On this day in 1963, William Moore, a white man, was killed in Alabama as he was marching to Mississippi for civil rights.
https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/apr/23
#antiracism #freespeech #whitesupremacy #racism #segregation #gentrification #apartheid #blackmastodon #civilrights #humanrights #democracy #usa #tiktok #WilliamMoore #desegregation @blackmastodon
@BLKNewsNow
@blackvoices
@politics
#history
Lawmen: Bass Reeves S01E05 released in 2023
Someone explains that when enslaved Africans were freed, one plantation owner on hearing the news immediately had "his" burned alive.
In the wake of the Eaton Fire which destroyed more than half of the city in January 2025, three Dena scholars/activists share their personal stories & how they connect to Black history in Los Angeles, environmental racism, and the region's future.
Episode 21 is now available on the podcatcher of your choice, or through my link in bio!
> Five things you didn’t know about Black British cultural history
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/15/five-things-you-didnt-know-about-black-british-cultural-history
In #TIL, and I may need to add the book mentioned to my #TBR list.
'Asa Philip Randolph (April 15, 1889 – May 16, 1979)
(1/22)
@romancelandia @bookstodon #Romancelandia
Via @authormsbev, this piece on Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first Black woman medical doctor in the U.S., who graduated in 1864.
Read it now, before it's erased like so much of the U.S. history that is not about white cis straight Christian men.
' “In #France,” Diamond said, “she is mainly known as a music-hall star, and in the US as a civil rights activist.” A whole chapter – the spying missions, the concerts that raised large sums for the #resistance, her subsequent uniformed service in the French air force – was far less familiar.'
on #HannaDiamond's #JosephineBakersSecretWar
#JoséphineBaker #BlackHistory #histFr #résistantes #FranceLibre #FreeFrench #DeuxièmeBureau #livres #books @histodons @bookstodon
NIGER SAYS ‘GOODBYE FRENCH,
HELLO HAUSA!’
Niger has broken free from another colonial chain - the French language - by adopting Hausa as the country’s new national idiom.
https://x.com/african_stream/status/1910357730490999028
#niger #hausa #africa
#france #geopolitics
@yemen #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#blackmastodon #canada #usa #sahel @blackmastodon @BLKNewsNow
@blackvoices
#antiracism #racism #whitesupremacy
@blackgirlnerds
Happy belated birthday to Booker T. Washington, who, among many of his other achievements, became the first Black person depicted on a United States postage stamp #OnThisDay in 1940.
This is history that has not been told:
As a trained wildland firefighter who knew the history of smokejumpers, I have NEVER heard that the first American smokejumpers were the African American troops of the all-black 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (the Triple Nickles) who, in Operation Firefly, fought the fires caused by Japanese balloon bombs.
#WW2 #WildlandFirefighting #BlackHistory #Smokejumpers
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/05/us/joe-harris-triple-nickle-black-paratroopers/index.html
A GLORIOUS MEDITATION ON BLUE, and on the blues, and on the centrality of the color, the mood, and the music to all of African and diaspora life, but particularly to Black life in the US. Elegant, eloquent, erudite, yet profoundly direct. SOLID A
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/black-in-blues-imani-perry/1145525940?ean=9780062977397
Eulalie Mandeville’s Fortune in Court Records
Court records can function as a kind of archive for those without any other paper trail in history: free people of color and the enslaved.
By: Matthew Wills
https://daily.jstor.org/eulalie-mandevilles-fortune-in-court-records/
Black History Icons | Azie Morton
#blackpeople #blackhistory #blackexcellence #blackwomen #blackicons #ustreasury #blacklivesmatter #blackliberation #blackpride
Not much is known about Mother George, a #black and #indigenous #transgender woman who was an early settler of the Grays Lake area of #idaho
She was known to be a midwife who delivered over 1000 babies in the mid to late 1800s.
After her death, her #trans status was discovered.
#transdayofvisibility #redpill #blackhistory #transhistory #indigenoushistory
https://www.madewithlev.com/trailblazing-woman-mother-george/
BlackPast.org launches transformative 3.0 platform, expanding digital access to comprehensive Black history research with Gates Foundation support. Empowering global understanding through innovative digital preservation. #BlackHistory #DigitalResearch
tRump Administration reportedly moves to ban Jackie Robinson biography from Naval Academy Library. Unbelievable the #racism of this administration and #Republicans in general. Hard to believe that a substantial percentage of young black males voted for a guy who clearly hates them. #BLM #BlackMastodon #BlackHIstory #CelebrateBlackHistory
The Notorious Kyo 
