1. When the black students at Mizzou started swag surfing on live tv to celebrate Tim Wolfe's resignation.
Mizzou out here Swag Surfing on Live Tv.. This is Great
Students claimed university officials did not properly handle alleged racism on campus.
2. Every single time Michael Bae Jordan was shirtless in Creed.
3. When President Obama led the church in "Amazing Grace" from the pulpit. #ReverendPresident
4. The literal rise of Lil Kim at the BET Awards.
5. When Nicholas Fraser gave us "Why You Always Lying" and changed the meme/vine world forever.
6. When black authors Claudia Rankine and Ta-Nehisi Coates gave us these must-reads.
7. When Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj joined forces to bless us all with the Feeling Myself video.
9. When black women took over magazine covers in September.
10. When Kendrick Lamar gave us the blackest album of the year and the Grammy's actually gave it all the nominations it deserved (ELEVEN!).
11. Every time we used the new black emoji's.
12. Viola Davis' Emmy win made history and she gave the perfect acceptance speech.
13. And when she and fellow nominee Taraji P. Henson did this before she went on stage.
14. When Bree Newsome scaled up a flag pole outside the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia and removed the Confederate flag.
15. When NBC aired The Wiz Live! and it was so black and so amazing.
16. When "Back to Back" became the first Grammy nominated diss track.
Drake's "Back to Back" officially has more Grammy nominations than Meek Mill has in his career
18. When Mattel made an Ava DuVernay Barbie doll and it sold out in less than an hour.
19. When they ended the Soul Train Awards with a cookout.
only black people would have a whole cookout at an award show with real food to pass out to the audience 😂 #SoulTrainAwards
20. When President Obama said "pop off" on national television.
21. When Babyface brought out a bunch of R&B's greats to perform the hits he wrote them at the Soul Train Awards.
22. When black college graduates clapped back at Abigail Fisher and Justice Scalia's ignorant comments about affirmative-action with #StayMadAbby.
Simply amazing, beautiful, intelligent BLACK WOMEN. #StayMadAbby
23. When Nicki asked Miley Cyrus "what's good?" at the VMAs after she shaded the rapper in an interview.
24. When black families across America were able to go see Selma in theaters on Martin Luther King Jr. day.
25. When FLOTUS put out a rap video.
26. When Beyoncé used all our snatched edges to make a "round the way girl" high ponytail to wear to the Met gala.
27. When Missy and Janet Jackson came back from their respective hiatuses with new music.
28. When John Boyega unapologetically nabbed the lead role in the this year's Star Wars film.
