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Via @authormsbev, this piece on Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first Black woman medical doctor in the U.S., who graduated in 1864.
Read it now, before it's erased like so much of the U.S. history that is not about white cis straight Christian men.
Remembering Paul Robeson this weekend.
#usa
#PaulRobeson #BlackMastodon #africa #racism #genocide @blackvoices
@blackmastodon
@blackgirlnerds
#communism #socialism
@BLKNewsNow
#education #slavery #jimcrow
How Black Labor Created An Interracial Movement.mp3
#afl #socialism #blackmastodon #usa #union @blackmastodon
@BLKNewsNow #desegregation #segregation #apartheid #jimcrow #labor
@blackvoices #resistance #protest #tiktok
WHITES STILL CONTROL SAFARI TOURISM IN AFRICA
Something to consider next time you’re touring Africa.
In this clip, travel creator Weyni Tesfai said the tourism industry was built on colonialism, with devastating consequences for local wildlife
https://x.com/african_stream/status/1911046527931326724
#Africa #BlackMastodon #travel
#safari #geopolitics #tourism
@blackmastodon
@BLKNewsNow
@blackvoices
@blackgirlnerds
#SettlerColonialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#canada #usa #racism #whitesupremacy
‘Stamped From The Beginning’s Roger Ross Williams Earns Impact Award From Miami Film Festival #history #film #documentary #us
#blackhistory #blackstodon
https://deadline.com/2025/04/roger-ross-williams-impact-award-miami-film-festival-1236367270/
' “In #France,” Diamond said, “she is mainly known as a music-hall star, and in the US as a civil rights activist.” A whole chapter – the spying missions, the concerts that raised large sums for the #resistance, her subsequent uniformed service in the French air force – was far less familiar.'
on #HannaDiamond's #JosephineBakersSecretWar
#JoséphineBaker #BlackHistory #histFr #résistantes #FranceLibre #FreeFrench #DeuxièmeBureau #livres #books @histodons @bookstodon
". . . like a vulture looking for the rain . . . 'cause it's Winter In America . . . Just like the cities staggered on the coastline
Livin' in a nation that just can't much more
Like the forest they buried beneath the highway
Never had a chance to grow
Well, they never had a chance to grow
And now it's winter . . ." -Gil Scott Heron, 1974
https://youtu.be/m2zKdIcOV5s?si=vfNZCu0ieQd4U_i_
#PearlBailey #scrapbooks #BlackHIstory
"Bailey’s adventures on Broadway, in Vegas, and at the White House make for an impressive collection of newspaper articles, glossy photographs, letters, cards, and telegrams documenting her larger-than-life story. Notes from Queen Elizabeth II, Cab Calloway, and Grace Kelly lay pressed between the yellowed pages.... The online version of 'The Pearl Bailey Showcase,' features six digitized albums and was launched last December."
https://www.inquirer.com/arts/pearl-bailey-african-american-museum-philadelphia-20250408.html
NIGER SAYS ‘GOODBYE FRENCH,
HELLO HAUSA!’
Niger has broken free from another colonial chain - the French language - by adopting Hausa as the country’s new national idiom.
https://x.com/african_stream/status/1910357730490999028
#niger #hausa #africa
#france #geopolitics
@yemen #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#blackmastodon #canada #usa #sahel @blackmastodon @BLKNewsNow
@blackvoices
#antiracism #racism #whitesupremacy
@blackgirlnerds
On this day in 1919 Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata was assassinated by government forces in Morelos after an ambush.
"I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees."
https://x.com/jacobin/status/1910301744929665108
#history #blackhistory #blackmastodon @blackmastodon @BLKNewsNow @blackvoices @politics
@UnicornRiot
#tiktok #cdnpoli #geopolitics #africa #cuba #venezuela #nicaragua #bolivia #haiti #jamaica
Your art history post for today: by Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012), On the Subway, 1986, lithograph, 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm). As a print, it appears in many collections, both public and private. #arthistory #BlackHistory #blackart #womenartists
A quote from the artist: “I am inspired by Black people and Mexican people, my two peoples.”
From the Museum of Modern Art: “Catlett produced sculptures and prints across her more than six-decade career that drew on her personal experiences as an African American woman, mother, and émigré living in Mexico. Directly addressing people whose perspectives and experiences, like hers, had historically been excluded from artistic representation, Catlett developed a distinctive visual language defined by its carefully delineated forms and strong compositional focus. Merging the political with the personal, her work influenced younger generations of artists, including many associated with the Black Arts movement of the 1960s and ’70s, who shared her activist principles and commitment to harnessing art for Black liberation.”
Interview: "Black Americans Are Not Surprised”:Trump’s crackdown on free speech and efforts to whitewash American history.
"There has been a systemic erasure of Black history [that] is not only intellectually dishonest, but will also cause the U.S. economic & social harm.
“We can’t move forward as a nation collectively … if we don’t understand our collective past".
~Christina Greer
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/8/trump_immigrants_black_americans
#DemocracyNow: “#BlackAmericans Are Not Surprised”: #ChristinaGreer on #Trump’s Attacks on #Students, #DEI & #History
Story April 08, 2025
"'There has been a systemic erasure of #BlackHistory.' Professor Christina Greer discusses the Trump administration’s crackdown on free speech and efforts to whitewash American history. The erasure of the history of racism and resistance is not only intellectually dishonest, says Greer, but will also cause the U.S. economic and social harm. 'We can’t move forward as a nation collectively … if we don’t understand our collective past,' she says."
Listen / watch / read transcript:
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/8/trump_immigrants_black_americans
#BlackLivesMatter #BLM #ViewerSupportedNews #TrumpIsABully #TrumpIsARacist #USPol
Interview: "Black Americans Are Not Surprised”:Trump’s crackdown on free speech and efforts to whitewash American history.
"There has been a systemic erasure of Black history [that] is not only intellectually dishonest, but will also cause the U.S. economic & social harm.
“We can’t move forward as a nation collectively … if we don’t understand our collective past".
~Christina Greer
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/8/trump_immigrants_black_americans
Dew Drop Inn in New Orleans, Louisiana
First opened in 1939, this legendary performance venue was a haven for Black musicians including Ray Charles and Little Richard.#african-american #blackhistory #history #music #hotels #section-Atlas
Dew Drop Inn
A two-day-long white supremacist terrorist massacre took place in the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, some of whom had been appointed as deputies and armed by
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Happy belated birthday to Booker T. Washington, who, among many of his other achievements, became the first Black person depicted on a United States postage stamp #OnThisDay in 1940.
