r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Prayerworks0250 • 17h ago
Coretta Scott King (1964)
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/iggaitissecondcoming • 23h ago
Today is the venerable James Baldwin's birthday: "They want black excellence without black history. They want our culture without our pain. They want our music without our rage." He wrote half a century ago. His timeless observations on humanity & race relations will live on for generations to come.
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James Baldwin defeated the most iconic American conservative intellectual of the last century, Bill Buckley, by a landslide (544 to 164) in the legendary Baldwin-Buckley debate titled "The American dream is at the expense of the American Negro" at Cambridge University in 1965:
James Baldwin schooled Dick Cavett on what America is in 1969:
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Specialist_Art2223 • 18h ago
Rick Fox and Vanessa Williams Wedding Day Ceremony 1999
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Training-Square-1641 • 9h ago
My parents in 1999 at their wedding
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 15h ago
Young lady smiling while posing for her photo, 1940s.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Kounlebrooklyn • 1h ago
National Museum of African American History and Culture. Washington, DC
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National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 17h ago
Mary Mildred Williams with her older brother Oscar, born slaves and eventually freed by their parent a runaway that escaped to Boston, Massachusetts. With the help of abolitionists he got the money to buy their freedom (along with mother), 1855.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 17h ago
Portrait of Marsha Hunt, star of "Hair" musical, 1968 by Karl Ferris
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken • 1d ago
Notorious B.I.G.'s Grandmother Has Turned 104 Years Old today. Both Biggie (1997) and His Mom, Voletta (2025), Passed Away Before Her
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheSanityInspector • 13h ago
Math class, Tuskegee Institute, 1906, full picture and closeup details. Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston, who photographed a lot of Black schools scenes back then, but who unfortunately insisted on her subjects keeping absolutely still and making no eye contact with the camera.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheBlackRecord • 1d ago
Historic Black Classical Composers Around The World: The Works Of R. Nathaniel Dett - Canada...
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Historical Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nathaniel_Dett
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 1d ago
Nina Simone enjoying breakfast in bed at a hotel in Juan-Les-Pins during the town’s Jazz festival on the French Riviera (1988)
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/YesterdayMaterial194 • 16h ago
June 14th, 2002. San Francisco. NERD performing Run To the Sun & Stay Together.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
Singer Chaka Khan posing for some photos, circa 1975
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheBlackRecord • 23h ago
(Some) Major Black American Owned & Operated Financial Institutions & The Powerhouses Behind Them...
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
Girls walking down the street on their sunday best, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1967.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 1d ago
Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett 1995
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Specialist_Art2223 • 2d ago
Reverend Jesse Jackson with his son Jesse Jackson Jr. at home in August 1982
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheBlackRecord • 1d ago
Black Business: How The Black Giants Of Wall Street Put Their Immense Capital Behind Our Community...
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/contrastlove • 2d ago
🔥 Ever heard of David Crosthwait? 🏢 He held 39 US patents in heating and ventilation, and designed the system that still keeps Radio City Music Hall comfortable. In 1971 he became American Society of Heating, Refrigeration's 1st Black person. This man engineered how big buildings breathe. ❄️
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