#blackhistoryeveryday — Public Fediverse posts

It's hitting me how the slow arc of justice my elders fought and died to set in motion has been halted by the Calais decision.

This morning, I was on a call with another (highly accomplished) middle-aged Black women and this is how we processed it together:

We are realizing that we (including our younger elder millennial sisters) are likely to be the LAST generation of Black women who will achieve so much.

This decision is not just a gutting of the VRA but the highest court's massive rejection of the idea that this country is, indeed, a land of opportunity for everyone.

The court is now an overt and explicitly complicit engine of white nationalism.

THAT is how much anti-Blackness has been simmering underneath this facade of 'American democracy.'

So now, Black folks, we need to decide. Retreat, close ranks to protect our own, and/or fight for a renewed Reconstruction on top of the smoldering ruins of this gotdamn system?

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Reposted from @blackaristocratart @wisdm From 3000BC to 2090 of Fashion 😍

Fashion History through the Ages! My favourite has to be 1780! The Classical period rocks ✌🏾

Do follow @blackaristocratart for Black Art History content you will love ❤️

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Memory Crafters Fight to Publicly Preserve Black Women’s History #BlackHistoryEveryDay
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2025/02/10/black-women-named-legacies-excerpt

I'm going to follow up with the earlier post to actually recommend people watch this. It's amazing how Canada has somehow managed to cloak itself in "better than the United States," which, it maybe is, but that's a matter of degree.

Canada is not without massive, ongoing, racist issues.

I think this timeline glossed over some items, such as it really could have spelled out that the anti-Semitism which was BOTH at the individual level and at the national level. Including turning away a boat of Jewish refugees during World War II.

But it does do a good job of clarifying that there has never been a point in history where Canada has been without racism. Official racism, at that.

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TIL:

"COWBOY" was a derogatory term for Black men working in rural areas.

In the way that Black men were referred to as "boy" regardless of their age, "cowboy" was just a specific application.

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Black Book Club meeting last night was great. Lively discussion, good ideas bantered, and a great group of people!

I seriously hope we get to come back to the life of Claudia Jones because we definitely did not get nearly deep enough into her life and work.

Last month's book:
Left of Karl Marx

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In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist. Jones is buried in London’s Highgate Cemetery, to the left of Karl Marx—a location that Boyce Davies finds fitting given how Jones expanded Marxism-Leninism to incorporate gender and race in her political critique and activism.
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https://www.dukeupress.edu/left-of-karl-marx

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The year of our Lordt twenty-fucking-twenty-four and #wypipo still out there thinking they own us and we need to be more "deferential".

Mmm hmm.

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"Black is adjective, adverb, colour AND noun!" ​:black_sparkling_heart:​​:black_sparkling_heart:​

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For #BlackHistoryMonth, a Wikipedia article I started a while ago on The Bog, a 19th-century Charlottetown neighbourhood of Black enslaved persons, and later a mixed-race slum. The Bog was gentrified (read: bulldozed) in the early 20th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bog,_Charlottetown

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Angela Davis’ voice resonates with me so much when it comes to the spirit of #activism. Her #words are still #powerful.

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From African & Black History on Twitter
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On this day in 1969, activist and chairman of the Black Panther Party Fred Hampton, was assassinated by Chicago police and the FBI at just 21 years old.

William O'Neal, an FBI informant, infiltrated the Black Panthers and set up Fred Hampton for $300.

A THREAD [ condensed from Twitter ]

In Illinois, where Fred Hampton was born, the police constantly harassed black people. Access to social goods too was made difficult, if not curtailed, in the areas with heavy black populations.

The party, a creation of Huey Newton and fellow student Bobby Seale, insisted on black nationalist response to racial discrimination. The party’s Illinois chapter was opened in 1967 and Hampton joined in 1968, aged just 20.

when Stokely Carmichael’s Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) split from the Panthers in 1969, Hampton headed the Illinois chapter of the Panthers.

Then a petty criminal, O’Neal was coerced by the FBI into helping them silence Hampton and the Black Panther Party. And he did just that when he infiltrated the party and provided the FBI with a floor plan of the Chicago apartment where Hampton was assassinated in 1969.

Find the original at
https://twitter.com/AfricanArchives/status/1599461127653580800?t=p4DXJhSvu-hviTY8doN2Lw&s=19

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