#OTD in 1856, Booker T. Washington, the African-American educator, author, and orator was born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington
His books at PG:
#AfricanAmerican
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Thelma Delgers: American Hero or American Fool?
Thelma is a young African American woman in Riverbend, USA. She has become the "de facto" leader of Riverbend's TDG.
Is she a hero? Is she a fool?
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=18&id=256
Miembros del #KuKluxKlan
eran jueces, abogados y
banqueros. No solo los agricultores como
a menudo son retratados.
Por eso llevaban máscaras.
Eran hombres prominentes
y no quería ninguma
consecuencias de su derecho y deber de aterrorizar
comunidades negras
#blackexcellence #blackwomen #blackpeople #blacklivesmatter #blackhistory #blackexperience #blackhistory365 #blackHistoryMatters #africanamerican #blackculture #Blackhistorymonth2025 #blackliberation
Majority-Black Town in Ohio Launches Armed Watch after Neo-#Nazi, #Klan Provocations
from #WorldOutlook
February 28, 2025
On February 7, about a dozen masked men, some of them carrying AR-15 semi-automatic rifles, drove a U-Haul truck to a freeway overpass at Lincoln Heights’ edge. The men, dressed in black, shouted racist slurs and waived black flags with red swastikas on them. Enraged Lincoln Heights residents soon approached to counter protest. Local police who converged on the scene from the nearby town of #Evandale, across the highway, appeared cordial toward some of the white supremacists. As the crowd of Lincoln Heights residents swelled, the ultra rightists got back on their truck and drove off. Counter protesters burned the Nazi flags left behind.
#AfricanAmerican #LincolnHeights
#Cincinnati #Ohio #WaPo #BlackNews #WashingtonPost #BlackMastodon
#KuKluxKlan #Black #racism #FightRacism #news #politics
World-Outlook · Majority-Black Town in Ohio Launches Armed Watch after Neo-Nazi, Klan ProvocationsThis article reports on efforts by residents of Lincoln Heights, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, to defend themselves against provocations by neo-Nazi thugs and Ku Klux Klansmen by organizing counter-mobilizations and an armed watch. Nearly 83% of the town’s approximately 3,000 residents are African American. Lincoln Heights was the first self-governing Black community to be founded north of the Mason-Dixon line, which divided the Union from the Confederate South during the U.S. civil war.
Harlem Street Dance New York City by Elizabeth Olds 1935-1943
#AfricanAmerican, #BlackAmerica, #Dance, #ElizabethOlds, #Mid20thCentury, #NewYork, #NYC
Vintage ◦ Classic ◦ Historical | Art ◦ Design ◦ Inspiration | Restored ◦ Enhanced ◦ Remixed
Prints, T-Shirts, Stickers, & More by @rocketshipretro via RedBubble → https://bigplanetprints.com/go/89zetV
Sleepy Time Down South, Bluesman & Guitar 1941 by Saul Kovner
#AfricanAmerican, #AmericanSouth, #BlackAmerica, #Blues, #Mid20thCentury, #Musician, #SaulKovner
Vintage ◦ Classic ◦ Historical | Art ◦ Design ◦ Inspiration | Restored ◦ Enhanced ◦ Remixed
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Roll Them Bones, A Game With Dice 1935-1943 Irving Guyer
#20thCentury, #AfricanAmerican, #Dice, #Gambling, #Games, #IrvingGuyer
Vintage ◦ Classic ◦ Historical | Art ◦ Design ◦ Inspiration | Restored ◦ Enhanced ◦ Remixed
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The Dancing Lesson 1878, Thomas Eakins
#19thcentury, #AfricanAmerican, #AmericanSouth, #Black, #Guitar, #ThomasEakins
Vintage ◦ Classic ◦ Historical | Art ◦ Design ◦ Inspiration | Restored ◦ Enhanced ◦ Remixed
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Paul Robeson's first visit to the Soviet Union, 1934.
It is so sad that such a place stopped existing
Its dissolution set humanity behind at least 100 years in social progress.
Second of two great opinion pieces from the #PhiladelphiaInquirer. I am not #African-American, but #SolomonJones, the writer, seems to make sense. #AfricanAmerican pals, please weigh in. EDITED TO PROVIDE GIFT LINK
The targets of Trump’s DEI attacks must unite — because no one else is coming to our rescue https://share.inquirer.com/hcehdC
The Philadelphia Inquirer · The targets of Trump’s DEI attacks must unite — because no one else is coming to our rescue
A new study traces the history of Black American literary groups.
By Brittany Allen
https://lithub.com/a-new-study-traces-the-history-of-black-american-literary-groups/
Jessye Norman - O Divine Redeemer {Repentir (Charles Gounod)}
Ah! Turn me not away,
Receive me tho' unworthy;
Hear Thou my cry,
Behold, Lord, my distress!
Answer me from thy throne
Haste Thee, Lord to mine aid,
Thy pity shew in my deep anguish!
Let not the sword of vengeance smite me,
Though righteous thine anger,
O Lord! Shield me in danger, O regard me!
On Thee, Lord, alone will I call.
#JessyeNorman #Opera #Music #Academic #Blackmastodon #AfricanAmerican #Art
m.youtube.com- YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Middle #Tennessee State #University #histodons assist the #AfricanAmerican community in #Murfreesboro preserve the #history of the Cemetery School in a museum. The segregated school was created for the #education of children of former #slaves who were hired to bury #Union Army casualties, including those killed during the #CivilWar Battle of Stones River that occurred nearby.
Main Street Media of Tennessee - · MTSU helps Cemetery School take on new role as Black museum - Main Street Media of TennesseeMiddle Tennessee State University’s Center for Historic Preservation is working with alumnus and retired administrator Vincent Windrow and the Friends of Cemetery School in Murfreesboro to help preserve one of the state’s remaining Black schools. “There so few surviving examples of segregated schools built in the rural South. At one time there were thousands of them. Rutherford County has one <a href="https://mainstreetmediatn.com/articles/murfreesboropost/mtsu-helps-cemetery-school-take-on-new-role-as-black-museum/">[…]</a>
In the African-American folk traditions of the American South, a "conjure man" or "conjure woman" was a professional sorcerer. They would live outside the community, often in the swamp. Though feared, conjure folk would be consulted for various magical services.
Today in Labor History March 15, 1877: Ben Fletcher, African-American IWW organizer was born on this date. Fletcher organized longshoremen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He joined the Wobblies (IWW) in 1912, became secretary of the IWW District Council in 1913. He also co-founded the interracial Local 8 in 1913. By 1916, thanks in large part to Fletcher’s organizing skill, all but two of Philadelphia’s docks were controlled by the IWW. And the union maintained control of the Philly waterfront for about a decade. After the 1913 strike, Fletcher traveled up and down the east coast organizing dockers. However, he was nearly lynched in Norfolk, Virginia in 1917. At that time, roughly 10% of the IWW’s 1 million members were African American. Most had been rejected from other unions because of their skin color. In 1918, the state arrested him, sentencing him to ten years for the crime of organizing workers during wartime. He served three years.
Confessions of a Future Politician
Thelma Delgers is an average American building a new democracy:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=29&id=176
#CurrentlyDownloading the first episode of the "Talkin' Music" #podcast from the #AnnArbor District Library: "Step into a rich history of the music of Ann Arbor’s #AfricanAmerican community. Talkin’ Music invites listeners to explore Ann Arbor’s 'Our Own Thing Chorale' and Instructional Program through its founder, Dr. Willis C. Patterson, and past and current members spanning more than 50 years." #AADL #Michigan #Music #History https://aadl.org/talkinmusic
