Happy Black History Month everyone!!! By popular demand I’ll be posting informational tweets everyday this month so we can all celebrate our history and get educated together! Bookmark this tweet and stay tuned for your new favorite thread

Day one: This is Susie Revels Cayton, daughter of the 1st Black Senator, Hiram Revels in the state of Mississippi. Because if her father’s political first and growing up in the south in the the late 1800s, she was not a stranger to racist actions.

“Susie pursued her interest in writing and by the age of sixteen she received a degree from Rust University in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She taught at the university for three years and later returned to the school as a student where she earned a degree in nurse training at the

age of twenty-three,” despite all the pushback she received for being an educated Black woman. However, she was a bit taken aback by the racism in “progressive” Seattle when she moved there with her husband. Susie and her Husband started a newspaper and later a magazine that

focused on Back issues in their community. Because Seattle limited her abilities as an activist, she decided to give back to her community by writing. She wrote essays that debunked stereotypes about our community in order to encourage education, self-love, spirituality, and much

more. I think we should all take notes out of Revel’s book to make the narratives of our lives more popular than stereotypes forced upon us. 2020 was a big moment for BLM, continue to speak your truths! (Not everyday will be this long but this is a good story)

Day two: This is Beauford Delaney and a few of his pieces (last one is his portrait of James Baldwin). Delaney was a modernist painter best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance and for his later work in Paris in the 1950s.

Day 3: “Drapetomania” - the disease white people came up with to try and justify that our ancestors were crazy for wanting freedom.