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Those 3 mimosas from brunch are still kicking my ass. I haven’t really drank since May of last year. My head is bumping 😫

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AAVE is not an easy dialect to speak/learn. If you didn’t grow up in it, you wouldn’t understand fr. In other words, stay out of Black folks’ business.

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I’m rocking mine until March 1st. ✊🏾

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Born on this day: BHM Edition W.E.B Du Bois (1868-1963) Sociologist, Socialist, Historian, Civil Rights Activist. Founding member of NAACP in 1909.

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Born on this day: BHM Edition Niecy Nash (1970) Award Winning Actress. Best Known Roles: Reno 911!, Clean House, Selma, The Soul Man, Scream Queen, Claws, Grotesque. Winner of multiple awards including a Prime Time Emmy, Daytime Emmy, 2 NAACP Image awards.

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Born on this day: BHM Edition Ab-Soul (1987) Rapper/Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) alum. Member of the West Coast HipHop group Black Hippy. Best known for his introspective lyrics. His 6 albums under TDE, were all commercially successful & critically acclaimed.

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Born on this day: BHM Edition Elston Howard (1929-1980) NL/MLB Legend. Catcher & Left Fielder for KC Monarchs, Red Sox & NY Yankees. Played in Negro League & MLB (1948-1968). Served on the Yankees' coaching staff 1969-1979.

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Born on this day: BHM Edition Louis Stokes (1925-2015) Attorney/Politician/Civil Rights Activist. Served 15 terms in the US’s States House of Reps. representing the East-Side of Cleveland. 1st Black American congressman elected in the state of Ohio. #blackhistorymonth

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#SkircleSunday, the gang is all here 🫶🏾 I appreciate y’all for yapping with me 💗

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Good morning y’all 🫶🏾

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daily reminder! do not be complicit in your own suffering, get what you want!

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Keke Palmer is our ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR at the 56th Annual NAACP Image Awards!. And damn right, she is. QUEEN 👑 👸🏾 #NAACPImageAwards

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Man! There is nothing like that feeling when you're freshly showered, greezed up, smelling good and ready to get in the bed 😌😌

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Each year on Toni Morrison’s birthday, I immerse myself in some piece of her writing. Today I re-read “On the Back of Blacks,” an essay first published in the December 2, 1993 issue of TIME magazine. There she writes, “Current attention to immigration has reached levels of panic not seen since 1/

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New plant baby! It signifies friendship and is believed to bring prosperity, good fortune, and positive energy, in Feng Shui.

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Love love LOVE this look

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Born on this day: BHM Edition Julius “Dr. J” Erving (1950) NBA Legend & 1 of the greatest players in ABA/NBA history. Small Forward for the ABA’s VA Squires, NY Nets & NBA 76ers. Known for his legendary Baseline Scoop & Rock The Cradle Dunk. #blackhistorymonth #NBA

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Born on this day: BHM Edition Horace Pippin (1888-1946) Painter Eulogized as the "Most Important Negro Painter" in American history. Best known works addressed the U.S’s history of slavery & racial segregation.

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Born on this day: BHM Edition Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918) Painter/Lithographer/Cartographer. Recognition as the 1st Black American artist to create works depicting the Pacific Northwest & CA. #blackhistorymonth

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Baltimore held its first-ever Black History Month parade on Feb. 17. https://buff.ly/4hTtNGn

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Feeling guilty for doing something nice for yourself today. I hate feeling this way.

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Reminder: I love being BLACK…

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People better stop playing around before I knock their heads between the washer and dryer 😤

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Because she Dark Skinned, successful, lit, and didn’t have to be racially ambiguous to get ahead.

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Good morning. Hope y’all have a great Saturday 🫶🏾

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35+ year old women I ain’t forgot that y’all used to wear these in every color lmao

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Did you know, that Miles Davis ‘Bitches Brew’ is Ranked 87st on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time? #thejazzworld #jazzsky #Music #jazz

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Did you know, that John Coltrane’s ‘A Love Supreme’ is Ranked 66st on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time? #thejazzworld #jazzsky #Music #jazz

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I’m just going to leave this here 😌💗

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Marla Gibbs Covers ESSENCE Black Women In Hollywood as their Lifetime Achievement honoree

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Black folks have made surviving the struggle and poverty look so good/fun that mfs think we like it!

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