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62. Phyllis Hyman (The Old Friend)

she was gorgeous, so was her voice, and of course her music. She always wore the type of hair you would expect to see a diva rocking on stage. It was really cute, really fresh, and really attractive. Her big curls were the first thing you would notice after you were done staring at her gorgeous lips. Big hats were another favorite of hers (imagine Donna Summer and Queen Latifah put in one) and you have the style of Phyllis. On the afternoon of June 30, 1995, Hyman committed suicide by overdosing on pentobarbital and secobarbital in her New York City apartment. She was found hours before she was scheduled to perform at the Apollo Theatre. Her suicide note read in part:

“I’m tired. I’m tired. Those of you that I love know who you are. May God bless you.”
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MENTALLY ILL WOMAN TASED TO DEATH WHILE SHACKELED, BEATEN, AND HANDCUFFED

Natasha Mckenna, a mentally ill woman who died after a stun gun was used on her at the Fairfax County jail in February, was restrained with handcuffs behind her back, leg shackles and a mask when a sheriff’s deputy tasered her four times, incident reports obtained by The Washington Post show.

Six members of the Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team, dressed in white full-body biohazard suits and gas masks, arrived and placed a wildly struggling 130-pound McKenna into full restraints, their reports state. But when McKenna wouldn’t bend her knees so she could be placed into a wheeled restraint chair, a lieutenant delivered four 50,000-volt shocks from the Taser, enabling the other deputies to strap her into the chair. 

Minutes later, she stopped breathing. Days later, she died.

The truth is, though, that police have been covering up the real details on Natasha’s death for months. And, even after all of this, police are not quite clear on why Natasha McKenna was even jailed in the first place. On the day she was arrested, she had actually called the police herself to report being assaulted and appeared to be struggling mightily with mental illness before she bounced around between hospitals and jails for days.

Nothing has happened to the officers yet.

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After leaving Howard University because of differences with its president, Woodson devoted the rest of his life to historical research. He worked to preserve the history of African Americans and accumulated a collection of thousands of artifacts and publications. He noted that African-American contributions “were overlooked, ignored, and even suppressed by the writers of history textbooks and the teachers who use them.” Race prejudice, he concluded, “is merely the logical result of tradition, the inevitable outcome of thorough instruction to the effect that the Negro has never contributed anything to the progress of mankind.”
In 1926, Woodson pioneered the celebration of “Negro History Week”, designated for the second week in February, to coincide with marking the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.  The week of recognition became accepted and has been extended as the full month of February, now known as Black History Month.

it always pained me that so many black people think that black history month is in february as a result of some plot by racist whites to just give us the shortest month of the year. that’s not why black history month is in february and every black person who believes that belittles the great work of carter g woodson.

educate yourself my people.  

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black history month is right around the corner. let’s get the education started now. respect carter g woodson’s work people. know and respect him.

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“If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood–to hate himself.” ― Carter G. Woodson
“What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.” ― Carter G. Woodson
“The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety or the impossibility of his becoming white… the Negros will have no outlet but to go down a blind alley, if the sort of education which they are now receiving is to enable them to find the way out of their present difficulties.” ― Carter G. Woodson
“THE “educated Negroes” have the attitude of contempt toward their own people because in their own as well as in their mixed schools Negroes are taught to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton and to despise the African. Of the hundreds of Negro high schools recently examined by an expert in the United States Bureau of Education only eighteen offer a course taking up the history of the Negro,” ― Carter G. Woodson
“If you can control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.” ― Carter G. Woodson

make no mistake that it’s criminal that we are not taught about this great man in school and for the majority of you, this post is the very first time you’ve heard of him or the origins of “black history month.” that is why he wrote a book called “the mis-education of the negro.” get that shit. it will literally cost you a dollar to get this book. get it now.

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one more time for ppl who were in the bathroom the first time.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH IS NOT (!!!NOT!!!) IN FEBRUARY BECAUSE WHITE PEOPLE WANTED TO GIVE US THE SHORTEST MONTH OF THE YEAR!! CARTER G WOODSON PUT IT IN FEBRUARY BECAUSE LINCOLN’S AND DOUGLASS’ BIRTHDAYS ARE IN FEBRUARY!!! THERE WAS A PURPOSE BEHIND THAT CHOICE!!! 

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Da Mystery of Chessboxin’

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1847, Engels and Marx sit down together and write the communist manifesto

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Reblog if you remember any of these classic cartoon network shows 

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12 yrs ago today The Godfather of Soul was called home. R.I.P JAMES BROWN. https://www.instagram.com/p/Br0su36AOq0oyGWO3g_KsRmi6eqluJVODLyHTg0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tb0afsadomyg

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An the rest is history...lol https://www.instagram.com/p/BrvtFpgAf7XGNaXEBd5sBxjYFynHzhbnvk_BEk0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=y2u9kjdx45nl