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Source: Martin Luther King Jr., “Our God Is Marching On!” speech delivered at the Alabama State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama, March 25, posted March 16, 2016, by The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change,
https://youtu.be/geBcwI4GYXw?si=-Vl1YngenGe93Hil

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Martin Luther King Jr., “How Long? Not Long” (speech, March 25, 1965), Voices of Democracy, University of Maryland, accessed January 19, 2026,
https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-long-not-long-speech-text/

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More prescient today in America than “I Have a Dream.”

“I come to say to you this afternoon, however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because truth crushed to earth will rise again.

How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever.

How long? Not long, because you shall reap what you sow.

How long? Not long: Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,

Yet that scaffold sways the future.”
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#history #mlk
https://youtu.be/NwdHeylre6c?si=r64lplqgjDfubK4i

They were many. Not just rulers, but households, elders, children—lives lived inside systems of memory, labor, belief, and power that did not require a single name. So, to say “Africa is a country” is not a cartographic error. It is the residue of training—what remains after empire leaves but its grammar stays.

Africa moved as many worlds. It still does.

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#history #blackmastodon

Image: Map of the ethnic diversity of Africa, overlaid with country borders. Source: National Geographic.

62 years ago today—September 15, 1963—four girls in Birmingham were murdered by a bomb in their church. Two boys were murdered in the chaos that followed.

Six children, gone before sundown.

This is what resistance to equality looks like.

Image: The children, Denise, Carole, Addie Mae, Cynthia, Johnny, and Virgil, killed in Birmingham on September 15, 1963, Source: The Birmingham News (Sept. 1963).

#history #histodons #blackandwhite #blackmastodon #photgraphy #birmingham #alabama

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