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ts-wicked-wonders · 2 months
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Black history: Did you know?
Phillis Wheatley was only 12 when she became the first female African American author published.
Despite Phyllis Wheatley’s fame, we know surprisingly little about her early life. She was taken from her home in Africa when she was seven or eight, and sold to the Wheatley family in Boston. The family taught her to read and write, and encouraged her to write poetry as soon as they witnessed her talent for it. In 1773, Phyllis published her first poem, making her the first African American to be published. She was only 12 at the time.
Read more: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley
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queerism1969 · 1 year
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bantuotaku · 5 months
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OMG, @netflix is about to drop the second season of High on the Hog on 11/22/23 and I can't wait...
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cavalierzee · 3 months
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Malcolm X With Keffiyeh
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Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. You don’t need anything else.” (Malcolm X)
“The zionist argument to justify Israel’s present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.”(Malcolm X)
“Did the Zionists have the legal or moral right to invade Arab Palestine, uproot its Arab citizens from their homes and seize all Arab property for themselves just based on the “religious” claim that their forefathers lived there thousands of years ago? Only a thousand years ago the Moors lived in Spain. Would this give the Moors of today the legal and moral right to invade the Iberian Peninsula, drive out its Spanish citizens, and then set up a new Moroccan nation … where Spain used to be, as the European zionists have done to our Arab brothers and sisters in Palestine?…” (Malcolm X)
Oil Painting by: Safia Latif
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woobosco · 1 year
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Afro Culture (My culture)
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mysharona1987 · 1 year
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henneseyhoe · 1 year
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nickysfacts · 6 months
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Black Barbie led the charge for better representation in their dolls, who today now thankfully represent everyone’s girlhood!
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kazimirkharza · 1 year
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Worse than Waco
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What transpired between members of the Branch Davidians and federal law enforcement in Waco is one of those moments where the government showed its true colours, but there’s an an even worse case.
After prior years of harassment and abuse (including murder) at the hands of law enforcement. MOVE, a christian anarcho-primitivist communal organisation, was besieged by nearly five hundred police officers on 5/13/1985.
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Arresting & detaining have been among the tactics pigs used to either destroy MOVE or chase them out of the city. The reasons were racism (most MOVE members were black), and the organisation's activism related to the injustices of the American "justice" system among other things.
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MOVE was started by John Africa (pictured bellow), who came up with their philosophical underpinnings, but was not a leader in any traditional sense. These beliefs included a love for all life, state abolition, self defence, soberness, eating fresh raw food, and staying active.
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On that day in 1985, neighbouring buildings were evacuated as an army of pigs showed up to arrest MOVE. Water and electricity was shut off. Police used more than ten thousand rounds of ammo before cops decided the compound be bombed (yes, literally). A helicopter dropped two bombs that caused a fire. The ensuing fire killed 11 of the 13 people in the house (John Africa, 5 other adults, and five children). Ramona Africa, the only adult survivor, said that police fired at those trying to escape. The fire destroyed over 60 other buildings.
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In '96 a federal jury ordered the city to pay a $1.5 million civil suit judgment to survivor Ramona Africa and relatives of 2 people killed in the bombing. The city used excessive force and violated the members' constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
If you wish to learn more about MOVE, I recommend their booklet "25 years on the Move", available for free at Anarchist Library.
“All living beings, things that move, are equally important, whether they are human beings, dogs, birds, fish, trees, ants, weeds, rivers, wind or rain. To stay healthy and strong, life must have lean air, clean water and pure food. If deprived of these things, life will cycle to the next level, or as the system says, ‘die’.” - John Africa
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reasonsforhope · 8 months
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"When President Joe Biden signed a proclamation Tuesday establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, it marked the fulfillment of a promise Till’s relatives made after his death 68 years ago.
The Black teenager from Chicago, whose abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the Civil Rights Movement, is now an American story, not just a civil rights story, said Till’s cousin the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr.
“It has been quite a journey for me from the darkness to the light,” Parker said during a proclamation signing ceremony at the White House attended by dozens, including other family members, members of Congress and civil rights leaders.
“Back then in the darkness, I could never imagine the moment like this, standing in the light of wisdom, grace and deliverance,” he said.
With the stroke of Biden’s pen, the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, located across three sites in two states, became federally-protected places. Before signing the proclamation, the president said he marvels at the courage of the Till family to “find faith and purpose in pain.”
“Today, on what would have been Emmett’s 82nd birthday, we add another chapter in the story of remembrance and healing,” Biden said...
On Tuesday, reaction poured in from other elected officials and from the civil rights organizing community. The Rev. Al Sharpton said the Till national monument designation tells him “that out of pain comes power.”
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jefferies said the monument “places the life and legacy of Emmett Till among our nation’s most treasured memorials.”
“Black history is American history,” he said in a written statement...
Till-Mobley demanded that Emmett’s mutilated remains be taken back to Chicago for a public, open casket funeral that was attended by tens of thousands of people. Graphic images taken of Emmett’s remains, sanctioned by his mother, were published by Jet magazine and fueled the Civil Rights Movement...
Altogether, the Till national monument will include 5.7 acres (2.3 hectares) of land and two historic buildings. The Mississippi sites are Graball Landing, the spot where Emmett’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River just outside of Glendora, Mississippi, and the Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi, where Emmett’s killers were tried...
The Illinois site is Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago, where Emmett’s funeral was held in September 1955...
Mississippi state Sen. David Jordan, 90, was a freshman at Mississippi Valley State College in 1955 when he attended part of the trial of the two men charged with killing Emmett. As a state senator for the past 30 years, Jordan, who is Black, spearheaded fundraising for a statue of Emmett Till that was dedicated last year in Greenwood, Mississippi, a few miles from where the teenager was abducted.
On Tuesday, Jordan praised Biden for creating the Till national monument.
“It’s one of the greatest honors that a president could pay to a person, 14, who lost his life in Mississippi that’s created a movement that changed America,” Jordan told the AP."
-via AP, July 25, 2023
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pagansphinx · 1 month
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Aaron Douglas (American, 1899-1979) • Aspirations • 1936
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An Idyll of the Deep South• 1934
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ts-wicked-wonders · 2 months
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Black History Month: Did you know?
The three-light traffic signal was invented by a Black man named Garrett Morgan.
Garrett Morgan had only an elementary school education and was the son of a formerly enslaved man. Nevertheless, Morgan surmounted these difficulties and is responsible for many important inventions. Most notably, Morgan invented the three-light traffic signal in 1923.
While driving one day, Morgan witnessed a serious car crash at an intersection. This sparked his idea to add a third light to the traffic signal which would warn drivers of an impending red light. His patent was granted in 1924, and after early installments of the three-light traffic signal were successful, they spread throughout the country and became the three-light signal many of us encounter daily.
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intomore · 6 days
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Consuelo Kanaga, She is a Tree of Life to Them, 1950,
Gelatin silver print,
Image: 13⅜ by 9⅝ in. (33.8 by 24.4 cm.)
Courtesy: Sotheby's
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memphistn · 11 months
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On May 8th 1925, despite not knowing how to swim, Tom Lee helped save the lives of 32 passengers who were swept under the notoriously dangerous Mississippi River by a sinking steamboat. After seeing the boat capsize, Lee, who was a river worker and at the time on his way back to Memphis after his route, immediately steered his boat named "Zev" to the wreckage. He risked his life, piling the men, women, and children into his boat before driving them back to shore and returning to the scene to rescue more. After his 4th trip back to the sandbar, he even built a fire from driftwood for the rescued folk to warm themselves by. Even after authorities came in large rescue boats to seek possible survivors, Lee still stayed behind in his Zev till morning searching for bodies. Lee eventually was recognized for his heroic acts. He was brought to meet the mayor, the president, and photographed beside his famous Zev. Described as bashful and shy, Lee only asked for one thing in return: a house. A campaign raising donations was able to afford him a brick house that still stands on 923 N Mansfield. For a short while there was a segregated "blacks only" swimming pool named after him. In 1952 Memphis created a granite obelisk in honor of him, with a plaque that read "A very worthy negro", a stark reminder of the dehumanization black americans experience. Luckily in 2003 it was replaced with a bronze sculpture of Lee pulling a passenger onto his Zev. This remains a much more respectful and deserving monument to the Memphis hero. As well as the still standing Tom Lee park. In 1952 he died from cancer, and his resting site is at Mt. Caramel Cemetery where his head stone reads "Lead me in the path of peace"
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70spunkstars · 5 months
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I wonder what life would be like rn
if African americans did what european americans feared we would do after they “freed” us. Like imagine we actually took reparations by force 😭. What would our culture look like now? How would turtle island’s government be different? Would we have asked native americans to share the land with us or would we have gone back to Africa along with the enslaved Africans in the carribean and South America? I think about this like every other day.
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woobosco · 1 year
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Afro Culture (My Culture)
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