Black History

The Day Black Wall Street Died – The Tulsa Massacre, The Story of America – Part 1

Black History /

May 31st memorializes not only the many Americans that gave the ultimate sacrifice in service of their country, but it also memorializes the Black Americans in the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. May 31st was the 2-day start of one of the bloodiest massacres in American history where \”Black Wallstreet\” was leveled at the hands […]

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Wonder Women of Ballroom: Leiomy Maldonado, an Afro-Latina Heroine in Ballroom and Staple in Black Culture

Black History, Fashion & Entertainment /

“The Wonder Women Of Vogue” Leiomy Maldonado, trans activist, and dance icon is one of ballroom’s leading visionaries. She is the unofficial head honcho of voguing for over a decade now and thanks to her hair whipping and high energy flips and dips, Maldonado has shaped the art form to what it is today. The

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Bloody Sunday – March 7, 1965; We\’re Still Crossing That Bridge

Black History, News & Politics /

Sunday, March 7th marks fifty-six years to the day when Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), led a group of Civil Rights marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were stopped by 150 Alabama state troopers, sheriffs deputies, and possemen, who

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Bloody Sunday – March 7, 1965; We\’re Still Crossing That Bridge

Black History, News & Politics /

Sunday, March 7th marks fifty-six years to the day when Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), led a group of Civil Rights marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were stopped by 150 Alabama state troopers, sheriffs deputies, and possemen, who

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Bloody Sunday – March 7, 1965; We\’re Still Crossing That Bridge

Black History, News & Politics /

Sunday, March 7th marks fifty-six years to the day when Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), led a group of Civil Rights marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were stopped by 150 Alabama state troopers, sheriffs deputies, and possemen, who

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