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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · Mar 1

Rest in Power Sista.

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Hazel Dukes, New York civil rights leader, dies at 92, Sharpton says

Dr. Hazel Dukes, an iconic civil rights leader and president of the NAACP New York State Conference, has died at 92, Rev. Al Sharpton says.

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Mar 1

Indeed!!!🎧

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Mar 1

Here is “The Making of Peg”
Next level…
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Peg - Steely Dan - The Making Of

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Mar 1

Str8 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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msmsh 🥃 @melodymocha.bsky.social · Feb 15

The smiles and neck bops get me every time. 🤌🏾

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REACTION COMPILATION | Steely Dan - Peg | Reaction Mashup

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Mar 1

#OTD Mar 1, 1921: Idaho amended its anti-miscegenation law adding restrictions on interracial marriage. Idaho’s 1st anti-miscegenation law in 1864 banned marriage between a white person and "any person of African descent, Indian or Chinese”.
#History #BlackSky
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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Mar 1

#OTD Mar 1, 1864: Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the 1st Black woman to earn a medical degree when she graduates from the New England Female Medical Collage. She also wrote one of the 1st medical manuals by a Black doctor in the U.S. and by a woman.
#History #BlackSky
www.history.com/this-day-in-...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Mar 1

#OTD Mar 1, 1875: The "Civil Rights Act of 1875" is passed by Congress prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations. This act was later declared unconstitutional by the SCOTUS in 1883 in the "Civil Rights Cases”.
#History #BlackSky
www.blackpast.org/african-amer...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Mar 1

#OTD Mar 1, 1780: Pennsylvania passed the Gradual Abolition of Slavery Act becoming the 1st state to began the process of ending enslavement in the western hemisphere.
#History #BlackSky
aaregistry.org/story/an-act...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Mar 1

Daily Word, Verses of the Day…
DailyWord.com
#SaturdayMotivation #SaturdayThought #SaturdayMorning

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Feb 25

#OTD Feb 24, 1895: Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence. The war ends along with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
#History #BlackSky
misiones.cubaminrex.cu/en/articulo/...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Feb 25

#OTD Amanda Berry Smith joined the ancestors (Jan 23, 1837 – Feb 24, 1915). Methodist preacher, formerly enslaved, she founded The Amanda Smith Orphanage and Industrial Home for Abandoned and Destitute Colored Children outside Chicago.
#History #BlackSky
www.blackpast.org/african-amer...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Feb 25

#OTD Feb 24, 1920: The Nazi Party (NSDAP) was founded by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus beer hall in Munich, Germany.
#History #BlackSky
time.com/3712734/1920...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Feb 25

#OTD Feb 24, 1980: Willie Davenport and Jeff Gadley, the 1st African Americans to represent the U.S. in the Winter Olympics, place 2nd in Lake Placid, N.Y. Their 4-man team finished 12th.
#History #BlackSky
www.dvidshub.net/image/253938...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Feb 24

#OTD Katherine Johnson joined the ancestors (Aug 26, 1918-Feb 24, 2020). Mathematician, one of the 1st Black women to work as a NASA scientist. Her calculations of orbital mechanics led to the success of the 1st and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.
#History #BlackSky
www.nasa.gov/centers-and-...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Feb 24

#OTD Feb 24, 1895: Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence. The war ends along with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
#History #BlackSky
misiones.cubaminrex.cu/en/articulo/...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Feb 24

#OTD Feb 24, 1865: The Kentucky General Assembly refused to endorse ending enslavement in America when it voted against ratification of the 13th Amendment, which abolished enslavement except as punishment for crime. It wasn’t ratified until 1976.
#History #BlackSky
calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Feb 24

Daily Word, Verses of the Day…
DailyWord.com
#MondayMotivation #MondayThought #MondayMorning

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Feb 21

Daily Word, Daily Bread, Verses of the Day…
DailyWord.com
#FridayMotivation #FridayThought #FridayMorning

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Etomi's Ghost @etomisghost.bsky.social · Feb 20

AND, HERE WE ARE AGAIN!!!!

Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Feb 20

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#OTD Feb 20, 1939: 20,000 Americans held a pro-Nazi rally in NYC’s Madison Square Garden. It was billed as a “Pro American Rally”. The rally was sponsored by the German American Bund, who was openly supportive of Adolph Hitler.
#History #BlackSky
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Feb 19

Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Feb 20

#OTD Feb 20, 1939: 20,000 Americans held a pro-Nazi rally in NYC’s Madison Square Garden. It was billed as a “Pro American Rally”. The rally was sponsored by the German American Bund, who was openly supportive of Adolph Hitler.

Photos from the rally…
#History #BlackSky

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Feb 20

#OTD Feb 20, 1939: 1939: 20,000 Americans held a pro-Nazi rally in NYC’s Madison Square Garden. It was captured from archival fragments filmed that night by Oscar-winning documentary director Marshall Curry in his film ‘A Night at the Garden’.
#History #BlackSky

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Feb 20

#OTD Feb 20, 1939: 20,000 Americans held a pro-Nazi rally in NYC’s Madison Square Garden. It was captured from archival fragments filmed that night by Oscar-winning documentary director Marshall Curry in his film ‘A Night at the Garden’.

Photos from the rally
This is America…
#History #BlackSky

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Jazz The Professor @jazzieeiswhoiam.bsky.social · Feb 20

#OTD Feb 20, 1939: 20,000 Americans held a pro-Nazi rally in NYC’s Madison Square Garden. It was captured from archival fragments filmed that night by Oscar-winning documentary director Marshall Curry in his film ‘A Night at the Garden’.
#History #BlackSky
anightatthegarden.com

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