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every day I'm more in love with my curls ❤️

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Love is the strongest power 💕❤️

I love every thing about myself and am grateful to God 🙏

💯💯💯🤌🤌

Bollywood

Ffs black woman gets shot in her own home whilst putting on the kettle she rang the police because she thought there was an INTRUDER! IN HER HOUSE SO THE POLICE SHOT HER IN FACE IN HER OWN HOME! AMERICA LAND OF THE RACIST! DEMOCRACY IS DEAD!

Edit: for context, if you didn’t know, Black New Yorkers historically celebrated their independence on July 5th following the abolition of slavery in New York State in 1827! Major W for NYS 🙌🏽

Was declared at my state’s capital, in my area in 1827! Happy Emancipation Day!! ✊🏽♥️

Watch the racist comments he makes. When you see the racist comments please report them.

Avoid avoid

Joins group to label me as a member of a hate group.  Avoid for your sanity

Racist

I went to see the play at Olney theater 🎭

Long Way Down

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Behalf 💫 on my look 😁

Looking 👀

Take time out to be a father

Be honest

Be your own dream boy
Look after yourself first, take yourself out on dates.Put that extra effort in just so you feel good about yourself and you will see as your confidence grows you will recognise your own uniqueness and love yourself more
Be your own best friend
Invest in your own town

Sad, but appears to be accurate

Malcolm X

Share your darkest desires in your life .....

Desire

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Perspective on time

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The black love🌚

Celebrate Whoopi

Maya said it right

Ae literally fund Israel and supply them training. We should protest just as hard for Palestine as we do BLM

BLM and Palestine go hand in hand

Happy Black History Month

Maya

Birth place: Independence, Missouri
BOD: September 1842
 DEATH: Trinidad, Colorado
DOD: ca. 1893
Place of burial: Unknown


To honor my ancestors and black history I’d talk about Cathay Williams! ❤️🫶🏽

Cathay Williams was born to an enslaved mother and a free father in Independence, Missouri in 1844.  During her adolescence, she worked as a house slave on the Johnson plantation on the outskirts of Jefferson City, Missouri. In 1861, Union forces occupied Jefferson City during the early stages of the Civil War. At this time, captured slaves were officially designated as contraband and some served in military support roles such as cooks, laundresses, or nurses. Before her voluntary enlistment, at just 17 years old, Williams served as an Army cook and a washerwoman. In this role she accompanied the infantry all over the country. Williams served under the service of General Philip Sheridan and witnessed the Red River Campaign and the Battle of Pea Ridge.

Despite the prohibition against women serving in the military, Williams enlisted in the U.S. Regular Army under the false name of "William Cathay" on November 15, 1866. She enlisted for a three-year engagement, passing herself off as a man. Williams was assigned to the 38th U.S. Infantry Regiment after she passed the cursory medical examination. Though this exam should have outed her as a woman, the Army did not require full medical exams at this time.

Shortly after her enlistment, she contracted smallpox and was hospitalized. Williams rejoined her unit in New Mexico. There, possibly due to the effects of smallpox, the heat, or the years of marching, her body began to show signs of strain. Due to her frequent hospialization, the post surgeon finally discovered she was a woman and informed the post commander. She was honorably discharged by her commanding officer, Captain Charles E. Clarke on October 14, 1868. Though her disability discharge meant the end of her tenure with the Army, her advenure continued. She signed up with an emerging all-black regiment that would eventually become part of the legendary Buffalo Soldiers.

Following her discharge, Williams went on to work as a cook at Fort Union, New Mexico (now Fort Union National Monument) and later moved to Pueblo, Colorado. Though she married, it ended badly after her husband stole her money and a team of horses. Williams had him arrested and then moved to Trinidad, Colorado, where she worked as a seamtress. It was during this time that her story first became public. A reporter from St. Louis heard rumors of a female African-American who had served in the army and came to interview her. Her life and military service narrative was published in the St. Louis Daily Times on January 2, 1876.

Around 1889 or 1890, Williams entered a local hospital and applied for a disability pension based on her military service. Though there was a precedent for granting pension to female soldiers, (Deborah Sampson,  Anna Maria Lane and Molly Williams disguised themselves as men in the Revolutionary War), Williams request was denied. In September 1893, a doctor examined Williams. She suffered from neuralgia and diabetes, and had all her toes amputated and walked with a crutch. The doctor decided that she did not qualify for disability payments.The exact date of her death is unknown, but it is believed she died shortly after she was denied.


What Makes Cathay Williams An American Hero:  Though over 400 women served in the Civil War posing as male soldiers, Williams was the first African American woman to enlist and the only documented woman to serve in the United States Army, while disguised as a man, during the Indian Wars. Williams is also the only known female Buffalo Soldier. Williams' determination to serve her country demonstrates the extraordinary feats women have accomplished simply trying to live their lives.

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