Let's make everything about RACE (Unapologetically Black Thread)

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https://www.oneunited.com/

 

[KHUFU]

Tanner’s Alley, an Underground Railroad Station in PA.
Harrisburg, PA was chartered on March 19, 1860. This date is used because this city is home to Tanner’s Alley, a section of the Harrisburg that played a part the abolition movement during American slavery.
Settled around 1719 the city was a stop on the Underground Railroad where runaway slaves were fed and clothed on their way to Canada. Harrisburg is less than an hour from the Mason Dixon Line and was home to 900 free blacks by 1850 (12% of the city’s population). Much of this population lived in a 500 foot stretch of road nicknamed Tanner’s Alley.
This neighborhood was home to some of the poorest residents in the city. High skilled professionals were seldom found here while unskilled service workers were common. While facing the hardships of racism and poverty, this neighborhood was home to a black Masonic Hall as well as Wesley Union A.M.E. Zion Church, Harrisburg’s first black church founded in 1816. Many slaves were hidden in Tanner’s Alley by notable Underground Railroad conductor Joseph Bustill and Dr. William “Pap” Jones, a well-known doctor and merchant that lived a block from Bustill.
Today, Tanner’s Alley lies between Walnut Street and South Street while Wesley Union A.M.E. Zion Church still has its doors open.

 

[KHUFU]

At 2:30 in the afternoon on March 19, 1935, an employee at the Kress Five and Ten store at 256 W. 125th Street (just across the street from the Apollo Theater) caught 16-year-old Lino Rivera shoplifting a 10-cent penknife; the boy was a Black Puerto Rican. When his captor threatened to take Rivera into the store's basement and "beat the hell out of him," Rivera bit the employee's hand.
The manager intervened and the police were called, but Rivera was eventually released. In the meantime, a crowd had begun to gather outside around a woman who had witnessed Rivera's apprehension; she was shouting that Rivera was being beaten. When an ambulance showed up to treat the wounds of the employee who had been bitten, it appeared to confirm the woman's story. When the crowd noticed a hearse parked outside of the store, the rumor began to circulate that Rivera had been beaten to death. The woman who had raised the alarm was arrested for disorderly conduct, the Kress Five and Ten store closed early, and the crowd was dispersed by police.
That evening a demonstration was held outside the store and, after someone threw a rock through the window, more general destruction of the store and other white-owned properties ensued. Three people died, hundreds were wounded, and an estimated $2 million in damages was caused to properties throughout the district. African American owned homes and businesses were spared the worst of the destruction. During the Great Depression, minorities in Harlem and elsewhere in New York suffered as they struggled with unemployment. Non-whites were often fired first and hired last in times of fluctuating employment, and conditions were bleak.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[Mark Antony]

"i'm gon kill that ***** outside". Shouldn't have uploaded that though.

 

[Grine]

Some of us - like myself being from Louisiana has rich history within Indigenous tribes and people
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[KHUFU]

Unfortunately when it comes to our daughters, that is the tipping point. I have absolutely no issues with what he did. This is exactly what we need to do, placing the fear of their god in them.

 

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[KHUFU]

Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970), known professionally as Queen Latifah, is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, actress, and producer. Born in Newark, New Jersey, she signed with Tommy Boy Records in 1989 and released her debut album All Hail the Queen on November 28, 1989, featuring the hit single "Ladies First". Nature of a Sista' (1991) was her second and final album with Tommy Boy Records.
Latifah starred as Khadijah James on the FOX sitcom Living Single from 1993 to 1998. Her third album, Black Reign (1993), spawned the single "U.N.I.T.Y.", which was influential in raising awareness of women's rights and the perspective of women in communities worldwide. The record won a Grammy Award and peaked at No. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100. She then starred in the lead role of Set It Off (1996) and released her fourth album, Order in the Court, on June 16, 1998, with Motown Records. Latifah garnered acclaim with her role of Matron "Mama" Morton in the musical film Chicago (2002), receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Latifah released her fifth album The Dana Owens Album in 2004. In 2007 and 2009, she released two more studio albums – Trav'lin' Light and Persona. She created the daytime talk show The Queen Latifah Show, which ran from late 2013 to early 2015 on CBS. She has appeared in a number of films, such as Bringing Down the House (2003), Taxi (2004), Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2005), Beauty Shop (2005), Last Holiday (2006), Hairspray (2007), Joyful Noise (2012), 22 Jump Street (2014) and Girls Trip (2017) and provided voice work in the Ice Age film series. Latifah received critical acclaim for her portrayal of blues singer Bessie Smith in the HBO film Bessie (2015), which she co-produced, winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. From 2016 to 2019, she starred as Carlotta Brown in the musical drama series Star. In 2020, she portrayed Hattie McDaniel in the miniseries Hollywood.
She has been described as a "feminist" rapper. Latifah received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006. Latifah's work in music, film and television has earned her a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, an Academy Award nomination and sales of over two million records.
Dana Elaine Owens was born in Newark, New Jersey, on March 18, 1970, and lived primarily in East Orange, New Jersey. She is the daughter of Rita Lamae (née Bray; d. 201, a teacher at Irvington High School (Latifah's alma mater), and Lancelot Amos Owens, a police officer. Owens attended Essex Catholic Girls' High School in Irvington, but graduated from Irvington High School. Her parents divorced when Latifah was ten. Latifah was raised in the Baptist faith and attended Catholic school in Newark, New Jersey. She found her stage name, Latifah, meaning "delicate" and "very kind" in Arabic, in a book of Arabic names when she was eight. Always tall, the 5-foot-10-inch (1.78 m) Latifah was a power forward on her high school basketball team. She performed the number "Home" from the musical The Wiz in a grammar school play. After high school, Queen Latifah attended classes at Borough of Manhattan Community College.
She began beat boxing for the hip-hop group Ladies Fresh and was an original member of the Flavor Unit, which, at that time, was a crew of MCs grouped around producer DJ King Gemini, who made a demo recording of Queen Latifah's rap Princess of the Posse. He gave the recording to Fab 5 Freddy, the host of Yo! MTV Raps. The song got the attention of Tommy Boy Music employee Dante Ross, who signed Latifah and in 1989 issued her first single, "Wrath of My Madness". More recent artists, like Ice Cube and Lil' Kim, would go on to sample Latifah's track in their songs, "Wrath of Kim's Madness" and "You Can't Play With My Yo-Yo" in later years. Latifah has a two-octave vocal range. She is considered a contralto, having the ability to both rap and sing.
Latifah made her mark in hip-hop by rapping about issues surrounding being a black woman. Her songs covered topics including domestic violence, harassment on the streets, and relationship problems. Freddy helped Latifah sign with Tommy Boy Records, which released Latifah's first album All Hail the Queen in 1989, when she was nineteen. That year, she appeared as Referee on the UK label Music of Life album 1989 – The Hustlers Convention (live). She received a Candace Award from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women in 1992. In 1993, she released the album Black Reign, which was certified Gold in the United States and produced the Grammy Award-winning song "U.N.I.T.Y." In 1998, co-produced by Ro Smith, now CEO of Def Ro Inc., she released her fourth hip-hop album Order in the Court, which was released by Motown Records. Latifah was also a member of the hip-hop collective Native Tongues.
Latifah performed in the Super Bowl XXXII halftime show, making her the first rapper to do so.
After Order in the Court, Latifah shifted primarily to singing soul music and jazz standards, which she had used sparingly in her previous hip-hop-oriented records. In 2004, she released the soul/jazz standards The Dana Owens Album. On July 11, 2007, Latifah sang at the famed Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles as the headlining act in a live jazz concert. In front of a crowd of more than 12,400, she was backed by a 10-piece live orchestra and three backup vocalists, which was billed as the Queen Latifah Orchestra. Latifah performed new arrangements of standards including "California Dreaming", first made popular by 1960s icons the Mamas & the Papas. Later in 2007, Latifah released an album titled Trav'lin' Light. Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Joe Sample, George Duke, Christian McBride, and Stevie Wonder made guest appearances. It was nominated for a Grammy in the "Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album" category.
In 2009, Latifah, along with the NJPAC Jubilation Choir, recorded the title track on the album Oh, Happy Day: An All-Star Music Celebration, covering the song that the Edwin Hawkins Singers made popular in 1969.
In 2008, Latifah was asked if she would make another hip-hop album. She was quoted stating that the album was done already and it would be called All Hail the Queen II. The following year, in 2009, she released her album Persona. The song "Cue the Rain" was released as the album's lead single. She also has a song with Missy Elliott. 2011 saw Queen Latifah sing "Who Can I Turn To" in a duet with Tony Bennett for his album "Duets II". In January 2012, while appearing on 106 & Park with Dolly Parton, to promote Joyful Noise, Latifah stated that she had been working on a new album.
On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Queen Latifah among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.
She began her film career in supporting roles in the 1991 and 1992 films House Party 2, Juice and Jungle Fever. Moreover, she has guest starred in two episodes during the second season (1991–1992) of the NBC hit The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and had a guest role as herself on Hangin' with Mr. Cooper in 1993. From 1993 to 1998, Latifah had a starring role on Living Single, the FOX sitcom, which gained high ratings among black audiences; she also wrote and performed its theme music. Her mother Rita played her mother on-screen. Latifah appeared in the 1996 box-office hit, Set It Off, and had a supporting role in the Holly Hunter film Living Out Loud (199. She played the role of Thelma in the 1999 movie The Bone Collector, alongside Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. She also had her own talk show, The Queen Latifah Show, from 1999 to 2001 and revamped in 2013. On January 6, 2014, The Queen Latifah Show was renewed for a second season. However, on November 21, 2014, Sony Pictures Television canceled Latifah's show due to declining ratings. Production of the series closed down, taking effect on December 18, 2014, leaving new episodes that were broadcast until March 6, 2015.
Queen Latifah produced the 2007 film The Perfect Holiday. In addition to producing the film, Latifah starred alongside Terrence Howard, Morris Chestnut, Gabrielle Union, Charles Q. Murphy, Jill Marie Jones, and Faizon Love. In 2008, Latifah appeared in the crime comedy Mad Money opposite Academy Award–winner Diane Keaton as well as Katie Holmes and Ted Danson. She appeared on Saturday Night Live on October 4, 2008, as moderator Gwen Ifill in a comedic sketch depicting the vice-presidential debate between then-Senator Joe Biden and then-Governor Sarah Palin and played in The Secret Life of Bees. In 2009, Latifah was a presenter at the 81st Academy Awards, presenting the segment honoring film professionals who had died during 2008 and singing "I'll Be Seeing You" during the montage. Latifah spoke at Michael Jackson's memorial service in Los Angeles. She also hosted the 2010 People's Choice Awards. Latifah sang America the Beautiful at Super Bowl XLIV hosted in Miami, Florida, on February 7, 2010, with Carrie Underwood. Latifah hosted the 2010 BET Awards on June 27, 2010. She starred with Dolly Parton in Joyful Noise (2012). In June 2011, Latifah received an honorary doctorate degree in Humane Letters from Delaware State University in Dover, Delaware. On September 16, 2013, Latifah premiered her own syndicated daytime television show titled The Queen Latifah Show. On January 26, 2014, Latifah officiated the weddings of 33 same-sex and opposite-sex couples during a performance of "Same Love" by Macklemore at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. In 2015, Latifah received a Best Actress Emmy nomination for her lead role as Bessie Smith in Bessie, an HBO film which received a total of 12 Emmy nominations.
On April 26, 2017, MTV announced that Latifah will be an executive producer for the third season of the slasher television series Scream. The show will undergo a reboot with a new cast and Brett Matthews serving as show runner. In addition, Matthews, Shakim Compere and Yaneley Arty will also be credited as executive producers for the series under Flavor Unit Entertainment. On June 24, 2019, it was confirmed that the third season is scheduled to premiere over three nights on VH1, starting from July 8, 2019. The third season titled Scream: Resurrection premiered on July 8, 2019.
Latifah played the sea witch Ursula in The Little Mermaid Live!. Although the production itself was not well received, critics widely praised Latifah's performance, with The Hollywood Reporter calling her performance "the best moment of the evening".
CBS has announced a new active TV series, The Equalizer, a reboot the 1980s detective series The Equalizer starring Latifah in the lead role (renamed as Robyn for her version).
Raised in East Orange, New Jersey, Latifah has been a resident of Colts Neck, New Jersey; Rumson, New Jersey; and Beverly Hills, California.
Latifah's older brother, Lancelot Jr., was killed in 1992 in an accident involving a motorcycle that Latifah had purchased for him. A 2006 interview revealed that Latifah still wears the key to the motorcycle around her neck, visible throughout her performance in her sitcom Living Single. She also dedicated Black Reign to him. In her 1999 autobiography, Ladies First: Revelations of a Strong Woman, Latifah discussed how her brother's death had led to a bout of depression and drug abuse, from which she later recovered.
In 1995, Latifah was the victim of a carjacking, which also resulted in the shooting of her boyfriend, Sean Moon.
In 1996, she was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and possession of a loaded handgun. In 2002, she was arrested for driving under the influence in Los Angeles County. She was placed on three years' probation after being convicted.
She also works out with a trainer for kickboxing.
On March 21, 2018, her mother, actress Rita Owens, died due to heart failure, an issue she had been battling since 2004.

 

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Meet Wyoming’s New Black Sheriff, the First in State History

Meet Wyoming’s New Black Sheriff, the First in State History (Published 2021)

The appointment is symbolic for both Wyoming and the Mountain West, which has been insulated from much of the national reckoning over race and policing.

www.nytimes.com

 

[KHUFU]

Gordon Parks

The son of a tenant farmer, Parks grew up in poverty. After dropping out of high school, he held a series of odd jobs, including pianist and waiter. In 1938 he bought a camera and initially made a name for himself as a portrait and fashion photographer. After moving to Chicago, he began chronicling life on the city’s impoverished South Side. These photographs led to a Julius Rosenwald Fellowship, and in 1942 he became a photographer at the Farm Security Administration (FSA). While with the FSA, he took perhaps his best-known photograph, American Gothic, which featured an African American cleaning woman holding a mop and broom while standing in front of an American flag.


In 1948 Parks became a staff photographer for Life magazine, the first African American to hold that position. Parks, who remained with the magazine until 1972, became known for his portrayals of ghetto life, black nationalists, and the civil rights movement. A photo-essay about a child from a Brazilian slum was expanded into a television documentary (1962) and a book with poetry (197, both titled Flavio. Parks also was noted for his intimate portraits of such public figures as Ingrid Bergman, Barbra Streisand, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Muhammad Ali.


Parks’s first work of fiction was The Learning Tree (1963), a coming-of-age novel about a black adolescent in Kansas in the 1920s. He also wrote forthright autobiographies—A Choice of Weapons (1966), To Smile in Autumn (1979), and Voices in the Mirror (1990). He combined poetry and photography in A Poet and His Camera (196, Whispers of Intimate Things (1971), In Love (1971), Moments Without Proper Names (1975), and Glimpses Toward Infinity (1996). Other works included Born Black (1971), a collection of essays, the novel Shannon (1981), and Arias in Silence (1994).


In 1968 Parks became the first African American to direct a major motion picture with his film adaptation of The Learning Tree. He also produced the movie and wrote the screenplay and musical score. He next directed Shaft (1971), which centred on a black detective. A major success, it helped give rise to the genre of African American action films known as blaxploitation. A sequel, Shaft’s Big Score, appeared in 1972. Parks later directed the comedy The Super Cops (1974) and the drama Leadbelly (1976) as well as several television films.

 

[Grine]

Went to visit Palenque, Colombia:

San Basilio de Palenque - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Brief History:

Palenque was the first free African town in the South Americas,

Spaniards introduced kidnapped African slavesin South America through the Magdalena River Valley. Its mouth is close to the important port of Cartagena de Indias where ships full of Africans arrived. Some Africans escaped and set up Palenque de San Basilio, a town close to Cartagena. They tried to free all African slaves arriving at Cartagena and were quite successful. Therefore, the Spanish Crown issued a Royal Decree (1691), guaranteeing freedom to the Palenque de San Basilio Africans if they stopped welcoming New escapees.

They created a new language because of all the different tribes of Africa in the town. They strip the Catholic religion and went back to the African true faith.

I spent 8 hours there solo - so much history and knowledge.

Their slavery didn’t last as long as ours - but they revolt and won their freedom. Only town that Afro-Colombian keeps their true origin of Africa - culture, language,religion, etc

If you ever go to Colombia, go kick it with them.

 

[deusavertat]

^^^I'm jealous, I need to get the hell out of the country ASAP. I'm starting to feel trapped.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Interesting.

NYPD sending Asian cops undercover to stop hate crimes - New York Daily News https://www.nydailynews.com/new-yor...0210325-xtfoa2m2i5cdjpy2u2ob5pe2c4-story.html

 

[cosmiccoffee9]

I know this ain't reddit and we don't really do crossposts here but I posted this in COVID and it belongs in this time capsule:


you know what man it's Sunday I'm not doing ****...while I'm here let me highlight for history that the city's vaccination program is miles behind others in the country. a quick google of other top cities like LA and Chicago turn up rates hovering around 20 percent and NY for example has vaccinated 2 million people, which is more than the Philadelphia population.

my personal theory about why this is so centers on this Andrei Doroshin dude, a 22-year-old(!) Drexel grad who started 3D printing masks which is cool and all but then he shifted WAY out of his lane to focus on delivering the vaccine to the public.

his prior public outreach efforts include a failed GoFundMe and making videos for his daddy's business.

...but he talks a good game so hey, **** it.

surely this milk-sucking twerp can handle the largest public health campaign and civil crisis in living memory.

among the firms passed over was a group of experienced medical professions led by a physician with specific expertise in vaccine distribution and disease prevention, decades of experience doing exactly this to lots of people on a regular basis.

it is literally called the Black Doctors Consortium.

instead they pick this mini-Musk mf, slick talking shyster talking out the side of his neck about "disruption" and "innovation."

edit:here's the meeting where they planned to use Meek Mill as an urban puppet...you can't make this **** up.


(I can't believe he still hasn't taken this video down!)

AND SO, signing a distribution contract with the city, he immediately proceeds to start grabbing extra vaccines for his friends and family, selling off bundles in backroom deals, and publicly sucking his own **** about what a ****ing genius he is.

they caught him out there at the end of January, and by then he had secured the bag and the vaccines, so they basically had to start all the way over from square one. of course he has not been arrested, why would you ask such a stupid *** question?

the headline here says it all:

Philly Fighting COVID CEO lashes out at 'competitors' in apology email to donors

Andrei Doroshin did not elaborate on what he was sorry for. Instead, he pointed to unnamed “minor administrative decisions” as fodder used to discredit PFC.

whyy.org

After weeks of radio silence, Philly Fighting COVID’s Andrei Doroshin surfaced Tuesday afternoon in a brief email addressed to “donors.” Though framed as an apology, the start-up CEO did not elaborate on what he was sorry for.

In the note, Doroshin said he would focus on “money owed” and “recovering the good of our names.” He pointed to unnamed “minor administrative decisions” that he described as the “fodder that was needed for competitors and other groups that did not share our interests to shut us down and personally discredit me and my team.”

The City of Philadelphia cut off Philly Fighting COVID’s vaccine supply after WHYY News and Billy Penn revealed the group had abandoned its community testing obligations and pivoted to a for-profit model with a privacy policy that would allow the company to sell user data. It was later revealed that Doroshin took vaccine doses home from PFC’s Pennsylvania Convention Center clinic, even after turning patients away.

tl;dr: the 4th or 5th largest city in the US stands the chance at a customized Philly Variant because leaders got drunk on WP.

it is a microcosm of America as a whole.

I...just...

dawg.

 

[KHUFU]

Isaac Woodard Jr. was born in Fairfield County, South Carolina, and grew up in Goldsboro, North Carolina. He attended local segregated schools, often underfunded for Blacks during the Jim Crow years. On October 14, 1942, the 23-year-old Woodard enlisted in the U.S. Army at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina. He served in the Pacific Theater in a labor battalion as a longshoreman and was promoted to sergeant. He earned a battle star for his Asiatic-Pacific Theater Campaign Medal by unloading ships under enemy fire in New Guinea and received the Good Conduct Medal as well as the Service medal and World War II Victory Medal awarded to all American participants. He received an honorable discharge on February 12, 1946.
That day Woodard Jr. was on a Greyhound Lines bus traveling from Camp Gordon in Augusta, Georgia, where he had been discharged, in route to rejoin his family in North Carolina. When the bus reached a rest stop just outside Augusta, Woodard asked the bus driver if there was time for him to use a restroom. The driver grudgingly acceded to the request after an argument. Woodard returned to his seat from the rest stop without incident, and the bus departed. The bus stopped in Batesburg (now Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina), near Aiken in the Jim Crow south.
Though Woodard had caused no disruption, the driver contacted the local police (including Chief of Police Lynwood Shull), who forcibly removed Woodard from the bus. After demanding to see his discharge papers, a number of policemen, including Shull, took Woodard to a nearby alleyway, where they beat him repeatedly with nightsticks. They then took Woodard to the town jail and arrested him for disorderly conduct, accusing him of drinking beer in the back of the bus with other soldiers. The attack left Woodard permanently blind.
The following morning, the police sent Woodard before the local judge, who found him guilty and fined him fifty dollars. The soldier requested medical assistance, but it took two more days for a doctor to be sent to him. Not knowing where he was and suffering from amnesia, Woodard ended up in a hospital in Aiken, South Carolina, receiving substandard medical care. Three weeks after he was reported missing by his relatives, Woodard was discovered in the hospital. He was immediately rushed to a US Army hospital in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Though his memory had begun to recover by that time, doctors found both eyes were damaged beyond repair. Though the case was not widely reported at first, it was soon covered extensively in major national newspapers. The NAACP worked to publicize Woodard's plight, campaigning for the state government of South Carolina to address the incident, which it dismissed.
On his ABC radio show Orson Welles Commentaries, actor and filmmaker Orson Welles crusaded for the punishment of Shull and his accomplices. A month after the beating, calypso artist Lord Invader recorded an anti-racism song for his album Calypso at Midnight; it was entitled "God Made Us All", with the last line of the song directly referring to the incident. Later that year, folk artist Woody Guthrie recorded "The Blinding of Isaac Woodard," which he wrote for his album The Great Dust Storm.
On September 19, 1946, seven months after the incident, NAACP Executive Secretary Walter Francis White met with President Harry S. Truman to discuss the Woodard case. The following day, Truman wrote a letter to Attorney General Tom C. Clark demanding that action be taken to address South Carolina's reluctance to try the case. Six days later Truman directed the United States Department of Justice to open an investigation in the case. A short investigation followed, and Shull and several of his officers were indicted in U.S. District Court in Columbia, South Carolina. It was within federal jurisdiction because the beating had occurred at a bus stop on federal property and at the time Woodard was in uniform of the armed services.
The case was presided over by Judge Julius Waties Waring. By all accounts, the trial was a travesty. The local U.S. Attorney charged with handling the case failed to interview anyone except the bus driver, a decision that Waring, a civil rights proponent, believed was a gross dereliction of duty. Waring would later write of his disgust of the way the case was handled at the local level. The behavior of the defense was no better. When the defense attorney began to shout racial epithets at Woodard, Waring had it stopped immediately. During the trial, the defense attorney also stated to the jury that "if you rule against Shull, then let this South Carolina secede again."
After Woodard gave his account of the events, Shull firmly denied it, claiming that Woodard had threatened him with a gun, and that Shull had used his nightclub to defend himself. During this testimony, Shull admitted that he repeatedly struck Woodard in the eyes. After thirty minutes of deliberation, Shull was found not guilty on all charges despite his admission that he had blinded Woodard. This ruling exemplified the racial intersectionality in states versus federal laws. Truman subsequently established a national interracial commission, made a historic speech to the NAACP and the nation in June 1947 in which he described civil rights as a moral priority, submitted a civil rights bill to Congress in February 1948, and issued Executive Orders 9980 and 9981 on June 26, 1948, desegregating the armed forces and the federal government.
Woodard moved north after the trial and lived in the New York City area for the rest of his life. Isaac Woodard died at age 73 in the Veterans Administration Hospital in the Bronx on September 23, 1992. He was buried with military honors at the Calverton National Cemetery (Section 15, Site 2180) in Calverton, New York.

 

[KHUFU]

Susan McKinney Steward was one of the first Black women to earn a medical degree, and the first in New York State.
Born Susan Maria Smith in Brooklyn, she trained and performed as an organist, as a child. Her early training qualified her for teaching positions and she taught school in Washington, D.C., and New York City, using the proceeds of her New York teaching to pay tuition for medical school. McKinney-Steward began medical study at the New York Medical College for Women in 1867. She specialized in homeopathic medicine and, after three years, graduated as class valedictorian.
After receiving her degree, she achieved wealth and a local reputation as a successful Brooklyn physician with an interracial clientele. McKinney-Steward excelled, especially in pediatric care and the treatment of childhood diseases. Outside her medical practice, she agitated for social reform, advocating female suffrage and temperance. Until the early 1890s, she remained the organist for the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church where she regularly worshiped. Both of McKinney-Steward’s husbands were ministers.
She was married to South Carolina minister William G. McKinney in 1871, until his death in 1894. In 1896, McKinney-Steward married U.S. Army chaplain Theophilus Gould Steward. She moved with him to army bases in Montana, Nebraska, and Texas. By 1906, husband and wife had both found positions at the AME’s Wilberforce University in Ohio, McKinney-Steward as college physician. In 1911, McKinney-Steward joined luminaries including W. E. B. Du Bois at a Universal Race Congress in London, where she delivered a paper on "Colored American Women." She died in 1918, at Wilberforce University.
She is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York and her grave is not far from the grave of composer, James Weldon Johnson.

 

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First Black Woman-Owned Cannabis Dispensary On East Coast Opens In Brockton

Vanessa Jean-Baptiste, who is only 30 years old, was born and raised in Brockton. She said this is a dream come true.

patch.com

 

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[don ramon]

Went to visit Palenque, Colombia:

San Basilio de Palenque - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Brief History:

Palenque was the first free African town in the South Americas,

Spaniards introduced kidnapped African slavesin South America through the Magdalena River Valley. Its mouth is close to the important port of Cartagena de Indias where ships full of Africans arrived. Some Africans escaped and set up Palenque de San Basilio, a town close to Cartagena. They tried to free all African slaves arriving at Cartagena and were quite successful. Therefore, the Spanish Crown issued a Royal Decree (1691), guaranteeing freedom to the Palenque de San Basilio Africans if they stopped welcoming New escapees.

They created a new language because of all the different tribes of Africa in the town. They strip the Catholic religion and went back to the African true faith.

I spent 8 hours there solo - so much history and knowledge.

Their slavery didn’t last as long as ours - but they revolt and won their freedom. Only town that Afro-Colombian keeps their true origin of Africa - culture, language,religion, etc

If you ever go to Colombia, go kick it with them.

i'm happy this was posted. i visited palenque over two decades ago when i went to cartagena.

it is the place in the entire americas that probably has the strongest cultural ties to the various african cultures that were brought to the americas by force, specifically western african countries like cameroon, gabon, ghana, congo republic, etc. everyone is colombian, but the cultural connection supersedes any national interests. it felt like i was in a completely different country when i visited. people are super proud and welcoming and rightfully a bit guarded particularly toward those who lack melanin. basically, if you ain't black you can't stay the night lol

there's a huge music scene there that's influenced large aspects of colombian culture namely folkloric musical / vocal traditions which have made their mark on more mainstream colombian genres (champeta, cumbia, salsa). some of the music coming out of palenque sounds crazy similar to juju and highlife.

it's also impressive how the strongest ties to african culture can always be found throughout parts of the carribbean and latin america and shameful that descendants of slaves weren't allowed to hold onto even a fraction of that here in this country.

 

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[2163O1baller90]

That's a beautiful cover

 

[Grine]

i'm happy this was posted. i visited palenque over two decades ago when i went to cartagena.

it is the place in the entire americas that probably has the strongest cultural ties to the various african cultures that were brought to the americas by force, specifically western african countries like cameroon, gabon, ghana, congo republic, etc. everyone is colombian, but the cultural connection supersedes any national interests. it felt like i was in a completely different country when i visited. people are super proud and welcoming and rightfully a bit guarded particularly toward those who lack melanin. basically, if you ain't black you can't stay the night lol

there's a huge music scene there that's influenced large aspects of colombian culture namely folkloric musical / vocal traditions which have made their mark on more mainstream colombian genres (champeta, cumbia, salsa). some of the music coming out of palenque sounds crazy similar to juju and highlife.

it's also impressive how the strongest ties to african culture can always be found throughout parts of the carribbean and latin america and shameful that descendants of slaves weren't allowed to hold onto even a fraction of that here in this country.

I felt so much like home there. It was mind blown that they don’t have policing and they handle everything through mediation. A true sense of community.

Definitely going back when I go back to Colombia.