RE: https://mastodon.social/@dtgeek/116331913812426416

Historic indeed!✌️🎉
Let's also always celebrate the fact that #NASA's early #space endeavors in the 50s to 60s were possible, in no small part, due to the hard work and abilities of three #female #AfricanAmerican #mathematicians, viz.: Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson. Watch the 2016 biography, Hidden Figures, for the uninitiated 👇:
#mastofilm

Thirteen-year old sharecropper boy near Americus, Georgia

#Americus #Georgia #AfricanAmerican #America #AfricanAmericans #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770438/

Today in Labor History March 30, 1930: Three thousand workers, mostly African-American, began construction on the Hawks Nest Tunnel in West Virginia. The employer cut costs by failing to provide safety equipment. Additionally, bosses forced the men to work 10-15-hour days, often at gunpoint, without breaks and without masks to protect themselves from the silicon dust. Consequently, hundreds of workers died of silicosis. Possibly over 1,000 people, one-third of the entire workforce, died from silicosis, in one of America’s worst cases of mass workplace mortality.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #workplaceinjury #WorkplaceDeaths #HawksNest #racism #silicosis #forcedlabor #slavery #BlackMastodon #PPE #africanamerican

Elvis Presley and Muhammad Ali, Las Vegas, USA, 1973

https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/1931117/elvis-presley-and-muhammad-ali-las-vegas-usa-1973

> 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