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7 INFLUENTIAL BLACK AMERICANS WHO HELPED SHAPED AMERICA

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  7 INFLUENTIAL BLACK AMERICANS WHO HELPED SHAPED AMERICA 7INFLUENTIAL BLACK AMERICANS WHO HELPED SHAPED AMERICAN HISTORY 1. James Brown Music legend James Brown delivered powerful messages in his songs during the Civil Rights Movement. From 1965 onward, Brown often canceled his shows to perform benefit concerts for black political organizations like the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Brown started the program “Operation Black Pride,” he dressed as Santa Claus, presented 3,000 certificates for free Christmas dinners in poor black neighborhoods of New York City in 1968. 2. Sam Cooke Sam Cooke changed how people listened to music often only heard in black churches. He popularized the music, creating a new sound and changed the course of music and race relations in America. Cooke became the first black artist to reach #1 on both the R&B and pop charts in 1957. 3. Jimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix is recognized as one of the most creative and influenti...

The man's pose has nothing to do with the activity he was engaged in before dying, according to a volcanologist who studies the Pompeii victims.

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The man's pose has nothing to do with the activity he was engaged in before dying, according to a volcanologist who studies the Pompeii victims. "The individual in the photo is an adult man, killed by the hot pyroclastic surge (hot gas and ash cloud which killed most of the population living around Mount Vesuvius), with both arms and legs flexed due to the heat," Pier Paolo Petrone told the Daily Dot. Petrone told the Daily Dot that “most of the human victims found in Pompeii often show ‘strange’ position of arms and legs, due to the contraction of limbs as a consequence of the heat effect on their bodies after death occurred.” But even without a masturbatory caption, people couldn't help but imagine something else going on in the photo. "I'm sure he had a good eruption before the end," said one commenter on Instagram. A few weeks later, a black and white version of the image was tweeted by @PersianRose1 with the false caption. It instantly began...