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 👇:
#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