<p>Black Americans who are attempting to trace their roots can get help from the Smithsonian. The institute's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) offers free genealogy sessions, both in person and online, teaching people how to interpret census records, find useful sources of information, and more. Here's more from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@Smithsonianmag" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Smithsonianmag</span></a></span>'s Tracy Scott Forson, who got answers about her own family history from an NMAAHC session.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/V4-Qs0" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>flip.it/V4-Qs0</a></p><p><a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#Culture</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistory/" rel="tag">#BlackHistory</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#BlackHistoryMonth</a> <a href="/tags/bhm/" rel="tag">#BHM</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a> @blackmastodon</p>
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<p>Today in <span class="h-card"><a href="['https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/assignedmedia.org', 'https://assignedmedia.org/', 'https://www.assignedmedia.org/support']" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>assignedmedia.org</span></a></span>, I report on a <a href="/tags/blackhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#BlackHistoryMonth</a> celebration of <a href="/tags/ballroom/" rel="tag">#ballroom</a> culture, held by the <a href="/tags/transgender/" rel="tag">#Transgender</a> District in <a href="/tags/sanfrancisco/" rel="tag">#SanFrancisco</a>. </p><p><a href="https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/joy-and-family-ballroom-culture" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/joy-and-family-ballroom-culture"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.assignedmedia.org/breaking</span><span class="invisible">-news/joy-and-family-ballroom-culture</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a></p>
<p>Gay Black men are more likely to test themselves for <a href="/tags/hiv/" rel="tag">#HIV</a> and engage in less risky sexual behaviors than gay men of other races, when appropriate care is available, several studies have shown</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/lack-of-access-to-health-care-is-partly-to-blame-for-skyrocketing-hiv-rates-among-gay-black-men-206375" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/lack-of-access-to-health-care-is-partly-to-blame-for-skyrocketing-hiv-rates-among-gay-black-men-206375"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/lack-of-ac</span><span class="invisible">cess-to-health-care-is-partly-to-blame-for-skyrocketing-hiv-rates-among-gay-black-men-206375</span></a> <br><a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</a> @blakmastodon <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a></p>
<p>Happy <a href="/tags/blackhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#BlackHistoryMonth</a> !</p><p>I'm still not up to Black History! I'm still working through white US history. Bear with me! Almost there!</p><p>Q: Why does it seem like everything has to be woke now? Even our scientists?! It never used to be that way! Why does it seem like these days, even higher education has to think about race, when it didn't before?</p><p>A: Higher education, including STEM, did think about race before. That history has just been hidden from you. Because racism.</p><p><a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a></p>
<p>The usual bullshit. </p><p>Some are planning to vote for Cornel West. </p><p>Some are planning to vote for Jill Stein.</p><p>Others are planning to stay home. </p><p>Where have we heard THIS before?</p><p><a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a> <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/wavering-black-voters-biden-flawed-trump-unacceptable-deciders-rcna140786?cid=sm_npd_nn_wa_ma" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/wavering-black-voters-biden-flawed-trump-unacceptable-deciders-rcna140786?cid=sm_npd_nn_wa_ma"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-</span><span class="invisible">election/wavering-black-voters-biden-flawed-trump-unacceptable-deciders-rcna140786?cid=sm_npd_nn_wa_ma</span></a></p>
<p>In 1939, the Dongs, a Chinese American family, could not find a house to rent in Coronado, Calif., because of racially restrictive housing laws. Emma and Gus Thompson, a Black couple, allowed the family to rent and later buy their home. Now, the Dongs have sold that house, and are donating $5 million to Black college students. They are also working to have San Diego State University's Black Resource Center named after Emma and Gus, who was born into slavery in Kentucky. Here's more from NBC News.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/AOzvqc" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>flip.it/AOzvqc</a></p><p><a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#Culture</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistory/" rel="tag">#BlackHistory</a> <a href="/tags/aapihistory/" rel="tag">#AAPIHistory</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a> @blackmastodon @histodons <a href="/tags/california/" rel="tag">#California</a></p>
<p>Episode 195 of the Air Adam Podcast has just been released, with selections from Sean Price, Stacy Epps, Naughty By Nature and more!</p><p>Get the show now at;</p><p>- <a href="http://podcast.airadam.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">http://</span>podcast.airadam.com</a><br>- <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/airadampodcast/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.mixcloud.com/airadampodcast/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.mixcloud.com/airadampodcas</span><span class="invisible">t/</span></a><br>- Apple Podcasts<br>- Pocket Casts<br>- etc</p><p>Have a listen, let me know what you think, and if you like it, please do spread the word!</p><p><a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/hiphop/" rel="tag">#HipHop</a> <a href="/tags/mixtape/" rel="tag">#mixtape</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/dj/" rel="tag">#DJ</a></p>
<p>But some Blacks still idolize Trump and plan to vote for him. </p><p><a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a><br> <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-black-voters-myth-reality-election-20240517.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-black-voters-myth-reality-election-20240517.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump</span><span class="invisible">-black-voters-myth-reality-election-20240517.html</span></a></p>
<p>“…with sufficient general agreement and determination among the dominant classes, the truth of history may be utterly distorted and contradicted and changed to any convenient fairy tale that the masters of men wish.”<br> <br>“The propaganda of history,“ in Du Bois, W. E. B. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1935.</p><p><a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#histodons</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#photography</a> <a href="/tags/blackandwhite/" rel="tag">#blackandwhite</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#blackmastodon</a></p><p>Image: W.E.B. Du Bois, 1946 (Source: Carl Van Vechten Photographs, Yale University).</p>
<p>Hey hey! Guess who's got a lil <a href="/tags/kofi/" rel="tag">#Kofi</a> shop!!!</p><p>After yesterday's market I genuinely wanted to cry so bad (emotions are still very messy 4 me). I never thought people would look at my art with so much love, and even BUY MY PRINT??!!</p><p>So uhh... if you'd like to help me continue pursing my <a href="/tags/gamedev/" rel="tag">#GameDev</a> journey, please do consider buying my art 🖤 ❤️</p><p>edit: Boosts appreciated hehe </p><p><a href="https://ko-fi.com/imp3tuz/shop" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>ko-fi.com/imp3tuz/shop</a></p><p><a href="/tags/blackart/" rel="tag">#BlackArt</a> <a href="/tags/mastoart/" rel="tag">#MastoArt</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/blackfedi/" rel="tag">#BlackFedi</a></p>
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<p>RIP </p><p>Gone way too soon. </p><p>🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏</p><p><a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#blackmastodon</a> <br><a href="https://6abc.com/post/dangelo-grammy-winning-rb-singer-dies-51/18005637/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="6abc.com/post/dangelo-grammy-winning-rb-singer-dies-51/18005637/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">6abc.com/post/dangelo-grammy-w</span><span class="invisible">inning-rb-singer-dies-51/18005637/</span></a><br>via 6abc App</p>
<p>What we've been saying all along. </p><p>Most Black folks are Democrats and despise Trump. </p><p>Though in the media,all you hear about is Candace Owens,Lil Wayne,Ice Cube,50 Cent, Charlemagne Tha God and whomever pastor they can find,telling us to vote for Trump because "he helps Black people".</p><p>He'd send us on the boat to Sudan,Congo,Burkina Faso or whatever African country whose dictator is BFF's with him and Putin. </p><p>Pay attention.</p><p><a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a> <br> <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-black-voters-republicans-pew-report-rcna147645" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-black-voters-republicans-pew-report-rcna147645"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reid</span><span class="invisible">out-blog/trump-black-voters-republicans-pew-report-rcna147645</span></a></p>
<p>News has just broke that Assata Shakur, a lioness of the movement for Black Liberation, has died of old age at 78 on September 25th. She passed while in Cuba where she has been in political exile since her escape from an American jail in 1979.</p><p>RIP Assata Shakur 🖤✊🏿</p><p><a href="https://www.whatimreading.net/p/assata-shakur-political-activist-dead" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.whatimreading.net/p/assata-shakur-political-activist-dead"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.whatimreading.net/p/assata</span><span class="invisible">-shakur-political-activist-dead</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/assatashakur/" rel="tag">#AssataShakur</a> <a href="/tags/blackliberation/" rel="tag">#BlackLiberation</a> <a href="/tags/blackpantherparty/" rel="tag">#BlackPantherParty</a> <a href="/tags/blackliberationparty/" rel="tag">#BlackLiberationParty</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a></p>
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<p>Karma is something. It’s been exactly 35 years since five boys were arrested for things they did not do, then held for a vicious attack they did not commit. The evil thug who put out this 1989 ad against the five boys (now Exonerated Five) is NOW in a NYC courtroom ON TRIAL. <a href="/tags/nyc/" rel="tag">#nyc</a> <a href="/tags/centralpark/" rel="tag">#centralpark</a> <a href="/tags/exoneratedfive/" rel="tag">#exoneratedfive</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a></p>
<p>Thank you for doing the right thing.</p><p><a href="/tags/chicago/" rel="tag">#chicago</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#blackmastodon</a> <a href="https://awfulannouncing.com/nfl/chicago-bears-star-charles-tillman-left-fbi-immigration-policy.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="awfulannouncing.com/nfl/chicago-bears-star-charles-tillman-left-fbi-immigration-policy.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">awfulannouncing.com/nfl/chicag</span><span class="invisible">o-bears-star-charles-tillman-left-fbi-immigration-policy.html</span></a></p>
<p>"The Gift & The Legacy: African American Philanthropy as Power, Purpose and Promise, Taroue W. Brooks reframes the conversation, reminding us that philanthropy is not confined to financial contributions but encompasses time, talent, ties, testimony, treasure, and trust." By Staff Heart &Soul Magazine 9.16.25<br><a href="https://www.heartandsoul.com/culture/the-heart-of-philanthropy/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.heartandsoul.com/culture/the-heart-of-philanthropy/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.heartandsoul.com/culture/t</span><span class="invisible">he-heart-of-philanthropy/</span></a><br><a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#Blackmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/blackfedi/" rel="tag">#BlackFedi</a></p>
<p>Solano County.</p><p>Driving While Black.</p><p><a href="/tags/bayarea/" rel="tag">#bayarea</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#blackmastodon</a><br><a href="https://abc7news.com/post/nakia-porter-excessive-force-solano-county-ca-settlement-california/17907435/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="abc7news.com/post/nakia-porter-excessive-force-solano-county-ca-settlement-california/17907435/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abc7news.com/post/nakia-porter</span><span class="invisible">-excessive-force-solano-county-ca-settlement-california/17907435/</span></a><br>via ABC7 News App</p>
<p>Chicago.</p><p>They detained and arrested African-Americans too. </p><p>Trump's War on Black America has officially started. </p><p>Time for Black communities to stop beefing with each other over bullshit,and FIGHT these folks in the streets. </p><p><a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#blackmastodon</a> <a href="https://newsone.com/6504335/ice-and-other-federal-agencies-rappel-from-black-hawks-in-overkill-ice-raid/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="newsone.com/6504335/ice-and-other-federal-agencies-rappel-from-black-hawks-in-overkill-ice-raid/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newsone.com/6504335/ice-and-ot</span><span class="invisible">her-federal-agencies-rappel-from-black-hawks-in-overkill-ice-raid/</span></a></p>
<p>American democracy keeps facing the same test. Reconstruction. Watergate. January 6th. Each was an inkblot: some saw freedom and law, others tyranny and betrayal.</p><p>The danger isn’t just the crisis—it’s perception unmoored from fact. A lie, repeated often enough, creates its own inkblot. Not to reveal the viewer. But to control them.</p><p>1/17</p><p><a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#blackmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#histodons</a> <a href="/tags/blackandwhite/" rel="tag">#blackandwhite</a> <a href="/tags/photo/" rel="tag">#photo</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#photography</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#democracy</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/civilwar/" rel="tag">#civilwar</a></p>
<p>@bmore_radical shared text and image below.</p><p>"White supremacy kills Black people. Sign seen on 14th street in Washington DC.<br>.<br>photograph by Ariana Jones</p><p><a href="/tags/blacklivesstillmatter/" rel="tag">#blacklivesstillmatter</a> <a href="/tags/blackmen/" rel="tag">#blackmen</a> <a href="/tags/blackpeople/" rel="tag">#blackpeople</a> <a href="/tags/blackamerican/" rel="tag">#blackamerican</a> <a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#police</a> <a href="/tags/whitepeople/" rel="tag">#whitepeople</a> <a href="/tags/whitedevil/" rel="tag">#whitedevil</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#blackmastodon</a></p>
<p>Black people have to be 10x better at everything to just be seen as equal.</p><p>I have been in situations where I clearly have more experience, skills, and know how but still have to jump through hoops and it's fucking infuriating.</p><p><a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a></p>
<p>All skinfolk are not kinfolk. </p><p>Trump supporting Black MAGA invading HBCU'S where their sellout ass ain't welcome. </p><p><a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#blackmastodon</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/raygonomics.bsky.social/post/3m2l6f6x6hc2x" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bsky.app/profile/raygonomics.bsky.social/post/3m2l6f6x6hc2x"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/raygonomics.b</span><span class="invisible">sky.social/post/3m2l6f6x6hc2x</span></a></p>
<p>At HBCU'S. </p><p>Turning Point is involved in trying to inflltrate their hate onto Blacks. </p><p>At homecoming.</p><p>They already blame Blacks for their God Charlie Kirk's death. </p><p>Now this. </p><p><a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#blackmastodon</a> <a href="https://newsone.com/6519617/educate-to-liberate-maga-plans-invade-hbcu-homecomings/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="newsone.com/6519617/educate-to-liberate-maga-plans-invade-hbcu-homecomings/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newsone.com/6519617/educate-to</span><span class="invisible">-liberate-maga-plans-invade-hbcu-homecomings/</span></a></p>
<p>New year, time for a new <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a>. </p><p>I'm a queer Black <a href="/tags/trans/" rel="tag">#trans</a> (agender/transmasculine) <a href="/tags/vegan/" rel="tag">#vegan</a> <a href="/tags/pacifist/" rel="tag">#pacifist</a>, freelance writer/blogger, long-time <a href="/tags/wikipedia/" rel="tag">#Wikipedia</a> editor, and <a href="/tags/sanfrancisco/" rel="tag">#SanFrancisco</a> resident. </p><p>If you like my writing, please follow me at <a href="https://funcrunch.org/blog" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>funcrunch.org/blog</a>, where I share my stories about gender, social justice, veganism, and other topics.</p><p>I'm also on <a href="/tags/patreon/" rel="tag">#Patreon</a>: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/funcrunch" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.patreon.com/funcrunch</a></p><p><a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a></p>
<p>This...</p><p><a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a><br><a href="https://wordinblack.com/2024/05/dont-be-fooled-by-trumps-ops-in-the-bronx/?s=09" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="wordinblack.com/2024/05/dont-be-fooled-by-trumps-ops-in-the-bronx/?s=09"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wordinblack.com/2024/05/dont-b</span><span class="invisible">e-fooled-by-trumps-ops-in-the-bronx/?s=09</span></a></p>
