Happy that we made it to the Charles Wright Museum of African American History in #Detroit while at the #AAG. V moving & shocking experience explaining why so much is still wrong + legacies of racialised injustice but also the power & potential of fearless struggle. #BlackHistory #AfricanAmericanHistory #detroit

Mary Prince: The First Black Woman to Publish an Autobiography of Her Life in Slavery
#WomensHistoryMonth #herstory #blm #slavery #blackHistory
https://talkafricana.com/mary-prince-the-first-black-woman-to-publish-an-autobiography-of-her-life-in-slavery/ via @talkafricana

One of my favourite video bloggers #Wendell who's reports always show how the most downtrodden, neglected and poorest communities are also the most resilient, welcoming and diversily rich (non-materially).

Here he is visiting #MountBayou among other places, which is the most important historic example of #BlackPower community organising, defiant #resistance against #racism and #WhiteSupremacy in the #US, to date.

#BlackMastodon #press #MoraleBoost #BlackHistory
https://youtu.be/hy2H32EU1LE?si=sql6z_RrKOyg4Zeg

I imagine that #WomensStudies, #GenderStudies, #NativeAmericanStudies, and other history / anthropology studies will be next on the chopping block. #BlackHistory already is!

New York's governor orders college to remove #PalestinianStudies job listing

February 28, 2025

"The job posting at Hunter College had called for a historian 'who takes a critical lens to issues pertaining to Palestine including but not limited to #SettlerColonialism, #genocide, #HumanRights, #apartheid, #migration, #climate and #infrastructure devastation, health, race, #gender, and sexuality,' according to screenshots published by the New York Post, which first reported the job announcement."

https://apnews.com/article/hochul-palestinian-studies-genocide-cuny-hunter-04f5e9bf1b718bf0441f9b6cde260141
#Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #SignsOfFascism #Resist #ResistFascism #Censorship #Universities #HigherEducation #DumbingUsDown #DenyingHistory #DenyingReality

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“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, born on this day in 1868

Black people have been trying to help save America for nearly 200 yrs. The abolitionist Frederick Douglass was the first American who sought to explore the fragility of American democracy. Don't try to disagree.

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #BlackMastodon

New historical marker will honor the first large-scale training of Black military officers
#BlackHIstory #Military #history #dei #BHM #blm #militaryhistory
https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2025-02-24/fort-des-moines-black-soldiers-officers-wwi-iowa-history

‘Black Holocaust Memorial’ in Savannah, Georgia

Papier-mâché folk art recognizing horrors of slave trade.#slavery #blackhistory #sculptures #artoutside #outsiderart #section-Atlas

#blackhistory
#blackmastodon
@blackvoices
@blackmastodon
@blackgirlnerds
@BLKNewsNow
@palestine
@yemen
#resistance
#africa
#southafrica

“I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.”

Remembering Malcolm X, who was assassinated on this day in 1965.

#blackhistory
#blackmastodon
@blackvoices
@blackmastodon
@BLKNewsNow
@blackgirlnerds
@palestine

@TheConversationUS created a Flipboard Storyboard this week featuring some of the less-well-known figures from Black history. Here are the stories of Charles Henry Turner, a high-school science teacher who revolutionized the study of insects, Mary McLeod Bethune, the “first lady of Negro America,” Wyatt Tee Walker, chief strategist for Martin Luther King Jr., and more.

https://flipboard.com/@conversationus/black-history-month-profiles-h9a2mdf8mttr0ei8

#BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

🇷🇼 🇺🇸 Gen. James Kabarebe (on the right), a self confessed killing machine at .Paul Kagame's orders, advisor to #Kagame, has been sanctioned by the U.S. even though the U.S. backs the #Rwanda-n regime.

https://x.com/shinani1/status/1892659129958682855

#Blackhistory
#blackmastodon
#congo
#rwanda
#africa
#canada
#belgium
#colonialism
#genocide
@blackmastodon
@blackvoices
@BLKNewsNow
@politics
#warcrimes

Does anyone know any good documentaries on the Black Panther party - specifically ones that cover their mutual aid programs.

I'm searching online for some but I'm interested in any that you have seen yourself.

#mutualAid #solarPunk #anarchism #blackHistory #blackHistoryMonth #blackPantherParty

Less than a month into the Trump administration, how is everyone feeling? Shay Stewart-Bouley writes for @damemagazine about how she is not scared, but angry. “Trump’s attacks on DEI represent a clear desire to take us back to the time when uppity Black folks like me were put in our place,” she writes. “He wants white men to be our rulers again and that doesn’t sadden me. It fills me with rage.”

https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/02/12/i-am-not-scared-of-this-administration-i-am-angry/

#BlackHistory @blackmastodon #TrumpAdministration #History @histodons #Politics #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

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#Gaza
#Palestine
#Syria
#iran
#lebanon
#Genocide
#geopolitics
@palestine@a.gup.pe
@palestine@lemmygrad.ml
@gazawatch @flawed
@lebanon
@irannachrichten @yemen
#SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism
#antiPalestinianracism
#blackhistory
#blackmastodon
@blackvoices
@BLKNewsNow

“Often overshadowed by President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth Amendment officially codified the abolition of slavery into United States law in 1865. The first of the Reconstruction Amendments, it outlawed people from being enslaved in the entire United States, with exceptions listed for those convicted of crimes. The Thirteenth Amendment had wide-reaching ramifications in the United States, some of which continue today.”

#histodons #blackhistory

https://www.thecollector.com/thirteenth-amendment-usa/

On this day in 1955, the civil rights activist Rosa Parks rejected a bus driver's order to vacate a seat for a white female passenger after the "white" section of the bus was filled.

Parks wasn't the first person who resisted bus segregation, but she helped inspire the black community to boycott the city buses for over a year.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_bus_boycott

#OTD #OnThisDay #history #CivilRights #RosaParks #BlackHistory #BlackWomen

#Segregation Academies Get Millions From #School Voucher Programs
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In #NorthCarolina, ProPublica identified 39 “segregation academies” that have received #voucher money. Of these, 20 schools reported student bodies that were at least 85% white.

#News #Education #Schools #Students #PrivateSchools #BlackHistory

https://propub.li/3VldI3d

Because of his willingness to play for segregated audiences, throughout much of his life, Louis Armstrong was called a sellout and an Uncle Tom by many Black Americans, But, in 1957, Satchmo blew up-—blasting Eisenhower to bits for not condemning treatment of Black American students in the South. His passionate words made world headlines, alienated many white fans, and divided Black America.

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@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social #BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #StillWeRise #BlackHistory
#Music