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Miembros del #KuKluxKlan
eran jueces, abogados y
banqueros. No solo los agricultores como
a menudo son retratados.
Por eso llevaban máscaras.
Eran hombres prominentes
y no quería ninguma
consecuencias de su derecho y deber de aterrorizar
comunidades negras
#blackexcellence #blackwomen #blackpeople #blacklivesmatter #blackhistory #blackexperience #blackhistory365 #blackHistoryMatters #africanamerican #blackculture #Blackhistorymonth2025 #blackliberation

"Be brave enough to teach the history they are trying to erase." This will be our highest calling in the years to come. Black History is a communal history. A rich history of achievement and possibility. It embraces diversity, incluson and equity. #BlackHistoryMatters

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HistorianSpeaksHistorianSpeaksHistorianspeaks is a dynamic web platform devoted to making Black History accessible to the public. It includes a blog, podcast and audio and visual materials

"Be brave enough to teach the history they are trying to erase." This will be our highest calling in the years to come. Black History is a communal history. A rich history of achievement and possibility. It embraces diversity, incluson and equity. #BlackHistoryMatters

zurl.co/khnrQ

HistorianSpeaksHistorianSpeaksHistorianspeaks is a dynamic web platform devoted to making Black History accessible to the public. It includes a blog, podcast and audio and visual materials
Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803)
About twenty years actor Danny Glover was working on a movie about called Toussaint starring Don Cheadle, Mos Def, Wesley Snipes and Angela Bassett, but he got push back from the studios because their weren't any White heroes in it. In a movie about a slave rebellion? Then the fascist activist campaigns against it bec
http://idavox.com/index.php/2025/02/03/toussaint-louverture-1743-1803/
#BlackHistoryMatters #Haiti #rebellion #slavery #ToussaintLouverture
Harriet Tubman & the Combahee River Raid
There are scant reference of this history of Harriet Tubman in pop culture. The raid was depicted briefly in the epilogue of the 2019 movie Harriet. It was a major plot point in the television show Timeless, in 2018. The raid was covered in a segment on Drunk History in 2015. And the movie Glory in a majo
https://idavox.com/index.php/2025/02/02/harriet-tubman-the-combahee-river-raid/
#BlackHistoryMatters #CivilWar #CombaheeRiverRaid #HarrietTubman
Henry Johnson (1892 – 1929)
In 2022, Fort Polk in Louisiana was renamed Fort Johnson a honor the World War I nicknamed "Black Death" by the Germans he fought. Both honor were earned!







A note: As the current Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth cracks on the observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pride Month, Holocaust Days of Remembrance, The Tuskegee Airmen and other cu
https://idavox.com/index.php/2025/02/01/henry-johnson-1892-1929/
#BlackHistoryMatters #MedalOfHonor #WorldWarI

#Florida students are giving up Saturdays to learn #BlackHistory lessons their schools don’t teach

By KATE PAYNE
Updated 12:15 AM EST, December 21, 2024

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — "Buried among Florida’s manicured golf courses and sprawling suburbs are the artifacts of its slave-holding past: the long-lost cemeteries of enslaved people, the statutes of #Confederate soldiers that still stand watch over town squares, the old #plantations turned into modern subdivisions that bear the same name. But many students aren’t learning that kind of Black history in Florida classrooms.

"In an old wooden bungalow in Delray Beach, Charlene Farrington and her staff gather groups of teenagers on Saturday mornings to teach them lessons she worries that public schools won’t provide. They talk about #SouthFlorida’s #Caribbean roots, the state’s dark history of #lynchings, how #segregation still shapes the landscape and how #grassroots #activists mobilized the #CivilRights Movement to upend generations of oppression.

[...]

"When Sulaya Williams’ eldest child started school, she couldn’t find the comprehensive instruction she wanted for him in their area. So in 2016, she launched her own organization to teach Black history in community settings.

"'We wanted to make sure that our children knew our stories, to be able to pass down to their children,' Williams said.

"Williams now has a contract to teach Saturday school at a public #library in Fort Lauderdale, and her 12-year-old daughter Addah Gordon invites her classmates to join her.

"'It feels like I’m really learning my culture. Like I’m learning what my ancestors did,' Addah said. 'And most people don’t know what they did.'"

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AP News · Florida students give up Saturdays to learn Black history lessonsBy KATE PAYNE