Breakfast this morning courtesy of Hana Grocery, a market specializing in Asian foodstuffs located in a stretch of row houses formerly owned by Frederick Douglass.
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It’s cold but we’re “Nearer to the goal line
Forget about the rose vine
The Soul will let you know it's time
And it's a DAISY age”
#TrugoyForever
#DeLaDay
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Visited her statue my last trip to Boston.
Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. By Phillis Wheatley
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I've been revisiting Baldwin a lot during these unprecedented times, thinking of him as a first generation Northerner and how the South informed his writing. I wrote this piece to look closer at how and when Baldwin leaned into his Southern roots.
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Another brilliant Black southern strategist! R.I.P. 🖤
Happy Birthday, Gloria Richardson! (May 6, 1922 – July 15, 2021)🎈
📸: Gloria Richardson, director of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Group sits on her porch in Cambridge, Maryland July 15, 1963 answering questions by the news media. Washington Area Spark.
#blackwomenradicals
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I just finished this. They even included oral history from the late Esther Cooper Jackson from when she was 99 years old and sharp as a tack.
'In Episode 11 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia explore the last decade of the life of iconic Civil Rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois, when he called Brooklyn home before moving to Ghana.'
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R.I.P. Melodie.
Queen Latifah x Monie Love x Miss Melodie
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Public art from the people that I peeped on my walk.
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I been hearing a lot bout the Harlem Renaissance exhibit at the Met and only learned of this because I went in the museum to go to the restroom. Big recommend.
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One of my favorite music events. Hendrix covering Stevie in 1967 with Stevie on drums. Stevie is in his 60s Motown bag with the tambourine on the hi-hat. Iron sharpens iron. Happy birthday to the God Stevie Wonder. R.I.P. to the God Hendrix.
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Lucy Diggs Slowe helped to establish the AKA sorority and later was the Howard U. Dean of Women lived at this house with her partner Mary P. Burrill. Today is the 135th anniversary of her birth in Berryville, VA.
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I love these row houses. Perfect example of the architecture here. Not like a N.Y. brownstone or the S.F. Victorians that tend to not touch. And this beautiful home is for sale. Unfortunately, it’s under contract. $1,499,999.00. But that’s not why I came by.
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Just watched this interview with Tony! Toni! Toné! and I love the time the room to shout out DJ Mark the 45 King. I hope he saw it before he passed. R.I.P.
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@CertifiedFool_
@KameronRaji
Podcast mics, lemon pepper wings and 50 Laws a Power to lure them away.
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I've read a Du Bois and a Garvey biography and knew of their beef but I've never read much of the Negro World until now and it was intense. Called him a "hater," and a man "who likes soft carpet."
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Saw this during Black History Month now posting it during Black August for her birthday. R.I.P. Marsha P. Johnson.
1/ This Black August, we honor Black trans, gender non-conforming, non-binary people who have always led our movements. We honor Black trans women like Marsha P. Johnson! (today is her birthday!)
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