blackmanonthemoon: Panthers listening to Huey via radio

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Panthers listening to Huey via radio

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tinasinatra: Self-portraits by Sammy Davis, Jr.

tinasinatra:

Self-portraits by Sammy Davis, Jr.

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mayashawcollection: My mother in the 70’s

mayashawcollection:

My mother in the 70’s

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unhistorical:

April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated.

The night before his assassination, King delivered his last speech at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee; popularly known as “I’ve Been to the Mountain”, this speech was made in support of the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike and called upon the United States to “be true to what you said on paper”. At the end of his speech, King famously foreshadowed his own death:

 Like anybody, I would like to live - a long life; longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. So I’m happy, tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.

Over the years, King had been the recipient of countless death threats, including a bomb threat made against him on his way to Memphis, and so he had become accustomed to the possibility that he might suffer a premature death as so many civil rights workers and leaders had before him. 

At around 6 PM, King was standing on the balcony outside his room at Memphis’  Lorraine Motel when he was struck by a single bullet through the cheek, fired from a pump-action rifle wielded by James Earl Ray, who shortly afterward fled north to Canada. After being taken to the hospital, King was pronounced dead five minutes after 7. All across the United States, violent riots in Baltimore, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere broke out during the week following the assassination, though notably not in Indianapolis, where Robert F. Kennedy (who would be assassinated two months later) had delivered arguably his most famous speech informing the city’s residents of King’s death. The funeral, which took place on April 9, was attended by 300,000 people, and a bill to establish a holiday in his honor was presented in Congress not long after. King’s family, and many others besides, maintain that James Earl Ray (a small-time criminal) was the scapegoat of a conspiracy involving the U.S. government and FBI. It is fact that the FBI’s COINTELPRO closely monitored King’s (and other “subversives’) activities intensely, often through illegal and dubious means, such as wiretapping and anonymous letters urging him to commit suicide.

LIFE: The Day MLK Was Assassinated

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yearningforunity: Alma Plantation, False River, Louisiana July 1934

yearningforunity:

Alma Plantation, False River, Louisiana July 1934

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teethagoddess: Phylicia Rashad

teethagoddess:

Phylicia Rashad

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steamboatbilljr: Marsha Hunt

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Marsha Hunt

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youngblackandvegan: blackyogis: Freda Payne EBONY 1975 practicing Bikram Yoga! Actress, Singer Watch: Singing hit single Band of Gold on Soul Train i bet you people thought bikram yoga was just for yall, didn’t you? well you were wrong PoC yoga for the win

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blackyogis:

Freda Payne EBONY 1975 practicing Bikram Yoga!

Actress, Singer

Watch: Singing hit single Band of Gold on Soul Train

i bet you people thought bikram yoga was just for yall, didn’t you?

well you were wrong

PoC yoga for the win

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