#blackhistory — Public Fediverse posts

I spent a lot of my childhood in a semi-rural Ohio Black community with very little contact with white people, so it always strikes me as odd to have Black folks who don't know me and with no direct experience with legal racial segregation judging the purity of my Black identity based on a standard of their homogenized, commodified urban Black identity financed by white money and sold worldwide.

How Formerly Enslaved People Built Their Own Towns
#PBS #Documentary #BlackFedi #US #Culture #Community #History #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8FbsMDfKoY

Black Zombie released in 2026 set in Haiti

"A journey through cinema and history reveals how zombies evolved from

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#film #mj #thrillervideo #racism #antiblack #spiritual #slavery #blackhistory #whitehistory #guinea #vodou #voodoo #blackwomen #92percent #blackmastodon

With All Deliberate Speed released in 2004

Black Children are predominantly sharing textbooks in classrooms with holes in the walls allowing cockroaches easy access

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408338

The IRS was doing the same thing not punishing Black People directly by ethnicity/race but indirectly by post/zip code.

Source: https://mastodon.social/@blackunityoverdisagreement/113281227761263215

#film #blackhistory #whitehistory #blackmastodon #brownvboardofeducation #barbarajohns #blackwomen

Hey friends. Here's my #BannedBooksWeek selection of the day.

Subversive Habits. Dr. Shannen Dee Williams guides us on the history of Black Catholic nuns and the Black liberation struggle.

Also on my Bookshop.org wishlist.

#Books #Bookstodon #Blackhistory #BlackHistoryMonthUK

By the first African American artist to receive national & international recognition: Robert S. Duncanson (1821–1872), Minneopa Falls, 1862, oil on canvas, Cincinnati Art Museum. A nearly identical work is in the Milwaukee Art Museum. #blackart #blackartist #blackartists #BlackHistory #art