#toweri — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #toweri, aggregated by home.social.
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Miriam Makeba was born #OTD in 1932. After moving to New York City & collaborating with Harry Belafonte, she became recognized worlwide for her singing. But her marriage to Black Panther leader Kwame Toure and opposition to apartheid made her a pariah to the US and South Africa, and she was forced to relocate to Guinea, eventually returning to South Africa after the end of apartheid.
Today's art is by Ricardo Levins: https://www.rlmartstudio.com/product/makeba/
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Miriam Makeba was born #OTD in 1932. After moving to New York City & collaborating with Harry Belafonte, she became recognized worlwide for her singing. But her marriage to Black Panther leader Kwame Toure and opposition to apartheid made her a pariah to the US and South Africa, and she was forced to relocate to Guinea, eventually returning to South Africa after the end of apartheid.
Today's art is by Ricardo Levins: https://www.rlmartstudio.com/product/makeba/
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Miriam Makeba was born #OTD in 1932. After moving to New York City & collaborating with Harry Belafonte, she became recognized worlwide for her singing. But her marriage to Black Panther leader Kwame Toure and opposition to apartheid made her a pariah to the US and South Africa, and she was forced to relocate to Guinea, eventually returning to South Africa after the end of apartheid.
Today's art is by Ricardo Levins: https://www.rlmartstudio.com/product/makeba/
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Miriam Makeba was born #OTD in 1932. After moving to New York City & collaborating with Harry Belafonte, she became recognized worlwide for her singing. But her marriage to Black Panther leader Kwame Toure and opposition to apartheid made her a pariah to the US and South Africa, and she was forced to relocate to Guinea, eventually returning to South Africa after the end of apartheid.
Today's art is by Ricardo Levins: https://www.rlmartstudio.com/product/makeba/
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Miriam Makeba was born #OTD in 1932. After moving to New York City & collaborating with Harry Belafonte, she became recognized worlwide for her singing. But her marriage to Black Panther leader Kwame Toure and opposition to apartheid made her a pariah to the US and South Africa, and she was forced to relocate to Guinea, eventually returning to South Africa after the end of apartheid.
Today's art is by Ricardo Levins: https://www.rlmartstudio.com/product/makeba/
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Alexander Graham Bell was born #OTD in 1847. He came from a family of speech educators and researchers, and his mother’s transition to deafness led him to pursue studies in acoustics. This eventually led to his invention of the telephone, for which he is most widely known, but Bell also developed other inventions and continued working with the deaf, including Helen Keller.
Today's art source: https://paintingandframe.com/prints/others_alexander_graham_bell-41436.html
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Alexander Graham Bell was born #OTD in 1847. He came from a family of speech educators and researchers, and his mother’s transition to deafness led him to pursue studies in acoustics. This eventually led to his invention of the telephone, for which he is most widely known, but Bell also developed other inventions and continued working with the deaf, including Helen Keller.
Today's art source: https://paintingandframe.com/prints/others_alexander_graham_bell-41436.html
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Alexander Graham Bell was born #OTD in 1847. He came from a family of speech educators and researchers, and his mother’s transition to deafness led him to pursue studies in acoustics. This eventually led to his invention of the telephone, for which he is most widely known, but Bell also developed other inventions and continued working with the deaf, including Helen Keller.
Today's art source: https://paintingandframe.com/prints/others_alexander_graham_bell-41436.html
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Alexander Graham Bell was born #OTD in 1847. He came from a family of speech educators and researchers, and his mother’s transition to deafness led him to pursue studies in acoustics. This eventually led to his invention of the telephone, for which he is most widely known, but Bell also developed other inventions and continued working with the deaf, including Helen Keller.
Today's art source: https://paintingandframe.com/prints/others_alexander_graham_bell-41436.html
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Alexander Graham Bell was born #OTD in 1847. He came from a family of speech educators and researchers, and his mother’s transition to deafness led him to pursue studies in acoustics. This eventually led to his invention of the telephone, for which he is most widely known, but Bell also developed other inventions and continued working with the deaf, including Helen Keller.
Today's art source: https://paintingandframe.com/prints/others_alexander_graham_bell-41436.html
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#OTD in 1977, the General People's Congress of Libya announced the beginning of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Under this form of government, direct democracy, via popular councils and communes, would lead the country instead of political parties or religious authorities, and some forms of exploitative private ownership were abolished.
Today's art source: https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=665422
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#OTD in 1977, the General People's Congress of Libya announced the beginning of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Under this form of government, direct democracy, via popular councils and communes, would lead the country instead of political parties or religious authorities, and some forms of exploitative private ownership were abolished.
Today's art source: https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=665422
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#OTD in 1977, the General People's Congress of Libya announced the beginning of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Under this form of government, direct democracy, via popular councils and communes, would lead the country instead of political parties or religious authorities, and some forms of exploitative private ownership were abolished.
Today's art source: https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=665422
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#OTD in 1977, the General People's Congress of Libya announced the beginning of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Under this form of government, direct democracy, via popular councils and communes, would lead the country instead of political parties or religious authorities, and some forms of exploitative private ownership were abolished.
Today's art source: https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=665422
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#OTD in 1954, four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire on the House of Representatives while unfurling a Puerto Rican flag. One of them, Lolita Lebrón, stated during her arrest “I did not come to kill anyone, I came to die for Puerto Rico!”; true to her word, no Representatives died, and all four received a hero’s welcome upon their eventual return to Puerto Rico two decades later.
Today's art is by Mia Roman: https://www.artsbymia.com/art/lolita-lebron/
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#OTD in 1954, four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire on the House of Representatives while unfurling a Puerto Rican flag. One of them, Lolita Lebrón, stated during her arrest “I did not come to kill anyone, I came to die for Puerto Rico!”; true to her word, no Representatives died, and all four received a hero’s welcome upon their eventual return to Puerto Rico two decades later.
Today's art is by Mia Roman: https://www.artsbymia.com/art/lolita-lebron/
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In 1954, four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire on the House of Representatives while unfurling a Puerto Rican flag. One of them, Lolita Lebrón, stated during her arrest “I did not come to kill anyone, I came to die for Puerto Rico!”; true to her word, no Representatives died, and all four received a hero’s welcome upon their eventual return to Puerto Rico two decades later.
Today's art is by Mia Roman: https://www.artsbymia.com/art/lolita-lebron/
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#OTD in 1954, four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire on the House of Representatives while unfurling a Puerto Rican flag. One of them, Lolita Lebrón, stated during her arrest “I did not come to kill anyone, I came to die for Puerto Rico!”; true to her word, no Representatives died, and all four received a hero’s welcome upon their eventual return to Puerto Rico two decades later.
Today's art is by Mia Roman: https://www.artsbymia.com/art/lolita-lebron/
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#OTD in 1954, four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire on the House of Representatives while unfurling a Puerto Rican flag. One of them, Lolita Lebrón, stated during her arrest “I did not come to kill anyone, I came to die for Puerto Rico!”; true to her word, no Representatives died, and all four received a hero’s welcome upon their eventual return to Puerto Rico two decades later.
Today's art is by Mia Roman: https://www.artsbymia.com/art/lolita-lebron/
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Ana Belén Montes was born #OTD in 1957. She spied on behalf of the Cuban government for 17 years as a senior analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency in the United States. Her goal was to protect Cuba from the U.S., in line with her conviction that "all the world is one country.” After her sister helped rat her out, she was imprisoned for 22 years, and was freed just this year.
Today's art source: https://www.cuba-si.ch/fr/ana-belen-montes-obeir-a-la-conscience-plutot-qua-la-loi/
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Ana Belén Montes was born #OTD in 1957. She spied on behalf of the Cuban government for 17 years as a senior analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency in the United States. Her goal was to protect Cuba from the U.S., in line with her conviction that "all the world is one country.” After her sister helped rat her out, she was imprisoned for 22 years, and was freed just this year.
Today's art source: https://www.cuba-si.ch/fr/ana-belen-montes-obeir-a-la-conscience-plutot-qua-la-loi/
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Ana Belén Montes was born #OTD in 1957. She spied on behalf of the Cuban government for 17 years as a senior analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency in the United States. Her goal was to protect Cuba from the U.S., in line with her conviction that "all the world is one country.” After her sister helped rat her out, she was imprisoned for 22 years, and was freed just this year.
Today's art source: https://www.cuba-si.ch/fr/ana-belen-montes-obeir-a-la-conscience-plutot-qua-la-loi/
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Ana Belén Montes was born #OTD in 1957. She spied on behalf of the Cuban government for 17 years as a senior analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency in the United States. Her goal was to protect Cuba from the U.S., in line with her conviction that "all the world is one country.” After her sister helped rat her out, she was imprisoned for 22 years, and was freed just this year.
Today's art source: https://www.cuba-si.ch/fr/ana-belen-montes-obeir-a-la-conscience-plutot-qua-la-loi/
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Ana Belén Montes was born #OTD in 1957. She spied on behalf of the Cuban government for 17 years as a senior analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency in the United States. Her goal was to protect Cuba from the U.S., in line with her conviction that "all the world is one country.” After her sister helped rat her out, she was imprisoned for 22 years, and was freed just this year.
Today's art source: https://www.cuba-si.ch/fr/ana-belen-montes-obeir-a-la-conscience-plutot-qua-la-loi/
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#OTD in 1973, members of the Oglala Lakota and the American Indian Movement occupied the town of Wounded Knee in an attempt to remove a corrupt and violent tribal president and to highlight longstanding grievances against the federal government. The occupation lasted 71 days and attracted national attention, but was unfortunately unable to achieve its demands before its participants surrendered.
Today's art source: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/535.html
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#OTD in 1973, members of the Oglala Lakota and the American Indian Movement occupied the town of Wounded Knee in an attempt to remove a corrupt and violent tribal president and to highlight longstanding grievances against the federal government. The occupation lasted 71 days and attracted national attention, but was unfortunately unable to achieve its demands before its participants surrendered.
Today's art source: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/535.html
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#OTD in 1973, members of the Oglala Lakota and the American Indian Movement occupied the town of Wounded Knee in an attempt to remove a corrupt and violent tribal president and to highlight longstanding grievances against the federal government. The occupation lasted 71 days and attracted national attention, but was unfortunately unable to achieve its demands before its participants surrendered.
Today's art source: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/535.html
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#OTD in 1973, members of the Oglala Lakota and the American Indian Movement occupied the town of Wounded Knee in an attempt to remove a corrupt and violent tribal president and to highlight longstanding grievances against the federal government. The occupation lasted 71 days and attracted national attention, but was unfortunately unable to achieve its demands before its participants surrendered.
Today's art source: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/535.html
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Robert F. Williams was born #OTD in 1925. As the chapter president of the Monroe NAACP, he desegregated the local library and swimming pool. He fled the US to escape bogus kidnapping charges. While in Cuba he started publishing “The Crusader” newspaper and wrote “Negroes With Guns”, a book whose themes of armed self-defense influenced Huey Newton and the Black Panthers.
Today's art is by Colin Quashie: https://quashieart.blogspot.com/2010/04/robert-f-williams-revolutionary.html
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Robert F. Williams was born #OTD in 1925. As the chapter president of the Monroe NAACP, he desegregated the local library and swimming pool. He fled the US to escape bogus kidnapping charges. While in Cuba he started publishing “The Crusader” newspaper and wrote “Negroes With Guns”, a book whose themes of armed self-defense influenced Huey Newton and the Black Panthers.
Today's art is by Colin Quashie: https://quashieart.blogspot.com/2010/04/robert-f-williams-revolutionary.html
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Robert F. Williams was born #OTD in 1925. As the chapter president of the Monroe NAACP, he desegregated the local library and swimming pool. He fled the US to escape bogus kidnapping charges. While in Cuba he started publishing “The Crusader” newspaper and wrote “Negroes With Guns”, a book whose themes of armed self-defense influenced Huey Newton and the Black Panthers.
Today's art is by Colin Quashie: https://quashieart.blogspot.com/2010/04/robert-f-williams-revolutionary.html
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Robert F. Williams was born #OTD in 1925. As the chapter president of the Monroe NAACP, he desegregated the local library and swimming pool. He fled the US to escape bogus kidnapping charges. While in Cuba he started publishing “The Crusader” newspaper and wrote “Negroes With Guns”, a book whose themes of armed self-defense influenced Huey Newton and the Black Panthers.
Today's art is by Colin Quashie: https://quashieart.blogspot.com/2010/04/robert-f-williams-revolutionary.html
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Robert F. Williams was born #OTD in 1925. As the chapter president of the Monroe NAACP, he desegregated the local library and swimming pool. He fled the US to escape bogus kidnapping charges. While in Cuba he started publishing “The Crusader” newspaper and wrote “Negroes With Guns”, a book whose themes of armed self-defense influenced Huey Newton and the Black Panthers.
Today's art is by Colin Quashie: https://quashieart.blogspot.com/2010/04/robert-f-williams-revolutionary.html
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#OTD in 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African-American to be seated in the US Congress. While there, he fought for the end of segregation in DC schools, the cooling of post-Civil War animosity, and the rights of Black workers in the Navy Yard. Rhodes went on to become the first president of Alcorn State University, the first Black land-grant university.
Today's art is by Theodor Kaufmann: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Rhodes_Revels#/media/File:Senator_H._R._Revels_(Boston_Public_Library).jpg
#history #BlackHistoryMonth #reconstruction #USA #ToWeRi #Feb25
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#OTD in 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African-American to be seated in the US Congress. While there, he fought for the end of segregation in DC schools, the cooling of post-Civil War animosity, and the rights of Black workers in the Navy Yard. Rhodes went on to become the first president of Alcorn State University, the first Black land-grant university.
Today's art is by Theodor Kaufmann: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Rhodes_Revels#/media/File:Senator_H._R._Revels_(Boston_Public_Library).jpg
#history #BlackHistoryMonth #reconstruction #USA #ToWeRi #Feb25
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#OTD in 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African-American to be seated in the US Congress. While there, he fought for the end of segregation in DC schools, the cooling of post-Civil War animosity, and the rights of Black workers in the Navy Yard. Rhodes went on to become the first president of Alcorn State University, the first Black land-grant university.
Today's art is by Theodor Kaufmann: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Rhodes_Revels#/media/File:Senator_H._R._Revels_(Boston_Public_Library).jpg
#history #BlackHistoryMonth #reconstruction #USA #ToWeRi #Feb25
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#OTD in 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African-American to be seated in the US Congress. While there, he fought for the end of segregation in DC schools, the cooling of post-Civil War animosity, and the rights of Black workers in the Navy Yard. Rhodes went on to become the first president of Alcorn State University, the first Black land-grant university.
Today's art is by Theodor Kaufmann: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Rhodes_Revels#/media/File:Senator_H._R._Revels_(Boston_Public_Library).jpg
#history #BlackHistoryMonth #reconstruction #USA #ToWeRi #Feb25
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#OTD in 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African-American to be seated in the US Congress. While there, he fought for the end of segregation in DC schools, the cooling of post-Civil War animosity, and the rights of Black workers in the Navy Yard. Rhodes went on to become the first president of Alcorn State University, the first Black land-grant university.
Today's art is by Theodor Kaufmann: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Rhodes_Revels#/media/File:Senator_H._R._Revels_(Boston_Public_Library).jpg
#history #BlackHistoryMonth #reconstruction #USA #ToWeRi #Feb25
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#OTD Rosario Ibarra de Piedra was born in 1927. After her son was disappeared, and the authorities refused to look for him (likely because they killed him for his alleged communist activism) she formed the Eureka Committee of the Disappeared with about 100 other women in 1977. She also led hunger strikes and other political efforts to free political prisoners, resulting in the release of 148 prisoners.
Today's art is by Rapé: https://mexfiles.net/2022/04/16/rosario-ibarra-de-piedra-24-feb-1927-16-april-2022/
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#OTD Rosario Ibarra de Piedra was born in 1927. After her son was disappeared, and the authorities refused to look for him (likely because they killed him for his alleged communist activism) she formed the Eureka Committee of the Disappeared with about 100 other women in 1977. She also led hunger strikes and other political efforts to free political prisoners, resulting in the release of 148 prisoners.
Today's art is by Rapé: https://mexfiles.net/2022/04/16/rosario-ibarra-de-piedra-24-feb-1927-16-april-2022/
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#OTD Rosario Ibarra de Piedra was born in 1927. After her son was disappeared, and the authorities refused to look for him (likely because they killed him for his alleged communist activism) she formed the Eureka Committee of the Disappeared with about 100 other women in 1977. She also led hunger strikes and other political efforts to free political prisoners, resulting in the release of 148 prisoners.
Today's art is by Rapé: https://mexfiles.net/2022/04/16/rosario-ibarra-de-piedra-24-feb-1927-16-april-2022/
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#OTD Rosario Ibarra de Piedra was born in 1927. After her son was disappeared, and the authorities refused to look for him (likely because they killed him for his alleged communist activism) she formed the Eureka Committee of the Disappeared with about 100 other women in 1977. She also led hunger strikes and other political efforts to free political prisoners, resulting in the release of 148 prisoners.
Today's art is by Rapé: https://mexfiles.net/2022/04/16/rosario-ibarra-de-piedra-24-feb-1927-16-april-2022/
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W. E. B. Du Bois was born #OTD in 1868. His writings and political activity spanned generations, and ranged from critiques of American racism to support for communism and Pan-Africanism. The US government took his passport for a time as a result of his work, but he was eventually able to travel the world, and spent his last days in socialist Ghana.
Today's art is by KEEBS': https://www.higherself.biz/product/w-e-b-du-bois/
#history #BlackHistoryMonth #PanAfricanism #communism #USA #WEBDubois #ToWeRi #Feb23
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W. E. B. Du Bois was born #OTD in 1868. His writings and political activity spanned generations, and ranged from critiques of American racism to support for communism and Pan-Africanism. The US government took his passport for a time as a result of his work, but he was eventually able to travel the world, and spent his last days in socialist Ghana.
Today's art is by KEEBS': https://www.higherself.biz/product/w-e-b-du-bois/
#history #BlackHistoryMonth #PanAfricanism #communism #USA #WEBDubois #ToWeRi #Feb23
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W. E. B. Du Bois was born #OTD in 1868. His writings and political activity spanned generations, and ranged from critiques of American racism to support for communism and Pan-Africanism. The US government took his passport for a time as a result of his work, but he was eventually able to travel the world, and spent his last days in socialist Ghana.
Today's art is by KEEBS': https://www.higherself.biz/product/w-e-b-du-bois/
#history #BlackHistoryMonth #PanAfricanism #communism #USA #WEBDubois #ToWeRi #Feb23
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W. E. B. Du Bois was born #OTD in 1868. His writings and political activity spanned generations, and ranged from critiques of American racism to support for communism and Pan-Africanism. The US government took his passport for a time as a result of his work, but he was eventually able to travel the world, and spent his last days in socialist Ghana.
Today's art is by KEEBS': https://www.higherself.biz/product/w-e-b-du-bois/
#history #BlackHistoryMonth #PanAfricanism #communism #USA #WEBDubois #ToWeRi #Feb23