DO BLACK LIVES MATTER? Yes... However, It is Difficult to Name People that Actually Mattered... Can you Name Anyone other than The Obamas?

 

Chuck Berry mattered... The world is completely different with the invention of rock and roll music... 

Dr Martin Luther King mattered... I'm especially impressed with his "I have a dream" speech 

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." 

Dick Gregory... Comedian... I remember that Mom and I were sitting in the audience at his show and up in front there was a man with a camera photographing everyone in the audience... Mom said: "When that guy points the camera at you, put your hand in front of your face."

I also met him at an anti-war protest March at the White House.. During George Bush the father's term... USA versus Iraq the first time... I was walking down the street and it seemed that everyone was turning around and looking at this old black man who was walking in front of me... Like a magnetic attraction... When I caught up to him I had a brief conversation...

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My original goal was to answer the question: YES! Black Lives Do Matter! And then give a long list... But I'm stumped...  Three Names... 

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Elon Musk renamed Twitter to honor 

his personal hero: Malcolm X.

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and an alert reader recommended:

Langston Hughes, author and poet. I read his book about travel across the Soviet Union in the 1930s - Moscow to Vladivostok - then on to Japan. He spoke to peaceniks and left wingers in Japan, which got him expelled by the military. They sent him by boat to San Francisco.

Paul Robeson - Actor, singer,

Marion Anderson - singer who was banned from performing at the DAR hall in Washington DC in the 1930s. So Eleanor Rosevelt got the national park service to allow her to perform at the Lincoln Memorial.

*AI Overview*

A list of prominent Black figures whose lives have shaped the world includes:

Martin Luther King Jr.: A foundational leader and minister who championed civil rights and economic equality through nonviolent resistance, famous for the "I Have a Dream" speech.

Harriet Tubman: An abolitionist who escaped slavery and risked her life leading dozens of enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

Rosa Parks: A civil rights icon whose refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.

Thurgood Marshall: The first African American Supreme Court Justice, who previously served as the chief counsel for the NAACP and successfully argued the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.

Ida B. Wells: An investigative journalist, suffragist, and early civil rights leader who fearlessly led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States.

Madam C.J. Walker: An entrepreneur and philanthropist who became one of America's first self-made female millionaires after developing a line of hair care products for Black women.

Jackie Robinson: A trailblazer who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball (MLB) as the first Black player to compete in the modern era.

W.E.B. Du Bois: A pioneering sociologist, historian, and a founding member of the NAACP who spent his life fighting against discrimination.

James Baldwin: An essayist, playwright, and novelist who eloquently explored the intricacies of race, sexuality, and class in Western societies.

Barack Obama: The 44th President of the United States and the first African American to hold the nation's highest office. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]