what a world

goodness gracious 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

“ And jazz itself – the whole thing is of a spiritual bent, so it all comes down to much the same thing, eventually. Thank God for us ordinary people who’ve had so many of these wonderful experiences in life.”

"One of the strongest elements of Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone is that the curatorial framework allows for Lewis to be understood simultaneously as a Black and Indigenous artist without conflating the two identities." hyperallergic.com/the-invincib...

On this day in 1892, a white mob destroyed Ida B. Wells's newspaper office while she was away and threatened bodily harm if she returned because she challenged the myth of Black criminality.

Remembering Miles Davis today, born 100 years ago on May 26, 1926 | Explore his musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/MilesDavisHBD

past is prologue number one

“Once the war was over and Charleston was rebuilt in the 1880s, the city’s white residents likely had little interest in remembering an event held by former enslaved people to celebrate the Union dead. “That didn’t fit their version of what the war was all about,” Blight says.”

just how that care goes: “Last year, the church donated $132,469 to wipe out the student debt of graduating seniors at Saint Augustine's University, an HBCU in Raleigh, North Carolina. In March, the congregation paid $1 million toward overdue rent for over 300 families facing eviction.”

#DisabilityPrideMonth #BlackSky Video talks about how Black American Sign Language developed on plantations and survived afterword due many decades of segregation that persisted after Emancipation. "Signing in Black America"

Handsome older gentleman lighting a ciggaret in a 3 piece suit, while looking at the viewer, circa 1900s.

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On this day in 1961, a white mob in Montgomery, Alabama, ambushed the Freedom Riders after the city's Public Safety Commissioner offered the Ku Klux Klan time to attack the group without police interference.

Black Kos: Malcolm X. An American Hero. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

On this day in 1896, the Supreme Court delivered its decision in Plessy v. Ferguson establishing the 'separate but equal' doctrine as national law and authorizing discrimination in public accommodations.

Not nearly enough reporting about what's happening in Cuba, which the administration is attempting to squeeze, punish, and coerce into submission and violent self destruction. This is so much worse than the embargo. It's hideous. Haiti, Cuba, ongoing boat strike murders: anti-Black foreign policy

Today marks 72 years since Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision that declared segregated public schools unconstitutional. I’ve been thinking about Brown not only as an education case; but as a public health story we still haven’t fully reckoned with.

Reposting Black Music Sunday: Sammy Davis Jr. was the consummate entertainer www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

You can redraw districts, but you cannot erase the power of the people. This week, I spoke with @justinjpearson.bsky.social about our continued fight for voting rights — even in the face of efforts to silence and divide us.

for the hanta and the virus

Visiting Montgomery, Alabama? Montgomery Square is a must-see. EJI's newest Legacy Site tells the story of the Montgomery decade that changed the world. Plan your visit: montgomerysquare.eji.org/about/

On this day in 1970, police opened fire on a crowd of students at Jackson State College in Mississippi, killing two students and injuring dozens more.

Nina. Newport Jazz Festival, July 4, 1968. David Redfern.

You can't understand Black dialect unless you're one of us on purpose. It's created that way. It's us enacting our freedom. Something we've done since we were enslaved that we're still doing vibrantly.

thank you, representative

Today In 1972: Willie Mays makes his debut with the New York #Mets at Shea Stadium! His first hit is a HR in a 5-4 victory vs. his former team, the San Francisco Giants! #MLB #Baseball #Legend #History #LGM

On this day in 1961, a mob of 50 white men in Anniston, Alabama, attacked the Freedom Riders with pipes, chains, and bats. The Riders had taken a Greyhound bus to Anniston during a desegregation campaign.

On this day in 1960, six years after Brown v. Board of Education, South Carolina’s legislature passed a bill to stall the integration of racially segregated public schools.

In 1855 Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole went to the Crimean Peninsula to care for soldiers in wartime. She & Florence Nightingale were honored in London for their service. Seacole wrote "I am proud of [my] relationship to those poor mortals whom you once held enslaved & whose bodies America still owns."

‘the camel’s nose under the tent’

as ever, forever

i remember the day my brother brought home this 45 happy birthday to ya, steveland ❤️

Beautiful young lady, circa 1880s.

In the 1890s Fannie Barrier Williams founded a hospital, cofounded the National Association for Colored Women, served on the Chicago Public Library board & in the Chicago Women's Club (despite threats). A champion of voting rights, she was asked to eulogize Susan B. Anthony.

Then in 2026,

QRP with the doctor you'd trust leading the hantavirus response instead of RFK Jr.

Morehouse College, founded in 1867, is the oldest Black men’s college in the United States. Its storied history includes Dr. Martin Luther King and many other prominent African Americans among its graduates.

oh, my. i’d forgotten about this past is prologue #448

Reposting: He put the R in rock 'n' roll: Remembering Little Richard www.dailykos.com/stories/2021...

And since it's #caturday, one of my favorite artists-with-animals photos: Lois Mailou Jones in her Paris studio in 1938 with the most adorable studio assistant ever

What made John Brown a great man was not actually that he was a "great" man. It was that he recognized himself as a regular man that rejected white supremacy. And was willing to die for that. That when he saw another Black face, he saw a human like himself. May 9, 1800 he was born

In 1841 Mary Richardson married John Jones of North Carolina. They carried free papers when they settled in Chicago & Mr. Jones established a successful tailoring business. Active in abolitionist politics & voting rights campaigns, they hosted & dressed John Brown & crew en route to Harper’s Ferry.

On this day in 1961, 21-year-old John Lewis and two other civil rights activists were severely beaten by a mob at the Rock Hill, South Carolina, Greyhound bus terminal while protesting segregation.

On this day in 2009, members of the Ku Klux Klan in Ozark, Alabama, burned a cross in a residential neighborhood to intimidate Black families living in the area.

The Jackson 5 released 'ABC' 56 years ago on May 8, 1970 | Listen to the album + discover where it ranks in our readers' poll here: album.ink/JacksonsPoll

appreciation post for hs on mary lou williams’ bd