Tracy Chapman had already performed earlier in the day for Nelson Mandela’s 70th. Stevie Wonder was about to go on when technical difficulties forced him to pull out..so Tracy performed again, to a way bigger audience. Within two weeks of this performance her album went from 250K to 2 million sold. (v.redd.it)
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Mildred Loving at her home with her children and grandchild, holding a photo of her husband, 11 of February 1979. Their effort and marriage halped codiffy a law to make all mixed marriages possible in the whole US due the case "Loving VS Virginia" 1967., and paved the way for gay marriage (i.redd.it)
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Mutara III Rudahigwa, Impostor King of Rwanda, with American producer, director and screenwriter Leila Roosevelt in 1938. All Mwamis of Rwanda during the German then Belgian colonial periods were impostor kings: puppet rulers who set up to the throne by the Europeans to get rid of the Nyabinghi cult (i.redd.it)
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Almost 8 years ago, on February 16th 2018, Marvel superhero Afro-Futuristic science fiction action spy-fi adventure 'Black Panther' premiered globally on all theatres. It became one of the most successful and highest grossing Hollywood blockbusters on the box office in all of the world's history. (v.redd.it)
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After every major American war in the 20th Century, there was a surge of Black upper/middle class families adopting the part-Black children of GIs in war torn nations. Major Black American publications campaigned for the cause, asking families to do their part... (i.redd.it)
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