Rare and very interesting photos
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This one needs to be bumped. So, for those who do not know, this photo is from the set of the movie "Greased Lightening "
This movie was based upon the life of Wendell Scott, the first black man to drive in NASCAR.
If you haven't seen it, it is such a great movie. Well written and acted. By far one of Richard Pryor's best and most slept on pieces of work.
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February 4 at 6:39 PM ·
In 1957, Marlon Green, an Air Force pilot, applied to be a Continental Airlines pilot. Green had applied to other airlines but was rejected each time.
When he filled out his application for Continental, he left the “race” box unchecked. Green made it to the final round of interviews but was not hired, even though he had more flight time than the other candidates who were white.
Green filed a complaint with the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Commission, a landmark case that ended up in the United States Supreme Court which ruled in Greens favor and helped dismantle racial discrimination in the American passenger airline industry.
While David Harris was the first Black pilot hired with a major airline, Marlon Green’s fight for the right to be in the flight deck cleared a path for generations of Black pilots to come. In 2010, Continental dedicated a 737 named for Captain Marlon Green. The aircraft, N77518, still flies for United today.
Thank you, Marlon Green for your contributions towards Black History and paving the way for many to follow
Their relatives just got the land back...
Their relatives just got the land back...
Wow that’s crazy. Imagine they just took that land from them. Just imagine the fu@kery are people dealt with.
Imagine Jack Daniels, one of the most popular whiskies in the US being a black owned company if it was allowed.
I wonder who owns the movie rights to this.
Hostile?……I have a right to be hostile. Wonder why they want their history written out of textbooks. Cause it’s that bad.
Carry on……
I saw they got their land back, but I wonder were they paid just the current value or was there a consideration for the earnings the land represented for the owners, who stole the land made...ie, if you stole a million dollar property from me and you made a billion on it over 50 years, I deserve a big part of that billion, not just the current land value.
Pic looks VERY contemporary
Howard University Homecoming (1986) Karen Gibbs | Kamala Harris | Valerie Pippen
Ohhhh snap...
I think I met one of these chicks Kamala was with...lonnnng time ago.
It was damn near the last game of the bball season in my Soph year and after the game, I went to a party in a church basement.
I saw this super-short lil cute chick with the phattest lil asses I had ever seen!
I immediately got on her tryna put my bid in..
Nothing happened, tho. One of my boys was actually fuckin with her already, but that ass was epic.
Damn, it a small world.
James Jakob Williams: An African-American marine that - after fighting in the Second Barbary War (1815) - traveled to Greece where slavery had been abolished. There, he fought for the liberation of Greece from the Ottoman empire. He died in 1829: a free man, in a free Greece.
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African-Americans and the Greek Revolution - Εταιρεία για τον Ελληνισμό και τον Φιλελληνισμό
This article is presented in the context of the Special Exhibition on American Philhellenism organized by the Philhellenism Museum for 2021, in collaboration with the US Embassy in Athens @USEmbassyAthens The Greek fever experienced by the United States in the 1820s and the contribution of...
Central Park, NYC, 1933
Galileo's middle finger
Barber Shop, 1869
Richest man in the world for a couple of seconds.
Blue dogs found near an abandoned chemical factory in Russia
Large hog
In the 1930's, you could buy fake snow made out of asbestos
