Teaching Black History

“Religion is the op**te of people.” My husband and I have been saying this for years regarding the BLK church! There should be institutions and entrepreneurs birthed from the church. Sadly many churches try to scare/control ppl in exchange of money. All of this teaching came from enslavers who used the Bible to keep us in enslaved. Don’t take my word for it, go research the Slave Bible that’s on display in D. C. They removed passages/stories from the Bible such as the story of Moses. Time to awaken! 🎥 @panafrikanking13 #drumarjohnson #blackchurch #blackpastors #blackfamilies #blackcommunity

Man celebrating 103rd birthday says he lived so long because he ‘minded his own business’ A Charleston, South Carolina native celebrated his 103rd birthday Sunday with family and friends as they took turns sharing stories and sentiments about his long life.

Sumter County couple shares farming knowledge, fresh produce with community Robert and Mary Goodwin have been farmers in Rembert for over five decades. Now, they share their crops — and their wisdom — with the community.

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Meet Bill Powell, a true trailblazer in golf history. Denied access to play on white-owned courses, he took matters into his own hands. From segregation to success, he built his dream course on 78 acres, paving the way for inclusivity in golf. 🏌️‍♂️⛳️

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Singer and songwriter Fats Domino with wife Rosemarie and their six children (two more were born after this photo was taken) circa 1959. They were married from 1947 until her death in 2008.
Antoine Domino Jr. was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. One of the pioneers of rock and roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records. Domino signed to Imperial Records in 1949. His first single "The Fat Man" is cited by some historians as the first rock and roll single and the first to sell more than 1 million copies. Domino continued to work with the song's co-writer Dave Bartholomew, contributing his distinctive rolling piano style to Lloyd Price's "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" (1952) and scoring a string of mainstream hits beginning with "Ain't That a Shame" (1955). Between 1955 and 1960, he had eleven Top 10 US pop hits. By 1955, five of his records had sold more than a million copies, being certified gold.
Domino was shy and modest by nature but made a significant contribution to the rock and roll genre. Elvis Presley declared Domino a "huge influence on me when I started out" and when they first met in 1959, described him as "the real king of rock 'n' roll". The Beatles were also heavily influenced by Domino.
Four of Domino's records were named to the Grammy Hall of Fame for their significance: "Blueberry Hill", "Ain't That a Shame", "Walking to New Orleans" and "The Fat Man".
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of its first group of inductees in 1986. The Associated Press estimates that during his career, Domino "sold more than 110 million records".
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Statesboro man celebrates 100th birthday on Thanksgiving A landmark birthday was celebrated this Thanksgiving.

Annie Tagoe, 🇬🇧, 4x100m relay. Budapest 2023.
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DC woman Catherine Gaines celebrates 107th birthday A Washington, D.C. woman is celebrating her 107th birthday this Thursday.

July 15, 1952: An eight-year-old singer named Gladys Knight appears on the popular TV show Ted Mack's Amateur Hour, show on the now-defunct Dumont Television Network, and wins the first prize of $2000 for her rendition of Nat King Cole's "Too Young." In five years, she would be an established recording artist.

The Photographs of William Bullard" opens at Worcester Art Museum Saturday,..Between 1897 and 1918, photographer William Bullard took over 5400 photographs, leaving behind a trove of glass negatives, many of which remained untouched for nearly a hundred years.

Sarah Baartman (Afrikaans: [ˈsɑːra ˈbɑːrtman]; c.1789– 29 December 1815), also spelled Sara, sometimes in the diminutive form Saartje (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈsɑːrtʃi]), or Saartjie, and Bartman, Bartmann, was a Khoikhoi woman who was exhibited as a freak show attraction in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus, a name which was later attributed to at least one other woman similarly exhibited. The women were exhibited for their steatopygic body type uncommon in Western Europe which not only was perceived as a curiosity at that time, but became subject of scientific interest as well as of erotic projection.

"Venus" is sometimes used to designate representations of the female body in arts and cultural anthropology, referring to the Roman goddess of love and fertility. "Hottentot" was a colonial-era term for the indigenous Khoikhoi people of southwestern Africa, now usually considered an offensive term. The Sarah Baartman story is often regarded as the epitome of racist colonial exploitation, and of the commodification of the dehumanization of black people.[3]

Baartman was born to a Khoikhoi family in the vicinity of the Camdeboo in what is now the Eastern Cape of South Africa[4][5] (then the Dutch Cape Colony; a British colony by the time she was an adult). Her birth name is unknown,[6] but is thought by some to have been Ssehura,[1] supposedly the closest to her given name. Saartjie is the diminutive form of Sarah; in Cape Dutch the use of the diminutive form commonly indicated familiarity, endearment or contempt. Her surname has also been spelt Bartman and Bartmann.[2][4]: 184 She was an infant when her mother died[7] and her father was later killed by Bushmen (San people) while driving cattle.[8]

Baartman spent her childhood and teenage years on Dutch European farms. She went through puberty rites, and kept the small tortoise shell necklace, most likely her mother's, until her death in France. In the 1790s, a free black (a designation for individuals of enslaved descent) trader named Peter Cesars (also recorded as Caesar[7]) met her and encouraged her to move to Cape Town. Records do not show whether she was made to leave[how?], went willingly, or was sent by her family to Cesars.[citation needed] She lived in Cape Town for at least two years working in households as a washerwoman and a nursemaid, first for Peter Cesars, then in the house of a Dutch man in Cape Town. She finally moved to be a wet-nurse in the household of Peter Cesars' brother, Hendrik Cesars, outside of Cape Town in present day Woodstock.[4][9] There is evidence that she had two children, though both died as babies.[4] She had a relationship with a poor Dutch soldier, Hendrik van Jong, who lived in Hout Bay near Cape Town, but the relationship ended when his regiment left the Cape.[4]

Hendrik Cesars began to show her at the city hospital in exchange for cash, where surgeon Alexander Dunlop worked. Dunlop,[10] (sometimes wrongly cited as William Dunlop[7]), a Scottish military surgeon in the Cape slave lodge, operated a side business in supplying showmen in Britain with animal specimens, and suggested she travel to Europe to make money by exhibiting herself. Baartman refused. Dunlop persisted, and Baartman said she would not go unless Hendrik Cesars came too. He also refused, but he finally agreed in 1810 to go to Britain to make money by putting Baartman on stage. The party left for London in 1810. It is unknown whether Baartman went willingly or was forced.[4][page needed]

Dunlop was the frontman and conspirator behind the plan to exhibit Baartman. According to a British legal report of 26 November 1810, an affidavit supplied to the Court of King's Bench from a "Mr. Bullock of Liverpool Museum" stated: "some months since a Mr. Alexander Dunlop, who, he believed, was a surgeon in the army, came to him to sell the skin of a Camelopard, which he had brought from the Cape of Good Hope.... Some time after, Mr. Dunlop again called on Mr. Bullock, and told him, that he had then on her way from the Cape, a female Hottentot, of very singular appearance; that she would make the fortune of any person who shewed her in London, and that he (Dunlop) was under an engagement to send her back in two years..."[11] Lord Caledon, governor of the Cape, gave permission for the trip, but later said regretted it after he fully learned the purpose of the trip.[12]

Some become responsible at age 13🤓🧐

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A healthy baby was born to the mother in due time!
In surgery, he extracted the fetus, removed a large tailbone tumor.

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In 1891, anyone interested in mailing a letter would have to make the long trip to the post office. Philip B. Downing designed a metal box with four legs which he patented on October 27, 1891. He called his device a street letter box and it is the predecessor of today's mailbox.