Born to a #Filipino mother & #AfricanAmerican father, her win was celebrated on SM as helping to “shatter” traditional #BeautyIdeals long held in the country.
Manalo’s win is part of a wider conversation about #diversifying notions of beauty in the #Philippines, a country where certain #WesternIdeals have long persisted, shaped in part by the country’s #colonial past.
The headline seems like clickbait, but it’s a meaningful write-up.
If you’re unclear about the value of CRT, this will give you some excellent insights. An analyst explores the Advanced Placement African American Studies course, that’s currently in pilot mode.
In 2021, three out of 431 students who received ocean science doctorates in the U.S. were Black. The profession can be a lonely and frustrating place for people of color. So marine ecologist Tiara Moore launched the nonprofit Black In Marine Science two years after writing an article titled “The Only Black Person in the Room.” Scientific American highlights how Moore’s and other organizations are proving that the journey doesn’t have to be so long or lonely. https://flip.it/2yoDpv #Science#BlackMastodon#AfricanAmerican
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.
Very much enjoyed talking with Joe Coohill, aka Professor Buzzkill, about our project to document all the sites listed in The Green Book. The conversation was phenomenal.
New breakthroughs in the treatment of #Alzheimer's but doctors say more research is needed, particularly in the #AfricanAmerican community. A study being done in the #TampaBay area is seeking participants.
#Doctors say are making progress in treating Alzheimer's, but while 6M Americans suffer from the #disease, #BlackAmericans are more than twice as likely to develop it & face disparities when it comes to diagnosis, treatment & care.
The #RoboticsIndustry has been overwhelmingly white & male - which can make it seem impenetrable to individuals who fall outside of those groups.
Despite rapid growth, the #robotics industry has a #diversity problem. In 2018, 12.7% of U.S. population identified as #Black or #AfricanAmerican, according to the U.S. Census. Despite this, only 4.2% of bachelor’s degrees, 4.8% of master’s degrees & 4.2% of Ph.D. degrees in #engineering were awarded to #BlackScholars.
Today, in honor of Black History Month, we remember Lovett Huey Fort-Whiteman (December 3, 1889 – January 13, 1939), an American political activist and functionary for the Communist International (Comintern). Time Magazine once called him “the reddest of the blacks.” As a young man, he lived in the Yucatan, during the Mexican Revolution, which radicalized him and introduced him to anarcho-syndicalist labor organizing. After this, he moved back to the U.S. and became a leading activist and speaker during the Harlem Renaissance. He also wrote two works of fiction during this period. In 1918, he met anarchist cartoonist Robert Minor, who inspired him to visit the Soviet Union. Soon after, they both joined the Communist Labor Party of America. In 1927, he moved to Moscow, where he worked as a teacher at an English-language school. However, in 1937, he was caught up in The Great Purge, and was sentenced to hard labor in a Siberian prison camp because of his Trotskyist affiliations. There, he died of malnutrition in 1939.
Today, in honor of Black History Month, we remember the Orangeburg Massacre, which occurred on February 8, 1968 in South Carolina, when highway patrolmen opened fire on black student protesters from South Carolina State, who were trying to integrate a bowling alley. They killed 3 African American students and wounded 33. They were the first student demonstrators killed by the police in the 1960s.
Of possible interest, especially now for #BlackHistoryMonth. These are part of the #WPA recordings of former slaves (you know, back when the US Gov. did some seriously useful stuff).
Today in Labor History January 29, 1834: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal workers rioted. President Jackson sent in troops to quell the unrest. It was the first time the government used troops to suppress a domestic labor dispute. Workers rebelled because of deadly working conditions and low pay. George Washington had designed the canal project. He intended it to facilitate transportation of goods from the Chesapeake Bay to the Ohio River Valley. Construction teams were made up mostly of Irish, German, Dutch and black workers. They toiled long hours for low wages in dangerous conditions. From this, and similar projects of the era, came the line: “the banks of the canals are lined with the bones of dead Irishmen.” Also from this project came the poem:
Ten thousand Micks,
They swung their picks,
To build the new canal.
But the choleray
Was stronger ‘n they
And twice it killed ‘em all.
'Hayti currently curates news from over 200 publishers (which includes online and print publications and magazines) and podcasts from over 2,000 Black podcasters. [Cary] Wheelous wanted Hayti to ensure that underrepresented journalists get the exposure they need and that their voices are heard by everyone.'
Pressure to remove topics like #MassIncarceration from #SchoolCurriculum in places like #Florida & from the College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) #AfricanAmerican#History course reveals precisely why we must continue teaching it. Those pushing #censorship are afraid of mass incarceration for the same reason they’re afraid of the history of #slavery: Because reckoning with these histories raises the #MoralImperative to repair them.
Today in Labor History November 15, 1842: 20 enslaved African-Americans, owned by the Cherokee, escaped and tried to reach Mexico, where slavery had been abolished since 1829, in the largest Slave Revolt ever in the Cherokee Nation. Along their way south, they were joined by 15 slaves escaping from the Creek Nation in Indian Territory. Some Native Americans held war captives as slaves, even prior to European colonization of the Americas. This included the Haida, and numerous tribes from the Pacific Northwest. And many more Indigenous people were captured and enslaved by the Europeans during the colonization process. A small number of tribes also held African-Americans as slaves. And many other tribes gave sanctuary to African-Americans who had escaped slavery, incorporating them into their societies, like the Seminole.
'The Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery (HLS) initiative has announced its inaugural Request for Proposals (RFP) for innovative and impactful projects that address systemic inequities affecting people who have been harmed by slavery.'
Today in Labor History August 30, 1800: Gabriel Prosser postponed his planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia. The authorities still arrested and executed him, along with 20 others. While the revolt never occurred, it was the one event that most directly confronted the founding fathers with the enormous gulf between their ideal of liberty and their sleazy accommodations to slavery. It led to a rash of new legislation curtailing the rights of free African Americans, as well as laws prohibiting the education and hiring out of enslaved black people. Richmond, at the time of the planned revolt, was a black-majority town, with 39% of its residents being enslaved. There was a community whipping post, where people were brutalized publicly. There was also a growing number of free black people in Richmond, due in part to the influence of abolitionist Quakers and Methodists, as well as numerous refugees from the Haitian Revolution, a few years prior. The goal of the uprising was to completely end slavery in Virginia by holding Virginia's Governor, James Monroe, hostage to negotiate for their freedom. In 2007, Governor Tim Kaine informally pardoned Gabriel.
Arna Bontemps, a member of the Harlem Rennaisance, wrote Black Thunder (1936), a historical novel based on Gabriel's Rebellion. Alex Haley mentions it in his book, Roots. Barbara Chase-Riboud writes about it in her 1979 novel, Sally Hemings. And "Gabriel, the Musical" was produced in Richmond Virginia in 2022, with libretto by Jerold Solomon, Foster Solomon and Ron Klipp, and Music & Lyrics by Ron Klipp.
The Morgan #Library in the Murray Hill neighborhood of #NYC contains an amazing trove of #books, #art, and sheet #music. Although I visited for the #architecture, I especially loved learning about Belle da Costa Greene, the #AfricanAmerican#woman who, as J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian, built the collection. #photography
Register to join a free webinar on Sunday 4 June 2023 at 2 p.m. to hear about the descendant research that Renate Yarborough Sanders is doing for Wake Forest University.
“The Wake Forest 16” were a group of enslaved persons inherited by Wake Forest and sold in 1860 to create an endowment for the college. Renate is doing the complicated work of seeking descendants of those sixteen.