black history

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/21/harvard-slavery-decendants-of-the-enslaved Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1913. Photograph: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Cotton Capital: ongoing seriesHarvard University Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to...

Not trying to make this about the Israel/Palestine conflict or their domestic lobbies but it doesn't look good when two of the wealthiest universities in America, whose endowments should be fukk you money, have caved to Trump and Pro-Israel interests about the personnel and content of their...

Now, I've been working on this for a few weeks. And these are WORLD Champions and the year they won their first WORLD Title (This about the wrestlers [Brothas & Sistas] not the companies). I think this should be it's own thread because it should be a list we always have. It's important to me...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, Who Was the First Black Woman in Army Nurse Corps, Has Died The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this month at a New...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/upn-black-tv-the-wb-moesha-the-parkers-1235091212/ How UPN Ushered in a Golden Decade of Black TV — and Then Was Merged Out of Existence With hit sitcoms like 'Moesha' and 'The Parkers,' the network gave voice to a new generation of Black...

https://www.whatimreading.net/p/maryland-belmont-black-suburb-historical-marker Maryland finally honors the Black suburb shut down by white developers In 1906, four men tried to build an upscale Black suburb. White residents and developers shut them down before they could even start. Phil...

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power/social-justice/five-weeks-that-rocked-crisfield-ZFQBFSVWY5EIPHNVBI7DZ5WDOU/ Black women crab pickers risked it all in 1938. Maryland finally recognizes them. Rona Kobell 7/16/24 5:30 a.m. EDT A mural of crab pickers is seen on a wall in...

As I said in this thread right here, cacs have fukked up world history so much that if you try and point out how things don't make sense you look absolutely crazy. it takes more effort to correct a lie than to live in the truth, and that's how they get away with it. Fair warning. This entire...

The channel owner claims that Jazz originated with Italians. And that the word Jazz stems from a Sicilian word “jass”. From the channel: “In this episode of Celebrating Culture: Bandleader David Hansen speaks with Charles Marsala about the "Father of Modern Jazz", Sicilian Cornetist &...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-black-buffalo-soldiers-who-biked-across-the-american-west-180980246/ The Black Buffalo Soldiers Who Biked Across the American West In 1897, the 25th Infantry Regiment Bicycle Corps embarked on a 1,900-mile journey from Montana to Missouri David Kindy...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-66045635 12 hours ago World War Two IMAGE SOURCE,US NATIONAL ARCHIVES Major Charity Adams inspecting the first arrivals to the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion By Oprah Flash & Amy Johnston BBC News, West Midlands The story of a...

I have been meaning to write about these for a bit ever since I did my (lately not updated) thread on the best private schools for Black kids. There are four Black boarding schools left in the US down from about 80-100 before World War II. Not all of those were big but there were some famous...

We're everywhere :manny: :umad: https://www.treblezine.com/a-guide-to-factory-records-manchester-substance/ Factory Records was a very influential label from Manchester, if you're a fan of any 80's music, you've heard at least one band from that label Mr. Erasmus seems to be on some Al...

Also, on the term Vagabond relating to slavery. Salute to my drapetomaniac 4th Great Grandfather who said fukk this and escaped slavery in Georgetown, Maryland (now DC) and proceeded to Canada, where he rose to become Bishop of the Canadian Province of the African Methodist Episcopal Church...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-66045635 12 hours ago World War Two IMAGE SOURCE,US NATIONAL ARCHIVES Major Charity Adams inspecting the first arrivals to the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion By Oprah Flash & Amy Johnston BBC News, West Midlands The story of a...

On this day in 1958, Jeremiah Reeves, was executed via electric chair by the state of Alabama after police tortured him into giving a false confession as a 16-year-old child.

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. — Some customers at a local supermarket say a display meant to celebrate Black History Month is offensive and stereotypical. The display at the Kroger on Peachtree Parkway in Peachtree City features rapper Snoop Dogg and his wine brand, 19 Crimes. After receiving several...