#black History

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After 40 years #SEPTA’s first female train engineer - Jackie Pettyjohn aka First Lady of SEPTA - celebrated her last day yesterday.

She never saw herself as a pioneer - being the first of anything.

Jackie came into the job in August 1984 after she saw and responded to an ad in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Within a matter of weeks - the job was hers and her unexpected career as a game-changer had begun.

She has said she had no intention of staying but she ended up falling in love with the job and despite the demanding hours found a way to balance work and family.

The crowd who came out to celebrate Jackie’s last ride is evidence of the impact and inspiration she leaves behind.

Congrats Jackie!

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Kendrick Lamar performing at the 2025 Halftime Show

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Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us (Super Bowl Performance) • February 9, 2025 - New Orleans, LA

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Kendrick Lamar performing at the 59th annual Super Bowl Half-time Show 2025

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My first coffee date & Black Owned Fashionshow

I wore oversized overalls , a maroon laced onesie. Silver accents ... my fat juicy mouth.

So much fun. At the end of every summer there's a Black owned fashion show on every corner !!!!!!

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Booker Wright was an African American waiter in Greenwood, Mississippi, who gained national attention after appearing in the 1966 NBC documentary Mississippi: A Self-Portrait. In the film, he spoke candidly about the racism he endured while working as a waiter at Lusco’s, a white-owned restaurant, while also running his own business, Booker’s Place, a café that served Black customers.

His appearance in the documentary was groundbreaking but came at a great cost. After the film aired, he faced severe backlash from the white community. He was beaten by police, lost his job at Lusco’s, and his business was targeted.

In 1973, Booker Wright was tragically shot and killed at his café. The official story was that he was murdered by a man named Leroy Gibson over a money dispute, but some believe his killing was linked to retaliation for his statements in the documentary.

His legacy was later revisited in the 2012 documentary Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story, directed by Raymond De Felitta and co-produced by Wright’s granddaughter, Yvette Johnson. It explored his courage and the impact of his words on civil rights history.

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Kendrick Lamar becomes the First Solo Hip Hop artist to headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

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Happy Black History Month! 🔥🔥🔥

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thank you for doing this work, @sapphicides!

in honor of black history month 2025, i’ve put together a list of books written by black sapphic authors for you to read in the month of february

non-fiction essays/memoirs:

all about love: new visions by bell hooks

black lesbian in white america by anita cornwell

sister outsider: essays and speeches by audre lorde

mouths of rain: an anthology of black lesbian thought by briona simone jones

blues legacies and black feminism by angela davis

does your mama know?: an anthology of black lesbian coming out stories by lisa c. moore

fiction:

the color purple by alice walker

loving her by ann allen shockley

the gilda stories by jewelle gomez

in another place, not here by dionne brand

pomegranate by helen elaine lee

the summer we got free by mia mckenzie

these letters end in tears by musih tedji xaviere

dead in long beach, california by venita blackburn

young adult:

honey girl by morgan rogers

escaping mr. rochester by l.l. mckinney

this ravenous fate by hayley dennings

faebound by saraa el-arifa

so let them burn by kamilah cole

where sleeping girls lie by faridah àbíké-íyímídé

adult:

the deep by rivers solomon

sweet vengeance by viano oniomoh

come back (love concealed) by terri ronald

house of hunger by alexis henderson

short stories:

girl, woman, other by bernadine evaristo

the secret lives of church ladies by deesha philyaw

additional info:

-> “why wasn’t this book listed?” probably because it wasn’t black sapphic-centric, the author isn’t a black sapphic themself, or i just simply haven’t heard of it! so feel free to add on if it meets those two criteria

many of these books require trigger warnings, especially some of the older ones that are more likely to feature racial struggles of the time. please do your due diligence and search for tws if you want to read them!

please feel free to add onto this list in the rbs or comments! happy black history month

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Postcard from Club Savannah

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Fannie Lou Hamer Tells It Like It Is!

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Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles & King Curtis, Fillmore West, 1971. Jim Marshall.

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samuel l. jackson as uncle sam?! the american flag?! this is art. this is revolutionary. this is what we continue to fight for

"The revolution is about to be televised, you picked the right time but the wrong guy" - Kendrick Lamar, Half-time show 2025