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Rare photos of soul legend Etta James from the 70s without her signature wig and makeup.
 

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Uncle Tom was a man who refused to beat black women.
Uncle Tom was a man who refused to tell on other slaves.
Uncle tom was a man who would put cotton in other slaves’ bags at night, so that they wouldn’t get beat!
Uncle Tom was a man who helped 100 slaves get free long before the underground railroad.
Uncle Tom was a man, that once free, established the 1st Laborers school for other fugitive slaves!

His name? Josiah Henson! Josiah Henson was an author, abolitionist, and minister. Born into slavery, in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Upper Canada in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer’s school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden, in Kent County, Upper Canada, of British Canada.

So stop calling these sell-outs Uncle tom! That’s a compliment! Its Sambo that was the sell-out, who would do anything for his slave masters’ approval!
 

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April 12th, 1961 Sonny Liston turns Albert Westphal into a rag doll in the 1st round Liston was the 10 1 favorite going into the fight.


 

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35 Years After MOVE Bombing That Killed 11, Philadelphia Apologizes
A police helicopter dropped an explosive charge onto the roof of a rowhouse during an armed standoff in 1985. The resultant fire destroyed 61 homes in a West Philadelphia neighborhood.



Workers searching through the rubble in West Philadelphia on May 15, 1985, two days after a police helicopter dropped an improvised bomb onto a rowhouse, leaving 11 people dead.

Workers searching through the rubble in West Philadelphia on May 15, 1985, two days after a police helicopter dropped an improvised bomb onto a rowhouse, leaving 11 people dead.Credit...George Widman/Associated Press
John Ismay
By John Ismay
Published Nov. 13, 2020Updated May 15, 2021
The Philadelphia City Council this week formally apologized for the decision in 1985 to drop an improvised bomb on a rowhouse occupied by the MOVE separatist group, a desperate action that resulted in a fire that killed 11 people and destroyed 61 homes.
The resolution, approved on Thursday, marked the first time that the city had formally apologized for the action. The measure, which also calls for an annual day of remembrance on May 13, the anniversary of the bombing, was sponsored by Jamie Gauthier, a city councilwoman who grew up near the West Philadelphia neighborhood where the bombing happened.
Ms. Gauthier recalled watching the aftermath of the bombing on television as a child, and said that the neighborhood was only now starting to fully recover from the devastation.
“There have been divisions in our city between police and community for decades, and I think if we had done the true work of acknowledging what happened with MOVE and with other acts of police violence, and we had really worked on not only the acknowledgment but building better relationships and working towards reconciliation, we wouldn’t find ourselves in the place we are now,” she said in an interview on Friday.

“It was always striking to me that we did this, that our city did this and that no one ever was held accountable,” she added. “I thought that was unconscionable.”
Ms. Gautier began circulating a draft resolution before the May 13 anniversary of the MOVE attack, but the effort stalled and then was delayed because of coronavirus restrictions. The May 25 killing of George Floyd gave renewed energy to the resolution, she said, and the need to recognize the effects that police killings of Black people have had on the community grew even more with the Oct. 26 killing of Walter Wallace Jr., who was fatally shot by the police during an encounter in the same neighborhood where the MOVE home once stood.
In a statement, Mayor Jim Kenney of Philadelphia acknowledged the resolution’s importance. “In an effort to learn from our past and do better by our residents in the future, this annual day of observation is a positive step in the healing process our city desperately needs,” he said. “This year we saw the pain and trauma caused by the MOVE bombing are still alive in West Philadelphia, so I commend Council for taking this step toward healing.”
The mayor acknowledged missteps in the city’s attempts to rebuild the neighborhood in the years immediately following the attack, but said a recent public-private partnership had succeeded in reconstructing homes in the affected area.
MOVE, a group described by members as “a back-to-nature movement” that would return the United States to Native Americans and do away with all government, was deemed an “authoritarian, violence-threatening cult” by city officials, who said that the group used threats, abuse and intimidation to terrify their neighbors and to bring about confrontation. At the time of the attack, the police were acting to clear the group out of a rowhouse at 6221 Osage Avenue in response to neighbors’ complaints of filthy conditions in the house and nightlong amplified lectures from MOVE members.

At 6 a.m. on May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia police came under gunfire from people inside the home, which led to a daylong standoff. Throughout the day, the Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission later found, the police fired more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition in less than 90 minutes at the rowhouse, which was occupied by men, women and children. Calling the police officers’ actions “clearly excessive and unreasonable,” the commission’s report acknowledged that the police were unable to fully suppress the gunfire coming from the home and that efforts to negotiate with the people inside had been haphazard and fruitless.

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A woman was comforted as she returned to her destroyed neighborhood days after the fire.Credit...Jack Kanthal/Associated Press
Police bomb squad members fashioned an improvised bomb out of plastic explosives, and an officer dropped the charge from a helicopter onto the roof of the MOVE rowhouse in an effort to destroy a fortified bunker the group had built there. At 5:27 p.m. the bomb detonated, which started a fire that the police ordered firefighters to let burn. The blaze spread, ultimately destroying 60 other nearby homes.
“The plan to bomb the MOVE house was reckless, ill-conceived and hastily approved,” the commission’s report said in 1986. “Dropping a bomb on an occupied rowhouse was unconscionable and should have been rejected out-of-hand.”

“The hasty, reckless and irresponsible decision by the police commissioner and the fire commissioner to use the fire as a tactical weapon was unconscionable,” the report added.
The deaths of 11 people, six adults and five children, in the police action were classified as “unjustified homicides.”
Police Commissioner Gregore J. Sambor, who directed the aerial bombing, resigned in November 1985. A grand jury in 1988 cleared Mayor W. Wilson Goode and other top city officials of criminal liability for death and destruction resulting from the operation.

In an op-ed published by The Guardian on May 10, Mr. Goode, the former mayor, called on the city to issue a formal apology for the attack. “I apologize and encourage others do the same,” Mr. Goode wrote. “We will be a better city for it.”

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Police officers on a rooftop as fires burned after the bomb was dropped on MOVE headquarters.Credit...George Widman/Associated Press








 

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35 Years After MOVE Bombing That Killed 11, Philadelphia Apologizes
A police helicopter dropped an explosive charge onto the roof of a rowhouse during an armed standoff in 1985. The resultant fire destroyed 61 homes in a West Philadelphia neighborhood.




Workers searching through the rubble in West Philadelphia on May 15, 1985, two days after a police helicopter dropped an improvised bomb onto a rowhouse, leaving 11 people dead.

Workers searching through the rubble in West Philadelphia on May 15, 1985, two days after a police helicopter dropped an improvised bomb onto a rowhouse, leaving 11 people dead.Credit...George Widman/Associated Press
John Ismay
By John Ismay
Published Nov. 13, 2020Updated May 15, 2021
The Philadelphia City Council this week formally apologized for the decision in 1985 to drop an improvised bomb on a rowhouse occupied by the MOVE separatist group, a desperate action that resulted in a fire that killed 11 people and destroyed 61 homes.
The resolution, approved on Thursday, marked the first time that the city had formally apologized for the action. The measure, which also calls for an annual day of remembrance on May 13, the anniversary of the bombing, was sponsored by Jamie Gauthier, a city councilwoman who grew up near the West Philadelphia neighborhood where the bombing happened.
Ms. Gauthier recalled watching the aftermath of the bombing on television as a child, and said that the neighborhood was only now starting to fully recover from the devastation.
“There have been divisions in our city between police and community for decades, and I think if we had done the true work of acknowledging what happened with MOVE and with other acts of police violence, and we had really worked on not only the acknowledgment but building better relationships and working towards reconciliation, we wouldn’t find ourselves in the place we are now,” she said in an interview on Friday.

“It was always striking to me that we did this, that our city did this and that no one ever was held accountable,” she added. “I thought that was unconscionable.”
Ms. Gautier began circulating a draft resolution before the May 13 anniversary of the MOVE attack, but the effort stalled and then was delayed because of coronavirus restrictions. The May 25 killing of George Floyd gave renewed energy to the resolution, she said, and the need to recognize the effects that police killings of Black people have had on the community grew even more with the Oct. 26 killing of Walter Wallace Jr., who was fatally shot by the police during an encounter in the same neighborhood where the MOVE home once stood.
In a statement, Mayor Jim Kenney of Philadelphia acknowledged the resolution’s importance. “In an effort to learn from our past and do better by our residents in the future, this annual day of observation is a positive step in the healing process our city desperately needs,” he said. “This year we saw the pain and trauma caused by the MOVE bombing are still alive in West Philadelphia, so I commend Council for taking this step toward healing.”
The mayor acknowledged missteps in the city’s attempts to rebuild the neighborhood in the years immediately following the attack, but said a recent public-private partnership had succeeded in reconstructing homes in the affected area.
MOVE, a group described by members as “a back-to-nature movement” that would return the United States to Native Americans and do away with all government, was deemed an “authoritarian, violence-threatening cult” by city officials, who said that the group used threats, abuse and intimidation to terrify their neighbors and to bring about confrontation. At the time of the attack, the police were acting to clear the group out of a rowhouse at 6221 Osage Avenue in response to neighbors’ complaints of filthy conditions in the house and nightlong amplified lectures from MOVE members.

At 6 a.m. on May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia police came under gunfire from people inside the home, which led to a daylong standoff. Throughout the day, the Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission later found, the police fired more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition in less than 90 minutes at the rowhouse, which was occupied by men, women and children. Calling the police officers’ actions “clearly excessive and unreasonable,” the commission’s report acknowledged that the police were unable to fully suppress the gunfire coming from the home and that efforts to negotiate with the people inside had been haphazard and fruitless.

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A woman was comforted as she returned to her destroyed neighborhood days after the fire.Credit...Jack Kanthal/Associated Press
Police bomb squad members fashioned an improvised bomb out of plastic explosives, and an officer dropped the charge from a helicopter onto the roof of the MOVE rowhouse in an effort to destroy a fortified bunker the group had built there. At 5:27 p.m. the bomb detonated, which started a fire that the police ordered firefighters to let burn. The blaze spread, ultimately destroying 60 other nearby homes.
“The plan to bomb the MOVE house was reckless, ill-conceived and hastily approved,” the commission’s report said in 1986. “Dropping a bomb on an occupied rowhouse was unconscionable and should have been rejected out-of-hand.”

“The hasty, reckless and irresponsible decision by the police commissioner and the fire commissioner to use the fire as a tactical weapon was unconscionable,” the report added.
The deaths of 11 people, six adults and five children, in the police action were classified as “unjustified homicides.”
Police Commissioner Gregore J. Sambor, who directed the aerial bombing, resigned in November 1985. A grand jury in 1988 cleared Mayor W. Wilson Goode and other top city officials of criminal liability for death and destruction resulting from the operation.

In an op-ed published by The Guardian on May 10, Mr. Goode, the former mayor, called on the city to issue a formal apology for the attack. “I apologize and encourage others do the same,” Mr. Goode wrote. “We will be a better city for it.”

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Police officers on a rooftop as fires burned after the bomb was dropped on MOVE headquarters.Credit...George Widman/Associated Press








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Founded in 1964, The Deacons for Defense and Justice was an armed Black self defense group who stood up against the KKK and discriminatory treatment by police in the Jim Crow South.

Though the group supported the values of MLK, they didn’t subscribe to his nonviolent philosophy.
 

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WE ARE NOT EXPENDABLE!!! Imaging how many other cases there are like this! The system isn’t broken, it’s performing EXACTLY the way it was designed to!! #TeamDL #beingblackinamerica #Repost @blackmediapage with @make_repost
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23 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. He originally requested $48 million but was only awarded $6 million smh
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A man who spent more than two decades behind bars after a detective fabricated evidence in the murder case against him was awarded a modicum of relief Wednesday after he was awarded $6 million in damages by a federal jury. The jury found that former Durham police detective Darryl Dowdy faked evidence in the botched investigation that put Darryl Howard behind bars on double murder and arson charges for the 1991 killing of Doris Washington and her teenage daughter. #blackmediapage

Howard was exonerated when a judge vacated his convictions in 2016 on the basis of police and prosecutorial misconduct. The $6 million awarded on Wednesday stemmed from a 2017 federal civil rights lawsuit Howard had filed that blamed Dowdy and others for their role in his wrongful conviction.
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#blacknews #blackmenmatter
 

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Born in 1917, Madie Scott recently celebrated her 104th birthday.

In 1929, 12-year-old Madie began working on a farm in Georgia, picking cotton for 14, sometimes 15, hours a day.

“I worked like a dog,” Madie explained. She was paid just 50 cents for an entire day’s work, usually from 3 AM to 5 PM.

Madie moved to Florida in 1933 at the age of 16 to work as a sharecropper to try and make more money.

She explained that the landlord who owned the cotton field also owned the commissary. So, they could charge whatever they wanted.

It didn’t matter how long or how much she worked; whatever money she got from working, the bosses took it all for the food she bought. It was like working for free.
 

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WISDOM from @vodou_film

Just BRILLIANT!
Reposted from @vodou_film When the Haitian Ancestors sought a victorious outcome, they dug deep into the Ancestral Knowledge as epitomised by the likes of Mackandal, Cecile Fatima and Boukaman - for their spiritual power and insight!

And inspired and driven by this Force, Fear was no longer a consideration, the only vision was Freedom - as it manifested on 1st January 1804.
Let us remember a tree only draws nutrients also from its roots, so the question is, what strategies and tactics as covered in the film will you incorporate in your life today?

www.vodoufilm.com
 

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What is Paper Genocide??

According to the Urban Dictionary:

“Paper Genocide is the writing of Native American Indians out of history due to the U.S. government reclassifying Native people to the labels of Black, White, and Mulatto by way of the U.S. census, and also through vital records in birth and death certificates.

Did you know that paper genocide is when vital records offices along the east coast of the U.S. changed the race of many American Indians to Colored on birth and death certificates in order to suppress Indian heritage?”

This is why to this day, many Black people in America have Native American ancestry, but they won’t always be able to trace it because of these Paper Genocides. In my own family, on both the paternal and maternal sides, we had Native American ancestors. i was fortunate that our ancestors were close enough in the family tree, so my older relatives actually met them and remembered them. But the popular narrative is that Black people don’t have much of a connection to Native American ancestry, even though the opposite is actually the truth.

Paper Genocide was a way to break family bonds, hide Native American heritage and history from Black Africans (and other Native Americans too), and make it harder for us to trace our roots. There were also indigenous Africans in the Americas, but they often get written out of history, too.
 

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Between 1820 and the Civil War, banks across the South issued notes with images of slaves printed on the money. The currency of the South was the slave.

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Are Boers and Afrikaners the same people?
The Afrikaners evolved out of the Boers. Boer is Dutch for farmer. The Dutch colonists referred to themselves as trekboers (farmers who trekked away from the original Cape Colony and became independent farmers), and eventually just Boers. The British also referred to them as Boers. The Boer republics regarded themselves as part of the Dutch nation, not a nation apart, but by the 1920s had begun to regard themselves as a new nation, the Afrikaners. They no longer regarded themselves as Dutch speakers, but as Afrikaans speakers. so basically they are the same people.
 
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