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Horace King was a Black American architect, engineer, and bridge builder. He is considered the most respected bridge builder of the 19th-century Deep South, constructing dozens of bridges in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. King was born into slavery on a South Carolina plantation in 1807.

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LA MULÂTRESSE SOLITUDE: THE BLACK WOMAN WHO FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM! ✊🏿

Born around 1772 to an enslaved African woman and a French sailor, she was a symbol of the fıght against the plantation system.

She joined the insurrection led by Louis Delgrès against Napoleonic forces who aimed to reinstate sIavery, which had been abolished in 1794.

Described as a fierce and fearless warrior, she fought alongside men against the troops of Richepance in early 19th-century Guadeloupe

Captured and imprisoned, she was exęcuted on November 29, 1802, one day after giving birth, and has since become a powerful symbol of Guadeloupean freedom, resilience, and anti-colonial.

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Henry Johnson was an African American hero who single-handedly bęat back a German assauIt during World Wąr I.

Despite being stąbbed, shơt, and hit with gręnade shrapnel totaling 21 severe ınjuries, he managed to kiII/ınjure 24 German soIdiers and rescued a member of his unit.

He was the first African American soldier to receive France's highest award for bravery, Croix de Guerre, and in 2015, The White House also awarded him the medal 🏅 of Honor in a posthumous ceremony.

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Melanesian children from Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 and the Solomon Islands 🇸🇧. The people are some of the non-Caucasian people that have natural blonde hair.

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A man from Afar with a beautiful woman from Wollo.

The Afar people, also known as the Danakil, Adali, and Odali, are a Cushitic ethnic group inhabiting the Horn of Africa.

Wollo is a historical region and province in the northeastern part of Ethiopia 🇪🇹 with its capital city at Dessie.

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My hair is my crown. 👑 ❤️ 😍

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Honouring all those ensIaved peopIe who buiIt the U.S. CapitoI.

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🎂🎉 IT’S MY BIRTHDAY! 🎉

Grateful for another year of life, growth and blessings. 🙏🏾❤️

Thank you for your continued love and support. Here’s to another amazing year! 🥂

Happy Birthday to me!

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She was called Phillis because that was the name of the ship that brought her, and Wheatley, which was the name of the merchant who bought her. She was born in Senegal 🇸🇳.
In Boston, the slave traders put her up for sale: "She's 7 years old! She will be a good mare!"
She was felt, naked, by many hands.
At thirteen, she was already writing poems in a language that was not her own. No one believed that she was the author. At the age of twenty, Phillis was questioned by a court of eighteen enlightened men in robes and wigs.
She had to recite passages from Virgil and Milton and some verses from the Bible, and she also had to vow that the poems she had composed were not copied. From a chair, she underwent her lengthy examination, until the court approved her: she was a woman, she was Black, she was enslaved, but she was a poet.
Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American writer to publish a book in the United States.

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The Dibaba Sisters from Ethiopia 🇪🇹 are the fastest family on Earth. They are the only siblings in recorded history to hold concurrent world records and have four Olympic gold medals, two silvers, three bronze, and fifteen world championships. 🏆

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