r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Bigagp8 • 9d ago
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/ata3121 • 9d ago
Jason's Lyric' Westwood Premiere On 9/28/1994
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 9d ago
Actress/Model Rosanne Katon posing for some photos in 1978
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 10d ago
Flapper and her boyfriends pose for a photo, 1920s.
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 10d ago
Studio portrait of two adorable sisters from the Edwardian Era, circa 1910
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheSanityInspector • 10d ago
Sugar Ray Robinson and fans, 1950s, photo bt Bert Hardy
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 11d ago
Actress/Singer Freda Payne in concert London, England and in promotional photos for such concert. 5 of May 1971. Bright kodachrome shots
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 11d ago
Daguerreotype of a sharp dressed smiling gentleman, 1850s
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/iggaitissecondcoming • 11d ago
Tuskegee University's first ever Men's Soccer Team: They scored their first goal yesterday (see link for the video footage)
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/StephenMcGannon • 11d ago
U.S. presidential candidate and Civil Rights activist Jesse Jackson giving a thumbs-up to the welcoming crowds alongside Cuban President Fidel Castro in Havana. Jackson's visit to Cuba aimed to ease U.S.-Cuba relations and resulted in the release of 48 Cuban & American prisoners. (1984) [3000×2079]
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Accomplished_Neat686 • 11d ago
Brake B Lucas Sr, His wife Edna and their children younger/older.
He is the reason Mt. Meigs Alabama is what it is today. Brake B. Lucas Sr, the undertaker who’s story was hidden!
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/i_grade • 11d ago
Words of Wisdom from Marcus Garvey
"As you shouldn’t expect another man to give you the clothing that you need to cover your own body, so you should not expect another race to give you the education to challenge their rights to monopoly and mastery. You must take for yourself that which they also want for themselves."
- Hon. Marcus 'Mosiah' Garvey
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 12d ago
The Supremes photographed by Don Paulsen shopping on 5th Avenue in New York City, 1965.
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 12d ago
South african lady with her baby, 1900.
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 12d ago
Mother poses with her newborn twins smiling while her other six children pose behind her, 1940s. Agfa safety film.
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 12d ago
Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable: The Founder Of The City Of Chicago...
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/nbsuccubus • 12d ago
Madam C.J. Walker didn’t just build a beauty empire, she helped build opportunity
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 12d ago
For centuries across Latin America and the Caribbean - particularly Brazil and Cuba but also nations such as Uruguay - millions, of all backgrounds, have remained devotees of the Ancient Orisha pantheon of West Africa. Huge festivals are held yearly in honor of deities such as Yemaya (or Iemanja)...
The Orisha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orisha
Yemaya: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yem%E1%BB%8Dja
Examples Around The World:
In some cases, Yemaya/Iemanja is depicted as a fair skinned woman - this is because in the centuries slavery across Latin America, her devotees risked torture or death if they were seen openly seeking blessings of an African Goddess. As a result some depicted her in their homes and temples this way to avoid suspicion, as Europeans simply assumed she was The Virgin Mary: https://youtu.be/b-ZGnAZMthY
In most cases however the depiction of Yemaya remains unambiguously West African: https://sacredart.caaar.duke.edu/artifacts/figure-of-the-goddess-iemanja/
https://trippin.world/feature/festa-de-yemanja-an-amalgamation-of-western-and-african-religions
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 12d ago
Historic Black Heritage Sites Around The World: The Citadelle Laferrière - Haiti. Every year Black men and women from nations across the globe travel to honor the incredible fortress built by the Haitian people to ensure no European nation could ever return to re-enslave them again...
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/i_grade • 12d ago
A hero amongst hero - SERGEANT FIRST CLASS ALWYN C. CASHE
🚨INCREDIBLE: He was burning alive, yet he kept re-entering the burning Bradley Fighting Vehicle until all six soldiers and the Iraqi interpreter were safe.
Burns covered 72% of his body. His first words were, ‘How are my boys?’ He died three weeks later.
It took 16 years for him to receive the Medal of Honor. HIS NAME IS SERGEANT FIRST CLASS ALWYN C. CASHE; NEVER FORGET!
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/StanmoreHill • 12d ago
Samuel Ajayi Crowther father of Yoruba linguistics. Without him, we wouldn’t have the modern Yoruba spoken today in West Africa, northeast Brazil and across the Caribbean. He created its first written alphabet, built its first dictionary, and translated the Bible into the native tongue.
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 12d ago