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Jacoby Hinton on Instagram    ///    Website "Art is for everyone. And no one needs to tell you an artwork is good, if you like it, then it is good. It should be as simple as that." -Jacoby Hinton Mistah Wilson : Yo, Jacoby Hinton! It is a complete honor to have you here with us for this exclusive interview with ThaWilsonBlock Magazine. How you been? Jacoby Hinton : Hey thanks for having me! I’ve been doing well, this month has been all about reflection and looking back at the past year and seeing how far I’ve come, but also looking ahead to where I want to be. Mistah Wilson : For our audience reading this, could you paint a quick background of yourself? Jacoby Hinton : I’d be happy to, I grew up kinda all over the state of South Carolina. My family moved a lot when I was younger. After college, I moved to the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota where I taught High School Science for 2 years, then I moved to San Jose and taught Middle School art for a...

Betty Shabazz (May 28, 1934 – June 23, 1997), born Betty Dean Sanders and also known as Betty X, was an American educator and civil rights advocate. She was the wife of Malcolm X . Shabazz grew up in Detroit , Michigan , where her foster parents largely sheltered her from racism . She attended the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama , where she had her first encounters with racism. Unhappy with the situation in Alabama, she moved to New York City, where she became a nurse. It was there that she met Malcolm X and, in 1956, joined the Nation of Islam . The couple married in 1958. Along with her husband, Shabazz left the Nation of Islam in 1964. She witnessed his assassination the following year. Left with the responsibility of raising six daughters as a single mother, Shabazz pursued a higher education, and went to work at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn , New York. Following the arrest of her daughter Qubilah for allegedly conspiring to murder Louis Farrakhan , Shabazz took in...

Harry Tyson Moore (November 18, 1905 – December 25, 1951) was an African-American educator, a pioneer leader of the Civil Rights Movement , and founder of the first branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Brevard County, Florida . Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette Vyda Simms Moore , also an educator, were the victims of a bombing of their home in Mims, Florida on Christmas night 1951. He died in an ambulance on the way to a hospital in Seminole County while she died January 3, 1952, at the hospital in Sanford, Florida . Forensic work in 2005-6 resulted in the naming of the probable perpetrators as four Ku Klux Klan members, all long dead by the time of the investigation. The Moores were the first NAACP members to be murdered for civil rights activism; Moore has been called the first martyr of the early stage of the Civil Rights Movement. In the early 1930s, Moore had become state secretary for the Florida chapter of the NAACP. ...