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Apr

Dapology

Categories: All Photos
Tags: Barack Obama, Black History, Chicago, Dap, Daps, handshake, nba, Obama, Obama Foundation, Political And Funny Tweets, President, Trae, tweets, Williamson, young, zion

sooooo many dap details to break down here https://t.co/BNC4X6wXMf
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protect my black[ness] history month (@clintonyates) February 15, 2020

for one, 44 going FULL clasp into embrace into straight up shake, not back to clasp, is flatly...a presidential dap… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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protect my black[ness] history month (@clintonyates) February 15, 2020

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secondly, to the offhand on the embrace. Notice how with both players, 44 goes multi-pat. saved the extended hand… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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protect my black[ness] history month (@clintonyates) February 15, 2020

Now for those of you who dont understand why this is all so necessary to break down. REMINDER: 44 is left handed.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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protect my black[ness] history month (@clintonyates) February 15, 2020

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anyways, that was your dap lesson of the day. Thanks for dropping by
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protect my black[ness] history month (@clintonyates) February 15, 2020

@clintonyates The Mikan of Dap
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Adam Amin (@adamamin) February 15, 2020

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@adamamin it’s unreal how many facets he has to his dap game
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protect my black[ness] history month (@clintonyates) February 15, 2020

@clintonyates I’m a lefty and I can attest that trying to execute an embrace of that nature with the right hand is… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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BLegendary (@SirKingBruce) February 15, 2020

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@clintonyates Code Switcher in Chief
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Daniel Shiferaw (@dshif) February 15, 2020

@clintonyates Coolest man on the planet and it isn’t close
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Te (@airtight409) February 15, 2020

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@clintonyates True story...in 2008, then little-known candidate came to a local trade school to speak and I happene… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Alex Hernandez (@salejandroh) February 15, 2020

DAP (Dignity and Pride) handshakes became symbols of unity, kinship and survival among AA soldiers in Vietnam.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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Smithsonian NMAAHC (@NMAAHC) May 15, 2017

Mar

We Ain’t Going Back

By Nerdy Wonka 139 Comments

Rev. Joseph Lowery was a giant who let so many of us stand on his shoulders. With boundless generosity, patience, a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 28, 2020

What a joy it was to watch him pray and preach. I took heart in him saying, “We ain’t going back. We’ve come too fa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 28, 2020

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We are grateful for what he did for this country. He carried the baton longer and surer than almost anybody. It fal… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 28, 2020

Feb

We Got Us

By Nerdy Wonka 174 Comments

Categories: All Photos and All Videos
Tags: abc, ABC News, Black History, Black History Month, blind, Political And Funny Tweets, thanks, TV, tweets, What Would You Do, youtube

real talk - this happened a few years ago so it's always nice to see it resurface. The one time I actually really e… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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sabriya amira (@frmbriyawthxoxo) February 28, 2020

I saw this on YouTube last night. This is the funniest WWYD I’ve ever seen lmao I STAN sis. I SAID THANK YOU 😂😂 https://t.co/kthecAcFzs
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Amanda Scott (@AmandaScottTV) February 27, 2020

Feb

The Harmonies Of Liberty

By Nerdy Wonka 146 Comments

As we close out #BlackHistoryMonth, let’s make sure our voices are heard loud and clear by going to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) February 27, 2020

Feb

Credit Where Credit Is Due

By Nerdy Wonka 124 Comments

Categories: All Photos, All Videos and Michelle Obama
Tags: Black History, Black History Month, dance, dancing, First Lady, Jalaiah, Michelle, Michelle Obama, nba, Obama, Renegade, sports, Tik Tok

Jalaiah, you crushed it—love seeing your talent shine! twitter.com/nba/status/122…
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Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) February 19, 2020

@MichelleObama OMGGG! Thank you so much @MichelleObama for your support and for being an amazing role model for wom… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Jalaiah (@jalaiah) February 19, 2020

Feb

A Lifetime Of Reaching For The Stars

By Nerdy Wonka 139 Comments

Categories: All Photos and All Videos
Tags: Barack Obama, Black History, Black History Month, ceremony, death, earth, glenn, Hidden Figures, john, johnson, katherine, math, Mathematician, Medal Of Freedom, moon, NASA, Obama, Orbit, Political And Funny Tweets, President, Rocket, science, Scientist, space, stem, tweets, white house

After a lifetime of reaching for the stars, today, Katherine Johnson landed among them. She spent decades as a hidd… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 24, 2020

From 2015, President @BarackObama says Katherine Johnson "was a pioneer who broke the barriers of race and gender,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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CSPAN (@cspan) February 24, 2020

Feb

“It’s Because Of Whiteness”

By Nerdy Wonka 144 Comments

Categories: All Photos
Tags: Banks, Black History, education, Gentrification, Harriot, home, Home Ownership, journalist, loans, michael, Political And Funny Tweets, racism, Redlining, students, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

A lot of “majorities” aren’t educated that their financial advantage isn’t because of their investments. It’s becau… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

First of all, of you live in a home in a black neighborhood, it’s worth, on average, $48,000 less than an identical… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

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But, for the sake of argument, let’s say that all things are equal. Simply because you are awhite homeowner, you n… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

We know that schools are funded by property taxes. So, if you’re white, your kids get to go to a better school. Thi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

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So, of course, the white districts are considered better because they had higher scores, more college attendees and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

But let’s get back to home ownership. When those white kids got a chance to go to college, their parents could use… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

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But let’s say both kids graduated from college. I mentioned a study by @theSBPC yesterday. The study was really in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

They created a profile of a student. 24 yrs old, recent college grad making $50,000 per year. The only difference w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

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The study found that kids who went to majority black schools were charged higher rates than any other group—even th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

So now you’re a black college grad with more debt than a white student. Regardless of what you do, if you’re black,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

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Part of your credit score calculates debt. So, simply being black—NOTHING ELSE —means you have a higher credit scor… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

Now car lenders might say that blacks have lower credit scores but we know why that is. Instead of looking at payme… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

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So you have a car, an education and you want to buy a home. In 2018, @reveal did a study. They didn’t look at a g… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

They found that black borrowers were denied at 3 times the rate of white borrowers and ALWAYS got higher interest r… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

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Add that with double the unemployment rate, fewer educational resources, higher car insurance rates and tithes and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

And white people’s advantages have nothing to do with their investment knowledge or hard work. It’s built into th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

Feb

Reparations And White Privilege

By Nerdy Wonka 109 Comments

Categories: All Videos
Tags: #BetweenTheScenes, Between The Scenes, Black History, Black History Month, government, history, Jim Crow, Noah, Political And Funny Tweets, racism, Reparations, slavery, The Daily Show, Trevor, Trevor Noah, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

Talking reparations and white privilege. #BetweenTheScenes https://t.co/snfdDr5qTv
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The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) February 08, 2020

Feb

Change Makers

By Nerdy Wonka 222 Comments

Categories: All Photos
Tags: #GlobalGirlsAlliance, Beatrice, Black History, Black History Month, Black Women, Davidson, Entrepreneur, Grant, Inventor, Kenner, mary, nurse, Pads, Sanitary, Sanitary Pads

#BlackHistoryFact African American Inventor Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner is known for developing the sanitary pad 💕 https://t.co/8YQiLICwts
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MEFeater Magazine (@mefeater) February 05, 2020

Mary Grant Seacole—considered the first black nurse practitioner. She acquired knowledge of herbal medicine in the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Kimberly Ellis, MSN, FNP-C (@TheDiabetesNP) February 03, 2020

Feb

Breaking Barriers

By Nerdy Wonka 108 Comments

Categories: All Photos and All Videos
Tags: Barack Obama, Black History, Black History Month, harvard, Harvard Law Review, Harvard Law School, Obama, Political And Funny Tweets, President, tweets

.@BarackObama has been making history for decades. Today, in 1990, he broke the racial barrier in one of the oldest… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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QuickTake by Bloomberg (@QuickTake) February 06, 2020