Homophobia is killing our kids and I will never quiet about it.

But they would have blew it down and took over anyway

In 1961, Nine students were arrested for entering an “White Only” library. The Tugaloo Nine Mississippi. BHM

Today’s #BlackHistoryMonth profile comes via Women of History, who shared this colorized photo of Madam C.J. Walker, one of the wealthiest women of the early 20th century. Born to former slaves, Walker developed a cosmetics and hair care line aimed at African-American women. She used much of her fortune for social causes and to fund the arts. At its height, her company had trained and employed some 20,000 women in various capacities from sales to product development.

Dorothy Dandridge was not only one of the most beautiful women in the world, she was my leading lady. Dorothy and I were constantly in search of ways in which to do things that people never saw before. Like two very attractive people kissing who are people of color. Here we were trying to live up to the best of the cinema art, but because of the issue of race, we were not given the time in which to do it that other films would’ve been given under the circumstances. Otto Preminger shot that picture – huge, color, CinemaScope, big screen – he did that in 10 days. We could barely get the lines right before it was a take. We were lucky that it came off as well as it did. The film was a huge success, I think, not just because we may have done a performance that was worthy of viewing, but I think it was a curiosity to see this film that was just us being us and love and caring. Black people had just never quite been seen in that rhythm before.    —Harry Belafonte on Carmen Jones (1954), Black Hollywood: They’ve Gotta Have Us

Diana Ross (1982)

“So-Dayi ❤️ the stage  where evolution begins”

JUST THE HARD TRUTH OF THINGS!!! https://www.instagram.com/p/BtjUZwjBAkO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=k210wui1m2jg

Candice for mayor of Chicago, tbh. 

“So-Dayi ❤️ the stage where evolution begins”

At the tender age of six, Ruby Bridges advanced the cause of civil rights in November 1960 when she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South.

H/T Sharon Morgan