In 1963, America's Georgia, 15 black girls joined a protest.

One for the matinee, please.

Negroes, hit your tickets in the back.

We just want tickets to see the show. Here comes a whole mess of tickets for each. in the Based on the true story, Push Black presents The Stolen Girls of America's.

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Cascading waterfalls call the lust trees surrounding Rio de Janeiro's most important

rainforest home.

But the woodland wouldn't be the paradise it is today without the life-saving

seedlings our people planted. This is two minute black history. What you didn't learn in school.

The sun cut through the trees canopies beaming down with vigor to rest on their shoulders.

They preserved, likely with aching backs for over a decade, planting seeds that would bloom for future generations of our people.

Elotario, Castania, Manuel, Matius, Leopoldo, and Maria spent 13 years in the 1860s, planting more than 100,000

ceilings to preserve one of the largest urban greenscapes

in the world, Brazil's Chajuka Forest.

Rio de Janeiro was facing a water crisis brought about by the coffee plantations that their

fellow enslaved people worked on.

These plantations destroyed the rainforest and with few trees.

The city was in danger of running out of water.

While they were overseen by the government officials who enslaved them,

the group used skills that transcended the thrills of bondage. Like many of us, they

intrinsically tapped into ancestral knowledge never fully forgotten.

For centuries our people have respected the natural world, understanding the delicate

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