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Final Day: Chess champions from Oshodi Underbridge.
- that the world may know that greatness can be found in the most unlikely places.
A Thread...
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THE NEW OONI's QUEEN IS OLORI MARIAM AJIBOLA OGUNWUSI
The Arole Oduduwa Olofin Adimula, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II, the Ooni of Ife on Tuesday night formally received his new queen; Olori Mariam Ajibola Ogunwusi..
The new queen Ajibola ushered into the.
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Check out "Pilots of the Caribbean + Tuskeegee Airmen (Red Tails)" eventbrite.co.uk/e/pilots-of… @Phoenixcinema @Londonist @blackpoppies14 @BLACKBAcademics @BlackBrWriting @BB_Bloggers @BlackBritHist @iamblackbritish @bcaheritage @TalawaTheatreCo @hakimadi1 @wellplaced @NicolaRollock
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Wow: A original 1955 warrant for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who accused 14-year-old Emmett Till, was found in the basement of a Mississippi courthouse
Till's relatives want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later huffpost.com/entry/emmitt-ti…
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from the director of Get Out and Us comes his most audacious horror yet...
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Belgian authorities have returned a tooth of the murdered Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba to his children, in a new move towards recognition of atrocities that accompanied the country’s brutal exploitation of the former colony.
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In Memory of king Leopold ll of Belgium , who cut off the arms and hands of thousands of our brothers from Congo for failure to meet up with his quota of rubber stolen from their own land .A vampire and barbarian with no conscience !
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Meet John Amanam, a 32-year-old former Nigerian movie special effects expert who makes dark skin prosthetics for black amputatees.
John Amanam became fascinated with prosthetics after a close family member lost one of their limbs in a tragic accident. – at Accra, Ghana
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Miss Juneteenth Beauty Contestant in Denver, Colorado (1989). Photograph via the Denver Public Library Special Collections
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The Bathers, 2015 by Amy Sherald #WomensArt #June
ALT Painting of two standing Black women facing forwards holding hands, the figure to the right is wearing a yellow high waist bikini and purple bathing cap and has hand on hip, the other wears a white on red polka dot bathing costume and white band in her hair, arms by her side, both against a turquoise background
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We stand in solidarity with the Maasai who are facing a brutal eviction from their ancestral lands to make way for luxury safaris, based on a racist model of fortress conservation. #standWithMaasai #Tanzania
Bias in medical devices may have led to avoidable UK Covid deaths, says Javid theguardian.com/society/2021…
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Statue of Henrietta Lacks installed
The first public sculpture of a black woman made by a black woman in the UK has gone on display in Bristol.
The statue's unveiling marked the 70th anniversary of her death. #HenrietaaLacks #HerstoricalMonuments
bbc.com/news/uk-england-bris…
Utrecht looks at paying for descendants of enslaved people to change names theguardian.com/world/2021/s…
