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As the #Trump regime deletes the bio of Gen. Colin Powell and the story of the 6888th Central Battalion (the 1st all black women battalion) from the Arlington Cemetery website and bans #Books about #blackhistory from being discussed in presidential #libraries it seems like a good time to talk about how to just exist in #america as a black person is a political act.
#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #bookstodon

kyradavisauthor.substack.com/p

Blood, Sweat & Words by Kyra Davis Lurie · The Politics Of Being BlackDoor Kyra

#Maryland #archaeology #BlackHistory #HarrietTubman

"Archaeologists with the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) today announced interesting artifacts found at the site of Ben Ross’ home, the place where Harriet Tubman’s father lived and where the famed abolitionist spent her teenage years in Dorchester County. ... While the archaeology site is not open to the public, MDOT created a virtual museum to share the history and interesting artifacts found​."

mdot.maryland.gov/tso/pages/ne

"The roots of sexism and homophobia are found in the same economic and political institutions that serve as the foundation of racism in this country and, more often than not, the same extremist circles that inflict violence on people of color are responsible for the eruptions of violence inspired by sexist and homophobic biases. Our political activism must clearly manifest our understanding of these connections." ― #AngelaDavis #BlackHistory

Today NASA is closing their Office of the Chief Scientist and Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy and also their Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility branch.

It's a great time to remind your learning community of the incredible achievements of the Black women mathematicians in the 1960's space program that successfully put a man on the Moon. Yes, we're talking about Disney's Hidden Figures.

We offer a Hidden Figures discussion guide that's great for public screenings and low-key classroom use. We also offer classroom-ready lesson plans, across the curriculum, for grades 9-12.

Like all our materials, these guides are free for everyone. Get yours now.

journeysinfilm.org/product/hid

#NASA #CurrentEvents #WomensHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #DEI #USPol #Education #Homeschooling #Histodons @stemed @education @edutooters @film

Journeys in FilmHidden Figures | Journeys in FilmHidden Figures Movie discussion guide and lessons for teaching U.S. History, STEM, Black History. This guides supports UN SDGs.

Boo hiss! #DC's #BlackLivesMatter mural will be erased. Look back at the iconic street painting

March 8, 2025

"#WashingtonDC's iconic 'Black Lives Matter' street mural, which has served as a powerful symbol of #activism and a gathering place for #joy and #resistance, will soon be gone.

"The decision to remove the enormous mural near the #WhiteHouse comes after a U.S. Rep. #AndrewClyde, R-#Georgia, introduced legislation earlier this week that gave D.C. an ultimatum: either paint over the slogan or risk losing federal funding. The bill also called for the area in downtown D.C. to be re-named from #BlackLivesMatterPlaza to Liberty Plaza."

Read more:
npr.org/2025/03/08/nx-s1-53218
#USPol #ErasingHistory #BLM #StreetArt #BlackHistory #Racism #Censorship #FascistBlackmail #Fascism #BlackHistoryIsUSHistory #FederalFunding #Authoritarianism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Racism

#HarrietTubman #drag #BlackHistory #BobTheDragQueen

'Fans of Bob might remember from his appearance on Showtime's taboo-rattling talk show Ziwe, his high opinion of Tubman as a badass (who could totally beat Spider-Man in a face-off). Produced by PEG records, "Queen of the Underground" has Bob the Drag Queen laying down the incredible facts of Tubman's life and hands-on abolitionism with a amped-up anthem vibe.'

mashable.com/video/bob-the-dra

Mashable · Watch: Bob the Drag Queen drops lyric video for 'Queen of the Underground'The single is in support of Bob's upcoming novel, "Harriet Tubman: Live In Concert."

Repost for #WomensHistoryMonth: ”Daisy Bates takes a walk – Activist Daisy Bates picketing with placard: 'Jailing our youth will not solve the problem in Little Rock. We are only asking for full citizenship rights.'" Ca. 1957.

Via NYPL, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Demonstrations Collection, digitalcollections.nypl.org/it.

#Georgia #slavery #genealogy #BlackHistory #DataScience

'[Professor Elizabeth J] West, her former graduate research assistant Joshua Jackson (Ph.D. ’22) and former student John Washington (B.A. ’22) were central to creating the Data Mining and Mapping Antebellum Georgia (DMMAG) project. The project aims to build a comprehensive, searchable database of named enslaved people in 19th-century Georgia.'

news.gsu.edu/2025/03/05/data-m