Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle

9. The brother of the president of the Confederacy owned a plantation in Davis Bend, Mississippi.

That plantation would also become a bastion of Black self-determination after the war. Eventually becoming Mound Bayou.

A Black-founded community that oozed Black excellence

8. When Sherman marched to the sea, he asked us what we wanted.

Answer:

Our own land. And to be left alone.

The Port Royal Experiment saw our first foray into autonomous living. The sea islands off Georgia and South Carolina became bastion of Black Independence

7. The enslaved began to protest their condition with their feet and ran. Despite the diagnosis of drapetomania, we formed networks of escape that today we popularly remember today as the Underground Railroad.

When the war popped off in 1860...we ran. we procured our own freedom

6. The Haitian Revolution shook the world up so much, they agreed to end the Atlantic Slave Trade in 1808.

Gabriel Prosser rebelled
The German Coast slaves rebelled
Denmark Vesey rebelled
Nat Turner rebelled

David Walker wrote the Revolution in pamphlet form

5. While the northern states instituted a gradual emancipation after the Revolution, the southern states only doubled down on their desire to retain slavery.

Black people saw their kin struggling in Haiti with their subsequent freedom struggle...and that feeling spread.

4. During the Revolution....in which this year represents the 250th anniversary, Black people took up arms for their freedom. Whether it was the British who promised their freedom, or the burgeoning nation which also claimed they would free them.

We fought for our freedom. Whoever gave us a gun

3. But after 1619, and the Virginia laws that codified racial slavery, they still rebelled. The Great Dismal Swamp in the Virginia and N Carolina areas became a place for self-determining Africans displeased with their condition.

And defended it

2. A "descendant of slaves" is a label i reject. Because my ancestors had ancestors, and they were not slaves.

But nearly 100 years before the White Lion made its way to these states, a Spanish ship brought 100 Africans here to South Carolina in 1526.

They rebelled...and disappeared

How do we wrap up the 100th Black History Month? For me Black History is every day, but February is the BLACKEST history month.

So I guess I wanna talk Black self-determination throughout our sojourn here.

Believe or not, it starts in 1526.

Sure, 1619 is the year we acknowledge but...

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lmao, that's a good one!!

And perfect

This is a great thread here!

(1/55) As #BlackHistoryMonth2026 comes to a close, I want to do a round-up of my posts over the month. Even though many of these posts are Black History Month-specific, I've also included general/overarching histories + some Black academics, businessfolks, and generally cool people❤️

This the one!

T.I had an IMMACULATE 3 album run with Trap Muzik, Urban Legend, and King

I know they don't have anything to do with each other, but it's worth pointing out that the Reichstag went up in flames at the very end of February

Hidden Black Scientists Proved the Polio Vaccine Worked Tuskegee Institute researchers showed Jonas Salk’s vaccine protected children by developing a key test

This is a very good article on the role of black scientists in the development of the polio vaccine: www.scientificamerican.com/article/hidd....

Remember how stable Iraq was after they killed Saddam?

Remember how stable Libya was when they killed Gaddafi?

See how stable Haiti is now when they killed Jovenel Moïse?

This always turns out well

Just kill the whole family huh?

Gotta love that "Board of Peace."

hardcover: "Up From Slavery" by Booker T Washington

The title page on the right which reads: NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. 1907

Of course I already own a few copies of Booker T Washington's autobiography "Up From Slavery."

But I just found (and bought) a 1907 hardcover edition! This book was literally printed while Washington was still living.

money well spent

What in the whole hell happened to Kelly Osborne?

Me in my Black American Heritage flag shirt

The Black American Heritage flag established in 1967 by Melvin Charles and Gleason Jackson

It's the last day of Black History Month so I had to represent

They still cant agree. Somebody lying

I've still got my 2011 pair, but I never wear them. They're too small

I was working at the shoe store when the first Wolf Grey 5s came out in 2011. They joints sat for MONTHS!

No one wanted them. They actually went on sale.

15 years later, im hearing about shootings in Georgia and Alabama over them smh

It's wars outside & people beefing over sneakers

There's been a lot of conflicting reports on the fate of the Ayatollah.

But now they're saying his body has been found

God took his time 😩

BLACK! Black onnnnnn black onnnnnn black!!!!!!!!!

this is what prompted that

Olandria dont have no business being that damn fine

Clear your spirit and watch this!!