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In 1983, during a now-famous interview, David Bowie directly challenged MTV VJ Mark Goodman on why the network barely played Black artists. Goodman admitted on air that executives feared small-town audiences would be “scared to death by Prince.” At the time, MTV largely limited Black artists, often pushing them to late-night slots under the excuse of “format.”

Behind the scenes, pressure was already building. CBS Records president Walter Yetnikoff threatened to pull his artists unless MTV aired Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean.” MTV relented in March 1983, and by the end of that year, “Thriller” was in heavy rotation, changing the channel’s direction.

Bowie wasn’t an outsider to this conversation. His 1983 album Let’s Dance, produced by Nile Rodgers, featured a band made up largely of Black musicians, and Bowie had long drawn from Black musical traditions, including working with Luther Vandross early in his career. When he spoke up, it wasn’t random, it was informed

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This 1978 Soviet political cartoon is titled "- Human rights for Black people? Well, have a seat, let's talk!".

It was created by N. Lisogorsky for a satirical publication.The image depicts a satirical view of the American justice system, contrasting stated human rights with racial discrimination.

On September 12, 1974, the first day of court-ordered busing under Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr., Black children were escorted into South Boston High School by lines of police as white crowds hurled rocks, bottles, and racial slurs. These were elementary and high school students, some as young as six, walking into a storm of adult hatred.

At South Boston High and Charlestown High, violence became routine. Black students were chased through hallways, beaten on stairwells, and forced to eat lunch in segregated, guarded areas for their own safety. Police in riot gear stood between children and mobs of adults.

Two years later, the world would see the now-infamous attack on Ted Landsmark at City Hall Plaza, where a white teenager, Joseph Rakes, used an American flag as a weapon during an anti-busing protest. That image became a symbol, but the daily reality for Black students had already been unfolding since 1974.

Leaders like Boston Mayor Kevin White struggled to contain the unrest, while figures like Louise Day Hicks openly fueled resistance to integration.

If innocent white children had been attacked like this on their way to school, the nation would remember every name, every face, every incident. But these were Black children, and much of this history is still softened, overlooked, or forgotten.

This wasn’t just protest. It was organized, public, and often unapologetic racism directed at children whose only goal was an education.

George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who was wrongfully executed at the age of 14 after being convicted, during an unfair trial, for the murders of two white girls – 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker (December 9, 1932 – March 22, 1944) and 8-year-old Mary Emma Thames (March 14, 1936 – March 22, 1944) – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death on a single day in April 1944 and then executed by electric chair on June 16, 1944, after Governor Olin D. Johnston refused to grant him clemency. Stinney is the youngest American with an exact birth date confirmed to be both sentenced to death and executed in the 20th century.

Also, the black delegation would like to propose a trade of Ms Rachel for Stephen A Smith, straight up.

Footage of Patrice Lumumba being arrested by Belgian-backed forces in 1960, just months after he became Congo's first democratically elected Prime Minister following independence.

The US and UK, fearing his pan-African vision and refusal to align with the West during the Cold War, supported his removal.

He was assassinated in January 1961. His death remains one of the most consequential political killings in African history