Killing each other not for the pursuit of happiness but the pursuit of dead old white men
So we will turn on our brother and sisters and closest friend
Forced to live in the world’s capital with capitalist without any capital
So as I watch the world change before my eyes
It makes me realize that sometimes the truth is made out of lies
People twist facts and put on acts just to see what they can pull in and attract
On this date in 1985 the Mary McLeod Bethune commemorative stamp was issued by the U.S. Postal Service as the eighth stamp in its Black Heritage USA series. Over her life Bethune was a educator, civil rights leader, and founder of both Bethune-Cookman College and the National Council of Negro Women. She was also a advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was head of his “Black Cabinet”.
On this date in 1770 Crispus Attucks became the first man killed during the Boston Massacre. Attucks was not only the first black, but first person to die in the cause of America’s freedom from Britain. Cripus was the first of over 5,000 other blacks who also fought in the American Revolution on the colonists side.
On this date in 1877 Garrett Augustus Morgan was born in Paris, Kentucky. Morgan was a inventor, scientist, and entrepreneur who is best known for inventing the belt fastener for sewing machines, the gas mask, smoke detector, and the automatic traffic signal.
On this date in 1932 Zenzile Miriam Makeba was born in Prospect Township, Johannesburg, South Africa. Her and her music were very instrumental in the anti-apartheid struggle. She was more proud of what she did as a civil rights activist then as a Grammy award winning artist. Because of all her anti-apartheid work her South African passport was revoked and she was not able to return there in 1960 for her mother’s funeral. In 1963, after testifying against apartheid before the United Nations, her South African citizenship and her right to return to the country were revoked as well. She has had nine passports, and was granted honorary citizenship of ten countries. Her marriage to Stokely Carmichael in 1968 caused controversy in the United States, and her record deals and tours were cancelled. The entertainment industry virtually blacklisted Makeba. According to one account, her record company never called her in to record again after the marriage. She and Carmichael eventually moved to Guinea in West Africa. She did not return to her homeland until 1990 after the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, over 30 year from her departure. Read the rest of this entry »
“When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won’t do to get it, or what he doesn’t believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn’t believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire or preserve his freedom.” – Malcolm X
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others? Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” – Martin Luther King, Jr”
On this date in 1867 Howard University which is located in Washington, DC, was chartered by Congress to be created. The new institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero, who was both the founder of the University and, at the time, Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau. Howard later served as President of the university from 1869-74.
 | Yvonne Hynes on YEBies Birthday: James Amos Po… |
| Yvonne Hynes on YEBies Birthday: James Amos Po… |
 | jamediapro on Today In Black History –… |
 | kenbrown on Happy Birthday George Wea… |
 | Ryan Elder on Today In Black History –… |
 | Timbuktu mali on YEBies BHM Fact of The Day:… |
| Anonymous on RIP Howard Zinn: The Voice of … |
yebies
