💛 “The Jim Crow Era Was Never ‘Happy Times’ for Black People”
By @clayrivers
Despite what you may have heard in the news lately, the period of Jim Crow was never nor can it ever be viewed as a period of benefit for Black families.
@TheConversationUS@blackmastodon Trump doesn’t even have much if any discernible skill. It’s still the Koch family and other oligarchs with a lot more actual wealth than Trump pulling the strings with their overwhelming ability to fund disinformation campaigns that progressively pull people further and further off the rails.
"Black Barbie: A Documentary" produced by Shonda Rhimes, will be released on Netflix on June 19. TODAY shares this clip, featuring Kitty Black Perkins, the designer of Black Barbie, and Beulah Mae Mitchell, who worked on the production line at Mattel, remembering conversations with Barbie creator Ruth Handler. “(Handler) would say, ‘Do you have any suggestions?’” Mitchell recalled. “I was able to say, ‘We want a Black Barbie.’”
Black Opry, a blog-turned-movement focusing on Black roots musicians, is fundraising to help cover the costs of expanding their work! Please chip in if you're able, and share it around.
Scott Brick, the audiobook performer, pisses me off.
He has a commanding, sonorous, soothing voice, and can read without sounding like he's reading, but his cadence irks.
He speaks in an American WASPy preacher. Add this to his commanding audio-presence and it comes off...dictatorial.
No more Brick. Enderverse, Foundation, the list goes on. No more Brick! Give me queer, gender non-conforming black people. And pay them properly, dangit!
Hey everyone! My good friend is up for Supermom of the year! Please read about her and vote! She's been through hell, she really needs this. Please? 💞💞💞🥹🥹🥹 #BlackMastodon
It takes more than simply hiring someone to address issues within an organization. It takes a top-down commitment to be part of that change. –Lecia Michelle
It takes more than simply hiring someone to address issues within an organization. It takes a top-down commitment to be part of that change. –Lecia Michelle
To ask “what was here before whiteness” is to open the more dangerous question: what had to be eliminated, for this way of organizing reality to appear natural.
—Rebecca Hyman
To ask “what was here before whiteness” is to open the more dangerous question: what had to be eliminated, for this way of organizing reality to appear natural.
—Rebecca Hyman