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Many African American went to Mexico for sanctuary and when s.lave owners demanded Mexico to send them back, Mexico replied with;There are no Black s.laves in Mexico only Black citizens.
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I am a firm belièver that we dòn't have to màke things up about òur history. The images speak for themselves ~ Late Dr Runoko Rashidi
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"In Africà, we don't send our African elders to old age homes, they stay at home so that they pass intergenerational wisdom".
#mamaafrica
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A San boy from Namibia 🇳🇦 👦 ❤ 😍
The San tribe has been living in Southern Africa for at least 30,000 years and they are believed to be not only the oldest African tribe, but quite possibly the world's most ancient race.
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Aboriginal people of Australia
DNA confirms that the indigenous culture is one of the most ancient cultures on earth, they are from Africa.
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Today in 1977, 46 years ago, South African anti apartheid activist, Steve Biko was killed in detention by apartheid police. He was the founder of the Black Consciousness Movement. Teach your kids about Steve Biko.
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1887 photograph of Harriet Tubman, her husband Nelson Davis and adopted daughter Gertie.
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At 26, 🇳🇬 Nigerian-born Wendy A. Okolo became the first Black woman to obtain a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2015. The Nigerian-born scientist is currently an aerospace research engineer in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA.
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She fought oppression in public and private spheres, and shaped her son's education as he evolved into a powerful thinker and speaker
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Meet Valerie L. Thomas, the Mother of Modern television.
Valerie L. Thomas (born February 8, 1943) is an American data scientist and inventor.
She invented the illusion transmitter( 3D motion pictures), for which she received a patent in 1980.
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On November 26th, 1962, African American inventor, Paul E. Williams patented a helicopter, Lockheed Model 186 (XH-51). It was a compound experimental helocopter and only 3 units were built. The UH-60 Black Hawk was fielded by the Army in 1979.
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1937 Portrait of only surviving female wàrriors, who had fought against the Frènch in 1895, Abomey, Dahomey Kingdom (Present-day Benin Republic ~ 🇧🇯)
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All hümans, regardless of ràce (which is a social construct) can trace their ancestry to a woman from Southern Africa whó walked this earth over 200,000 years ago. Today, scientist call her Mitochondrial Eve and her DNÀ can be föund in African/Blàck women today.
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Two African American legends, Mohamed Ali and Malik El-Shabazz (aka Malcom X), with their little ones 💕
Those two men have changed the life of many African Americans and greatly influenced the American civil rights movement.
#malcomx
#africanamerican
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Ancient name of Africa
Before the Eur0pean settled for the word Africa, the continent was called many other names. They include Corphye, Ortigia,Libya, and Ethiopia, Alkebulan
Other names such as the land of Ham (Ham means dark skins), mother of mankind, the garden of Eden,
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Did you know the Dibaba sisters are the fastest family on earth? The Dibaba's are the only family in history to hold concurrent world records, the sisters together have 4 Olympic gold medals, 3 silver medals, 3 bronze medals and 15 World Championships.
#Ethiopia
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“In the Nile Valley, civilization resulted from man’s adaptation to that particular milieu. As declared by the Ancients and by the Egyptians themselves, it originated in Nubia.
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Proud Black women back in the day wore their crown. 👑 ❤ 😍
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She joined the elite group of 1% Black female pilots in the world! 👏🏾
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"Look at me. I am Black. I am beautiful.” -- Mary McLeod Bethune
In 1904, with only $1.50 to her name, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune founded the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls (now, Bethune-Cookman University).
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The little boy from Uganda 🇺🇬 with Sapphire eyes
A Ugandan photographer named Jjumba Martin met him on the streets of Uganda and took pictures of him , the world cannot seem to get enough of him and his unique sapphire eyes.
The boy with sapphire eyes.
#Uganda
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"Photos taken 30 years apart. My dad at age 33 and me at age 3 on the left. And me at age 34 and my son and age 3 on the right." - Fred Smith/Facebook
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Africa's History is toò rich that if it were to be taught in African schòols, there wòuld be nòthing elsè to stùdy.
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○ur African leaders ign○re this great talent in us just to pay millions of dollars to f○reign artists who design our requests irrelevantly! Kumi Samuel is a star✊🏿
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Meet Roy Allela, a Kenyan 🇰🇪 man who invented smart glõves that can convert siģn language movements into audio speech. He made it for his six year old niece who was bõrn deèaf. That’s how the idea of smart gloves came to fruition.
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African Proverb: A village without the elderly is like a well without water. Meaning: What water is to a well, elders are to a society.
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A girl from Ethiopia 🇪🇹 💕
Did you know Africa is the most genetically diverse continent? The African continent has the highest level of genetic diversity in the world.
According to the researchers, this makes sense since it’s the starting point of the human race.
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American actor Samuel L. Jackson traces his origins back to the Bantu tribe of Gabon 🇬🇦
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23rd November 1733 🇺🇸
Breffu was an enslaved African woman at a plantation in Coral Bay in today’s United States Virgin Islands.
On the 23rd of November 1733, after hearing the signal of a canon fire from Fort Fredericksvaern, Breffu entered the plantation’s main house
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A statue of Yasuke, an enslaved African, who arrived in Japan in 1579 and became the first Black Samurai.
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He is George McLaurin the first Black man admitted to Oklahoma University in 1948, he was forced to sit in a corner away from his fellow w.hite men.
But his name remains on the honor list as one of the top three students in college.
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"YOU NEVER KNOW WHICH CHILD WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE..."
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Dear Africans 🌍 ❤
Remember you were African before you became anything else” - Damini Ogulu Ebunoluwa (Burna Boy)
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Near the Southern tips of 🇦🇴 Angola, reside the Mbalantu tribes of 🇳🇦 Namibia. Mbalantu women are known for their headdresses. At the age of twelve, young girls in Mbalantu tribes begin preparing their hair.
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15 yr old Elizabeth Eckford facing angry mobs on the first day of school during desegregation,1957.
On the first day of racial integration at Little Rock Central School in 1957, Elizabeth Eckford was one of the first Black students to attend classes there.
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Ethiopia 🇪🇹 The Dibaba Sisters, the fastest family on earth.
The Dibaba Sisters are from Ethiopia, they are the only siblings in recorded history to hold concurrent world records, and have 4 Olympic gold medals, 2 silvers, 3 bronze and 15 world championships.
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Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo created several scultures in a lake to remember our ancestors who dr0wned as they were transported to the Americas during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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African-American soldiers in WW1 were segregated in the US Army and often put into French regiments, where they served with distinction. The most famous was the 369th Infantry Regiment, the 'Harlem Hellfighters,' the first Allied soldiers to reach the Rhine.
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Abram Petrovich Hannibal Gannibal A. P. (1696–1781)
Sold into Turkish slavery, Abram Petrovich Hannibal was brought as a Black servant to Czar Peter I, known as Peter the Great. He became one of the royal favorites, a general-in-chief, and one of the best-educated men in Russia
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KUNTA KINTE: 20 years old in 1977 &
66 years old in 2023.
Kunta Kinte is a brave character in d 1976 novel Roots. According to Haley, Kunta Kinte is based on a true life story of one of his ancestors: a Gambian 🇬🇲 man born in 1750, enslaved n taken to America and dièd in 1822
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Mummy of Queen Nodjmet, Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, ca. 1069-945 BC Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Spectacular state of conservation.
#kemet
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The indigenous Bisharin of Egypt, Sudan Northeast Africa. Aswan Egypt before the Arab Republic of Egypt.
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Traditional Architecture.
Tukuls are round huts made of mud, grass, millet stalks, and wooden poles, with thatched conical roofs which are a common type of rural housing in South Sudan. 🇸🇸
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A portrait that can speak! Ase!
Artist: Michael Rosato
The Harriet Tubman Mural (2019)
Located behind 424 Race Street in Cambridge, Maryland on an exterior wall of the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center.
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“I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land.” ~ Thabo Mbeki
📸 Adut Akech 🇸🇸
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We wish to promote his art...made with carton papers.
So much engineering potential 👏
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THE ANCIENT GREAT BENIN EMPIRE
The Benin Kingdom was a flourishing ancient city situated in modern day Nigeria. During pre colonial era, Benin was one of the many highly developed cultures in Africa. This kingdom got its start up around 900 CE when Edo people settled in the
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This is Aunt Polly Jackson, she was an escaped slave who worked as an agent on the Underground Railroad helping others escape.
She was known for fighting off slave catchers with a bùtcher knife and a kettle of boiling water.
#BlackHistory
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