Black Educator

Thank you to all Black Kings and Black Queens who are on the same mission to liberate our people. Together we can, will and must accomplish it! ✊🏾❤️✊🏾❤️

@profblmkelley Sending you much love my Sister! Yes, stay strong and keep doing what you do best! I look forward to reading your book Black Folk soon. ❤️✊🏾

I’ve recently been diagnosed with breast cancer, but I’m committed to continuing my work as a writer and scholar, and still traveling as part of the amazing journey of my book, Black Folk. So you will still see me doing the work that I love. Thankful for the love. 💕

So… as we enter the final year of this ‘decade’, what really has been accomplished ‘for people of African descent’ so far?

Today we remember the #Haitian revolution which began on 21st August 1791. The revolution was a revolt by the enslaved Africans in the French colony of Saint Domingue. The revolution was most successfully lead by commander Toussaint L'Ouverture.🇭🇹 #Haiti #Haitianrevolution

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‘Farmed’ out to a white family, I became a skinhead: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje on his first film theguardian.com/film/2019/sep/…

Did you know that Britain had a Black Panther movement? The British Black Panthers (BBP) or the British Black Panther movement (BPM) was a Black Power organisation in the United Kingdom that fought for the rights of Black people and peoples of colour in the country. A THREAD

@Bronzed_Glow2 I missed you too! ❤️

@BlackEducator1 Missed you for awhile......good to see you!

Sending love to my Black Men today.❤

On this day In 1979, the Revolutionary Assata Shakur escaped from U.S prison and later received asylum in Cuba. A THREAD

King Charles’s ‘deep regret’ for colonial atrocities was a ‘miss’, Kenyans say theguardian.com/global-develop…

In 1957, Kenyan freedom fighter, Dedan Kimathi, was executed by the British. He led the KLFA (MauMau) revolution against the brutal British occupation of his country. "I don’t lead terrorists. I lead Africans who want their self-government and land.”—Dedan Kimathi —February 18, 1957: Kenyan freedom fighter leader Dedan Kimathi was executed by the British colonial government. The hanging took place at the Kamiti Maximum Security Prison. He was buried in an unmarked grave, and his burial site remains unknown. Dedan Kimathi Waciuri, born Kimathi wa Waciuri, was a leader of the Mau Mau which led an armed military struggle known as the Mau Mau uprising against the British colonial government in Kenya in the 1950s. A highly controversial character, Kimathi's life has been subject to intense propaganda by both the British government who saw him as a terrorist, and Kenyan nationalists who view him as the heroic figurehead of the Mau Mau rebellion. Despite being viewed with disdain by the Jomo Kenyatta regime and subsequent governments, Kimathi and his fellow Mau Mau rebels are now officially recognised as heroes in the struggle for Kenyan independence by the incumbent government. His capture and execution in 1957 led to the eventual defeat of the uprising by the Kenyan government. LEGACY: ✊🏿Kimathi is viewed as a national hero by the current Kenyan government, who have erected a bronze statue of "Freedom Fighter Dedan Kimathi" on a graphite plinth, in central Nairobi. ✊🏿On the anniversary of the day he was executed, in 2006, the statue of Kimathi was unveiled in Nairobi city centre. Kimathi, clad in military regalia, holds a rifle on the right hand and a dagger on the other, symbolising the last weapons he held in his struggle. ✊🏿This official celebration of Mau Mau is in marked contrast to a post-colonial norm of all previous Kenyan governments regard of the Mau Mau as terrorists. Such a turnabout has attracted criticism of the government, accusing them of historical reinterpretation of the Mau Mau uprising for political ends. ✊🏿Elsewhere, The Dedan Kimathi Stadium in Nyeri was renamed after him, it was formerly known as Kamukunji Grounds. PLACES NAMED AFTER KIMATHI: 🏛Dedan Kimathi University of Technology Dedan Kimathi Stadium, Nyeri, Kenya (formerly known as Kamukunji Grounds) 🏛Kimathi Street, Nairobi, Kenya – One of the main roads in Nairobi's Central Business District and where there's a statue in his honor. 🏛Dedan Kimathi Road, Lusaka, Zambia - Situated on this road is the Intercity Bus Terminus and ZCAS University. 🏛Kimathi Avenue, Kampala, Uganda 🏛Dedan Kimathi Road, Mombasa, Kenya 🏛Kimathi Road, Nyeri Town, Kenya 🏛Kimathi Road, Nanyuki Town, Kenya 🏛Dedan Kimathi Street, Embalenhle, Mpumalanga, South Africa 🏛Dedan Kimathi Memorial High School, Nyeri, Kenya

Yesterday vs Today Colonialism Vs Neocolonialism Same Kenya 🇰🇪 😩 #Africa

On this day in 1970, rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix died at 27 years old. James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix ,was a musician, singer, and songwriter. Despite a relatively brief mainstream career spanning four years, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music." Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the US Army; he was granted an honorable discharge the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the chitlin' circuit, eventually earning a place in the Isley Brothers' backing band and later finding work with Little Richard, with whom he continued to play through mid-1965. He then joined Curtis Knight and the Squires before moving to England in late 1966 after having been discovered by bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals. Within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience", "Purple Haze", and "The Wind Cries Mary". He achieved fame in the US after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached number one in the US. The double LP was Hendrix's most commercially successful release and his first and only number one album. He headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 as the world's highest-paid performer before dying from barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970, at the age of 27. Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored over driven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in developing the previously undesirable technique of guitar amplifier feedback. He helped to popularize the use of a wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, and was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing effects in music recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: "Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began." Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year and in 1968, Billboard named him the Artist of the Year and Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year. Disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Rolling Stone ranked their three studio albums, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland, among the 100 greatest albums of all time and they ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth greatest artist of all time.

@JennyMitchellGo Hello Jenny. Thank you very much for sharing. I look forward to reading them.

@BlackEducator1 Taking the liberty of sharing these two poems in case you missed them. Hope they're of interest: culturematters.org.uk/index.php/arts… mail.culturematters.org.uk/index.php/arts… #BlackHistoryMonth

Half of Britons can’t name a Black British historical figure, survey finds theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/o…

Black and Palestinian. Afro Palestinians. They suffer from racism from the Arabs and the Israelis. twitter.com/unityofthelion…

I knew it. She’s a Hebrew Israelite. Israel does not recognize Hebrew Israelites as Jewish citizens. The only way they can gain long-term residency is to offer their children up to the Israeli military. In other words, join the IDF are we deport your family .

On this day in 1891, Philip Downing patented his invention, the street letter box, the predecessor of today’s mailbox. —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.