Keisha Lance Bottoms just made history as the first Black woman governor in American history!!!
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His book is considered essential reading for any antiracist and anticolonialist activist
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The New Cross Fire killed 13 young Black people during a birthday
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The Black Panther Party was founded 60 years ago ✊️
From a 2016 article commemorating its 50th anniversary:
"The work of the Black Panthers remains important for several reasons. First, they remind us that the problem of police brutality has long been with us [...]
Second, the BPP offers a good model of grassroots activism and ideology in practice."
https://jacobin.com/2016/10/black-panther-party-fifty-year-anniversary-founding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party
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Don't feed the #trolls
But if you're #AngieNixon, whose campaign pledges are #universalHealthCare, a #wealthTax, a #minimumWage of $25 per hour, etc... and #MAGA hecklers show up at her #bookstore Cafe #Resistance:
Give them a crash course in #BlackHistory
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Nixon won the #Democrats #primary for the #Senate special election in #Florida and is a member of the #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica and the #WorkingFamiliesParty
Oh yeah: #VOTE
How do you think Nixon got here?
Take her all the way
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Melvin Van Peebles (born Melvin Peebles; August 21, 1932 – September 21, 2021)
https://mastodon.social/@audubonballroon/117302663766569116
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Melvin Van Peebles (born Melvin Peebles; August 21, 1932 – September 21, 2021) was an American actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer. ...
Personal life and death
Van Peebles married Maria Marx, a German actress. They lived in Mexico for a period
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How Shorefront Legacy Center preserves Black history from a church basement in Evanston
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/19/nx-s1-5968805/how-shorefront-legacy-center-preserves-black-history-from-a-church-basement-in-evanston
#History #Culture #BlackHistory
An important new resource:
Africans in Ireland, 1578 - 1921.
https://africansinireland.com/
#History #IrishHistory #BlackHistory
🚀 Katherine Johnson remember her name
The astronaut who wouldn't trust a computer trusted the calculations of a Black mathematician NASA had confined to a segregated office.
In 1960 she and engineer Ted Skopinski co-authored a NASA technical note on determining azimuth angle at burnout, in plain English is the problem of working out which way a spacecraft needs to be pointing when its engines cut off
#KatherineJohnson #NASA #Science #BlackHistory #USA#Racism
Dock Ellis, one of baseball's greatest personalities - and a damn fine pitcher for a few years - wore hair curlers on the field during warmups in 1973. The league commissioner ordered him to stop (because ... ?).
Ellis often called out racial prejudice in baseball and society. In this case he observed "They didn’t put any orders about [Yankees player] Joe Pepitone when he wore a hairpiece down to his shoulders.” American legend. 🫡
#baseball #1970s #blackhistory #hair #pittsburgh
RIP ma'am #GiftArticle
'Mildred Pitts Walter, a Los Angeles schoolteacher who grew up in the Jim Crow South and wrote award-winning children’s books focusing on Black characters, filling a void in her students’ reading material, died on May 19 in Redwood City, Calif. She was 103.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/books/mildred-pitts-walter-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2VA.1pBc.qGf-L2TWHP6h&smid=url-share#writers #writing #BlackHistory #BlackExcellence #obituaries
"My dad, Harry Haywood, wrote Negro Liberation in 1948, fifteen years before I was born. I was with him when he died at eighty-seven, on my twenty-second birthday. That was forty years ago.
I am writing this while at a hot springs in Northern California, trying to recover and reset my nervous system after the 2024 election and the failure of liberalism. Join me on my prodigal daughter character arc. Watch out. The path is slippery.
My father spent his whole life developing a revolutionary position on the Negro question. He was obsessed. He knew that liberalism would fail and needed to articulate an alternative. Without this revolutionary position, fascism prevails. He fought fascism his whole life."
https://lithub.com/rebecca-hall-reflects-on-her-fathers-groundbreaking-book-negro-liberation/
#AntiFascism #BlackHistory #Education #BlackAndBrownLiberation
'However, some of the almost 4,000 [Black People] who were lynched between 1882 and 1962 [and there were far more than 4,000 according to Jeff Fager further below] were lynched in settings that are appropriately described as
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Your art history post for today: by African-American artist Charles White (1918–1979), “General Moses and Sojourner Truth,” 1954, wolff carbon pencil and white chalk over traces of graphite pencil, 27 7/8 in x 38 inches, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, ©The Charles White Archives. #arthistory #blackart #blackartist #BlackHistory #drawing
From the museum: ‘Charles White’s 1954 drawing General Moses and Sojourner Truth, represents two famed African American women who fought for equality in different ways. Harriet Tubman is presented in the guise of “General Moses,” grasping a staff like the one Moses used to part the Red Sea. The intellectual nature of Sojourner Truth’s writings and speeches in support of abolitionism and women’s rights is suggested through her upward gaze, in contrast to Tubman’s direct engagement with the viewer.’
Our book was just released on July 14 by Rutgers University Press. The book gathers scholars whose work deepens our understanding of Black educational traditions, intellectual history, and liberatory practice.
Please check it out if interested!
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/liberation-and-education/9781978829985
#LiberationAndEducation #NewBook #Nonfiction #AfricanAmericanEducation #AfricanAmericanHistory #BlackEducationalThought #BlackHistory #BlackThought #EducationalHistory #IntellectualHistory #BlackMastodon #edutooters #histodons
To Win Their Races, Black Politicians Confront a New Landscape
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/us/politics/black-representation-voting-rights-act.html
#Politics #VotingRights #BlackHistory
Biting sarcasm is in order… as one thing is clear, this is the most racist administration in the last 100 years. They’ve fired or demoted Black military officers, erased Black history from museums & nat’l parks, and are seeking to disenfranchise millions of Black voters. To make matters worse, some #republicans are floating the idea of eliminating the 14th Amendment to the Constitution - which is the BASIS of civil rights in the USA. Then there’s the appointment and promotion of individuals associated with #WhiteSupremacy - it’s just so blatant, in our faces. Gonna take years to undue this damage. #BlackMastodon #BlackHistory #USPol #USPolitics
By Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), "Harriet Tubman," 1931, oil on canvas, 54 × 72" (137.1 X 182.9 cm), Bennett College, Greensboro, N.C. #arthistory #blackhistory #blackhistory #blackart #blackartist #art #painting #oilpainting
From the Camden Civil Rights Project: 'Douglas uses modernist imagery to depict the slave era heroine, Harriet Tubman, who was responsible for leading more than three hundred slaves to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad. Douglas wrote that he portrayed Tubman "as a heroic leader breaking the shackles of bondage and pressing on toward a new day." Behind her and stretching back symbolically to Africa are the black men and women who toiled and prayed through three hundred years of servitude. "The group of figures to the right... symbolizes the newly liberated people as laborers and heads of families. The last figure symbolizes the dreamer who looks out towards higher and nobler vistas, the modern city, for his race. He represents the preachers, teachers, artists, and musicians of the group. The beam of light that cuts through the center of the picture symbolizes divine inspiration.”’
from Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr Joy DeGruy
Slavery is a brutal institution in any society, yet it seems the treatment of slaves by Europeans was particularly so. In ancient Greece, Rome and
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Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1975), known professionally as 50 Cent, is an American rapper, actor, television producer, record executive, and businessman.
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