Son of Imhotep

Respect ✊🏾 May the ancestors receive him with great joy. #earlehyman #grandpahuxtable #thundercats #broadway

Almost let the day go by without saying Blessed Earthstrong to Ancestor Chinua Achebe. His writings spark my desire to learn all about Africa and the effects of colonialism. Many call his writings fiction, but I disagree. Every word he wrote spoke truth. Continue to Rest In Honor Ancestor. 👊🏾✊🏾 ————— Chinua Achebe (16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. His first novel Things Fall Apart, often considered his best, is the most widely read book in modern African literature. He won the Man Booker International Prize in 2007.

We don’t talk about him in our communities like we should, but under the leadership of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Nation of Islam is the best and only example of what it means to be Black, free, and economically empowered in Amerikkka. They answer to no one but Allah and their voices cannot be silenced. Much respect to the NOI. 👊🏾✊🏾 #elijahmuhammad #nationofislam #blackeconomics #blackeconomicempowerment #messagetotheblackman

THE PROTEST: On the morning of October 16, 1968, U.S. athlete Tommie Smith won the 200 meter race in a world-record time of 19.83 seconds, with Australia’s Peter Norman second with a time of 20.06 seconds, and the U.S.A’s John Carlos in third place with a time of 20.10 seconds. After the race was completed, the three went to collect their medals at the podium. The two U.S. athletes received their medals shoeless, but wearing black socks, to represent black poverty. Smith wore a black scarf around his neck to represent black pride, Carlos had his tracksuit top unzipped to show solidarity with all blue collar workers in the U.S. and wore a necklace of beads which he described “were for those individuals that were L*nched, or killed and that no-one said a prayer for, that were hung and tarred. It was for those thrown off the side of the boats in the middle passage.” ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

The Black Panther Party or the BPP (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton on October 15, 1966. The party was active in the United States from 1966 until 1982, with international chapters operating in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s, and in Algeria from 1969 until 1972. At its inception, the Black Panther Party's core practice was its armed citizens' patrols to monitor the behavior of officers of the Oakland Police Department and challenge police brutality in Oakland, California. In 1969, community social programs became a core activity of party members. The Black Panther Party instituted a variety of community social programs, most extensively the Free Breakfast for Children Programs, and community health clinics to address issues like food injustice. ✊🏾👊🏾 #allpowertothepeople

"Booker T. and W.E.B." by Dudley Randall "It seems to me," said Booker T., "It shows a mighty lot of cheek To study chemistry and Greek When Mister Charlie needs a hand To hoe the cotton on his land, And when Miss Ann looks for a cook, Why stick your nose inside a book?" "I don't agree," said W.E.B., "If I should have the drive to seek Knowledge of chemistry or Greek, I'll do it. Charles and Miss can look Another place for hand or cook. Some men rejoice in skill of hand, And some in cultivating land, But there are others who maintain The right to cultivate the brain." "It seems to me," said Booker T., "That all you folks have missed the boat Who shout about the right to vote, And spend vain days and sleepless nights In uproar over civil rights. Just keep your mouths shut, do not grouse, But work, and save, and buy a house." "I don't agree," said W.E.B., "For what can property avail If dignity and justice fail. Unless you help to make the laws, They'll steal your house with trumped-up clause. A rope's as tight, a fire as hot, No matter how much cash you've got. Speak soft, and try your little plan, But as for me, I'll be a man." "It seems to me," said Booker T. -- "I don't agree," Said W.E.B. #theywerebothright

Africa and her people are owed so much. #howeuropeunderdevelopedafrica #rodneywhite #frantzfanon #maumau #kwamenkrumah #jomokenyatta #patricelumumba #stevenbiko #thomassankara *********** The Berlin Conference of 1884–85, also known as the Congo Conference or West Africa Conference regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power. The conference was organized by Otto von Bismarck, first Chancellor of Germany, its outcome, the General Act of the Berlin Conference, can be seen as the formalization of the Scramble for Africa. The conference ushered in a period of heightened colonial activity by European powers, which eliminated or overrode most existing forms of African autonomy and self-governance. By 1902, 90% of all the land that makes up Africa was under European control.

You'll find a lot of the reason we behind Is because the system is designed to keep our third eyes blind But not blind in the sense that our other two eyes can't see You just end investing quality time in places you don't even neeed to be We don't even know who we are, but the answer ain't far Matter of fact its right up under our nose But the system taught us to keep that book closed... - Cee-Lo (Fighting - Goodie Mob) #gooddiemostlyoverbullshit

A fully-employed Black America; a physically and socially healthier Black America: a Black America un-plagued by poverty, disease, drug addiction, miseducation, violence, and criminality, disrupted families; a Black America characterized by high self-esteem, self-Love, and acceptance, self-confidence, self-control, self-knowledge, and high productivity - cannot but be a blessing and a boon to American society... - Dr. Amos N. Wilson, Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political, and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century (p.515)

On September 25, 1957 Central High School in Little Rock, AR was integrated. The “Little Rock Nine” were escorted inside Little Rock High School by troops of the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army. While there they were subjected to a year of physical and verbal abuse (being spat n and called names) by many of the white students. The "Little Rock Nine", were Ernest Green (b. 1941), Elizabeth Eckford (b. 1941), Jefferson Thomas (1942–2010), Terrence Roberts (b. 1941), Carlotta Walls LaNier (b. 1942), Minnijean Brown (b. 1941), Gloria Ray Karlmark (b. 1942), Thelma Mothershed (b. 1940), and Melba Pattillo Beals (b. 1941). Ernest Green was the first African American to graduate from Central High School. 👊🏾✊🏾

Thomas Sankara, “The Upright Man” Pan-Africanist and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. (at Burkina Faso)

The previous posts are not meant to illicit anger or feelings of hostility. They are a hard hitting reminder of what we've gone through as a people and how we must continue the fight for social justice, education reform, and racial equity. #neverforget #withoutsanctuary

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931), more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. In the 1890's, Wells documented lynching in the United States. She showed that lynching was often used in the South as a way to control or punish Black people who competed with whites, rather than being based on criminal acts by black people, as was usually claimed by whites. She was active in women's rights and the women's suffrage movement, establishing several notable women's organizations. Wells was a skilled and persuasive rhetorician and traveled internationally on lecture tours.

African-American soldiers were lynched for wearing their uniforms when they returned to the U.S. #neverforget #withoutsanctuary

Laura and Lawrence Nelson (born c. 1878 and 1897) were an African-American mother and son who were lynched on May 25, 1911, near Okemah, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma.