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There’s too much wealth in this world for this to be a thing in every city I visit.
as seen everywhere else…

Patricia Roberts Harris, Howard University Dean and law professor, and the first African American woman Ambassador and Cabinet member was born in Mattoon, IL on this date May 31, 1924.

Harris organized one of the first ever lunch-counter sit-ins, at the Little Palace Cafeteria in Washington, D.C., while an undergraduate at Howard University in 1943.

She made partner at the prestigious Fried Frank law firm in 1967, and became the first Black woman to serve on the Board of Directors for a Fortune 500 company (IBM) in 1971.

Happy birthday, Ti. Mi manchi… 🌬️

Remembering my great-grandmother & grandfather, great-aunts & great-uncles whose lives and spirits still offer wisdom to me.
🤲🏽Ase

Patti LaBelle the Godmother of Soul was born on this date May 24, 1944 in Philadelphia, PA.

LaBelle received acclaim for many of her songs, including “Lady Marmalade,” “When You Talk About Love,” New Attitude,” “If Only You Knew,” “Love, Need and Want You,” and “Stir It Up.”

She began her career as part of the Ordettes in 1959, who became the Bluebelles in 1961. Her success as a solo artist started in 1983 when she released her hit album “I’m in Love Again”.

Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake’s “Shuffle Along”, a pioneer musical featuring Josephine Baker, Florence Mills, Caterina Jarboro, William Grant Still, Hal Johnson and others, opened at the 63rd Street Music Hall in New York City on this date May 23, 1921.

Sissle met Blake in 1915 as an aspiring lyricist and singer when they were both hired for an engagement with Joe Porter’s Serenaders at Riverview amusement park in Baltimore. They quickly formed a songwriting partnership—one that would last for 60 years.

This workshop is one of my best memories.

ps I still have and wear this choir's shirt.👕

Mary Lou Williams was born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs on May 8, 1910. In a remarkably productive career that spanned a half century, Mary Lou Williams established herself as a pianist, composer and arranger, an unprecedented feat that has remained an inspiration to women in jazz.

While Williams’s is widely regarded as one of the greatest female jazz musicians ever, her long list of accomplishments is impressive by any measure.

She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records in 78, 45, and LP versions.

Williams wrote and arranged for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell and Dizzy Gillespie.

Yesterday; MAY 5, 2024 @ 8:22pm… 😐

It’s Round 2 of our song tournament focusing on “Songcraft”, pitting “self-contained artists” against “team-generated artists.”
Cast your vote via !

KNAGUI & 7:06PM Entertainment Group is diving into March Madness with a song tournament. We're focusing on the art of "Songcraft" by pitting "self-contained artists" against "team-generated artists." Join the madness and help us crown the best song! Cast your vote here: https://t.ly/8vUdS

It’s gonna be a cold, cold wknd!

Who of you has seen this film?

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If “quality” costs, then why aren’t we improving the “quality” of public education?

is blessing us to no end tonight!!!

is KILLIN’ at tonight.

I couldn’t just let that one go by. 😂

Who’s gonna tune in?
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Αt the #ΑΦΑ Convention w/ Brothers made at ΘΑ

If you are there… be THERE!

Tonight it starts Hannover Germany

, , what are you doing about my friend’s hacked account?!?
She’s jumped through all your hoops!

Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti- renowned , , , and founder of the , was born on this date February 23, 1942. Madhubuti is a major contributor to the Black literary tradition, particularly through his early association with the beginning in the mid-60s, which has had a lasting & major influence, even today. Madhubuti has published more than 36 books, including Think Black (1967); Black Pride (1968); Don’t Cry, Scream! (1969); and We Walk the Way of the New World (1970). His poetry and essays have been selected for more than 100 anthologies. His book, Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? The African American Family in Transition (1991), sold more than 100,000 copies. The and the have recognized his poetry, and he has won the , an , the , and the in poetry for Liberation Narratives (2009).

was asked about the time she pulled a knife during a meeting.

Weeksville, Brooklyn. Brooklyn is home to many monumental neighborhoods, but few come close to the history & culturally rich Weeksville.
Originating in the mid-1800s sat a small village named Weeksville, formed during the post-abolition era. At that time, Weeksville and the surrounding Brooklyn area had one of the country’s most dense rates of enslaved people. Brooklyn continued to develop, resulting in Weeksville’s absorption of the Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights neighborhoods. Despite the merger, echoes of Weeksville’s past still exist. Weeksville earned its name from a freed Black dock worker named James Weeks, who purchased a plot of land in the community following abolition in the state.
As word spread that African Americans, like Weeks, were making a living in New York- more would head to the area for the same opportunity as long-standing families continued to sell off their land in the Brooklyn area. In the 1850s, the population boomed to over 500 residents, nearly half of the residents were originally born in the South. All with different stories and backgrounds, the occupations of these settlers included educators, health care professionals, and entrepreneurs. As time went on, the Weeks village would go on to operate a “Colored” school, cemetery, senior home, and multiple churches. Not to mention, the village was amongst the highest rates for ownership of property and business among a Black settlement. Weeksville quickly became a safe haven for African Americans throughout New York. The community has changed over the years, but the history of Weeksville remains one of the most influential neighborhoods in New York State, particularly for American Negros.

knocked out Jimmy Ellis in to become the on this date February 16, 1970. Joseph William Frazier nicknamed "Smokin' Joe", competed professionally from 1965 to 1981. He was known for his strength, durability, formidable left hand and relentless pressure fighting style and was the first boxer to defeat Muhammad Ali. His record: 27 KOs 32 Wins-4 Loses 1 Draw
When Frazier retired from professional boxing, he became a community leader & advocate for youth. He opened a boxing gym to keep the youth off the streets of .
Frazier is, by boxing critics and fans, arguably one of the greatest fighters of all time.

Wake up! Take the pillow from your head & put a book in it.
- KRS-One