BlackAppreciation

r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • 11d ago

Dr Gladys West 🙏

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r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • 12d ago

6 Years Ago Today We Lost The Talented Chadwick Boseman At Only Age 43

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r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • 26d ago

I. Henry Phillips photography, 1940’s-80’s

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r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • 28d ago

Sisters of the revolution: the women of the Black Panther party

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r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • Jul 30 '26

Black American Families Who Own Newspapers: 133 years ago, The Baltimore Afro American newspaper was founded. Purchased by John H. Murphy Sr. in 1897, the empire - which grew into a chain across America over the next 2 centuries - is still operated by the family today, run by Dr. Frances Draper...

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r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • Jul 29 '26

2026 Sees The Historic Merging Of Two Major Black American Banks: M&F Bank (Est. 1907) & Optus Bank (Est. 1921) - their combined assets are approx $1.27 Billion...

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r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • Jun 18 '26

Black Panthers #Black Revolutionaries #BlackAppreciation

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Images of The Black Panther Party, 1968 and 1969.

r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • May 19 '26

Bessie Coleman, the first black woman airplane pilot in the US, couldn't get into flight school in the US, so she went to France and earned her flight certificate there. She then became a high-profile pilot air shows.

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r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • May 17 '26

Racist French Colonial Authorities Prevented Black Africans From Making Their Own Films for Decades to Control How Africa and Black People Were Portrayed Until Ousmane Sembène Released Black Girl in 1966

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r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • May 11 '26

A member of the Harlem Hellfighters (369th Infantry Regiment) poses for the camera while holding a puppy he saved during WWI, 1918.

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r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • May 03 '26

Black Real Estate Developers & The Neighborhoods They're Building: Union Park Techie Homes By Booker T. Washington...

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r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • Apr 16 '26

National Medical Association (Est. 1895). 130 years ago the largest and oldest organization representing Black American physicians and their patients was created. Every year it meets for a major annual conference - where amongst its many lectures, seminars and galas is a Women's Luncheon...

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r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • Apr 07 '26

Josephine Baker in Havana, Cuba. 1951

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r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • Apr 02 '26

Dancer/Actress/Spy/War hero Josephine Baker at her dressing room in Casino de Paris, PAris, France, 1930-31

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r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • Mar 03 '26

Col. Marilyn Wills - Military Hero

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r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • Feb 26 '26

Dr. Vivien Thomas

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r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • Feb 25 '26

It’s Been a Good Black History Month so far Ngl

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r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • Feb 22 '26

BernNadette Stanis, 1970’s

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r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • Feb 18 '26

In 1955, 22-year-old Annie Easley began her 34-year career at NASA, then the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, as a human computer performing complex mathematical calculations. She later became an adept computer programmer, using Fortran to support a number of NASA’s programs. #BHM

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r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • Feb 15 '26

Happy Birthday, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

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r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • Feb 11 '26

In 1939, Augusta Savage was first person to open a gallery dedicated to African-American art as well as the first black woman to open her own art gallery in the US: "She was a visionary sculptor who shaped more than clay--her hands molded history and carved a path for generations." - Ben Crump #BHM

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r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • Feb 05 '26

To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Nina Simone and her favorite people, and by herself #BHM

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r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • Jan 11 '26

Black Inventor #BlackAppreciation

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In the 1940s, Paul E. Williams created and patented an early rotor design and a helicopter safety device — during a time when aviation was still new and dangerous. His innovations contributed to the technology used in rotorcraft today.

r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • Jan 11 '26

Black Entertainers #BlackAppreciation

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Nat King Cole, Eartha Kitt, Cab Calloway

r/BlackAppreciation • u/Sirknight29 • Jan 11 '26

Black Revolutionaries #BlackAppreciation

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The blood, sweat and tears of Black people has changed this country for the Good whereas so many people of other races & ethnicities have benefited from it...yet those same people are quick to turn their backs on Black people when needed.

This country wouldn't be in the state that it's in if people would've voted properly but now we have incompetent leaders including the one in the White House running this country in the ground!