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Defining Moments in Black History
Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies | Dick Gregory
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With his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America. A friend of luminaries including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Medgar Evers, and the forebear of todays popular black comics, including Larry Wilmore, W. Kamau Bell, Damon Young, and Trevor Noah, Dick Gregory has been a provocative and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years. As an entertainer, he has always kept it indisputably real about race issues in America, fearlessly lacing laughter with hard truths. As a leading activist against injustice, he marched at Selma during the Civil Rights movement, organized student rallies to protest the Vietnam War; sat in at rallies for Native American and feminist rights; fought apartheid in South Africa; and participated in hunger strikes in support of Black Lives Matter. In this collection of thoughtful, provocative essays, Gregory charts the complex and often obscured history of the African American experience. In his unapologetically candid voice, he moves from African ancestry and surviving the Middle Passage to the creation of the Jheri Curl, the enjoyment of bacon and everything pig, the headline-making shootings of black men, and the Black Lives Matter movement. A captivating journey through time, The Most Defining Moments in Black History According to Dick Gregory explores historical movements such as The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, as well as cultural touchstones such as Sidney Poitier winning the Best Actor Oscar for Lilies in the Field and Billie Holiday releasing Strange Fruit. An engaging look at black life that offers insightful commentary on the intricate history of the African American people, The Most Defining Moments in Black History According to Dick Gregory is an essential, no-holds-bar history lesson that will provoke, enlighten, and entertain.
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Nalbuque
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This book been on my list for a while, so I named it in honor of my #BlitsySwap post! Here‘s my package, sent yesterday and arriving this Tuesday :)) thank so much @Chelleo for organizing this swap in celebration of Black History Month! #BHMS

I myself am a bit late on my Black author works this February, but am very excited to plan ahead and get some awesome works in the mail - let‘s plan to celebrate black folks all year long 💕

Chelleo 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 2y
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Readergrrl
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Just signed up for this fantastic swap!! Go to @Chelleo ‘s page to join the fun!!

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gradcat
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#QuotsyMar19

(Day 11 - #Caffeine)

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hermyknee We used the same quote! 😂 And here I thought I was being original. 5y
gradcat @hermyknee Aw, shucks! Me, too (about being original, that is). Maybe we‘re original in exactly the same way! 😂 5y
hermyknee 🙌🏼🙌🏼 5y
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Endowarrior21

@Chelleo your package went in the mail this morning #BlitsyHistoryMonth

Chelleo 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾♥️thanks so much! 5y
Endowarrior21 @Chelleo your welcome 5y
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JSW
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Great swap coming up! See @Chelleo for deets!!

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dariazeoli
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“Worst of all, in the view of white supremacists, if we start to think we‘re not alone in the universe, then white supremacy doesn‘t mean a thing, because we would all become earthlings. There wouldn‘t be a Memphis or a Chicago or an America or a Russia or a China or an Africa—we would be Earth people. This is what this thing is about.”

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dariazeoli
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Woke up to the news that activist and comedian Dick Gregory died. What a voice the voiceless. What a fighter for justice. What a loss to the world.