What is apartheid? New book for young readers explains South Africa’s racist system and hurts Musk's feelings. https://michiganchronicle.com/what-is-apartheid-new-book-for-young-readers-explains-south-africas-racist-system/ #Musk #Books #SouthAfrica #BlackHistory
Land reparations are possible − and over 225 US communities are already working to make amends for slavery and colonization https://michiganchronicle.com/land-reparations-are-possible-%e2%88%92-and-over-225-us-communities-are-already-working-to-make-amends-for-slavery-and-colonization/ #BlackLivesMatter #LandBack #BlackHistory
Mica L. Anders: Historian, People Finder, Family Mystery Solver https://baltimoretimes-online.com/latest-news/2025/04/04/mica-l-anders-historian-people-finder-family-mystery-solver/ #BlackHistory
A Forgotten Month: Recognizing International Black Women’s History Month
#BlackHistory #WomensHistory #herstory #BlackTwitter
https://www.hercampus.com/school/towson/a-forgotten-month-recognizing-international-black-womens-history-month
The #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur may be over, but its articles live on!
Here's my personal top-ten list of articles we managed to publish over a frighteningly short period of time.
Authors and colleagues in tootland: we couldn't have done it without you!
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/enwogion-o-fri-the-history-of-wales-just-got-more-vibrant/
Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875 – April 3, 1950) was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of
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A GLORIOUS MEDITATION ON BLUE, and on the blues, and on the centrality of the color, the mood, and the music to all of African and diaspora life, but particularly to Black life in the US. Elegant, eloquent, erudite, yet profoundly direct. SOLID A
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/black-in-blues-imani-perry/1145525940?ean=9780062977397
The Four Way in Memphis, Tennessee
For more than 75 years, this living piece of history has been serving exceptional soul food.#food #civilrights #restaurants #blackhistory #section-Atlas #section-GastroPlace
The Four Way
Family Reunion Vibes: The Black History Of Line Dancing
#dance #linedancing #blackhistory
https://newsone.com/6047917/family-reunion-vibes-the-black-history-of-line-dancing/
Alice Ball: The Chemist Who Revolutionized Leprosy Treatment and Was Nearly Erased From History https://shinemycrown.com/alice-ball-the-chemist-who-revolutionized-leprosy-treatment-and-was-nearly-erased-from-history/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AliceBall #WomenInScience #LeprosyTreatment #BlackHistory #Chemistry
Kandake Amanirenas: The one-eyed African queen who defeated the Romans
https://www.historydefined.net/kandake-amanirenas/
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@blackvoices
@blackgirlnerds @BLKNewsNow
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"As Black women we have the right and responsibility to define ourselves and to seek our allies in common cause: with Black men against racism, and with each other and white women against sexism. But most of all, as Black women we have the right and responsibility to recognize each other without fear and to love where we choose." ― #AudreLorde #BlackHistory
The Mangrove Nine were a group of [british] Black activists tried for inciting a riot at a 1970 protest against the [pig] targeting of The Mangrove, a Caribbean restaurant in
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Charles Richard Drew (June 3, 1904 – April 1, 1950) was an American surgeon and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved
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Eulalie Mandeville’s Fortune in Court Records
Court records can function as a kind of archive for those without any other paper trail in history: free people of color and the enslaved.
By: Matthew Wills
https://daily.jstor.org/eulalie-mandevilles-fortune-in-court-records/
"We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism are all tied together. And you can’t get rid of one without getting rid of the other." ― #MLK #BlackHistory