#african americans

[mapsontheweb]

U.S. Counties where the African American population is 25% or more

#maps #us #african americans

[katrinapavela]

what Black people did in this country was brand new … These people were very inventive, very creative, and that was a very modern situation. It was, philosophically, probably the earliest nineteenth-century modernist existence. And out of thrown things they invented everything: a music that is the world’s music, a style, a manner of speaking, a relationship with each other, and more importantly, psychological ways to deal with it. And no one gives us credit for the intelligence it takes to be forced into another culture, be oppressed, and make a third thing. Other cultures who get moved like that die or integrate; or because they’re White, they don’t even integrate, they disappear into the dominant culture. That never happened to us … this is a whole new experience—and it is a modern experience. —Toni Morrison

#toni morrison #African Americans

[uwmspeccoll]

Copper Sun

Last week we brought you Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen's (1903-1946) first major poem The Ballad of the Brown Girl. Today we present Cullen's second collected book of poetry, Copper Sun, published in New York by Harper & Brothers in 1927, with illustrations by the same artist who illustrated Ballad, the unrelated Art Deco artist Charles Cullen (1887-?). Copper Sun is a collection of over fifty poems that explore race, religion, and sexuality in Jazz Age America, and particularly the possibility of unity between white and black people, as exemplified in the two Cullens, one black, the other white.

View more work by Countee Cullen.

View other books illustrated by Charles Cullen.

View other Black History Month posts.

#Black History Month #Countee Cullen #Charles Cullen #Copper Sun #Harper & Brothers #harlem renaissance #Art Deco #African Americans #Black writers #Black poets #African American writers #illustrated books

[newhistorybooks]

"A rich, well-written and well-researched book on a novel and important topic. African Musicians in the Atlantic World will make a major contribution to multiple fields, including music history, Atlantic studies, colonial Caribbean history and literature, as well as studies of transatlantic slavery, the African diaspora, and Black culture in the Americas. It is full of fascinating archival discoveries and insights."

#uwlibraries #history books #african americans #history of music #caribbean history #colonial history #history of slavery

[kemetic-dreams]

Children playing on a cart in Harlem, New York in the 1920s.

#african #afrakan #africans #kemetic dreams #afrakans #brownskin #brown skin #african american #african americans #harlem #new york #1920

[tabney2023]

Black Girl Art Illustration. Thanks for Tipping!

#black artists #black art #black girl art #blackgirlmagic #blacktumblr #black culture #black community #blackexcellence #black vibes #black hair #black hairstyles #braids #african americans #american culture #black american culture #black women #blackbeauty #women of color #black fashion #blackisbeautiful #ebonybeauty #black is beautiful #blacklivesmatter

[3rdeyeblaque]

🌟 SHOP OPEN for The 2024 Hoodoo's Calendar🌟

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What you can expect from The 2024 Hoodoo's Calendar (2nd edition):

- images drawn from the pillars of Hoodoo Culture/Religion/Tradition

- Hoodoo Holidays

- Veneration Days (for Hoodoo Saints & Elevated Ancestors)

- lunar calendar of New/Waxing/Full/Waning moon cycles

- intuitively selected Root(s) of the Month for personal/collective Rootwork and study

- Days of Power marked by significant events in Hoodoo Culture & History

- Acknowledgment of our Hoodoos in the Vodou Pantheon & borne of First Nations descent.

**NEW - Earth/Astrological Season Cycles (Solstices & Equinoxes)

Color scheme: crimson red interior/jet black exterior with white accents.

Theme: Where Does Hoodoo Live? Where can the living descendants look to find [blackbelt and modern] Hoodoo?

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#Hudu #hoodoo #hoodoos #atr #atrs #the hoodoo calendar #rootwork #conjure #rootworkers #Conjurers #Hoodoo juju #ancestor veneration #black americans #African Americans #black spirituality #spiritual black girls #spiritual black boys

[yearningforunity]

Foot washing, South Carolina ca. 1929-1932

ph: Doris Ulmann

#Foot washing #South Carolina #Low Country #Culture #History #African Americans #African Descent

[blackstar1887]

Unraveling Identity: Cam'ron, African Americans, and a Pan-African Perspective

#cam'ron #african culture #african americans #pan africanism #black power #dr amos wilson #amos wilson #blueprint for black power #black identity #africa #african development #pan african #hip hop

[tomorrowusa]

Trump supporters are trying to blur Trump's racism by posting fake AI images of him being the object of adoration by African Americans.

One of the disseminators of such images is a white MAGA talk show host in Florida.

Unlike in 2016, when there was evidence of foreign influence campaigns, the AI-generated images found by the BBC appear to have been made and shared by US voters themselves. One of them was Mark Kaye and his team at a conservative radio show in Florida. They created an image of Mr Trump smiling with his arms around a group of black women at a party and shared it on Facebook, where Mr Kaye has more than one million followers. At first it looks real, but on closer inspection everyone's skin is a little too shiny and there are missing fingers on people's hands - some tell-tale signs of AI-created images. "I'm not a photojournalist," Mr Kaye tells me from his radio studio. "I'm not out there taking pictures of what's really happening. I'm a storyteller." He had posted an article about black voters supporting Mr Trump and attached this image to it, giving the impression that these people all support the former president's run for the White House. In the comments on Facebook, several users appeared to believe the AI image was real. "I'm not claiming it is accurate. I'm not saying, 'Hey, look, Donald Trump was at this party with all of these African American voters. Look how much they love him!'" he said. "If anybody's voting one way or another because of one photo they see on a Facebook page, that's a problem with that person, not with the post itself."

Basically, Mark Kaye is telling the BBC that he has the right to deceive people.

Another spreader of fake images is a Christian fundamentalist known as "Shaggy" in Michigan.

We tracked down the person behind the account called Shaggy, who is a committed Trump supporter living in Michigan.

"[My posts] have attracted thousands of wonderful kind-hearted Christian followers," he said in messages sent to the BBC on social media. When I tried to question him on the AI-generated image he blocked me. His post has had over 1.3 million views, according to the social media site X. Some users called it out, but others seemed to have believed the image was real.

FYI: This is "Shaggy". Is anybody shocked that the people spreading these fake images of blacks are old white MAGA zombies?

Apparently there are still people using oligarch Elon Musk's Twitter X. Don't expect Odious Elon to do anything about obvious attempts to deceive users.

Cliff Albright, the co-founder of campaign group Black Voters Matter, said there appeared to be a resurgence of disinformation tactics targeting the black community, as in the 2020 election. "There have been documented attempts to target disinformation to black communities again, especially younger black voters," he said.

If Trump supporters think that they have the right to spread bogus images, we then have the right to have some fun with them. 😋

#african americans #donald trump #fake images #disinformation #fake news #poor ai distortions #mark kaye #MAGAShaggy1958 #maga zombies #social media #deceiving black voters #republicans #cliff albright #black voters matter #election 2024 #vote blue no matter who

[palmettostraw]

Campbell's Pond park for African Americans.

Cheraw State Park, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, United States

Cheraw is one of the small towns in South Carolina my family is from. It sits near the border of South Carolina and North Carolina. I had a friend who called people from the area part of my family is from "border hoppers" and when doing my own genealogical research it’s very true. Many people in the area including some of my family were back and forth between Anson County, NC and Chesterfield and Marlboro Counties in SC .

#south carolina #north carolina #african americans #gullah geechee #cheraw SC #black history

[mapsontheweb]

U.S. Black population percentage by county

#maps #african americans

[lifelovemusiq]

#quincy #quincy brown #quincy combs #actor #model #singer #musicians #poc #2023 #cardigan #purple #black models #black men #black fashion #black actors #blacks #african americans #dailycelebs #dailyactors #men #r&b #hiphop #hip hop #black singers #black tumblr #haircut #summer 2023 #instagram

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

February 12th commemorates the founding of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) established in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. Over the years, the NAACP’s mission has evolved “to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination”.  

Milwaukee lawyer, Wisconsin state representative, and civil-rights activist Lloyd A. Barbee (1925-2002) devoted most of his life to the NAACP’s mission. Joining the association at just 12 years old Barbee went on to become the president of the Madison branch from 1955-1960 and the Wisconsin chapter from 1961-1964. He was simultaneously earning a law degree and using his prowess as an activist to draft Madison’s Equal Opportunity Ordinance, demand Milwaukee Public Schools end segregation, and ultimately ran and won a seat on the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1965-1977 where he was the only African American in the state legislature.  

Browsing the Special Collections stacks in search of materials to honor the day, I came across a quirky item belonging to Lloyd A. Barbee. The book in question is actually four titles Barbee had bound into a single item. The titles include An Outline of the Old Testament, A Hymarx Outline of the New Testament, A Hymarx outline of the Plays of Shakespeare, and NAACP Annual Report 1957-58. Why Barbee had the titles bound together is anyone’s guess, but the NAACP report provides insight into his civil rights passions, including an update on the association’s work with the Wisconsin Industrial Commission to secure Black tradesmen membership within local unions, an effort Barbee would have no doubt contributed to and has annotated with his initials.  

This book is part of the Fromkin Memorial Collection developed around the broad theme of social justice in the United States. 

Read other Milestone Monday posts here! 

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

#milestone monday #NAACP #national association of the advancement of colored people #lloyd a. barbee #fromkin memorial collection #Black History Month #African Americans

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Grist:

Detroiter Ian Solomon began building a deep relationship with the outdoors while attending college in Arizona for broadcast journalism. He’d never been in a place with such access to mountains and nature before, and he quickly fell in love.

But during his forays into the wilderness, he often felt like he was entering predominantly white spaces. He soon began to see the outdoors as a privilege to which other Black and Brown people should have access. His efforts led him to launch Amplify Outside, one of several initiatives emerging from Detroit to help eliminate obstacles to people of color accessing nature.

According to a study by the Outdoor Foundation, 72 percent of outdoor participants in 2020 were white. Black and Hispanic Americans are both underrepresented in outdoor recreation activities, and just 38 percent of Black Americans ages six and over participated in 2020, down from 40 percent in 2019.

There are important reasons for this, according to Solomon. “A lot of our history as being Black Americans in the outdoors is kind of negative – you think about slavery and lynching,” he says. “There’s a lot of access barriers for Black people outdoors, but sometimes it’s just as simple as we don’t know where to go and we didn’t know this was an option.”

The disconnect with nature for Black and Brown people goes beyond access. Scholar Carolyn Finney, author of “Black Faces, White Spaces,” notes that Black Americans’ relationship with the outdoors and the environment has historically been dictated for them.

So he decided to make his vision a reality. He started by launching Amplify Detroit with social media accounts on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter in 2021. He soon gained a following by bringing the beauty of the outdoors to screens to display possibilities for Black and Brown people they might not have imagined for themselves.

The posts feature Black and Brown folks enjoying camping, paddling, fishing, and more, along with facts about parks in Michigan, distance from Detroit and how to get there, and information about the natural lands within the city.

Amplify Outside’s tagline is “Black Recreation is Black Liberation.”

#access to nature #outdoor access #urban environment #African Americans #outdoors #Hispanic Americans #Amplify Outside

[kemetic-dreams]

A family from Florida headed "up north" during the Great Depression.

#african #african american #african americans #florida #great depression #kemetic dreams