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Lydia Griggsby
* Lydia Kay Griggsby (born January 16, 1968)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Griggsby

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Turns out many people have been using “Unc” all wrong. “You’d never know the meaning of 'Unc' or its origins in black culture if you looked to mainstream media, and sometimes even independent media,” Gita Jackson writes for @Aftermath. So, here’s what it means and how slang terms that originate from African American Vernacular English — “chopped,” “clocked it,” “the tea,” “no cap,” and “it’s giving” — sometimes get miscategorized. Plus, a pull quote that might stay with you for a while: “Non-black people want to take everything from us except the weight of our history.”

https://flip.it/4ZmjNe

#Culture #BlackCulture #InternetCulture #AfricanAmerican #BlackMastodon

lo-fi adult contemporary jams to boob and outdance to

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y9j053VRqLM — I didn't know Betty Boop was Black. * true story * #bettyboop #africanamerican #americanhistory (0:47)

Red Reviews: W.Z. Foster’s “The Negro People in American History”

The great labor leader and former General Secretary and Chairman of the CPUSA, William Z. Foster, wrote hundreds of articles and pamphlets, giving a Marxist-Leninist analysis to the events and struggles of the day. He also wrote a number of longer books, especially in his later years. 

Foster wrote three major books summing up his experience as a revolutionary organizer in the trade union movement, From Bryan to Stalin (1937), Pages From a Worker’s Life (1939), and American Trade Unionism (1947). These are essential works on the labor movement that every revolutionary should study.

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https://fightbacknews.org/articles/red-reviews-w-z-fosters-the-negro-people-in-american-history

Happy Easter to those who observe the day and wishing a lovely Sunday for us all!

A scene from my hometown that I did 9 years ago. Although even then this old church was vacant.

Learn about prints: https://pixels.markonart.com/featured/sunday-morning-in-south-georgia-mark-tisdale.html

#Art #DigitalArt #Architecture #Easter #Church #Georgia #SouthGeorgia #Rural #Black #AfricanAmerican #CreativeToots #MarkOnArt

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 👇:
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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