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Over the years, we have seen some of the funniest and most entertaining threads on Twitter—some based on actual events and others

created through the imaginative minds of Twitter users on the social media app.

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(1860) Frederick Douglass, “the Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-slavery?”

Home Image Ownership: Public Domain Teaching American History.org http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1128

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(1797) Abraham Johnstone, “Address To The People Of Color”

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(1841) Charles Lenox Remond, “Slavery and the Irish”

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Michael Jackson - Rock With You (Official Video)

Rock With You was Michael Jacksons second short film, filmed in 1979 for the second No. 1 hit single from Off the Wall. The Bruce Gowers-directed short film, featuring Michael dancing in a sequined jumpsuit and matching boots against a set of shimmering lasers, was ranked No. 6 on a list of

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Two Families, Two Destinies: A Personal Perspective on the Rwandan Genocide of 1994

From April to July 1994 Rwanda suffered through a period of government-sanctioned mass murder which resulted in the deaths of nearlyone million Tutsi men, women and children. Most observers point to myriad factors which caused the slaughter including government corruption, longstanding ethnic

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Al-Shabaab (2006- )

Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, more commonly known as Al-Shabaab (meaning youth), is a clan-based jihadist terrorist group in East Africa. Originating as the militant youth wing of the Somali Council of Islamic Courts (ICU), which took over southern Somalia in June 2006, the group splintered off

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Black History Week

Carter G. Woodson creates Negro History Week. In 1976 it became Black History Month.

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A Soviet attempt to install medium-range missiles in Cuba—capable of striking targets in the United States with nuclear warheads—provoked a crisis in 1962. Denouncing the Soviets for “deliberate deception,” President Kennedy promised a U.S. blockade of Cuba to stop the missile

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“Going South: William Fontaine’s Trip to Virginia, 1948”

In the following article drawn from his book, Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine, University of Pennsylvania historian Bruce Kuklick introduces us to the world of philosopher William Fontaine, one of the few African American faculty members at an Ivy League

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Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You

Lyrics: If I should stay I would only be in your way So Ill go but I know Ill thinkof you every step of the way And I... will always love you, ooh Will always love you You My darling, you... That is all Im taking with me. So good-bye. Please dont cry: We both know Im not what you, you need And I...

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Nigeria, one-third larger than Texas and the most populous country in Africa, is situated on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa. Its neighbors are Benin, Niger, Cameroon, and Chad. The lower course of the Niger River flows south through the western part of the country into the Gulf of Guinea. Swamps

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Left of Black with Shayne Lee and Treva Lindsey

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Rare Video Footage of Historic Alabama 1965 Civil Rights Marches, MLK's Famous Montgomery Speech

To see much more from the film, King: A Filmed Record, on Democracy Now!, visit http://owl.li/i1B3S. In a Black History Month special, Democracy Now! airs excerpts of the 1970 documentary, King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis, a rarely seen Oscar-nominated feature about Dr. Martin Luther

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(2007) Senator Barack Obama “Voting Rights March Commemoration Speech”

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Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia (1885 – )

Founded in 1886 by Pastor John Andrew Parker, a freedman, Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia had only 13 members and no church building upon Parker’s passing in 1894 and when Alfred Daniel Williams became its second pastor. Williams’ powerful sermons and strong leadership skills increased

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Black Hispanic and Latino Americans

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Collins, George Washington (1925-1972)

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Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the New Negro Movement, named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. The Movement also included the new African-American cultural

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An American Family's Multigenerational Rise from Slavery to Harvard University

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