So #ThePitt did a shout out and led me to this book. Definitely reading, it looks awesome. Sharing in case anyone else needs recommendations for the #PolymathReadingChallenge ;)

#BlackHistoryMonth #bookstodon #AmReading #history

In honor of Black History Month…

“Woke” is an appropriated term that has become a colloquialism loosely meaning “having a moral compass” in the face of systemic oppression. Its original usage was “stay woke,” unintentionally coined by blues musician Lead Belly.

In a 1938 he was recording his song “Scottsboro Boys,” ending it with spoken word about the song’s meaning.

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#BlackHistoryMonth #Woke #LeadBelly #Music #History #CulturalAppropriation

@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

Celebrating Black History Month in Comedy: Hoodo Hersi

https://dannabananas.com/blogs/blog/celebrating-black-history-month-in-comedy-hoodo-hersi

#BlackHistoryMonth
#blog
#Comedian
#Comedy
#female
#Laughter
#HoodoHersi

🧵 2/2: #JamesBaldwin prophetically understood how the #AmericanDream itself was the engine of #inequality. It seems obvious now as we witness #capitalism in its last throes, but it was revolutionary in 1965.

"What is crucial here is that unless we can manage to accept, establish some kind of dialog between those people whom I pretend have paid for the American dream and those other people who have not achieved it, we will be in terrible trouble"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFeoS41xe7w

#blackhistorymonth

In 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others called for a “revolution of values” in America. They sought to build a broad, fusion movement that could unite poor and impacted communities across the country. Their name was a direct cry from the underside of history: The Poor People’s Campaign. Today, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has picked up this unfinished work. Join us!

#BlackHistoryMonth #MLK #MartinLutherKingJr #PoorPeoplesCampaign #MDPPC

My grampa Talking to me more bout growing up in 1960's mississippi. He said black folk were completely separated. Signs everywhere ' colored' 'white'. As a kid he said he knew not to walk in a store thru the front, not to look a white person in the eye, cross the street to let a white person pass. So many rules apart from yall read bout separate drinking faintains and shit. Such a racist past the US has !
#blackhistorymonth #blackmastodon

Read about Frances Thompson, a Black, transgender woman whose testimony before Congress helped push them to ratify the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. This is the history that has been whitewashed - and straightwashed - in the US and that is once again in danger of being forgotten.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/us/frances-thompson-transgender-memphis-massacre/index.html

#lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtqia2s #Black #BlackHistoryMonth #trans #transgender

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

I still haven't made it to Black history yet. I'm still on white US history.

Q: Why is it OK for Black folk to like the Black Panthers, but white folk can't like the klan? Black supremacy is just as bad as white supremacy! Why the double standard?

A: Black folk know white US history, so they know that the Black Panthers were not Black supremacists.

(At this point, half of the Black folk reading this just involuntarily said "COINTELPRO!" out loud).

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#BlackMastodon

#BlackHistoryMonth Day 15
Astronaut Leland Melvin. Also a former professional football player. He flew two missions on the Space Shuttle Atlantis as a mission specialist. In all, Melvin logged over 565 hours in space. & he took the GREATEST official NASA astronaut photo in history.

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

#blackhistorymonth
@blackmastodon

Bessie Coleman (1892-1926)
-first licensed Black woman pilot.

Denied access to flight training in the USA, Bessie Coleman learned French and went to France for flight training.

When astronaut Mae Jemison made history as the first black woman in space, she was carrying a photograph of Bessie Coleman with her.

-image credits via:
https://dressparade.org/bessie-coleman/

This is the visual #artist Jonathan Harris from #Detroit #Michigan

The title of his work is called "#CriticalRaceTheory"

(his website: https://jonathanharrisart.bigcartel.com/ )

#BlackHistoryMonth #Black #USA

Nice write-up from a former tour guide aboard the Queen Mary recounting some experiences of black soldiers on her during World War II.

https://captainstableblog.com/day-of-final-victory-black-soldiers-aboard-the-queen-mary/

#QueenMary #Cruise #Blog #WorldWarII #WorldWar2 #WW2 #History #BlackHistoryMonth

I'm a huge #publicenemy fan and it never occurred to me that I should look up this quote that I remember by heart.

"Have you forgotten that once we were brought here, we were robbed of our name, robbed of our language. We lost our religion, our culture, our god ... and many of us, by the way we act, we even lost our minds."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_Abdul_Muhammad

#blackhistorymonth

Today, in honor of Black History Month, we remember Nat Turner, who led one of the only effective, sustained slave revolt in U.S. history (in 1831). They killed over 50 people, mostly whites, but the authorities put down the rebellion after a few days. Turner survived in hiding for several months. The militia and racist mobs, in turn, slaughtered up to 120 free and enslaved black people, and the state executed another 56, and severely punished dozens of non-slaves in the frenzy that followed the uprising. Turner’s revolt set off a new wave of oppressive legislation by whites, prohibiting the education, movement and assembly of enslaved and free blacks, alike. After his conviction, he was beheaded and flayed, to deter future rebels. His skin was used to make souvenir purses and his skeleton was used as a medical specimen. In the 1960s, there was funk-soul band Nat Turner Rebellion. Tupac Shakur had a cross tattoo on his back, "EXODUS 1831", in reference to the year Turner led the rebellion

#workingclass #LaborHistory #slavery #NatTurner #rebellion #uprising #revolt #racism #blackhistorymonth #BlackMastadon

Something to think about in Black History Month...

#Capitalism #BlackHistoryMonth

In der Netflix-Miniserie „When They See Us“ geht es um fünf schwarze Teenager, die zu unrecht verurteilt werden, in „Green Book“, auf Lionsgate+ geht es um einen Schwarzen Pianisten, der in den 60ern für eine Tour in die Südstaaten reißt und in der Doku „Schwarze Adler“, in der bpb-Mediathek geht es um Rassismus im deutschen Fußball.

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLifesMatter #Fussball #Rassismus #WasLäuftHeute

https://detektor.fm/kultur/was-laeuft-heute-when-they-see-us-green-book-schwarze-adler?utm_campaign=share_on_mastodon&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_source=mastodon

On the first day of #BlackHistoryMonth, let's celebrate the many, many enslaved/indentured people who ran away from George Washington. The only USA president with a greater (inflation-adjusted) net worth than Washington is Trump. The USA has always been a threat to the world.

Most but not all of these people were Black. Many escaped multiple times. Some managed to do it permanently. Names listed twice are not the same people. Names listed together are people who escaped together.

Mary Monroe “Mol” Bowden
John Winter
Boson, Peros, Jack, and Neptune
Cupid
Caesar
Topsom
Nan
Breechy
Cloe
Tom and Bett
Michael Tracey
Will Shag
Harry
Venus and Jack Dismal
Coachman Jemmy
William Webster
Thomas Spears
Charles
Joseph Smith
Zeny and Nelly
Peter, Frederick, Frank, Gunner, Harry, Tom, Sambo, Thomas, Peter, Stephen, James, Watty, Daniel, Lucy, Esther, and Deborah
Abram
Priscilla
Oney Judge
Hercules
Christopher Sheels

These are just the people whose names are known. And of course these aren't their true or full names. Still, their humanity and desire for freedom shines through the centuries.

Today is the start of #BlackHistoryMonth in the US. It is also the anniversary of #OtD 1 Feb 1960 in Greensboro, NC, when four Black college students refused to move from a Woolworth's lunch counter after they were denied service https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10962/greensboro-civil-rights-sit-ins

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

You know the drill by now. I don't like talking about Black history. Americans know Black history. I want to talk about white American history. In other words, racism, and the erasure of both positive achievements of, and injustices suffered by, non-white people. That's what people don't know.

Try this: Ask your white US friends what the statue of liberty celebrates.

Now ask your Black friends. Or French folk of any color.

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#BlackMastodon

Preciate y'all support on me telling my grampa stories fo black history month. Hell yeah these stories got be kept alive.
Keep posting y'all.
Stay connected fo ##BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackMastodon
Love Jaden ❤️

monthly mutual aid request ⚠️

$115 needed! <- updated amount

hey y'all, this is a monthly request, so it will be updated with different details as needed. isaac needs consistent support. as of February 14th, the rent is OVERDUE!

y'all met his last mutual aid request so let's make this happen again!

if you don't know, isaac is an afro-indigenous decolonial journalist & has been seeking funds for rent, utilities, food, & to continue to sustain a decolonial media network that's been going on for over 3 years. please continue to share. let's show up for him!

$sideshowguyo7
venmo: jasper-steinline
pp: @Isaacjasper

@mutualaid #MutualAidRequest #IndigenousMutualAid #BlackMutualAid #Journalism #UrgentMutualAid #Decolonialism #MutualAid #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackCrowdFund

Shades of #HenriettaLacks 😬 #BlackHistoryMonth
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks-rebecca-skloot/586117

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

I'm still not up to Black History! I'm still working through white US history. Bear with me! Almost there!

Q: Why does it seem like everything has to be woke now? Even our scientists?! It never used to be that way! Why does it seem like these days, even higher education has to think about race, when it didn't before?

A: Higher education, including STEM, did think about race before. That history has just been hidden from you. Because racism.

#BlackMastodon