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: Before Muhammad Ali danced, before Mike Tyson became the most feared man in boxing, and before George Foreman reclaime...
23/06/2026

: Before Muhammad Ali danced, before Mike Tyson became the most feared man in boxing, and before George Foreman reclaimed the heavyweight title, there was Joe Louis.

On June 22, 1937, the “Brown Bomber” stepped into Comiskey Park in Chicago to challenge James J. Braddock for the heavyweight championship. From the opening bell, Braddock came out sharp, dropping Louis with a right uppercut to the chin in the first round.

But Louis didn’t fold. He settled in, made adjustments, and took control of the fight. As the rounds went on, the Detroit native’s combinations started landing with more power, and Braddock began to show the effects. Cuts opened up. Swelling increased. By the seventh round, Braddock’s corner even thought about stopping it, but the champion refused to quit.

In the eighth, Louis closed it. A powerful body shot halted Braddock in his tracks, followed by a right hand to the chin that sent him to the canvas. The referee started the count, and at ten, Joe Louis became the heavyweight champion of the world.

The victory marked the beginning of one of the most dominant championship runs in boxing history. Over the next 12 years, Louis defended the heavyweight title 25 times, a record that still stands today. Louis retired with a record of 68-3, including 54 KOs, and was posthumously inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.

22/06/2026

: “You see, we would do well to say we don’t have families. I say, we have survival units under white supremacy. The family has been destroyed by the dynamic of white supremacy. And at the same time I’m saying it, I’m saying that it is our responsibility as black people to decode, in detail, how white supremacy carries out its destructive dynamic, and then you counterplay against it, and I mean very seriously. No children until 30 and 35. Married, no more than two, no closer together than three years apart.” -Dr. Frances Cress Welsing

: How It Feels to Be Colored Me -Zora Neale Thurston (The World Tomorrow | May 1928)
19/06/2026

: How It Feels to Be Colored Me -Zora Neale Thurston (The World Tomorrow | May 1928)

: “COFFEE MAKES YOU BLACK” -Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. (Citizen Printer | circa 2005)
19/06/2026

: “COFFEE MAKES YOU BLACK” -Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. (Citizen Printer | circa 2005)

19/06/2026

: I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies -June Jordan (1976)

: “The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and ...
18/06/2026

: “The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of Black people, or face the wrath of the armed people.” -Dr. Huey P. Newton

18/06/2026

: “It’s all part of the same thread. Black bodies are under assault in this country. And, whether it be from 21 year old ‘lone wolves’ or they be from the police, we need to understand the urgency of that.” -Jamil Smith

Rev. Clementa Pinckney
Cynthia Hurd
Susan Jackson
Ethel Lance
Rev. DePayne Middleton-Doctor
Tywanza Sanders
Rev. Daniel Simmons
Sharonda Singleton
Myra Thompson
(Emanuel AME Church | Charleston, South Carolina | June 17, 2015) 💛

: Alabama Attempts a Little Whitewashing -Romare Bearden (Afro-American | February 8, 1936)
18/06/2026

: Alabama Attempts a Little Whitewashing -Romare Bearden (Afro-American | February 8, 1936)

: “—there is a mad desire, there is a great plan to permanently lay the Negro low in this civilization and in future civ...
17/06/2026

: “—there is a mad desire, there is a great plan to permanently lay the Negro low in this civilization and in future civilizations. But the world is sadly mistaken. No longer can the Negro be laid low; in laying the Negro low you but bring down the pillars of creation, because 400,000,000 Negroes are determined to a man, to take a place in the world and to hold that place. The world is sadly mistaken and rudely shocked at the same time. They thought that the new Negro would bend; they thought that the new Negro was only bluffing and would exhibit the characteristic of the old Negro when pushed to the corner or pushed to the wall. If you want to see the new Negro fight, force him to the wall, and the nearer he approaches the wall the more he fights, and when he gets to the wall he is even more desperate.” -Marcus Garvey

: On June 16, 1976, thousands of Black students took to the streets of Soweto, South Africa, in protest against a new ap...
17/06/2026

: On June 16, 1976, thousands of Black students took to the streets of Soweto, South Africa, in protest against a new apartheid education policy. Under the new directive, Black South Africans were to be taught in Afrikaans, a language many viewed not as a neutral medium of instruction but as that of their oppressor.

By the time students reached the streets, months of tension in the classroom had already pushed the situation to a breaking point. Ahead of the march, police positioned themselves to contain the demonstration, setting up barricades across the settlement. When the crowd reached a police checkpoint, the confrontation escalated, and officers opened fire on the unarmed students.

One of the first fatalities that day was 13 year old Hector Pieterson. As Hector’s sister screamed in horror, fellow student Mbuyisa Makhubo lifted the dying boy into his arms and carried him toward a nearby car. “The World” news photographer Sam Nzima was in Soweto on assignment and captured the scene as it unfolded, producing one of the most enduring images of the anti-apartheid struggle.

Hector Pieterson was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital.

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