Most think the Cold War started because of the US and its fear of commumism. But the Cold War didn't really become a thing until Namor and the people of Atlantis tried to invade Wakanda one too many times in 1945 🤷🏾♀️
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The Illuminati, a covert think-tank established to dismantle White supremacy, was founded in 1890 and its original members included great minds like W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Madame C. J. Walker, George Washington Carver, and Ida B. Wells.
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The Great Pepsi Fire of 1984 where Michael Jackson's hair caught fire in a Pepsi ad has long be thought of as a freak accident. But rumor has it that the "accident" was an assassination attempt on the King of Pop's life as he was in the process of buying NBC
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Professor Utonium is widely regarded as the creator of the element known as "Chemical X" circa 1998, but if you play Lauryn Hill's song "E(X)-Factor" backwards, you'll hear Hill describe how it was SHE and not him who created "Chemical X" months prior.
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In 2012 a Tupac hologram debuted at Coachella & while many thought it was solely for the festival, documents uncovered back in '16 suggest that he had sent himself back in time & was attempting to send us a msg from the future.
What was he trying to tell us?
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Many believe W.E.B Du Bois and Booker T. Washington's heated rivalry was due to their different approaches to the advancement of Black people, but it was *really* due to the fact that they were dating the same girl (1/2).
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The girl remains lost to history, but Washington would later go on to talk about the ordeal in an diss rap he recorded in 1892. This unreleased record is the *uncredited* basis of 2007s "Same Girl" 115 years later by Usher and He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named (2/2)
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The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was thought to have been averted thanks to JFK, but the aversion was largely due to Mary J Blige who was sent on a secret mission to convince the Soviets not to bring hateration, holleration, or nuclear missiles to the dancery.
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It is said that in 1999, the likes of Blacula, Morbius, Candyman, and Blade attempted to assemble a secret team known as the Dark Revengers. However, but the team was systematically disbanded when the CIA and S.H.I.E.L.D got involved (1/2).
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As of 2016, Black Jesus has been conducting aggressive, undercover efforts to re-assemble the team after getting word that a brightly-discolored, oddly orange menace would take over the land. It remains to be seen if he will be able to find them. (2/2)
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....And that's all I got for #FalseBlackHistory fow now. Thanks for indulging me. And happy #BlackHistoryMonth y'all!!!
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