Perfect blog is perfect.
That first answer is just perfect.
Vintage Kenya :: Ivory from the African Jungles heading to Mombasa for export
(Source: grand-bazaar, via knowledgeequalsblackpower)
You can’t free a slave unless he knows he’s in bondage.
— Dead Prez (via hip-hopislife)
(Source: foreverbasketballlife, via basketballblog)
I guess Django was more interesting? Yeah, right.
Bass Reeves, one of the first African Americans to become a Deputy U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi River. He was born a slave, arrested 3,000 felons, killed 14 men and was never shot throughout his 32-year career as a federal lawman. Reeves procured his own land in Van Buren, Arkansas, where he married his wife, Nellie Jennie, built an eight-room house with his bare hands, and raised ten children as the first black settler in the region.
Under President Ulysses S. Grant, Parker appointed Confederate Army General James Fagan a U.S. Marshal and ordered him to hire 200 deputies. Fagan knew of the former slave, his ability to negotiate Indian Territory and his ability to speak their languages, and so Reeves was named the first black Deputy Marshal west of the Mississippi.
In that role he was authorized to arrest both black and white outlaws.
Reeves later became became an officer of the Muskogee, Oklahoma, police department at the age of 68. He died of Bright’s disease on January 12, 1910, at the age of 72.
‘Bass Reeves’, a fictionalized film of the lawman’s life and military career was produced and released by Ponderous Productions of San Antonio, Texas, in 2010.
Actor Morgan Freeman has spent more than five years attempting to get the story of Reeves to the big screen.
I want to watch a movie about this guy, and I want to watch a movie about Stagecoach Mary, and I don’t understand why it’s so hard to get movies made about badass people from the olden days other than, you know, racism.
I would like three competing biopics of this, please.
