> How Black Studies departments are being dismantled at American colleges. https://lithub.com/how-black-studies-departments-are-being-dismantled-at-american-colleges/

FTA: “The most dangerous threat to Black studies right now is not coming from the federal government,” he writes. “It is coming from institutions that have decided, in advance, that accommodation is the same thing as survival.”

#academia #HigherEd #DEI #racism #BlackStudies #AfricanAmerican #BlackMastodon

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@KevinCarson1/116263736939327463

Time to (re)discover some treasures of Blues and Folk music.

#music #blues #folk #culture #education #art #africanAmerican

A discussion today reminded me of the one-word term for believers in the #USA as a #democracy and/or a land of #freedom.

The word is #racist.

Those 2 claims can be applied without severe qualification only by excluding the experiences of #NativeAmerican and #AfricanAmerican people.

The #US was built on slavery and genocide. It remained an #apartheid state until at least the 1960s.

Calling that "freedom" and "democracy" is racism. But most Americans are propagandised into #denial.

#uspol

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Cigar

I didn't get the whiskers right. The color is far too uniform. But his eyes are delightful.

#art #digitalart #painting #cigar #oldman #old #man #beard #relaxing #relax #African #africanamerican #timelapse

Black History Month event held in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA – On Friday February 27, the Philadelphia Alliance against Racist and Political Repression held a movie showing to commemorate Black History Month. The movie, Judas and the Black Messiah, is about the iconic Black Panther leader Fred Hampton and William O’Neal, who the FBI used to infiltrate the Black Panther’s and helped the Chicago Police department kill Fred Hampton.

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https://fightbacknews.org/articles/black-history-month-event-held-in-philadelphia

RaiNews: Michael B. Jordan agli Oscar: “Sono qui grazie ai giganti che mi hanno preceduto”

Standing ovation al Dolby Theatre per l’attore, premiato per il doppio ruolo in Sinners. Nel discorso ringrazia famiglia, regista e i grandi attori afroamericani.

Michael B. Jordan at the Oscars: “I’m here thanks to the giants who came before me”

Standing ovation at the Dolby Theatre for the actor, awarded for the double role in Sinners. In his speech, he thanks his family, the director, and the great African American actors.

#MichaelBJordan #Oscars #theDolbyTheatre #AfricanAmerican

https://www.rainews.it/video/2026/03/michael-b-jordan-agli-oscar-sono-qui-grazie-ai-giganti-che-mi-hanno-preceduto-823d575d-63b5-4d86-adc6-f5d0e3e8bee4.html

Today in Labor History March 15, 1877: Ben Fletcher, African-American IWW organizer was born on this date in Philadelphia. Fletcher organized longshoremen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He joined the Wobblies (IWW) in 1912, became secretary of the IWW District Council in 1913. He also co-founded the interracial Local 8 in 1913. At that time, roughly one-third of the dockers on the Philadelphia waterfront were black. Another 33% were Irish. And about 33% were Polish and Lithuanian. Prior to the IWW organizing drive, the employers routinely pitted black workers against white, and Polish against Irish. The IWW was one of the only unions of the era that organized workers into the same locals, regardless of race or ethnicity. The IWW Dockers struck in Philadelphia on May 13, 1913. 10,000 Wobblies participated. They were protesting poor wages and dangerous working conditions. By May 28, they had won a ten-hour workday and time-and-a-half pay for overtime. However, the strike also launched one of the most successful anti-racist, anti-capitalist unions in the country: IWW Local 8. By 1916, thanks in large part to Fletcher’s organizing skill, all but two of Philadelphia’s docks were controlled by the IWW. And the union maintained control of the Philly waterfront for about a decade. After the 1913 strike, Fletcher traveled up and down the east coast organizing dockers. However, he was nearly lynched in Norfolk, Virginia in 1917. At that time, roughly 10% of the IWW’s 1 million members were African American. Most had been rejected from other unions because of their skin color. In 1918, the state arrested him, sentencing him to ten years for the crime of organizing workers during wartime. He served three years.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #BenFletcher #racism #AfricanAmerican #lynching #prison #union #strike #wobblies #longshore #philadelphia #BlackMastodon

#LGBTQ related #Wikipedia article created 9 hours ago

Izzy Spears

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izzy_Spears
Isaac Benyamin, known professionally as Izzy Spears, is an American singer, songwriter, and composer from Atlanta, Georgia

#AfricanAmerican #Singers