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@AfricanArchives Avatar @AfricanArchives AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY

AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY posts on X about $7846t, the british, the black, assata shakur the most. They currently have XXXXXXXXX followers and 3057 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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"Michael Jackson in the studio with his cousin Stevie Wonder 1975"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2023-10-17T03:05Z 1.1M followers, 37.3M engagements

"On this day in 1963 four little girls: Denise McNair(11) Carole Robertson(14)Addie Mae Collins(14) and Cynthia Dianne Wesley(14) were killed when white supremacists bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. The bomber was found not guilty of murder"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-09-15T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 1.1M engagements

"A man rides a bus in Durban meant for white passengers only in resistance to South Africa's apartheid policies 1986"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-07T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 6.8M engagements

"Happy 68th birthday to Doctor and Engineer Mae Jemison She was the first black woman in space. She flew aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992 working on experiments including bone cell research. Dr. Mae Carol Jemison is a physician and retired astronaut. After her medical education and a brief general practice Dr. Jemison served in the Peace Corps from 1985-1987 when she was selected by NASA to join the astronaut corps. She resigned from NASA in 1993 to form a company researching the application of technology to daily life. She has appeared on television several times including as an"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-17T12:15Z 1.1M followers, 554K engagements

"In 1946 Isaac Woodard WWII veteran hours after being honorably discharged was attacked by South Carolina police while still in uniform when taking the bus home & left permanently BLIND The officers were acquitted by an all white jury. Isaac enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942 at Fort Jackson in Columbia S.C and served in the Pacific Theater as a longshoreman in a labor battalion. In February 1946 the decorated soldier received an honorable discharge at Camp Gordon which is located near Augusta Georgia. Along with other discharged soldiers Woodard boarded a Greyhound bus on February XX to travel"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-17T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 311.3K engagements

"Photo taken over XX years ago and were still dealing with the same struggles"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-17T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 3.7M engagements

"In 1898 the federally appointed postmaster for Lake City South Carolina Frazier Baker was lynched along with his baby daughter Julia. This was a lynching by bullets which also hit his wife Lavinia and four of their children. The crime which incensed the white mob that descended on their house (also the town post office) That of being a black postmaster - no more no less. And no one was ever convicted. White supremacists all over the South were infuriated at President McKinley's postings of Black federal employees; he had spoken out against lynching in order to secure the Black vote when he"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-22T14:31Z 1.1M followers, 42.4K engagements

"Lorraine Hansberry author of the acclaimed play "A Raisin in the Sun" was the first black woman to write a play performed on Broadway in 1959"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-23T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 60.8K engagements

"October XX 1964: Zambia Gains Independence. Northern Rhodesia transitioned to independent Zambia with Kenneth Kaunda as its first president"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-24T10:05Z 1.1M followers, 20.7K engagements

"Kenneth Kaunda was Zambias first president. In his 20s Kaunda became involved in an emerging nationalist movement which was called Congress. He formed a branch of the Congress in his home region. In October 1958 Kaunda was among a small group of political activists who had left the National Council of Congress to form the Zambia African National Congress (ZANC). Kaunda was unanimously elected as the president and it was at this meeting that the name of the country was born. British authorities quickly banned ZANC and Kaunda was arrested on March XX 1959. He was released on January X 1960 and"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-24T10:05Z 1.1M followers, 8681 engagements

"On this day in 2005 Civil Rights Activist Rosa Parks passed away"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-24T12:00Z 1.1M followers, 241.6K engagements

"Most people have heard or used the term UNCLE TOM when we refer to a sell-out but did you know that the inference is totally wrong. The real Uncle Tom was a hero Josiah Henson was an abolitionist who helped slaves escape among other great things. A THREAD"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-25T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 27.6K engagements

"Dr. Daniel Hale Williams a black cardiologist performed the very first sucessful open-heart surgery and also founded the first non-segragated hospital"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-26T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 39.4K engagements

"When Fannie Lou Hamer went to a hospital in 1961 to have a uterine tumor removed she left without her reproductive organs. Dubbed a 'Mississippi appendectomy' it was part of a statewide effort to reduce the Black population through forced sterilization"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-26T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 11.8K engagements

"Jackie Robinson remains the only athlete to ever letter in four sports - baseball football basketball and track in UCLA history"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2023-06-26T17:21Z 1.1M followers, 757.6K engagements

"No other race is told to forget their history"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-03T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 6.8M engagements

"On this day in 1929 George Stinney Jr. was born. He was the youngest person executed in the US in the 20th century. He was so small they had to stack books on the electric chair. Due to no evidence his conviction was vacated XX years after his execution A THREAD"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-21T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 104.5K engagements

"J Celestine Edwards Posing for his portrait in London. Son of west african slaves studied Theology and medicine and published anti racism books. 1894"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-21T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 33.2K engagements

"Damon Wayans on how they use the rich in our community to downplay racism (1990) Still true today"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-24T23:30Z 1.1M followers, 335.1K engagements

"A nanny and a child she cares for at a bench reserved for Whites only. Johannesburg South Africa 1956"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-28T10:15Z 1.1M followers, 26.5K engagements

"The Cicero Riot Of 1951. In July 1951 a mob of about 4000 whites attacked an apartment building that housed a single Black family of Harvey E. Clark a WW2 veteran in a neighborhood in Cicero Illinois. It was the first race riot to be broadcast on local television"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-29T14:34Z 1.1M followers, 26.3K engagements

"George Roberts a native of Canton in Baltimore served in the War of 1812. He was considered to be among the Old Defenders of Baltimore. He had fewer liberties as a veteran in his old age living in a time of increased racial tensions than he enjoyed as a sailor at sea"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-29T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 18.6K engagements

"Roy Clay Sr. is recognized as the Godfather of Silicon Valley. A key inventor at Hewlett-Packard (HP) he developed significant technologies like the first integrated circuits for computers. He led the development of the HP 2116A minicomputerthe first computer sold by HP"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-11-01T12:00Z 1.1M followers, 42.4K engagements

"Former Sharecroppers Talk About Life On The Field And Picking Cotton 1968"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-09-04T14:34Z 1.1M followers, 8.1M engagements

"The British Museum is full of stolen African Artifacts"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-20T18:57Z 1.1M followers, 125.5K engagements

"Formerly enslaved centenarians in front of Cosmopolitan Baptist Temple in Washington DC 1916"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-31T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 41.9K engagements

"Who is Assata Shakur Assata Shakur also known as Joanne Chesimard was a black activist a member of the Black Liberation Army & the Black Panthers. She is the godmother of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-11-02T18:00Z 1.1M followers, XXX engagements

"In response to the states letter to the Pope she wrote her own open letter to the Pope:"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-11-02T18:00Z 1.1M followers, XXX engagements

"The Wyoming Cowboys had won three consecutive Western Athletic Conference (WAC) championships and they were considered as the best football team to ever play for the university in 1969"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-17T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 1220 engagements

"There was no written statement of his confession apart from the officers words. He was confined for XX days without any visits.The entire proceeding against Stinney including the all-white- jury selection took only one day and no black people were allowed in the courtroom"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-21T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 2396 engagements

"26 year old Langston Hughes at Lincoln University in 1927 (he attended 1926-1929) Born in Joplin Missouri February X 1901 James Mercer Langston Hughes had already spent two years in Paris working as a busboy in a Montmartre restaurant owned by WWI pilot Eugene Jacques Bullard. It was in that club he first heard the music of Black American jazz greats who fled to France following the war. One of the earliest innovators of jazz poetry Hughes is best known as the Poet Laurat of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes died May XX 1967 in NYC"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-23T12:03Z 1.1M followers, 34.1K engagements

"Although black people fought in the war state legislatures and the Continental Congress forbade the enlistment of free black or enslaved people. white Americans opposed admitting them to the army for fear of armed uprisings"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-23T18:15Z 1.1M followers, XXX engagements

"In November of 1775 George Washington issued an order to bar black soldiers from the Continental Army"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-23T18:15Z 1.1M followers, XXX engagements

"Later on Jan 1776 alarmed by the impact of the British Dunmore proclamation that would give freedom to enslaved black people who would fight on their side Gen. George Washington authorizes the enlistment of free Blacks"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-23T18:15Z 1.1M followers, XXX engagements

"Marlon D. Green was an Air Force Pilot who fought to desegregate the Airline Industry. He became the 1st black pilot hired by a major airline"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-28T18:10Z 1.1M followers, XXX engagements

"Jesse L. Brown was the first black US Navy pilot. He flew XX combat missions before being shot down in 1950 during the Korean War"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-28T18:10Z 1.1M followers, XXX engagements

"Eugene Jacques Bullard was the first African American military combat pilot. Often referred to as the Black Swallow of Death for his courage during missions he faced incredible obstacles to become the only African-American pilot in World War 1"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-28T18:10Z 1.1M followers, XXX engagements

"He grew up in Georgia flew for France in BOTH world wars ran a Paris nightclub spoke X languages and unironically owned a pet monkey"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-28T18:10Z 1.1M followers, XXX engagements

"In 2001 Shawna Rochelle Kimbrell became the first Black woman to serve as a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-28T18:10Z 1.1M followers, 8454 engagements

"Quilt Codes & the Underground Railroad: How Enslaved People Used Quilts as Maps to Escape To Freedom"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-08-16T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 2.4M engagements

"Mother Daughter and Maid Johannesburg South Africa 1977"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-09-06T10:40Z 1.1M followers, 6.9M engagements

"Young Black American boys on a chain gang in 1903. This is around XX years after the "end" of slavery. These boys are all in a forced labor camp working for free arrested for "loitering" & "vagrancy" "speaking loudly to a white woman or such petty crimes"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-20T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 57.7K engagements

"Jesse Owens wins the 100m Olympic gold medal in 1936 in front of Hitler"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-21T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 352.6K engagements

"An African man reads on a bench marked "Europeans Only" in a South African park 1970"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-23T10:15Z 1.1M followers, 131K engagements

"In 1862 congress allowed the enlistment of African Americans into the U.S. military. Those who served and loved the country that did not love them back. Military History of African Americans. A THREAD"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-23T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 44.3K engagements

"Angela Davis and Kwame Ture on Capitalism 1973"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-24T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 52.2K engagements

"Three of Africa's most notorious dictators Mobutu Sese Seko of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Idi Amin of Uganda and Jean-Bedel Bokassa of the Central African Republic meeting in 1976"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-25T10:15Z 1.1M followers, 37.1K engagements

"In 1957 Kenyan freedom fighter Dedan Kimathi was executed by the British. He led the KLFA (MauMau) revolution against the brutal British occupation of his country Kenya. "I dont lead terrorists. I lead Africans who want their self-government and land.D. Kimathi"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-30T10:04Z 1.1M followers, 38.8K engagements

"We need to speak up about what is happening in SUDAN its a GENOCIDE that has led to the World's largest displacement crisis. So Whats Happening in Sudan and How is UAE (Emirates) supporting the genocide #FreeSudan THREAD"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-31T12:02Z 1.1M followers, 76.6K engagements

"Matilda McCrear (1857-1940) the Last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-11-01T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 193.7K engagements

"On May 2nd 1973 she was unfairly convicted of shooting and murdering State Trooper Werner Foester in New Jersey"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-11-02T18:00Z 1.1M followers, XXX engagements

"40 years later on May X 2013 the FBI and state of New Jersey have offered a $X million reward offered for her capture"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-11-02T18:00Z 1.1M followers, XXX engagements

"Sundiata Acoli after being denied parole since 1993 and XX years in jail was finally granted parole in May 2022"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-11-02T18:00Z 1.1M followers, XXX engagements

"Assata Shakur died in Havana on September XX 2025 following health problems. She was 78"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-11-02T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 7166 engagements

"Africans around the world fought in both World Wars only to return home to colonialism in Africa and the Caribbean and Jim Crow in America. Throughout history weve been enlisted to fights and die in wars instigated by our oppressors; wars which had nothing to do with us"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-09-17T19:00Z 1.1M followers, 41.2K engagements

"Philip Downing patented his invention the street letter box the predecessor of todays mailbox in 1891. In the 1800s anyone interested in mailing a letter would have to make the long trip to the post office. Philip B. Downing designed a metal box with four legs which he patented on October XX 1891. He called his device a street letter box and it is the predecessor of today's mailbox"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-09-27T11:56Z 1.1M followers, 39.2K engagements

"October X 1951 Henrietta Lacks dies at Johns Hopkins Hospital at the age of XX. Her cells were taken without her knowledge in 1951 (HeLa cells) and became one of the most important tools in medicine. They became vital for developing the polio vaccine cloning gene mapping in vitro fertilization & more. Henrietta Lacks was black woman who unknowingly was the source of cells (from her cancerous tumor) which were cultured by George Otto Gey to create the 1st known human immortal cell line for medical research. The Diagnosis: On January XX 1951 Henrietta went to Johns Hopkins Hospital because she"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-04T12:15Z 1.1M followers, 200K engagements

"Martin Lawrence on Star Search 1987"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-16T00:00Z 1.1M followers, 25.5K engagements

"The British colony of Zanzibar off the east coast of Africa. A tired nanny poses next to her ward named Farrukh Bulsara. A quarter of a century later the boy would take the pseudonym Freddie Mercury 1947"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-19T11:00Z 1.1M followers, 70.7K engagements

"Black Students Asked Why They Chose To Attend a HBCU 1978"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-08-02T14:33Z 1.1M followers, 101.5K engagements

"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr on vacation in Jamaica 1965"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-09-10T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 321.5K engagements

"Did you know The real Betty Boop was inspired by a Black Harlem jazz singer named Esther Jones. Ever heard of Baby Esther She later sued the cartoonist but the court threw out the case and she was never compensated A THREAD"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-09-13T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 229.5K engagements

"Jackie and Rachel Robinson with their son at home 1949"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-18T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 202.3K engagements

"In King Leopolds Congo Free state hands and feet were cut off as punishment for not meeting the daily rubber collection quota 1904"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-19T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 234.6K engagements

"Happy 89th Birthday to Political activist author and co-founder of the Black Panther Party Bobby Seale"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-22T12:03Z 1.1M followers, 175.8K engagements

"Oprah Winfrey in Forsyth County Georgia in 1987 where no black person had lived in since 1912 (75 years)"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-23T14:32Z 1.1M followers, 52.6K engagements

"British tourist arrives in Sudan Africa 1936"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-27T10:15Z 1.1M followers, 34.4K engagements

"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or says it. Malcolm X"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-27T14:05Z 1.1M followers, 123.7K engagements

"James Baldwin: When any white man in the world says "Give me liberty or give me death" the entire white world applauds When a black man says exactly the same thing word for word he's a criminal & treated like one and everything possible is done to make an example of him"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-28T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 208.2K engagements

"In 1921 Bessie Coleman received her pilot's license becoming the first black licensed pilot. Women and people of color had no training opportunities in the US so she learnt French and moved to Paris to earn her license. Black Pilots Who Broke Barriers: A THREAD"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-28T18:10Z 1.1M followers, 26.9K engagements

""You don't get freedom peacefully. Anyone who is depriving you of freedom isn't deserving of a peaceful approach." Malcolm X These words that still resonate today"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-10-30T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 91.8K engagements

"On this day in 1979 Revolutionary Assata Shakur escaped from U.S prison later received asylum in Cuba. A THREAD"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-11-02T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 24.2K engagements

"At XX Yvette Stevens joined the Black Panther Party. She was responsible selling the Black Panther newspaper & helping start the free breakfast program for children. You might know her by another name: CHAKA KHAN"
X Link @AfricanArchives 2025-11-02T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 125.3K engagements