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Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies Brooklyn Museum November 29, 2024 “I Have Special Reservations” 1946-47 Linocut on paper Artist: Elizabeth Catlett #BlackSky

Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies Brooklyn Museum November 29, 2024 “I Have Studied In Ever Increasing Numbers” 1947 Linocut on paper Artist: Elizabeth Catlett #BlackSky

Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies Brooklyn Museum November 29, 2024 “My Role Has Been Important In The Struggle To Organize The Disorganized” 1947 Artist: Elizabeth Catlett #BlackSky

Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies Brooklyn Museum November 29, 2024 “In Phyllis Wheatley I Proved Intellectual Equality In The Midst Of Slavery” 1947 Linocut on paper Artist: Elizabeth Catlett #BlackSky

I can assure you this wasn’t taught in “American” history when I was in school and I gather from the hateful rhetoric when it was pointed out to “America”, clearly wasn’t taught to “them” either … #WeBuiltThisShitForFree #BlackSky

I remember my parents used to have this LP when I was a kid and I remember LOVING the hell outta this track !!! Listening to it now takes me back to my childhood !!! This man was a musical genius !!! *** Play it loud when you listen to it, it’s the only way to experience it !!! #BlackSky

I’m sure she’ll bounce back and find a platform which I will gladly follow and support !!! She will now be free of the chains of corporate media !!! Tiffany Cross, Mehdi Hasan and Don Lemom are all doing great things right now and I expect her to follow suit … #BlackSky

Black America has always been resourceful and we’ve always operated within a system that was designed and built to exclude us !!! “We” know what we need to do … #BlackSky

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#BlackArtistsMatter #BlackSky Artwork by Stan Squirewell

#BlackSky BRAVO … BRAVO !!! Though much of White America as a rule has never bothered to even pay attention to Black history as it relates to American history because our history is based on how we’ve overcome the centuries of enslavement …

#BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #BlackSky Jesse Owens, the son of a sharecropper and grandson of a slave, achieved what no Olympian before him had accomplished…. His stunning achievement of 4 gold medals at the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin has made him the best remembered athlete in Olympic history.

#BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #BlackSky Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr.was a professional tennis player, born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. During his career, he won three Grand Slam titles, putting him among the best ever from the U.S.

#BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #BlackSky Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was born on July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1954, he became the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi.

#BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #BlackSky "Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either." - Jesse Owens

#BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #BlackSky "In this country American means White. Everybody else has to hyphenate." - Toni Morrison

#BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #BlackSky "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." - Arthur Ashe

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Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies Brooklyn Museum November 29, 2024 “In Harriet Tubman I Helped Hundreds To Freedom” 1946 Linocut on paper Artist: Elizabeth Catlett #BlackSky

Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies Brooklyn Museum November 29, 2024 “In Sojourner Truth I Fought For The Rights Of Women As Well As Negroes” 1947 Linocut on paper Artist: Elizabeth Catlett #BlackSky

#BlackSky “In Sojourner Truth I Fought For The Rights Of Women As Well As Negroes” 1947 Linocut on paper Artist: Elizabeth Catlett Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies Brooklyn Museum November 29, 2024

Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies Brooklyn Museum November 29, 2024 “In Other Folk’s Homes” 1946 Linocut on paper Artist: Elizabeth Catlett #BlackSky

“I Have Given The World My Songs (I Have Made Music For The World) 1947 Linocut on paper Artist: Elizabeth Catlett Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies Brooklyn Museum November 29, 2024 #BlackSky

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White mediocrity strikes again …. #BlackSky

#BlackSky They’re determined to keep us from being educated, informed and influential !!! They don’t know us AT ALL !!!

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#BlackSky I was raised to speak to and treat with respect my fellow Black brothers and sisters !!! I was taught to address people by their names… I was raised to learn the names of the people (most of whom are Black and Brown) that are service workers …

#BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #BlackSky Dorothy Counts was one of the first black students admitted to the Harry Harding High School, in Charlotte, North Carolina. After four days of harassment that threatened her safety, her parents forced her to withdraw from the school.

#BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #BlackSky This 1957 photo of Dorothy Counts during an assembly at Charlotte's Harry Harding High School . She was the first person to attempt to integrate the school.

#BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #BlackSky George Junius Stinney Jr. was an African American boy who, at the age of 14 was convicted and then executed in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial for the murders of two young White girls in March 1944.

#BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #BlackSky I went to the site of the iconic 1958 photograph “A Great Day In Harlem”, by Art Kane. I wanted to see the brownstone and just imagine what it was like that day … Photographed by me on April 27, 2024