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1/7 “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose” Winding down final week of Black History Month Day 23, James Baldwin 1924-1987) African-American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems.

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1/2 It’s late. I’m tired. #blackhistorymonth Month Day 22 Lorraine Hansbury 1930-1965 Writer, activist. Died too young (cancer) First Black woman to write a play produced on Broadway. Wrote “Raisin is the Sun” which highlights the lives of black Americans in Chicago living under…

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1/8 Frederick Douglass appears to be sick of your shit. Black History Month, Day 21: Frederick Douglass 1818-1895 At 20, escaped slavery to the North, (he’d fallen in love with a free Black woman). On arrival on free soil (Philadelphia), they married. He spent much of his life seeking his parents…

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Ever see “Raisin in the Sun?” “Look Who’s Coming to Dinner?” “Blackboard Jungle?” “Sneakers?” Sidney Poitier 1927-2022: the third Bahamian-American honored in my Black History Month series. I first noticed him in 1977 when I had a DC Comics wall calendar which had his birthday on my birthday.

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1/9 Sojourner Truth born Isabella Baumfree; [c. 1797 – 1883] was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights (yay!), women's rights (yay!), and alcohol temperance (boo!). Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, NY; escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826…

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1/6 Black History Month Day 18 Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite. Born a slave in 1856, freed when US troops came through …

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