February 2012
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The one thing about being black is that there will...
Black-Asian solidarity in the wake of today’s... →
titotibok:
After ESPN called Jeremy Lin a “chink” in an article headline and KPOP songwriter Jenny Hyun argued for genocide against black people, race scholar Dr. Sarah Jackson tweeted about things that blacks and Asians in the US share:
On the real though there is a lot of love and history between Black folks and Asian folks no matter what these individual a-holes do/say.
So I will now tweet...
“More women, and especially black women, are behind bars as much because of hard...”
– Why So Many Black Women Are Behind Bars
by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
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7 Movies You Must See at the New Voices in Black... →
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“This is not addressed primarily to white people. It does not put you down in...”
– Nina Simone before performing “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black.”
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“I thought of white men arriving for the first time in an African village,...”
– James Baldwin on being the first black person to inhabit a Swiss village in “Stranger in the Village” from Notes of a Native Son
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negrosunshine on 'gay is the new black'
negrosunshine:
when i hear critiques of “gay is the new black,” sometimes i feel the critique actually misses the frightening truth of the statement.
“gay is the new black,” imagines a celebratory ending to black struggle, while also erasing the peculiar position of being black and “gay” in this society. it eliminates the possibility of intersectional analysis proffering a strange...
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Queerty's list of 7 black LGBTs is a whole bunch...
kararikue:
First of all, there are no black bi folx on the list. None.
Secondly, the only “trans” person on the list is RuPaul. That’s right. Not Marsha P. Johnson, a STONEWALL VETERAN, but RuPaul.
Audre Lorde is also conspicuously missing.
But what would you expect from a list made by a cis white gay man and titled “7 LGBT African Americans who changed the face of the GAY COMMUNITY” (Not...
Bronx Community Compares NYPD To KKK After... →
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What Really Fuels the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Black... →
Slave Routes, the U.S. →
volviomarilia:
United States Colonial North America figured in the Transatlantic Slave Trade late on in this chapter of history. Unlike the English, Dutch and French, north America never became a major market in the history of transatlantic slavery and north Americans only had around one fifth of the carrying trade. However, slavery deeply shaped the demographic, social, economic and...
Slaves Routes, Haiti →
volviomarilia:
Haiti Located in the Caribbean, between Cuba, Puerto Rico and Jamaica, this island (originally called Hispaniola or ‘little Spain’ by the Spanish) is inhabited by two independent nations, the Republic of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The first enslaved Africans were brought to the island in 1502. Mostly they were ladinos (Spaniards of African descent), but by 1520,...
Slave Routes, Dominican Republic →
volviomarilia:
Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic occupies the eastern two thirds of the island called Hispaniola (Little Spain), which it shares with Haiti. In 1496 it became the site of the first European colony in the Western Hemisphere, with the city of Santo Domingo as the Spanish administrative capital for all the Americas. The early settlers enslaved many of the indigenous...
Reclaiming Africa’s History from the West →
excentricyoruba:
Much of what today is studied as African history is the protégé of the racist ideology that viewed the black man as a little above an ape in terms of human intelligence. The earliest times of anthropological sojourn in sub-Saharan Africa coincided with the rise of pervasive racism in Great Britain. The early Victorian science which was birthed at this period was...
