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Today marks the third anniversary of the tragic death of Dexter Wade, who was struck and killed by an off-duty Jackson Police Department SUV on March 5, 2023. While the Jackson Police Department initially claimed they could not identify him or reach his family, investigations revealed he had his state ID card with his home address in his wallet, along with a prescription bottle bearing his name. Despite this, his mother, Bettersten Wade Robinson , was not notified for 172 days, during which time Dexter was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave (Grave No. 672) at the Hinds County penal farm. Dexter Wade was finally given a proper funeral and burial by his family on November 20, 2023. #DexterWade #SayHisName #BlackLivesMatter

During their medal ceremony in the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City on October 16, 1968, two African-American athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, each raised a black-gloved fist during the playing of the US national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner". While on the podium, Smith and Carlos, who had won gold and bronze medals respectively in the 200-meter running event of the 1968 Summer Olympics, turned to face the US flag and then kept their hands raised until the anthem had finished. In addition, Smith, Carlos, and Australian silver medalist Peter Norman all wore human-rights badges on their jackets. #BlackPride #Olympics #1968 #BlackLivesMatter #History #AmericanHistory

Chicago Race Riot. 1919. Want to know why??? The summer's riots were fueled by simmering tensions and sparked by the stoning and drowning of a Black teenager named Eugene Williams. Williams had been on a raft with friends when they floated across the line dividing the White and Black beaches. #raceriots #chicagoraceriots #BlackHistory #BlackLivesMatter #CivilRights #ChicagoHistory #Racism