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We remember the dream. We remember the victories. But what was Martin Luther King Jr. working toward when he was killed in 1968? My first Smart Brown Girl Research Note looks at the Poor People’s Campaign, economic security, and the unfinished part of King’s story. #blackhistory #poorpeoplescampaign

Langston Hughes: “My soul has grown deep like the rivers.” Here is a copy of the book “The Weary Blues,” by Langston Hughes. Cover art: Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957). Photo: Sotheby’s. #art #poetry #BlackHistory #hispanicart

What If You Could Rewrite Your Past? | Tha ReWrite

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The Worst Act of Racial Mass Murder in U.S. History

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Barbara Zuber, "Wading," oil on canvas, 1974; photo: Sotheby's. [Slated for auction October 2026.) #art #arte #modernart #blackculture #blackhistory #africanheritage #africanamerican #femaleartist #femalepainter #paintings #museum #artgallery

📚 On This Day in Black History: September 30, 1919 📚

Today we remember the Elaine Massacre, one of the deadliest racial massacres in United States history.

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In the Elaine (Arkansas) Massacre of 1919, mobs of white people & state militia killed over 200 Black people after sharecroppers tried to organize a labor union. Grif Stockley wrote the first definitive account of this event in his 2001 book, Blood in Their Eyes. #massacres #BlackHistory #history

From Pulitzer Prize-winner Marcia Chatelain, How Bright the Path Grows reveals the untold story of 13 pioneering Black women artists and activists at the 1963 March on Washington. ✊🏾✨ A scintillating group biography honoring unsung visionaries! #BlackHistory #CivilRights #NonFiction #NewRelease

Once free, Millie and Christine continued performing, but their situation was fundamentally different.

They were no longer enslaved property who could legally be bought and sold. Their career expanded into an extraordinary international success.

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They became known as the “Two-Headed Nightingale.”

The end of slavery did not end attempts by other people to control them.

A complicated dispute developed over custody of the sisters and control of their lucrative performing career.

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The sisters were sold while still very young and passed through the hands of various owners and showmen.

They were exhibited before paying audiences and were even kidnapped amid disputes over who possessed the right to display them.

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Before Millie and Christine were old enough to understand what was happening to them, they had become valuable commodities not only because they were enslaved, but because people would pay admission to see them.

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The sisters were conjoined at the lower back and pelvis, but each had her own head, torso, arms, and legs.

Almost immediately, white businessmen recognized that the unusual bodies of the two infants could be turned into a profitable public spectacle.

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Growing list of those born or died on October 1 in any year

Ajai Sanders (born October 1, 1967) is ALIVE AND WELL
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