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Rest easy king I can’t believe this year already mad legends passing: DMX, Black Rob and now Shock G/ Humpty hump. I grew up in the Bay in the Golden Era whe...n Digital Underground was one of the first Bay Area acts to get that record deal on some real Hip Hop ish. I’ve had the privilege of hanging out with him on more than one occasion, I remember one night I was at studio spot with members of Freestyle Fellowship and Didgital Underground chillin smokin listening to music and vibing out. Shock G was actively working on this dope comic book and drawing most of the time. I sat next to him cause I draw too and we were taking about graffiti etc. RIP Legend Shock G Digital Underground See more

Artist Andy Dice Davies (Portrait of his daughter)

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Day 8 of Black History Month: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Black Male was a clinical study conducted between... 1932 and 1972 by the U.S. Public Health Service. The purpose of this study was to observe the natural history of untreated syphilis; the poor Black men in the study were told they were receiving free health care from the United States government, which was a lie. The study recruited 600 black men, of which 399 were diagnosed with syphilis. The researchers never obtained informed consent from the men and never told the men with syphilis that they were not being treated but were simply being watched until they died and their bodies examined for ravages of the disease. Several men died, 40 wives contracted the disease, and 19 children were born with congenital syphilis. On May 16, 1997, President Bill Clinton formally apologized on behalf of the United States to victims of the experiment.

Black History Fact - Yasuke - Almost 500 years ago, an African man arrived in Japan. He would go on to become the first foreign-born man to achieve the status of a samurai warrior.

Happy Black History Month! 7 of 28 posts: Queen Nanny of Jamaica! from Wikipedia: Queen Nanny, Granny Nanny or Nanny or Nanny of the Maroons (c. 1686 c. 1755)..., was an 18th-century leader of the Jamaican Maroons. She led a community of formerly enslaved Africans called the Windward Maroons.[1] In the early 18th century, under the leadership of Nanny, the Windward Maroons fought a guerrilla war over many years against British authorities in the Colony of Jamaica in what became known as the First Maroon War. Much of what is known about her comes from oral history, as little textual evidence exists. According to Maroon legend, Queen Nanny was born in what is today Ghana of the Akan people.[2] According to the oral tradition and at least one documentary source, she was never enslaved.[2] Although widely assumed that she arrived in Jamaica as a slave, how she arrived in Jamaica is not certain. During the years of warfare, the British suffered significant losses in their encounters with the Windward Maroons of eastern Jamaica. Maroons attributed their success against the British to the successful use of supernatural powers by Nanny, but historians argue that the Maroon mastery of guerrilla warfare played a significant role in their success. Having failed to defeat them on the battle field, the British sued for peace signing a treaty with them on 20 April 1740.[2] The treaty stopped the hostilities, provided for state sanctioned freedom for the Maroons, and granted 500 acres of land to Nanny and her followers. The village built on the land grant still stands and today is called Moore Town. It is also known as the New Nanny Town. Modern members of the Moore Town celebrate 20 April 1740 as a holiday. In 1975, the government of Jamaica declared Nanny as their only female national hero celebrating her success as a leader, military tactician and strategist.[3] Her image is also on the Jamaican $500 note which is called a Nanny in Jamaican slang.