@noondlyt I’m not saying we should stop celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth btw. Just that we should make people aware of just how much we take inequality for granted & that this hard fought for month, became enough for too many of us. It’s not enough.
@noondlyt I’m not saying we should stop celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth btw. Just that we should make people aware of just how much we take inequality for granted & that this hard fought for month, became enough for too many of us. It’s not enough.
@noondlyt It’s like the white patriarchy conceding to the US, one month for #BlackHistoryMonth…Excuse me? Everyday is black history day & woman’s history day etc etc. We aren’t separate. We are all integral parts of the fucking whole. We should all be appreciated & celebrated everyday.
#ItsNotPie #Equality
Today marks the 60th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday. The march was led byJohn Lewis, a young activist. 600 people peacefully marched to and across the Edmund Pettis Bridge for the right to vote and to protest police brutality.
The march was a defining moment in the Civil Rights Movement. T police savagery so horrific, Congress pushed to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965 under great public pressure.
The bridge has been renamed and the VRA massacred.
Yer darn tootin’.
As a straight, cis, het, male, I have the power of intergroup bias. It’s my job to use that to advance awareness and equity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-group_favoritism
Also, how cool that I get to work for a company who values this. We have an inclusion council, and it’s not going away because of fascism.
Thank you to all who supported and came out to visit the 2nd annual #BlackHistoryMonth Open House hosted by the Toronto Fire Services Black Staff Network and supported by our Toronto Paramedic Services colleagues. More photos on our Facebook page here: https://bit.ly/4hjAuRb #Toronto #community
I know this story is a few weeks old at this point, but given that just yesterday I was chatting with someone in my own life who was completely unaware of it, I thought I might take a moment to highlight why it's not being reported well in our media, and most importantly talk about what Google's open signal that they'd love to collaborate with Downmarket Mussolini and our fascist Pork Reich government on whatever nightmare bullshit these nazis want to do, actually means.
Amid Other Pro-Trump Moves, Google Maps Makes “Gulf of America” Name Change
"In the U.S., the gulf will be displayed as the “Gulf of America.” In Mexico, it will remain the “Gulf of Mexico.” From anywhere else in the world, the body of water will be labeled as “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America).”
Although the change is consistent with the Google Maps policy on names for geographic locations elsewhere, the move comes as Google has made numerous attempts to endear itself to Trump over the past several weeks.
The company, for example, gave $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund. It also opted to end its diversity hiring targets following Trump’s executive order terminating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and funding across the federal government. And along with the changes to its maps this week, Google removed Black History Month and Pride Month from its list of annual celebrations on Google Calendar.
Google also announced earlier this month that it would abandon its Responsible AI pledge, which included a promise not to use artificial intelligence to develop tech that could cause “overall harm” — including weapons and surveillance systems."
In terms of media coverage and how for-profit news orgs have treated this story, we're legitimately talking about a catastrophic failure to connect the obvious dots and ominous historical overtones in this situation. Most outlets are hell bent on covering Google's desire to collaborate with a fascist US government as a pathetic private sector attempt to curry favor with Trump, or story about Downmarket Mussolini's laughable obsession with names on maps. The sinister reality however is that it is in precisely HOW Google is choosing to curry favor with Trump, that how far they're willing to go reveals itself. Eliminating Black History Month from the calendar is objectively supporting a white supremacist regime objective, just as eliminating Pride Month from the calendar supports a heteronormative, anti-LGBTQ agenda. Changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico on its maps, even if it's just for American users, is an open signal of support for the Trump administration's hyper-nationalist, and increasingly expansionist agenda. This isn't currying favor with fascists; Google is signaling to the fascist administration, that they're ready to HELP THEM literally do fascism, presumably for profit.
All of which leads us to Google's abandonment of the responsible AI pledge, and why history doesn't repeat itself but often rhymes. In the lead up to the literal Holocaust, IBM (yes, THAT IBM) designed and supplied the Nazi Party with a punch card computing system that made it possible to identify and catalogue Jewish people and other targets of the Nazi regime for extermination; and they made a handsome profit doing so - as detailed in Edwin Black's groundbreaking work "IBM and the Holocaust: How America's Most Powerful Corporation Helped Nazi Germany Count The Jews." The fact is mass deportations, incarcerations, and exterminations are a data-centric activities, you simply can't undertake that kind of (repugnant) project without a way to organize, categorize, and easily access information about your targets; a task that becomes considerably easier if you can automate collection and analysis through say, fake AI programs. At its heart, Google is ultimately a data collection and organization company, which *already* maintains vast amounts of information about the populations and groups the Trump administration is threatening. And now that company is openly signaling to Downmarket Mussolini that they are not only "down to fascism" but are both equipped to help conduct various types of mass surveillance and organized purges, as well as prepared abandon ethical guidelines that would prevent them from doing so if the price is right - just like IBM did in the 1930's and the lead up to the Holocaust.
Of course you're not going to find that kind of analysis in the pro-capitalist, for profit media because those folks are just as busy trying to figure out how *they* can turn a profit from Trump's fascist agenda too; and that is a big part of why this modern fascist movement is winning, and easily.
> As Black History Month ends, a reading list for the rest of the year https://religionnews.com/2025/02/28/as-black-history-month-ends-a-reading-list-for-the-rest-of-the-year/ via RNS.
I checked our library catalog, and out of the 28 we have 17.
#books #reading #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #lists #Bookstodon #BlackMastodon
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"This American Life" episode "Talking While Black".
Today in Labor History March 2, 1962: Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in one basketball game, setting an NBA record. The closest anyone has come to this record was Kobe Bryant’s 81-point game in 2006. Chamberlain also broke the record for most free throws scored during a game. That season, he averaged over 50 points per game, scoring over 60 points in 12 games. No one has come close to this. Wilt also had a 78-point game in 1961, two 73-point games in 1962, a 72-point game in 1962 and a 70-point game in 1963. Chamberlain has 5 the 8 single highest single game point totals in NBA history. I was lucky enough to see him play once, as a kid, toward the end of his career, when he was playing for the now defunct San Diego Conquistadores.
Chamberlain holds 72 NBA records, including records in scoring and rebounding. He once made 55 rebounds in a single game. He is not only the only NBA player to average over 30 points and 20 rebounds per game over the course of a season, he did this seven times in his career. He left college early to play professionally, at first with the Harlem Globetrotters because, in those days, the NBA refused to accept players until their graduating year of college had ended. One of the Globetrotters’ skits involved team captain, Meadowlark Lemon, feigning injury and falling to the floor. Instead of helping him up, Chamberlain lifted the 210-pound Lemon and threw him several feet into the air, and then caught him, like a ragdoll. Lemon called Chamberlain the strongest athlete who ever lived. In 1967, Chamberlain nearly got the opportunity to box against Muhammad Ali.
#BHM Recap...
#ICYMI I did a "lesser celebrated" series on #HipHop music contributions each day of #BlackHistoryMonth.
If you followed along and missed any of them or are just now hearing about it, you can check out the entire series here:
Let’s extend #BlackHistoryMonth for one more day and get into this masterwork of a take from @are0h, and boost/follow him.
Then, let’s not play daft about why most POC do not feel safe on any platform on the internet. Whether it be the casual corporate racism of bluesky or the inherent liberal racism of mastodon - Whiteness, delusion, and inherent anti-black bigotry is the root of the continued enshittification that goes occurs online.
Although we somehow consider ourselves being experts in the field of #NewDiplomaticHistory, we faced great difficulties in finding information on #black #emdiplomacy.
One reason for this is that #GlobalHistory, however, focuses strongly on the Americas and Asia. Research on Africa and #earlyModern African #diplomacy is very limited though it has existed since the #MiddleAges at least.
Another reason for the underrepresentation of #earlyModern African history in #NewDiplomaticHistory is the lack of sources. As many African regions had other traditions than written sources, it is difficult to access African #emdiplomacy. This is also why existing research heavily focuses on a few exampels and regions when it comes to #black #emdiplomacy, mostly Ethiopa, Kongo and the North of the continent. (2/2)
#NewDiplomaticHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #history #histodons
#BlackHistoryMonth ended yesterday. Therefore, we want to share some reflections with you.
#earlyModern #NewDiplomaticHistory is still heavily Eurocentric. Moreover, there is a risk that white and European perspectives prevail even in non-European contexts despite all attemps by #GlobalHistory to questions these approaches. During the last weeks we tried to set European perspectives aside and highlight #black diplomatic actors. In doing so, we encountered a huge challange: the lack of research. (1/2)
My latest food column is up!
Whether they're nurturing a new generation of farmers, continuing a legacy, creating new flavours or making it easier to find tastes of home, Waterloo-Wellington's Black food entrepreneurs are helping to shape our food scene and add to the nation conversation.
#Food #Mastonom #BlackHistoryMonth #Canada #LocalFood #WaterlooRegion #WellingtonCounty
@thecontinent thanks for the latest edition with these speaking #cartoons
anyone interested in #blackhistorymonth should checkout #thecontinent mag
Social Security Pioneers, Black History Month Edition:
#SocialSecurityat90
#StrongerTogether
Patricia R. Harris
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. During her tenure, the department was renamed Health and Human Services.
1979-1981
Info: https://www.ssa.gov/history/harris.html
Herbert R. Doggette, Jr.
Social Security Commissioner
January 1, 1980 to January 2, 1980 (Acting),
and, January 20, 1981 to May 5, 1981 (Acting)
Info: https://www.ssa.gov/history/doggette.html
Gwendolyn S. King
Commissioner of Social Security
August 1, 1989 to September 30, 1992
Info: https://www.ssa.gov/history/king.html
Carolyn W. Colvin
Acting Commissioner
February 14, 2013 - January 20, 2017
November 30, 2024 - January 2025
Info: https://www.ssa.gov/history/colvin.html
Ruth Pierce
Associate Deputy Commissioner for Regional Operations
Kilolo Kijakazi
Acting Commissioner
July 9, 2021 – December 20, 2023
Info: https://www.ssa.gov/history/kijakazi.html
And many contributors at all levels of the organization working day by day, year after year, in service to the American public.
More Social Security history: https://www.ssa.gov/history/ & #SSAHistGWC
#BlackHistoryMonth
#SocialSecurity #History #Disability #Retirement #Medicare #Unemployment #insurance #heatlhcare #NewDeal #OTD #SSDI #OASDI #equity #justice Social Security Administration
15 Moments That Proved This Black History Month Was The Blackest—Ever
#BlackHistoryMonth #bhm #history #blackpower #blm
https://www.theroot.com/15-moments-that-proved-why-this-black-history-month-was-1851766448?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=theroot_twitter via @TheRoot
28 Days of Black History Month: Beyond February, 10 Ways to Celebrate Black History All Year
#BlackHistoryMonth #bhm #education #blm #celebration #history
https://www.bet.com/article/ac6osd/28-days-of-black-history-month-beyond-february-10-ways-to-celebrate-black-history-all-year
Long ignored, Black modernist architects get recognition: