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My priority is speaking/fighting for Black ppl & educating. Seek the facts.
Being uncomfortable brings motion.
The comfortable ain't comfortable around me.
#BlackLivesMatter #MadisonMentality #BlackSky #StayWoke #WokeIsGood #RiseNShine #BringThatFunk
Being uncomfortable brings motion.
The comfortable ain't comfortable around me.
#BlackLivesMatter #MadisonMentality #BlackSky #StayWoke #WokeIsGood #RiseNShine #BringThatFunk
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· Sep 1
Conservativism (whiteness) fights education & hides history for a reason. That's why it did what it did in the past and do to this day.
Never forget.
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Never forget.
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December 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Conservativism (whiteness) fights education & hides history for a reason. That's why it did what it did in the past and do to this day.
Never forget.
@eddsmitty.bsky.social
@nisey69.bsky.social
@roseyroseamund.bsky.social
@ektashahmd.bsky.social
@cutes118.bsky.social
@wicked-wiccan76.bsky.social
Never forget.
@eddsmitty.bsky.social
@nisey69.bsky.social
@roseyroseamund.bsky.social
@ektashahmd.bsky.social
@cutes118.bsky.social
@wicked-wiccan76.bsky.social
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Tonight, I’m hosting my final telephone town hall of the year. This is your chance to ask questions, share concerns, and be part of the conversation. I hope you’ll join us.
December 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Tonight, I’m hosting my final telephone town hall of the year. This is your chance to ask questions, share concerns, and be part of the conversation. I hope you’ll join us.
@eddsmitty.bsky.social
@nisey69.bsky.social
@mrmannswife.bsky.social
@wicked-wiccan76.bsky.social
@cutes118.bsky.social
@ektashahmd.bsky.social
@roseyroseamund.bsky.social
#BlueSky #BlackSky #GetReady #SuitUp
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#BlueSky #BlackSky #GetReady #SuitUp
rolandsmartin on Instagram: "Black America! Get ready. We are in for a massive fight in 2026. Everything I wrote in #WhiteFear is coming to pass.View all 5 comm…"
Black America! Get ready. We are in for a massive fight in 2026. Everything I wrote in #WhiteFear is coming to pass.
www.instagram.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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From W.C. Handy’s pen to the electric roar of the Chitlin Circuit, the Blues was built on Black resilience. It turned a regional struggle into a global language. If you want to understand American music, start with the Blues.
Respect the roots!
#KeepItWoke
#DedicatedToTam✡️🕊
Respect the roots!
#KeepItWoke
#DedicatedToTam✡️🕊
December 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
From W.C. Handy’s pen to the electric roar of the Chitlin Circuit, the Blues was built on Black resilience. It turned a regional struggle into a global language. If you want to understand American music, start with the Blues.
Respect the roots!
#KeepItWoke
#DedicatedToTam✡️🕊
Respect the roots!
#KeepItWoke
#DedicatedToTam✡️🕊
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Living legends like Bobby Rush still carry the torch. A multi-Grammy winner who grew up on the circuit, he’s proof that the "folk-funk" and blues style forged in those rooms is still the heartbeat of American music. (cont)
www.marmaxentertainment.com/bobbyrush
www.marmaxentertainment.com/bobbyrush
December 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Living legends like Bobby Rush still carry the torch. A multi-Grammy winner who grew up on the circuit, he’s proof that the "folk-funk" and blues style forged in those rooms is still the heartbeat of American music. (cont)
www.marmaxentertainment.com/bobbyrush
www.marmaxentertainment.com/bobbyrush
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The Circuit even forged the "Godfather of Soul." James Brown sharpened his legendary precision and stage-commanding presence in these venues. That "hardest working man in show biz" title? He earned it on the road.
It was the Circuit. He had to! 🗣🎙
(cont)
www.songhall.org/profiles/jam...
It was the Circuit. He had to! 🗣🎙
(cont)
www.songhall.org/profiles/jam...
December 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The Circuit even forged the "Godfather of Soul." James Brown sharpened his legendary precision and stage-commanding presence in these venues. That "hardest working man in show biz" title? He earned it on the road.
It was the Circuit. He had to! 🗣🎙
(cont)
www.songhall.org/profiles/jam...
It was the Circuit. He had to! 🗣🎙
(cont)
www.songhall.org/profiles/jam...
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1950s-60s was the Circuit's Golden Age. The legendary B.B. King spent years playing 300+ shows a year in small Chitlin Circuit jukes. That grueling schedule is where he perfected "Lucille’s" vibrato before taking it to the world’s biggest arenas. (cont)
www.songhall.org/profiles/b-b...
www.songhall.org/profiles/b-b...
December 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
1950s-60s was the Circuit's Golden Age. The legendary B.B. King spent years playing 300+ shows a year in small Chitlin Circuit jukes. That grueling schedule is where he perfected "Lucille’s" vibrato before taking it to the world’s biggest arenas. (cont)
www.songhall.org/profiles/b-b...
www.songhall.org/profiles/b-b...
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Enter Louis Jordan. His high-energy "jump blues" ruled the late-night Circuit. By blending swing with blues humor and showmanship, he laid the direct blueprint for Rhythm & Blues and early Rock & Roll. The Blues was beginning to cook, my friends!🔥(cont)
teachrock.org/article/loui...
teachrock.org/article/loui...
Louis Jordan
The King of Jive Who Made The Good Times Roll IF BILL HALEY AND ELVIS PRESLEY have to be dubbed the father and king of rock’n’roll, then Louis Jordan must be considered its godfather. Practically all ...
teachrock.org
December 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Enter Louis Jordan. His high-energy "jump blues" ruled the late-night Circuit. By blending swing with blues humor and showmanship, he laid the direct blueprint for Rhythm & Blues and early Rock & Roll. The Blues was beginning to cook, my friends!🔥(cont)
teachrock.org/article/loui...
teachrock.org/article/loui...
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Records in 1923. In the 1930s and 1940s, as artists moved North, the sound got louder. Muddy Waters brought the Delta to Chicago. The noisy, packed clubs of the Circuit demanded more volume, forcing him to plug in.
The Chigaco Blues was born! (cont)
blueschronicles.com/the-rise-and...
The Chigaco Blues was born! (cont)
blueschronicles.com/the-rise-and...
December 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Records in 1923. In the 1930s and 1940s, as artists moved North, the sound got louder. Muddy Waters brought the Delta to Chicago. The noisy, packed clubs of the Circuit demanded more volume, forcing him to plug in.
The Chigaco Blues was born! (cont)
blueschronicles.com/the-rise-and...
The Chigaco Blues was born! (cont)
blueschronicles.com/the-rise-and...
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a massive commercial success. In 1923 Ma Rainey made her first phonograph recordings for the Paramount company and was one of the first Blues superstars. Her mentee, Bessie Smith, became a superstar in her own right when she signed with Columbia (cont)
nmaahc.si.edu/lgbtq/bessie...
nmaahc.si.edu/lgbtq/bessie...
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith (ca. 1895–1937) was a blues and jazz singer from the Harlem Renaissance who is remembered at as the Empress of the Blues.
nmaahc.si.edu
December 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
a massive commercial success. In 1923 Ma Rainey made her first phonograph recordings for the Paramount company and was one of the first Blues superstars. Her mentee, Bessie Smith, became a superstar in her own right when she signed with Columbia (cont)
nmaahc.si.edu/lgbtq/bessie...
nmaahc.si.edu/lgbtq/bessie...
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successful blues sheet music. Handy's sheet music gave the genre a formal structure for the first time, which is how he earned the title "Father of The Blues". Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith (below) took those structures and added raw Delta emotion, proving the Blues could be (cont)
December 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
successful blues sheet music. Handy's sheet music gave the genre a formal structure for the first time, which is how he earned the title "Father of The Blues". Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith (below) took those structures and added raw Delta emotion, proving the Blues could be (cont)
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heard a local Black musician playing slide guitar with a knife — a sound unlike anything in formal music.
This encounter exposed him to the folk blues tradition that was widespread but undocumented. In 1912, Handy published “Memphis Blues,” the first commercially (cont)
This encounter exposed him to the folk blues tradition that was widespread but undocumented. In 1912, Handy published “Memphis Blues,” the first commercially (cont)
December 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
heard a local Black musician playing slide guitar with a knife — a sound unlike anything in formal music.
This encounter exposed him to the folk blues tradition that was widespread but undocumented. In 1912, Handy published “Memphis Blues,” the first commercially (cont)
This encounter exposed him to the folk blues tradition that was widespread but undocumented. In 1912, Handy published “Memphis Blues,” the first commercially (cont)
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“Who created the Blues?” the honest answer is: Black communities did. The earliest creators were everyday people — not stars, not professionals — whose voices were rarely documented. In 1903, a traveling bandleader named W.C. Handy (cont)
www.biography.com/musicians/wc...
www.biography.com/musicians/wc...
W.C. Handy - Songs, Quotes & Facts
W.C. Handy was an African American composer and a leader in popularizing blues music in the early 20th century, with hits like "Memphis Blues" and "St. Louis Blues."
www.biography.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“Who created the Blues?” the honest answer is: Black communities did. The earliest creators were everyday people — not stars, not professionals — whose voices were rarely documented. In 1903, a traveling bandleader named W.C. Handy (cont)
www.biography.com/musicians/wc...
www.biography.com/musicians/wc...
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By the 1890s–1910s, you could hear early Blues across the South — Mississippi Delta, Texas, the Carolinas, Georgia. Mostly unrecorded. Mostly anonymous. Sung by laborers, prisoners, travelers, and storytellers whose names never made it into history books. When people ask (cont)
December 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
By the 1890s–1910s, you could hear early Blues across the South — Mississippi Delta, Texas, the Carolinas, Georgia. Mostly unrecorded. Mostly anonymous. Sung by laborers, prisoners, travelers, and storytellers whose names never made it into history books. When people ask (cont)
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After the Civil War, Black life shifted into sharecropping, convict leasing, and migration. The music shifted too. Hollers and work songs blended with spirituals, folk ballads, and everyday speech. Out of this mix, the Blues began to take shape. (cont)
www.thecollector.com/what-is-the-...
www.thecollector.com/what-is-the-...
What Is the History of the Blues? | TheCollector
The history of the blues is a story about American slavery, resistance, overcoming, and the birth of Western popular music.
www.thecollector.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
After the Civil War, Black life shifted into sharecropping, convict leasing, and migration. The music shifted too. Hollers and work songs blended with spirituals, folk ballads, and everyday speech. Out of this mix, the Blues began to take shape. (cont)
www.thecollector.com/what-is-the-...
www.thecollector.com/what-is-the-...
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On plantations, Black people created work songs and field hollers to pace labor, communicate across distance, and express pain, hope, and resistance. These weren’t “proto-blues” — they were the foundation. At its core, the Blues is a survival language. (cont)
December 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
On plantations, Black people created work songs and field hollers to pace labor, communicate across distance, and express pain, hope, and resistance. These weren’t “proto-blues” — they were the foundation. At its core, the Blues is a survival language. (cont)
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Blues didn’t appear out of thin air — and it wasn’t “invented” by one person. It was born out of the lived experiences of Black people in the Deep South during the late 1800s. Its roots stretch back to slavery, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow. (cont)
music.allpurposeguru.com/2012/06/slav...
music.allpurposeguru.com/2012/06/slav...
Slave music and the Civil War
After the Civil War, freed slaves wanted to leave all aspects of slavery behind them. So how did their music completely take over American popular music?
music.allpurposeguru.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Blues didn’t appear out of thin air — and it wasn’t “invented” by one person. It was born out of the lived experiences of Black people in the Deep South during the late 1800s. Its roots stretch back to slavery, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow. (cont)
music.allpurposeguru.com/2012/06/slav...
music.allpurposeguru.com/2012/06/slav...
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⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️
🧵 The origin of Black entertainment in post-slavery America culminate here. We covered Black Vaudeville & the Chitlin' Circuit. Let's rap a bit about the Blues. 🎸🎷🗣🎙
(cont)
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
bluesbeats.com/2025/02/25/o...
🧵 The origin of Black entertainment in post-slavery America culminate here. We covered Black Vaudeville & the Chitlin' Circuit. Let's rap a bit about the Blues. 🎸🎷🗣🎙
(cont)
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
bluesbeats.com/2025/02/25/o...
Origins of the Blues: A Short History - Blues Beats by Blues Music Fan Radio
Origins of the Blues: A Short History: Explore the rich history of the Blues, born from the vocal work songs of African American slaves in the post-Civil War United States. This powerful genre emerged...
bluesbeats.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️
🧵 The origin of Black entertainment in post-slavery America culminate here. We covered Black Vaudeville & the Chitlin' Circuit. Let's rap a bit about the Blues. 🎸🎷🗣🎙
(cont)
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
bluesbeats.com/2025/02/25/o...
🧵 The origin of Black entertainment in post-slavery America culminate here. We covered Black Vaudeville & the Chitlin' Circuit. Let's rap a bit about the Blues. 🎸🎷🗣🎙
(cont)
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
bluesbeats.com/2025/02/25/o...
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Bishop William Barber and faith leaders hold redistricting protest in North Carolina www.witn.com/2025/12/21/b...
Bishop Barber and faith leaders hold redistricting protest in Plymouth
People are taking a stand against the new congressional district boundaries that were approved in Eastern Carolina in October.
www.witn.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Bishop William Barber and faith leaders hold redistricting protest in North Carolina www.witn.com/2025/12/21/b...
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for decades, preserving traditions and launching icons. The Circuit birthed genres — blues, R&B, soul, funk — that reshaped American culture. What started as survival became innovation. Of course. As the saying goes:
"It's a Black thing."
(cont)
www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/memo...
"It's a Black thing."
(cont)
www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/memo...
Memory lane: The Chitlin’ Circuit’s famed Two Spot Club
Moncrief’s Two Spot was said to be the finest dance palace in the country owned by an African American during its heyday. Here is a rare look inside Florida’s largest Chitlin’ Circuit era venue.
www.thejaxsonmag.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
for decades, preserving traditions and launching icons. The Circuit birthed genres — blues, R&B, soul, funk — that reshaped American culture. What started as survival became innovation. Of course. As the saying goes:
"It's a Black thing."
(cont)
www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/memo...
"It's a Black thing."
(cont)
www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/memo...
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empowerment. Many venues were Black-owned, providing jobs, and keeping money circulating in the community and fostering independence.
Touring wasn’t easy. There were long drives, low pay, and hostile towns. But, the Circuit sustained Black artistry(cont)
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chi...
Touring wasn’t easy. There were long drives, low pay, and hostile towns. But, the Circuit sustained Black artistry(cont)
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chi...
Inside the ‘Chitlin Circuit,’ a Jim Crow-Era Safe Space for Black Performers
It's where legends like Tina Turner and Ray Charles launched their careers.
www.atlasobscura.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
empowerment. Many venues were Black-owned, providing jobs, and keeping money circulating in the community and fostering independence.
Touring wasn’t easy. There were long drives, low pay, and hostile towns. But, the Circuit sustained Black artistry(cont)
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chi...
Touring wasn’t easy. There were long drives, low pay, and hostile towns. But, the Circuit sustained Black artistry(cont)
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chi...
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Little Richard, and Tina Turner all cut their teeth on the Circuit before breaking into mainstream fame. Even Jimi Hendrix (below), the legendary guitarist, had a run on the Chitlin' Circuit.
Beyond music, the Chitlin' Circuit was about economic (cont)
60sfolksintheir60s.com/chitlin-circ...
Beyond music, the Chitlin' Circuit was about economic (cont)
60sfolksintheir60s.com/chitlin-circ...
December 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Little Richard, and Tina Turner all cut their teeth on the Circuit before breaking into mainstream fame. Even Jimi Hendrix (below), the legendary guitarist, had a run on the Chitlin' Circuit.
Beyond music, the Chitlin' Circuit was about economic (cont)
60sfolksintheir60s.com/chitlin-circ...
Beyond music, the Chitlin' Circuit was about economic (cont)
60sfolksintheir60s.com/chitlin-circ...
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without harassment. Venues stretched across the South, Midwest, and East Coast, including clubs, juke joints, and theaters in cities like Atlanta, Memphis, Chicago, and Cleveland. Legends like Ray Charles, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, (cont)
travelnoire.com/chitlin-circ...
travelnoire.com/chitlin-circ...
How the Chitlin' Circuit Shaped the Soul of American Music - Travel Noire
The Chitlin' Circuit emerged during segregation as a means of escape, offering safe spaces for Black musicians, performers, and the community.
travelnoire.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
without harassment. Venues stretched across the South, Midwest, and East Coast, including clubs, juke joints, and theaters in cities like Atlanta, Memphis, Chicago, and Cleveland. Legends like Ray Charles, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, (cont)
travelnoire.com/chitlin-circ...
travelnoire.com/chitlin-circ...