Then, as now...
"Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., August 28, 1963, at the March on Washington.
#MartinLutherKingJrDay #MLKDay #Blackmastodon #BlackFedi
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The Book of Negroes is more than a ledger—it is a story pressed into parchment, a testament to the brutal arithmetic of freedom. It begins in the final days of the American Revolution, a conflict that promised liberty but delivered it unevenly.
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Image: Rose Fortune came to Nova Scotia after the Revolutionary War, about June 1784. She earned a living as a "trucker," carrying baggage with a wheelbarrow.
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Right on cue.
He'll go after NBC'S local TV licenses first.
Then the network.
Go fuck off.
#blackmastodon https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/trump-rages-msnbc-joy-reid-comcast-ceo-brian-roberts-1236318813/
Thank you for your service.
#newjersey #blackmastodon https://www.inquirer.com/news/new-jersey/six-triple-eight-day-new-jersey-20250517.html
African-Americans have always knew the harsh truths about Western society this entire time, dating as far back as the slavery era. Yet white people and even non-black POC constantly silence us for speaking those truths. They are very likely to be terrified of those truths whether they realize it or not, because acknowledging them would heavily challenge their worldview and ego, their sense of 'self' or 'status' in this world.
Today in Labor History March 9, 1841: The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that freed the remaining 35 survivors of the Amistad mutiny. In 1839, Portuguese slave traders had illegally transported 52 Mende people from west Africa to Cuba, on the Amistad, in violation of European treaties against the slave trade. Joseph Cinque led his fellow captive Africans in a mutiny, killing the cook and captain, and forcing the remaining crew to return them to Africa. The crew tricked them and sailed up the Atlantic coast, presuming they would be intercepted by the U.S. Navy, which captured the ship near Montauk, Long Island. President Martin Van Buren wanted to send the prisoners back to Spanish authorities in Cuba to stand trial for mutiny. However, the Court recognized the mutineers’ rights as free citizens. Abolitionists raised funds for the mutineers’ defense. Former President John Quincy Adams, who opposed slavery, represented them in court.
#LaborHistory #workingclass #slavery #amistad #cinque #mutiny #SCOTUS #abolition #johnquincyadams #BlackMastodon
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Five years ago today, police burst into Breonna Taylor's home and shot her dead. @19thnews spoke to her mother, Tamika Palmer, about her ongoing quest for truth and justice, and how she is spending today. “I just want to honor her myself,” Palmer said. “I don’t want to argue with the world, I don’t want to share her with the world, I don’t want to have to prove that she deserves justice.”
#BreonnaTaylor #News #USLaw #USPolice #Blackmastodon @blackmastodon
Today I learned that there’s a free Black farmers index. Want to support hyperlocal and Black-owned businesses (instead of keeping billionaires in yacht money)? Take a look. Buy some stuff:
1968. Charleston, South Carolina.
Fannie Lou Hamer, who Lyndon Baines Johnson allegedly called “that ignorant woman,” speaks:
“People is not just walking out like they used to do in the past—walking up and shooting a man down and getting maybe two or three hundred people carryin’ out and lynching you…”
“But it’s in a more settled way now.
They let you starve to death. Not give you jobs.”
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Episode 191 of the Air Adam Podcast has just been released, with selections from Shy FX w/ Children of Zeus, Rapsody, Above The Law, Lost Boyz and many more!
Get the show now at;
- http://podcast.airadam.com
- https://www.mixcloud.com/airadampodcast/
- Apple Podcasts
- Pocket Casts
- etc
Have a listen, let me know what you think, and if you like it, please do spread the word - I have a lot of things, but no financial backing or advertising budget 😆
"There is no form of protest against racism that is acceptable to racists."
Bernice King
#blackwomen #the92percent #blackpeople #blackamerican #blacklawyers #blackministers #blackmastodon
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Yet another attack on Black women.
So goddamn sick of this shit.
#newark #newjersey #blackmastodon https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep-lamonica-mciver-charged-doj-incident-ice-agents/story?id=121971746
Because they're Black.
And they spoke out.
Fuck these racists.
#newyork #blackmastodon https://www.amny.com/news/summerstage-concert-cancellations-kehlani-noname/
When he died, there were no flags, no procession, no cannon fire. William “Billy” Lee was always there—riding with Washington in war, walking beside him in peace. He served at Cambridge, Valley Forge, Yorktown—silent, indispensable. But when the story of Washington was told, Billy was left out of the frame. His life was one of duty without recognition, loyalty without reward.
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"Billy Lee, Portrait in Tar." 2016. Titus Kaphar.
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America's largest remaining antebellum plantation, Nottoway Plantation in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, has burned to the ground. The cause is still under investigation but Parish President Chris Daigle says the building is "a total loss." In recent years, the plantation had been rebranded as Nottoway Resort, a luxury hotel described on its website as "restored to her days of glory." Sharing a video of the burning building on Facebook, a local man named Brad Gordon wrote: "If you don't understand why Black Americans are celebrating the symbolic dismantling of this monument to bondage and generational oppression — well, today, we simply don't care." Here's more from @AxiosNews.
#BlackHistory #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #USHistory #USNews
Did you watch the show “Good Times”?
50 years ago, Norman Lear brought the first nuclear Black family to prime-time television in 1974. It continues to garner appreciation for the way the show featured strong female characters, and gave Black women agency – on and off the set.
https://theconversation.com/good-times-50-years-ago-norman-lear-changed-tv-with-a-show-about-a-working-class-black-familys-struggles-and-joys-219567
#history @histodons @blackmastodon #BlackMastodon
Episode 192 of the Air Adam Podcast has just been released, with selections from Meth & Red, Rapsody, Xzibit, Supastition, and many more!
Get the show now at;
- http://podcast.airadam.com
- https://www.mixcloud.com/airadampodcast/
- Apple Podcasts
- Pocket Casts
- etc
Have a listen, let me know what you think, and if you like it, please do spread the word - I have a lot of things, but no financial backing or advertising budget 😆
This past week, 99 years ago, Miles Dewey Davis III was born in Alton, Illinois.
On November 12, 1989, on 60 Minutes, Harry Reasoner asked him if Black musicians were better at jazz and blues because of slavery. The question could’ve gone sideways.
What Davis said—quietly, precisely—was about rhythm, memory, race, and the meaning of swing. #music #Jazz #Histodons #history #blackmastodon #photography #blackandwhite
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Image: Miles Davis, Hackensack, New Jersey, 1954, photo by Francis Wolff.
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They may share a suffix (and a protocol), but Blacksky isn’t hitching its wagon to the Bluesky app or team. Founder and CEO @rudyfraser.com is creating a new, fiercely independent playbook for communities — one made possible because of the flexibility of the open web. We're excited for you to hear the latest episode of @mike's Dot Social podcast:
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/blacksky-rudy-fraser/
#DotSocial #Podcast #SocialMedia #SocialNetwork #Federation #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Blacksky #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #RudyFraser #Technology #Tech #Bluesky
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Racist liar.
He wants apartheid reinstated.
And Black Americans kicked out of the US to South Sudan and Rwanda.
So he can bring back Jim Crow.
And open a whites-only casino and golf course in Johannesburg and Sun City.
Fuck him.
Dismissed by DEI: Trump’s Purge Made Black Women With Stable Federal Jobs an “Easy Target”
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The president’s attack on diversity efforts has derailed the government careers of highly educated civil servants — even though the jobs some lost were not directly involved with any DEI programs.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dei-black-women-minorities-careers-jobs-dismissed?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
@spacecitydad shared the image below detailing some massacres of Black People:
There were more.
#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackhistory #blackmastodon
Soon to be on Fox News or News Nation as their token Black woman.
All skinfolk are not kinfolk.
#blackmastodon
https://abc7news.com/post/karine-jean-pierre-book-bidens-former-press-secretary-leaves-democratic-party-serving-broken-white-house/16657503/
via ABC7 News App