#Happy Juneteenth!

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Heroes & Villains The DC Animated Universe - Paper Cut-Out Portraits and Profiles

Static Shock

Debuting on September 23rd, 2000, Static Shock was an animated series centered on a teenage hero named Virgil Hawkins. Virgil gained electricity-based superpowers following a strange experiment where the youths of an urban area were exposed to a mutagenic gas.  Naming himself ‘Static,’ Virgil donned a costume and set out to use his powers to protect his community from evil doers.  

Although many of the episodes were self-contained, the series took place in the broader DC Animated Universe and numerous cross-overs saw Static teaming up with Batman, Green Lantern, Batman Beyond and the Justice League.  Indeed an episode of Justice League set in the future showed that Static would ultimately go on to become an important member of the League and one of the world’s greatest superheroes.  

Created by Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Michael Davis and Derek Dingle, Static Shock ran for four seasons totaling 52 episodes.  The cast included Phil LaMarr as Virgil Hawkins, with Jason Marsden, Kevin Michael Richardson, Michele Morgan and Kadeem Hardison in recurring roles.  

🎵Superhero Static Shock (woo woo)🎵

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Happy Juneteenth!

For those who wonder what this US Federal holiday is about, here are some excellent historical readings:

JSTOR Daily's Juneteenth readings

[mobiissimo]

HAPPY PRIDE AND JUNETEENTH YALL!

Please support your black artists today and every day in any way you can! You can help someone like me reach my rent goal! I've been stuck in a bad financial situation where rent has been past due for 2 months, almost 3 now, and any amount or commission helps!So I can keep producing my art for you wonderful people 💛💛

Reblogs are appreciated as well!

C@$happ: $mobiissimo

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[bitdemonic]

this is for the niggas 🤎

[rockafella-advanced]

If you have melanin, make sure to do the bare minimum at work if you're stuck on the clock today. It's only right.

[leohttbriar]

"How the facts of American history have in the last half-century been falsified because the nation was ashamed. The South was ashamed because it fought to perpetuate human slavery. The North was ashamed because it had to call in the black men to save the Union, abolish slavery and establish democracy [...]

"The most magnificent drama in the last thousand years of human history is the transportation of ten million human beings out of the dark beauty of their mother continent into the new-found Eldorado of the West. They descended into Hell; and in the third century they arose from the dead, in the finest effort to achieve democracy for the working millions which this world had ever seen. It was a tragedy that beggared the Greek; it was an upheaval of humanity like the Reformation and the French Revolution. Yet we are blind and led by the blind. We discern in it no part of our labor movement; no part of our industrial triumph; no part of our religious experience. Before the dumb eyes of ten generations of ten million children, it is made mockery of and spit upon; a degradation of the eternal mother; a sneer at human effort; with aspiration and art deliberately and elaborately distorted. And why? Because in a day when the human mind aspired to a science of human action, a history and psychology of the mighty effort of the mightiest century, we fell under the leadership of those who would compromise with truth in the past in order to make peace in the present and guide policy in the future."

Black Reconstruction in America, W.E.B Du Bois

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Many of us are taught that slavery came to an end with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, but for enslaved people in Texas, freedom didn’t come until June 19, 1865.

Swipe to learn about the history of Juneteenth, and why it’s a celebration of freedom, culture, and progress.

[lylahammar]

tragic little victorian child still serving cunt despite it all 💜

[americanacowgirl]

Kendrick Lamar imitating Drake in “Hotline Bling” after the crowd at The Pop Out: Ken & Friends screamed “a minor” while he performed “Not Like Us”

[saydesole]

Happy Juneteenth ✊🏿

[thechanelmuse]

Juneteenth aka Freedom Day.

Juneteenth is a centuries long, Black American commemoration day for the end of American chattel slavery, particularly for the ancestors who learned of their freedom in Galveston, Texas in 1865 — two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

Although they're no longer in America and we're no longer culturally the same, Juneteenth is also celebrated by the Mascogos, the descendants of Seminole Indians who escaped America at the tail end of the Gullah Wars (1739-1858), in Nacimiento de Los Negros, Mexico.

Up until 1997, the American flag (sewn by Grace Wisher) was the only flag Black Americans waved during the parade and overall celebration. Since then there are only two other flags that are raised and waved: the official Juneteenth flag (made by Mr. “Boston Ben” Haith) and the Black American Heritage Flag (made by Mr. Melvin Charles & Mr. Gleason T. Jackson).

Red, white, and blue. Red, black, and gold. That's it. This is not a Pan-Africanism takeover day. Keep your colonizing ethnocide to yourself and reserve it for cleansing your shit.

Juneteenth flag

Black American Heritage Flag

SN: If you're Black American and haven't done your genealogy or reached roadblocks in your tree, you can learn about lineage tracing and find some tips in this post. Much success.

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[toriagamez]

HAPPY MF JUNETEENTH FROM TORIA & THE GANGIE 💚❤️🖤💛

[cinamun]

Let us always remember our heros