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Taken from blackfacts.com

1. 1999 – White supremacist John King, one of three white men accused of chaining James Byrd to a pickup and dragging him along a Texas road until he was decapitated, was sentenced to death by lethal injection. If his death penalty is carried out, he will be the first white Texan executed for killing a black since slavery ended….

2. 1991 – Adrienne Mitchell, first African American woman to die in combat in the Persian Gulf War is killed in her military barracks in Dharan, Saudi Arabia

3. 1987 – Edward Daniel Nixon, former president of the Georgia NAACP, died at age 87.

4. 1978 – Death of Daniel (“Chappie”) James Jr. (58), retired Air Force general and the first Black promoted to four-star rank, at the Air Force Academy, Colorado.

5. 1975 – Death of Elijah Muhammad (77), leader of the Nation of Islam, in Chicago. He was succeeded by his son, Wallace D. Muhammad.

6. 1971 – President Nixon met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus and appointed a White House panel to study a list of recommendations made by the group.

7. 1964 -Cassius Clay becomes world heavyweight boxing champion.

8. 1948 – Martin Luther King ordained as a Baptist minister

9. 1870 – Hirman R. Revels of Mississippi sworn in as first Black U.S. senator and first Black representative in Congress.

10. 1839 – Seminoles and their Black allies shipped from Tampa Bay, Florida, to the West.

From blackfacts.com

1. 2/24/1966 – Elected leader and first president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, ousted in military coup while he is away on a peace mission to Vietnam.

2. 2/24/1940 – Former world heavyweight boxing champion Jimmy Ellis was born James Albert Ellis in Louisville, Kentucky. Ellis won the World Boxing Association title after beating Jerry Quarry in April 1968.

3. 2/24/1868 – House of Representatives voted, 126 to 47, to
House of Representatives voted, 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson.

4. 2/24/1864: Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the first black woman to receive an M.D. degree. She graduated from the New England Female Medical College. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was born in 1833. She worked from 1852-1860 as a nurse in Massachusetts.

5. 2/24/1811 – Bishop of AME Church Daniel Payne born

from erwin's iphone

last week was a crazy week for me. aside from preparing for midterms, my financial aid check has yet to come in, so i’m literally living off of change and the dollar menu at the carl’s jr down the street from my apt. to top it off, a very close relative has been sick in the hospital for over a month. needless to say, i needed a break on the weekend. so on friday, i went to check out the Far East Movement in whittier. Aside from being dope performers, these cats are some of the most humble dudes i’ve encountered. big ups to them for always holding me down (Vox Merger/FM collabo coming soon). On Saturday, convinced my uncle to buy me into a poker tourney and headed out with some of the homies. I finished 7th, winning some lunch money for the week. Noreen won 3rd and bought Korean bbq for everybody. on sunday, i was gettin ready to drive back down to san diego when some folks convinced me to hit downtown LB to celebrate president’s day. ended up at a wack 18 n over spot and left within an hour. it’s all good though cause we polished off a bottle of JB’s in the car. on monday, passed out at 8pm and woke up at 8am today, drove down to san diego, and now i’m here waiting for my 11:30 class to start. i probably should’ve studied this weekend but fuck it, i had a good time with some good folks. i’ll hit the books hard this week and get my focus back on.

Miley Cyrus and KKKrew

the thing about this picture is that she’ll catch shit for a while and then people will forgot. i have to believe that if she put on some black face, it wouldn’t be forgotten so easily. i have no idea why this is but if you have any thoughts, please share.

p.s.

the asian guy in this picture needs to get mirked.

Fisher v. Carrousel Motor Hotel, Inc.
Supr. Ct. of Tex., 1967
424 S.W.2d 627
Facts:
P, standing in line with other employees at a work function occurring at a hotel, had a plate snatched from his hand by an employee of the hotel who shouted “A Negro could not be served in the club”. P was not touched and did not experience physical injury but suffered embarrassment and mental anguish in the presence of his associates.
Procedural: Trial court ruled for D. P appealed.
Issue: Does grabbing a plate out of P hand while yelling a racial epithet in front of his co-workers, constitute a battery?
General Rule: To constitute an assault and battery, it is not necessary to touch the plaintiff’s body or even his clothing; knocking or snatching anything from plaintiff’s hand or touching anything connected with his person, when done in an offensive manner, is sufficient.
Application: Because the P argument rests on his dignity being compromised and not on physical injury, it is not necessary for him to have suffered any physical injury. Precedent states that snatching from P hand, when performed in an offensive manner, is sufficient for battery. Personal indignity is the essence of an action for battery, in which case D is not liable for physical harm but punitive damages.
Conclusion: Yes. Decision reversed.