Mark Samuel

💯 #MambaMentality

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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. congratulates our Alpha Brothers who won their 2023 mayoral elections! Please share. #APA1906Network #MenOfDistinction #AlphaLeaders

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. congratulates our Alpha Brothers who won their 2023 elections! Please share. #APA1906Network #MenOfDistinction #AlphaLeaders

Congrats to all the schools who took part. We’re proud to announce we’ve received, again, the MSMS award for Best Montessori program. Special thanks to our magnet team @reeceviolin @ShirlsChowRam @CounselorBCafe @TracieHopson for their teamwork. #MyAldine @aldinemagnet

15 years ago today, I asked you to believe in the change we could create together—and you did. I’m so proud of our Obama alumni, many of whom we saw this week, for carrying that mission forward.

On this day in 2008, Obama was elected President of the United States.

@drgoffney @AngelWilson36 @Hall_AISD @NickersonCierra @Drew_AISD @MrJNickerson @AldineISD Congratulations!!!

We begin meetings with good news and our @Hall_AISD principal @NickersonCierra and our @Drew_AISD principal @MrJNickerson shared great news! These leaders are a blessing to @AldineISD and we are excited for their blessing that is on the way in April. Congratulations #myAldine

@moniqueslewis You still have Optimus Prime!!! Happy Birthday again my friend.

Having a Halloween Birthday is the BEST! Grateful to my team for this celebration! The food, music, gifts & laughs were just what I needed!❤️

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. commends the recent decision of the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ruling that newly drawn Georgia voting districts violate the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Please share. #APA1906Network #MenOfDistinction #BreakingNews

Original black American love. It’s a beautiful thing.

Far too many leaders have a seat @ the table but have done little to nothing to improve the lives of others. They sit silently by & watch the systems & structures they promise to disrupt get bigger, stronger, & bolder. It’s time we reclaim our seats. #disruptiveleadership

Who is she? She dragged them all

In 1898, the federally appointed postmaster for Lake City, South Carolina, Frazier Baker, was lynched, along with his baby daughter, Julia. This was a lynching by bullets, which also hit his wife, Lavinia and four of their children. The crime which incensed the white mob that descended on their house (also the town post office)? That of being a black postmaster - no more, no less. And no one was ever convicted. White supremacists all over the South were infuriated at President McKinley's postings of Black federal employees; he had spoken out against lynching in order to secure the Black vote when he was running for president. This sentiment led directly to the massacre in Wilmington later that year, which destroyed the Black prosperity in that North Carolina port and turned the previously majority-Black town majority-White, practically overnight. It also dismantled the rising and theretofore successful Fusionist party, a coalition of working class Blacks and Whites. This picture was taken after Lavinia Baker and her five surviving children escaped and relocated up to Boston; the faces say it all. People love to talk about 'get over it' and 'slavery was so long ago' and 'Black people love to be victims' - when the issue is truly systemic and not dismantled in a day. We will be fighting the results of how our society was formed (and how that formation is protected by white supremacy to this day) for a long time. And let's not forget that the white poor (and that of every other race) also get left behind in this scheme which only benefits the few. 🖋️if you love our content, please consider supporting our page on AfricanArchives.Support (follow the ko-fi page too for weekly posts roundup)

The fall 1956 Negro Travelers’ Green Book lists hotels, motels, and restaurants that were safe for black families on the road. The cover warns, “Carry your GREEN BOOK with you—you may need it.” The Negro Motorist Green Book (also The Negro Motorist Green-Book, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, or simply the Green Book) was an annual guidebook for African American roadtrippers. It was originated and published by African American New York City mailman Victor Hugo Green from 1936 to 1966, during the era of Jim Crow laws, when open and often legally prescribed discrimination against African Americans especially and other non-whites was widespread. Although pervasive racial discrimination and poverty limited black car ownership, the emerging African American middle class bought automobiles as soon as they could, but faced a variety of dangers and inconveniences along the road, from refusal of food and lodging to arbitrary arrest. In response, Green wrote his guide to services and places relatively friendly to African Americans, eventually expanding its coverage from the New York area to much of North America, as well as founding a travel agency. 🖋️if you love our content, please consider supporting our page on ko-fi.com/africanarchives (follow the ko-fi page too for weekly posts roundup)

North Carolina Republicans passed bill today stripping Dem governor of majorities on state/local election boards & giving gerrymandered legislature huge new power to overturn elections & limit early voting in Dem areas. Scary stuff motherjones.com/politics/2023/…

Teenager Coco Gauff has defeated Aryna Sabalenka to become the youngest American women's US Open winner since Serena Williams in 1999. cnn.it/48bRZzt

Let’s Go, Coco!!!