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Martin-Luther-King-Park.

[hero-israel]

I want you to know Malcom X hated Israel along with most people during the civil rights movement

"Most people during the civil rights movement" except for Martin Luther King and his family, Bayard Rustin, A. Phillip Randolph, Rosa Parks, John Lewis, Elijah Cummings, and hundreds of others, you mean?

Basically all activists involved in the civil rights movement respected Jews and Israel. You are of course permitted to ignore them in favor of faketivists who raise awareness on OF.

As for Malcolm X, there's a lot about him if you check the comments / reblogs; basically, he was extremely antisemitic for most of his life because that was the doctrine that the Nation Of Islam cult preaches. After going to Mecca and getting a taste of non-culty Islam, he changed his mind about Jews and apologized, then NOI killed him.

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Jammie Holmes (American, 1984), I HAVE A DREAM, 2021. Acrylic and oil petals on canvas

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Intersection Park, at the edge of North Corktown at Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. I like the poetry from local students at the Burton International School that surrounds the park. 9/20/23

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Martin Luther King Jr. was buried in Atlanta on April 9, 1968.

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Northern Harrier by Lee Greengrass Via Flickr: Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline, Oakland, CA

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Beautiful Black People 👑

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“The thing that keeps me strong is my certainty.” - Nkechi Okoro Carroll

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“Give me a world that I haven’t seen before, and that’s what excites me.” - Kathryn Busby

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The Harvard University graduate with over 25 years of experience impressive resume includes work on numerous noteworthy projects and green lighting must-see TV like BMF, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, P-Valley, Power Book II: Ghost, and Power Book IV: FORCE. Through her board appointments and career, Kathryn has continued to spearhead initiatives that impact real change as a longtime champion for diversity, equity, and representation in the entertainment industry.

The 2024 ESSENCE Black Women In Hollywood Awards is proud to celebrate this year’s honorees who have brought radiant power to the big and small screens through their work as film and television creatives. #ESSENCEBWIH24

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Photographer: @sheekswinsalways Stylist: @jasonrembert

Hair: @imawinner

Makeup: @elaboratefaces

Nails: @rachelsuenails

Set Design: @wanenmacherstudios Tailor: @costumer.shirlee

Location: @smashboxstudios Retouching: refuge.retouch

Production: @themorrisongroup ESSENCE, SVP, Creative: @coreytstokes ESSENCE, Senior Content Director: @itsnandibby ESSENCE, Visual Director: @_mq______

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It’s only fitting this #WomensHistoryMonth to announce the one and only @QueenLatifah will return and grace the stage with her unmatched royal presence at this year’s #NAACPImageAwards alongside some changemakers who redefined culture as we know it:

Chairman’s Award Honoree @AmandascGorman

Vanguard Award Honoree @JuneAmbrose

Stay tuned for more announcements of excellence before the show LIVE on MARCH 16 at 8/7c on @BET✨

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What’s a QUEEN without a reign?! 👑That’s right, the flyest girl is back in the building, and @queenlatifah will take the stage once again as our #NAACPImageAwards host! It’s time to step into her house for some weekend love with family.

Join the royal court as we celebrate U.N.I.T.Y. and a whole lot of Black excellence on March 16th at 8\7c on #BET.

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We have lifted every voice and sang to the tune of for US by US and to US as a mantra.

From Jackie Robinson to Rosa Parks, we have been seated and steadfast in the calling that we are all we need. We have triumphed in the knowing that we are the chosen ones. To be Black is a blessing. To be Black is a calling that we’ve answered time and time again. We are radical. We are resilient. We are loving. We are changemakers. We are Us. What would the world be without the touch and the aura of our natural being?

The revolution will be televised on 3\16. We have marched. We have overcome, and yet we are still overcoming. To celebrate us in all of our glory and excellence is a privilege. We welcome you and your God-given gifts and exalt your talents as they are worthy of praise.

The #NAACPImageAwards. This one is for Us.

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If your partner isn't from the US. Send them Yuno Miles songs to teach them American history.

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✉ SORRY FOR BEING LATE BUT HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH 😘AND FUCK VALENTINE BITCH‼️😂

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[bembelbande]

Martin-Luther-King-Park.

[hero-israel]

Hey man. Sorry about this, but I am arguing with one of my friends about Israel. I know you had some good posts on the arguments about the sterilization of the Beta Israel and the Nakba, but I'm struggling to find them. (I am looking for other sources, but your stuff was striking the first time I read it.) Do you know what you tagged those with? Alternatively, what sources do you recommend? Thank you!

Here are some posts I'm rather proud of, and hope you will find helpful. Tags are below.

There were no sterilizations.

What caused the Nakba?

Why the abandonment of the Jews made Zionism necessary.

There was no "peaceful coexistence before 1948".

Ottoman Muslim settler-colonialism in 1800s Palestine.

"Israeli apartheid" is a bad-faith lie.

"Palestine is a climate / environment issue" is an even bigger lie.

Was Nazism wrong, or just wrong when white people did it?

Killing Jews is not - and can never be - "liberation"

What did famous civil rights activists think of Jews and Israel?

How often did the media lie about conditions in Gaza?

BDS is the abstinence-only sex education of the Left

Palestine is the Confederate Lost Cause of the Left

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Pete Seeger with MLK, Rosa Parks, and Ralph David Abernathy at Highlander Folk School - September 2, 1957

He said of this day:

Anyway, Myles calls me up in 1957. Myles calls me up on the phone and says, "Pete, can you come down and lead some songs? We are having our twenty-fifth anniversary here at Highlander." And three young people drove up from Montgomery, Alabama, Dr. King, Reverend Abernathy, and Rosa, Rosa Parks. Rosa had actually come up to spend two weeks at Highlander and it was Highlander that got her to sit down. At the end of two weeks at Highlander, Myles went around the circle and asked, "What are you going to do when you get home to put into action what you've learned here? Don't just study and then go home." One person said, "Well I'm going to start voter registration," and the next person said, "I've gotta start before that. I've got to start literacy classes." They came to Rosa and she said, "I don't know what I'm going to do." "Well we'll get back to you. You must think of something." They got back to her and she said, "I really don't know what I'm going to do, but I am going to do something." And of course, she did and it changed history. …I met her, I met all three of them that day. As a matter of fact there is a picture taken of us out standing out standing in front of a cinder block wall that they enlarged the barn which became their library and King, Abernathy, Rosa, Me and Miles and Zelphilia's teenage daughter were there. That was the first time I met King. I sang a few songs. I didn't sing "We Shall Overcome" very well, but a friend drove him to Kentucky the next day to a speaking engagement and she remembers him sitting in the back seat saying, “We Shall Overcome,' that song really sticks with you, doesn’t it?”

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Reverend Dr. MLK Jr

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Denial of the Funk: The Impact of Racism on our Nation's Health

Portrait of Dr. Cornel West Credit: Gage Skidmore (from creative commons) The problem in America is, America’s been in denial about its problems. And that’s a problem.  America doesn’t have a race problem, in reality there’s been catastrophes visited upon black people. Catastrophes visited on indigenous brothers and sisters. Catastrophes visited on Latino brothers and sisters. Catastrophes…