O'Brien

overnight the Alabama Riverboat Braw became a viral sensation.

From hilarious memes to petitioning for a national holiday, our

camaraderie felt healing. Our people had come together in an epic way, but are

we surprised? Historically, we've always been throwing down.

This is two minute black history.

What you didn't learn in school. Let's talk about the Clotilde survivors. The last enslaved Africans to be illegally transported to America arrived in Mobile, Alabama in 1859 on the Clotilde.

Many of the Clotilde survivors were sent to the same plantations where they were very protective of one another.

When an overseer attacked one of the survivors, the community beat the overseer to a pope.

After emancipation, the Clotilda survivors worked tirelessly

to co-found what later became known as Africa Town.

Then there's the Maroon. known as Africa Town.

Then there's the Maroons.

Maroons were enslaved runaways who formed large societies out of reach from their

enslavers. They could be found throughout the

African diaspora and led powerful successful revolts. Jamaica's maroons

resisted the British for decades until Britain caved in 1796 and quote unquote

allowed them to be self-governing. This was 38 years before slavery was officially made illegal

within Great Britain. And what about civil rights?

Civil rights.

Civil rights protests showed nonviolent brawls are possible.

Be it sitting at a lunch counter, marching, boycotting buses and anti-Black establishments,

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