Regina Baiocchi

In 1974, Mary Wallace made history at just 22 years old as the first woman to drive a CTA bus in Chicago.

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Willie Nelson is facing a serious health battle that has reportedly left him in critical condition… Fans around the world are sending prayers and support, hoping for strength and recovery during this difficult time.

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This is so sad man… 8 year-old Torino baller Ismael Pistis has sadly passed away in a tragic incident on a motorway. 💔 It’s never easy writing posts like these, talking about players so young, especially when they and their families have such big dreams. Taken way too soon. Sending love & prayers to all his family, friends & team mates. Rest in perfect peace young king. ❤️🙏🏽

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RIP to Tianah Robinson at age 16, was shot and killed Saturday at Piedmont Park's 404 Day. Please pray for her family and friends.

"Dear Ossie, When I think of you, let there be silence and no writing at all." - Ruby

Iconic Legends, Aging Gracefully. Candi Staton 85, Denise Williams 75, Melba Moore 80, Regina Belle 62 and Anita Ward 68. 🖤

I played squaredle.com/xp 04/05: 19/19 words (+1 bonus word) 📖 In the top 20% by bonus words

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It’s always a great pleasure to be nominated for the THF Touchstone Awards. A special thanks to the Suspect Device editor, Tim Gardiner for nominating my haiku for 2025 Touchstone award! Also grateful to the judges for the honour! thehaikufoundation.org/2025-touchston… #micropoetry #haiku

Today's Black American (Freedmen) inventor is Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green. Dr. Nicole-Green, a physicist, invented a treatment for cancer using lasers and nanoparticles. Her treatment killed cancer cells in mice after 10 minutes with NO side effects. She is working to get FDA approval and to make it free. #BlackHistoryMonth

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Happy birthday to Scott LaFaro, born on this day in 1936! Despite his short career and death at the age of 25, he remains one of the most influential jazz bassists.

Once enslaved, Oscar Dunn was the 1st Black American Lt. Governor of Louisiana in 1868‼️ He advocated for equality for the millions of Black Americans freed by the 13th Amendment after the Civil War & later for equal protection of the laws under the 14th Amendment‼️🧐

¡Celebrate International Children’s Book Day” with the children in your life and the kid in you‼️ 👶🏽📚♥️

¡Celebrate International Children’s Book Day w a child. Read “The People Could Fly: African American Folktales” by Virginia Hamilton. This kids’ lit masterpiece retells 24 folktales of freedom, resilience & hope. My little ones loved hearing and eventually reading. 👶🏽📚♥️🖤💚

Melvin Edwards, Sculptor Who Wove Black History Into Art, Dies at 88 Lynch Fragments, a series of abstract steel sculptures he created starting in 1963, evoked the long, devastating history of violence against Black Americans. nytimes.com/2026/03/31/art…

Album of the day. The late great "bluesologist" himself, Gil Scott-Heron would've turned 77 years old today, so it's more than apt to revisit one of his more overlooked, yet ever prescient works, 1981's Reflections. Released after a brilliant string of albums with his trusted collaborator and musician Brian Jackson, Reflections marked a return to spoken word and socially conscious poetry-oriented songs versus the organic jazz-soul driven approach of his previous album, 1980's Real Eyes. It opens with the reggae-shaded "Storm Music," sporting Gil's favorite metaphors on revolution with some ominious harmonica flourishes. While not as well-known as “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," "“B” Movie" is peak Gil Scott-Heron in searing spoken word form with an infectious groove and striking commentary on America and Ronald Reagan. The song is a shockingly vivid and intense cry against the problems of the time, intensifying throughout the track until the ending cries of "This ain't really your life, ain't really your life, ain't nothing but a movie." Another highlight “Gun,” takes aim at the NRA and politicians against firearm control over a nimble horn-laced funk groove similar to Curtis Mayfield and Willie Hutch. Always a proponent of staying true to the jazz and blues forefathers that influenced him, he tips his hat at several of them on "Is That Jazz?" It takes real guts to convincingly cover a song like Bill Withers' “Grandma’s Hands” but Gil’s down-home earnestness makes it a total winner, while his reading of Marvin Gaye's “Inner City Blues” is more restrained and loyal to the original. But the true beauty is "Morning Thoughts," a moving, jazzy spoken word piece on enduring love that predicts what's considered alternative hip-hop and neo-soul today.

Wow CREATIVITY at it BEST