#black herstory month

[abwwia]

Remembering Alberta Jones

tw : Alberta Jones, Louisville’s first female black prosecutor, was killed in 1965. The 34- year-old civil rights pioneer was beaten and thrown in the Ohio River. The prosecutor was pulled out of her rental car, beaten in the head with a brick until she lost consciousness and thrown into the Ohio River, where she drowned. (tbc)

#BlackHeRstoryMonth Alberta Odell Jones (November 12, 1930 – August 5, 1965) was an African American attorney and civil rights icon. She was one of the first African American women to pass the Kentucky bar and the first woman appointed city attorney in Jefferson County. She was murdered by an unknown person. via Wikipedia

The brutal Aug. 5, 1965, murder of Alberta O. Jones, a civil rights activist and the #firstwoman to become a prosecutor in Louisville, was never solved, despite fingerprints obtained from her car and witnesses who saw men tossing a body from a bridge. Never forget about Jones, a trailblazer who integrated the University of Louisville and worked as the first attorney for Muhammad Ali, who was then Cassius Clay, negotiating the contract for his first fight.

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#blackhistorymonth #blackpioneers #PalianShow #blackherstory #AlbertaJones #civilrightsactivist #stopwaonwomen #AfricanAmerican #AfricanAmericanwomen #AlbertaOJones

[forsapphics]

Happy Disability Pride Month! 🩶💚❤️🤍💛💙🩶🌈 (x)

[tododeku-or-bust]

Today I learned that a fat, Black woman and singer is responsible for making vocal credits mandatory on CDs and music videos!

"𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗮 𝗪𝗮𝘀𝗵 - Her success on the Billboard dance chart has earned her the honorific title The Queen of Clubland, with a total of fifteen number-one songs on the charts such as Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody dance now).

Wash is also noted for sparking legislation in the early 1990s that made vocal credits mandatory on CDs and music videos. Starting in the late-1980s, her studio vocals were used in several successful dance songs without her permission or proper credit. Models lip-synched to her voice in music videos and during live performances, obscuring Wash's contributions and hiding Wash's size as a full-figured woman. She won the case and that's why everyone involved get credit on songs today.

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Mae Carol Jemison

(born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut.

She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.

Jemison joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1987 and was selected to serve for the STS-47 mission, during which the Endeavour orbited the Earth for nearly eight days on September 12–20, 1992.

She was chosen out of roughly 2,000 applicants for 15 slots in NASA Astronaut Group 12, the first selected after Challenger.

The Associated Press covered her as the "first black woman astronaut" in 1987.

In 1993, Jemison appeared as Lieutenant Palmer in "Second Chances", an episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, becoming the first real astronaut to appear on Star Trek.

Jemison served on the board of directors of the World Sickle Cell Foundation from 1990 to 1992.

Jemison continues to advocate strongly in favor of science education and getting minority students interested in science.

Read more about her here!

[theworldisyonces]

CONGRATULATIONS, Beyoncé’s new single “Texas Hold ‘Em is number 1 on the US billboard 100. It is the first black female artist country song to do so. She is also number one on the Uk billboard chart for the second week in a row. She is also number one on the global billboard chart. She is also expected to go number one on the Canadian billboard chart!!!

All these records that she is breaking, especially during Black History Month!!!! 🥹✊🏽🙏🏽

[thecastingcircle]

Supa Team 4 | Official Trailer | Netflix

Four teens are just trying to survive secondary school when an ex-spy recruits them for her superhero team. Their newest assignment? Saving the world.

Looks like New York City and Paris aren’t the only ones to have a super heroes!

[summergoddess]

Making the bed never looked so good 😜😘

[ashmp3]

btw part of teo lore but exo was actually the group that got me into k-pop like i had high standards since the very start i like when singers sing good songs. simple as that!

[starqueen87]

Contralto singer Carol Brice was born in Sedalia, North Carolina on April 16, 1918 into a musical family. Eventually she became one of the first African American classical singers with an extensive recording repertoire. Brice trained at Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia and then enrolled in Talladega College in Alabama, where she received her Bachelor of Music degree in 1939. She later attended Juilliard School of Music between 1939 and 1943 where she trained with Francis Rogers. In 1943 Brice became the first African American musician to win the prestigious Walter W. Naumburg Foundation Award.

Carol Brice first attracted public acclaim at the New York World’s Fair in 1939 when she performed in the opera, “The Hot Mikado.” Her next major public performance came in 1941, when she sang at a Washington concert honoring the third inauguration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Her brother, the pianist Jonathan Brice, was frequently her accompanist at concerts and competitions.

Ms. Brice’s Broadway career accelerated after World War II when her talent for both opera and musical theatre became apparent. In 1946 she received her first recording contract from Columbia Records for Manuel de Falla’s El Amor Brujo, which was performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fritz Reiner. She sang with the Pittsburgh Symphony for all of 1946 and later performed as Addie in the New York City Opera’s 1958 production of Marc Blitzstein’s Regina. Brice remained with the New York City Opera until 1963. She performed with Volksoper in Vienna, Austria from 1967 to 1971 and the Houston Grand Opera from 1976 to 1977. She played Maria in the Houston Grand Opera production of Porgy and Bess. The recording of that performance won a Grammy and the entire show moved to Broadway where it won a 1977 Tony Award for Most Innovative Production of a Musical Revival.

Brice also had a successful career on Broadway. She played Kakou in the original Broadway cast of Harold Arlen’s Saratoga (1958) and Maude in the 1960 revival of Finian’s Rainbow. During the 1960s her numerous roles included Catherine Creek in The Grass Harp, Harriett Tubman in Gentlemen, Be Seated, and Queenie in Showboat.

While performing in Vienna in 1968, she met her husband, the baritone Thomas Carey. The couple had two children. Mr. Carey returned to the U.S. in 1969 to teach at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, and Carol Brice joined him there after another stint on Broadway. Ms. Brice officially joined the University of Oklahoma faculty in 1974. One year later she and her husband founded the Church Circuit Opera Company in Norman, Oklahoma. The company was renamed the Cimarron Circuit Opera in 1981 and continued until Thomas Carey’s death in 2002.

Carol Brice died on February 14, 1985 in Norman, Oklahoma. She was 66.

Source: Black Wall Street, Facebook

[tani-b-art]

Black women who fought for reparations.

Àbáké Matilda McCrear (she was just two years old when she arrived in Mobile, Alabama, in July 1860, a captive aboard the infamous Clotilda, the last known slave ship to bring Africans to America. She died in 1940 at the age 82, making her the last known survivor of the last known slave ship.)

...Matilda had walked the 17 miles to Selma to request that she receive some compensation, too, for being kidnapped and brought to the country as a toddler. As proof that she was from Africa, she showed the marks on her cheek.

The judge denied her any reparations just as Timothy Meaher, the slaveowner who organized the illegal Clotilda journey, had denied reparations to the ship’s survivors back in 1865.

McCrear made a claim for herself and Redoshi.

Redoshi, also known as Sally Smith, was the second to last living, African-born survivor of North American slavery, and the only female survivor of the transatlantic slave trade known to have been recorded on film. Born on the coast of West Africa in what is present day Benin, Redoshi was one of about 110 West African children and adults who were human cargo of the schooner Clotilda, the last slave ship to reach the United States. She may have been 110 years old when she died in Alabama in 1937.

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In 1870, Henrietta Wood Sued for Reparations—and Won

The $2,500 verdict, the largest ever of its kind, offers evidence of the generational impact such awards can have.

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Callie House is most famous for her efforts to gain reparations for former slaves and is regarded as the early leader of the reparations movement among African American political activists. Callie Guy was born a slave in Rutherford Country near Nashville, Tennessee. Her date of birth is usually assumed to be 1861, but due to the lack of birth records for slaves, this date is not certain.

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Belinda Sutton [also known as Belinda Royal/Royall] was the author of one of the earliest known slave narratives by an African woman in the United States and a successful early petitioner for reparations for enslavement.

[abwwia]

Georgette Seabrooke

Georgette Seabrooke (1916– 2011), was an American muralist, artist, illustrator, art therapist, non-profit chief executive and educator. via Wikipedia #PalianSHOW

Georgette Seabrooke at work on her mural entitled “Recreation in Harlem” for the nurses recreation room at Harlem Hospital Georgette Seabrooke aka Georgette Seabrooke Powell; Aug 2, 1916 – Dec 27, 2011, was an American muralist, artist, illustrator, art therapist, non-profit chief executive and educator. Harlem Art Workshop, African American, Georgette Seabrooke (Powell) x She is best known…

[forsapphics]

Black Lesbian History ✊🏿⚢🪧🗣️📢💥👩🏿‍❤️‍👩🏿

[doyouevenknowwhatshappening]

Mae Carol Jemison

(born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut.

She became the first African-American woman to travel into space

When she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.

Jemison joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1987 and was selected to serve for the STS-47 mission, during which the Endeavour orbited the Earth for nearly eight days on September 12–20, 1992.

She was chosen out of roughly 2,000 applicants for 15 slots in NASA Astronaut Group 12, the first selected after Challenger.

The Associated Press covered her as the "first black woman astronaut" in 1987.

In 1993, Jemison appeared as Lieutenant Palmer in "Second Chances", an episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, becoming the first real astronaut to appear on Star Trek.

Jemison served on the board of directors of the World Sickle Cell Foundation from 1990 to 1992.

Jemison continues to advocate strongly in favor of science education and getting minority students interested in science.

Read more about her here!

(All sources from this wiki article)

[theworldisyonces]

Beyoncé in custom Schiaparelli, styled by kj moody, with her four HISTORY making Grammys. As the most Grammys of all time (2/5/23). 📸: Mason Poole

[thecastingcircle]

"Supa Team 4" 2023

[artistkaila17]

Thank You to Rosa Parks for her bravery and not being afraid and for being one of the first people to start good trouble. 🙏🏼🤗🥰😎👍🏼