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Schwarze gegen Antisemitismus: Es mangelt so an Empathie
In Sachen jüdisches Leid mangelt es nicht nur bei Weißen, sondern auch in der Black Community an Solidarität. Dabei hat man vieles gemeinsam.#Antirassismus #BlackCommunity #Afrodeutsche #BlackHistory #Antisemitismus #Debatte #Gesellschaft #Schwerpunkt
Schwarze gegen Antisemitismus: Es mangelt so an Empathie
Dipo Faloyin schreibt fundiert, persönlich und mit Humor über einen Kontinent, der zu oft über seine Probleme und nicht über seine Potenziale definiert wird. Eine Rezension
Dieses Buch plädiert fundiert und in Teilen auch humorvoll für eine differenzierte Betrachtung Afrikas jenseits von Stereotypen. Eine Rezension (Rezension zu Afrika ist kein Land von Dipo Faloyin)#Afrika #Apartheid #Ausbeutung #BlackHistory #Identität #Imperialismus #Kolonialismus #Menschenrechte #Rassimus #SchwarzerKontinent #Selbstermächtigung #Sklaverei #Unterdrückung #Bodenschätze #ErdeUmwelt #Kultur
»Afrika ist kein Land«: Afrika ist ein Kontinent
Half of Britons can’t name a Black British historical figure, survey finds | #UK news | The Guardian
Elizabeth Cotten ~ Freight Train
05January1893 - 29June1987
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=_ZizW0Wc8dw (audio)
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=IUK8emiWabU (1985)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cotten
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=5s_yumYPFm4 (Pete Seeger)
#musicvideo #elizabethcotten #freighttrain #american #folksong #music #blackhistory #history #peteseeger
“Pharaonic Warriors...” ~ Nubians (Kushites/Sudanese) were the first civilization to construct pyramids, universities, Royal homes and temples.
A civilization of innate glory, they were renowned for their wealth and prowess as hunters, fighters, educators and skilled artisans in iron, copper, gold and pottery.
They traded extensively with the Far East and Middle Eastern empires and educated the Greeks in astrology, medicine and science.
The Kushite central power of Meroe actually served as an influential pivot for trade and education across Africa, and the world.
Prior to demise, caused by a constant stream of European and Assyrian attacks (as well as their well known culture of tomb-raiding and grave robbing), the original Pharaohs of the African continent, residing across the Horn, were referred to by a number of Greek philosophers as “the Godly leaders of a Black paradise”. 🇸🇩🇸🇸
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubians
#blackhistory #knowthyself #blackhistory365 #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMatters
Die USA und die Sklaverei: Debatte um "1619 Project" | DW | 27.01.2023
Die Essays von Nikole Hannah-Jones gewannen den Pulitzer-Preis. Oprah Winfrey produzierte daraus die Doku-Serie "1619 Project". Ihr Ziel: US-Geschichte neu erzählen mit dem Fokus auf die Auswirkungen der Sklaverei.#Amerika #USA #BlackHistory #Sklaverei #OprahWinfrey #Rassismus
Die USA und die Sklaverei: Debatte um "1619 Project" | DW | 27.01.2023
In 1759, after years of toiling and suffering on the plantations, Takyi and his allies, Yaw, Sobadu and Kwarteng, who were also of Ghanaian descent, escaped into a cave far beyond their plantations to plan a rebellion.
They escaped during the day when everyone was occupied with work or at night and returning before daybreak. With full support from Queen Nanny, Takyi’s plan was to defeat the British and all slave masters and create Jamaica as a separate and independent black colony.
In May of 1760, Takyi and his followers started the revolt in the early hours of the morning, starting at the plantation where they worked, killing the owners and thus freeing all the slaves.
Laurence C. Jones was born into a Missouri family of educators in 1884. He completed his studies at the University of Iowa in 1908. Laurence received many job offers after graduating but would ultimately find himself in Rankin County, Mississippi, in 1909.
During slavery, it was illegal to teach enslaved Africans to read and write. Therefore, Rankin County had an illiteracy rate approaching 80%.
Mr. Jones settled in the county and began teaching three students. The number of students increased, and with land donated by a former “freed”slave and support from several white-owned Iowa businesses, Piney Wood School would receive its charter in 1913.
Mr. Jones had also established a friendship with prominent Iowan, Captain ASA Turner. Captain Turner, abolitionist, and civil war veteran, would donate a significant amount of his time and wealth to support the school, ultimately serving on the school’s board of trustees.
In 1918, for whatever reason, the residents had had enough of Mr. Jones and sought to hang him. Laurence was also an oratory master. He not only convinced the mob not to lynch him but solicited funds from the rabble for his school. Later, Mr. Jones is quoted: “No man can cause me to stoop low enough that him.”
Today, Piney Woods School is the largest of four historically Black American boarding schools, educating youth from grades 9-12. #blackhistory
Interview with Sarah Frances Shaw Graves, ex-enslaved Afrikan, Age 87 in 1937 from the Library of Congress...
"I was born March 23, 1850 in Kentucky, somewhere near Louisville. I am goin' on 88 years right now. (1937). I was brought to Missouri when I was six months old, along with my mama, who was a slave owned by a man named Shaw, who had allotted her to a man named Jimmie Graves, who came to Missouri to live with his daughter Emily Graves Crowdes. I always lived with Emily Crowdes."
The matter of allotment was confusing to the interviewer and Aunt Sally endeavored to explain.
"Yes'm. Allotted? Yes'm. I'm goin' to explain that, " she replied. "You see there was slave traders in those days, jes' like you got horse and mule an' auto traders now.
They bought and sold slaves and hired 'em out. Yes'm, rented 'em out. Allotted means somethin' like hired out. But the slave never got no wages. That all went to the master. The man they was allotted to paid the master."
"I was never sold. My mama was sold only once, but she was hired out many times. Yes'm when a slave was allotted, somebody made a down payment and gave a mortgage for the rest. A chattel mortgage. . . ."
"Allotments made a lot of grief for the slaves," Aunt Sally asserted. "We left my papa in Kentucky, 'cause he was allotted to another man. My papa never knew where my mama went, an' my mama never knew where papa went." Aunt Sally paused a moment, then went on bitterly. "They never wanted mama to know, 'cause they knowed she would never marry so long she knew where he was. Our master wanted her to marry again and raise more children to be slaves. They never wanted mama to know where papa was, an' she never did," sighed Aunt Sally.
#History #Slavery #Inhumanity #NeverAgain #BlackHistory #Politics #Humanrights
Clara B. Williams college professors did not allow her inside the classroom because she was Black.
But that didn’t stop her. She took notes from the hallway–standing up! She eventually graduated at the age of 51 and lived to 108 years old and saw her 3 sons become doctors. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory
𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗥𝗟𝗘𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗡 𝗝𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗦𝗢𝗡 (1946- )
Shirley Ann Jackson, born in 1946 in Washington, D.C., has achieved numerous firsts for African American women. She was the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.); to receive a Ph.D. in theoretical solid state physics; to be elected president and then chairman of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); to be president of a major research university, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York; and to be elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Jackson was also both the first African American and the first woman to chair the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jackson’s parents and teachers recognized her natural talent for science and nurtured her interest from a young age. In 1964, after graduating as valedictorian from her high school, Jackson was accepted at M.I.T., where she was one of very few women and even fewer black students. Despite discouraging remarks from her professors about the appropriateness of science for a black woman, she chose to major in physics and earned her B.S. in 1968. Jackson continued at M.I.T. for graduate school, studying under the first black physics professor in her department, James Young. In 1973, she earned her Ph.D.
Shirley Jackson completed several years of postdoctoral research at various laboratories, such as Fermi in Illinois, before being hired by AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1976, where she worked for 15 years. She conducted research on the optical and electronic properties of layered materials, surface electrons of liquid helium films, strained-layer semiconductor superlattices, and most notably, the polaronic aspects of electrons in two-dimensional systems. She is considered a leading developer of Caller ID and Call Waiting on telephones.
After teaching at Rutgers University from 1991-1995, Jackson was appointed chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission by Bill Clinton. In 1999, Jackson became President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she still serves today. In 2004, she was elected president of AAAS and in 2005 she served as chairman of the board for the Society. Dr. Shirley Jackson is married to a physicist and has one son.
#blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #blackhistorymonth2022
—Job Maseko, a WW2 hero, sank a NAZI ship with a bomb made from a tin can with condensed milk. He was denied the highest military decoration, due to his race.
—Maseko was working as a delivery driver when he volunteered for service in the South African Native Military Corps during WWII (NMC). Later he was sent to the 2nd South African Infantry Division after finishing basic training in North Africa.
—Due to South African race regulations at the time, they were unable to carry firearms. They were only allowed traditional weapons such as spears for guard and ceremonial duty.
—Maseko served as a stretcher carrier for the allied forces in North Africa, providing medical assistance to the wounded. When his commander surrendered to the Germans at Tobruk in June 1942, he became a prisoner of war. He was forced to work on the ports at Tobruk.
— Being a former miner, he made an astonishing bomb on July 21 using condensed milk tin, cordite & a long fuse. He loaded the little tin with gunpowder and placed it in the hold of a German ship near some petrol drums.
—He planted his bomb deep in the hold on June 21, 1942, just before they were set to leave the already overloaded ship. He lighted the fuse and dashed to the dock. An enormous explosion erupted sinking the ship instantly.
—He eventually escaped from the prisoner of war camp and rise to the rank of lance corporal. He was supposed to get the Victoria Cross,the highest and most prestigious millitary award but instead received a mere Military Medal. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory
#art #cinema #history #blackhistory #blaxploitation #melvinvanpeebles #rip
RIP Melvin van Peebles
Classified X is a 1998 French-US documentary movie written by Melvin Van Peebles, directed by Mark Daniels and narrated by Van Peebles, that details the history of black people in American cinema throughout the 20th century. Really great stuff
Classified X (1998) | Narrated by Melvin Van Peebles | A Must See
Einstein teaching at a black college.
Turns out one of the smartest dudes in history was woke. Used to say "The separation of races is not a disease of colored people but a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."
He even refused to speak at white universities and pretty much exclusively went to black colleges at the end of his career.
These are the parts of history they don't tell you. They try to erase the fact that we are still fighting the same fight. ✊🏿🖤
#blackhistory
A tour of Black London – in pictures | Music | The Guardian
Nelson Mandela, Mary Seacole and Thierry Henry are some of the highlights of the tour of Black London from a new book by Avril Nanton and Jody Burton which celebrates Black history, culture and art in the capital. Andy Hall photographed a selection of the statues, murals and plaques
#photography #photojournalism #BlackHistory #BlackCulture #BlackArt
https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2021/jun/19/a-tour-of-black-london-in-pictures
