Rare and very interesting photos
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1920 - Mammy Prater, a former slave, sits writing at a small table in front of a house at age 115.
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Near the city of Morondava, on the West coast of Madagascar lies an ancient forest of Baobab trees. Unique to Madagascar, the endemic species is sacred to the Malagasy people, and rightly so. Walking amongst these giants is like nothing else on this planet. Some of the trees here are over a thousand years old. It is a spiritual place, almost magical.
Thank you for posting this. I must visit this place.
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1920 - Thelma and Bonnie, called the "Graceful Creoles," posing coyly for the photographer at the Lido.
I love to stare at theses at night with a glass of cognac and cigar. I have an old time stereo with tons of music from the Big Ban era. I imagine my self back then with people in these photos. Then I wonder what would they have thought about the year 2012. What would they expect it to be like, and how far into the future that would have seemed for them to imagine. How they knew they wouldnt be around to see it. I ponder the thought someone staring at my photograph 100 years from now may wonder the same thing...may wonder how I felt knowing I will never see it.
March 20, 1931 - Fearing a mob lynching, Alabama Governor B.M. Miller called the National Guard to the Scottsboro jail to protect the young black men who are accused of raping two white women. From left to right, the accused are: Clarence Norris, Olen Montgomery, Andy Wright, Willie Roberson, Ozie Powell, Eugene Williams, Charlie Weems, Roy Wright, and Haywood Patterson.
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August 9, 1949 - Joe Louis took time from his duties in connection with the championship bout at Yankee Stadium, to give Harlem kids a treat. He is handing out tickets for the Journal-American's sandlot classic at Harlem Boys Club on 134th Street. Joe is had over 1,000 youngsters at the Polo Grounds game as his guests when the U.S. battled the ME standouts.
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Juan Atkins ~~~ Techno Pioneer (from DETROIT, MI)
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1936 - Five young women rehearse for the chorus line at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.
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This image symbolizes the union of woman and man. Woman gives birth to man, unites with him and together they are fruitful in the world working to support and produce life. Man alone cannot give life because the vaginal canal alone has no life in it. The ovaries have the life and the womb carries the life.
In yoruba thought what we are looking at is the portal to the invisible realms. It is why the Mothers are where its at spiritually. Each woman is born with her own portal, which men dont have obviously. at a larger scale, it is called Olodumare - owner of the womb of the rainbow serpent. Obviously feminine. Most call Olodumare “God,” but actually “in Yoruba thought “God” is source and is beyond male female because these polarities do not exist at the source. and this “womb” is God’s portal to the physical universes.
This image symbolizes the union of woman and man. Woman gives birth to man, unites with him and together they are fruitful in the world working to support and produce life. Man alone cannot give life because the vaginal canal alone has no life in it. The ovaries have the life and the womb carries the life.
In yoruba thought what we are looking at is the portal to the invisible realms. It is why the Mothers are where its at spiritually. Each woman is born with her own portal, which men dont have obviously. at a larger scale, it is called Olodumare - owner of the womb of the rainbow serpent. Obviously feminine. Most call Olodumare “God,” but actually “in Yoruba thought “God” is source and is beyond male female because these polarities do not exist at the source. and this “womb” is God’s portal to the physical universes.
Yep. Dope.
writer Chester Himes, 1946
Thank you for this. He's one of my favorite writers.
You're welcome...I love sharing
Very likely on her way to school. With all the enthusiasm.
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Rising Star
John Lennon shortly before his death.
Don't know if it was pointed out, but the man Lennon is signing the autograph for is the same man who killed him, Mark David Chapman...
Yeah if I'm not mistaken when he shot Lennon he took a seat on the corner and smoked a cigarette. When the cops arrived he told them he just shot John Lennon. Crazy thing is that John had said earlier that he probably will get offed by some crazy person.
ask black people who this lady is... wait for their response. then, wait for their reaction after you tell them about her.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
My father is originally from Turners Station so I grew up hearing of her, and the other successful/influential black ppl that have come from that one neighborhood. Altho in her case its a matter of genetics, its interesting to see how black communities flourished in many ways prior to integration.
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it just hit me. Several family members, including both my of my paternal grandparent, whom lived in Turners station and worked for bethlehem steel have also died of cancer. something aint/wasnt right about that place.
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Hitlers Pope
I'll never understand how anyone can believe in organized religion
Some people believed this Pope hated Jews more than Hitler
Organized religion is what made civilization possible. No society/country started without some sort of religious belief. Sure bad things come from religion but anything with power has the same potential to be detrimental. Money, guns, drugs.
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Lady Sarah Forbes Bonetta Davies (photographed-Camille Silvy,1862) born into a royal West African dynasty, and orphaned in 1848, when five years old, when her parents were killed in a slave-hunting war. In 1850, Sarah was taken to England and presented to Queen Victoria, a “gift” from the King of Dahomey. She became the “Queen’s Goddaughter” and a celebrity known for her extraordinary intelligence. She spent her life between the British royal household and in Africa until her death in 1880.
Lady Sarah Forbes Bonetta Davies (photographed-Camille Silvy,1862) born into a royal West African dynasty, and orphaned in 1848, when five years old, when her parents were killed in a slave-hunting war. In 1850, Sarah was taken to England and presented to Queen Victoria, a “gift” from the King of Dahomey. She became the “Queen’s Goddaughter” and a celebrity known for her extraordinary intelligence. She spent her life between the British royal household and in Africa until her death in 1880.
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