February 2012
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queenamongkings:
9 Little Known Facts About Notable Women in Black History
thechanelmuse:
From the article:
Nina Simone - Her involvement in civil rights was spurred by an incident at her first classical piano recital at age 12. During the recital, her parents sat in seats in the front of the building to see her play, but were told to move to the back to make way for white guests. She...
Do you know Yuri Kochiyama?
dreams-from-my-father:
ancestryinprogress:
I’m giving this woman flowers every single day that she is alive to let her know that cradling Malcolm X in her arms as he lay dying is the most powerful thing she could have done for him in that moment, in that historical moment in our lives.
You see because she was still is an ardent social rights/social justice activist—on the behalf of Japanese...
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Recommendation: Black Women in History on Stuff...
coolchicksfromhistory:
Stuff You Missed in History Class
There’s Always a Seat for Queen Nzinga
The Freedom Rides: CORE’s First Wave & The Freedom Rides: Nashville Steps Up
Marian Anderson: The Lady from Philadelphia
Who was America’s First Black Millionairess?
The Craft’s Escape to Freedom
Nefertiti and the Heretic Pharaoh
Josephine Baker, the Toast of Paris
Mary Seacole and the...
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STFU RACISTS CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Black... →
stfuracists:
STFU RACISTS CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Where there is no vision, there is no hope. George Washington Carver
Something a little different for this edition…
A favorite canard of white supremacists is that whites are superior for having given us so much, for having invented so much, for having “civilized” the world. Of course, one should not mistake “colonization” for bringing...
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This Day in Women's History: Maud Slye, American...
fyeahwomenshistory:
Maud Slye was an American pathologist who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A historian of women and science wrote that Slye “‘invented’ genetically uniform mice as a research tool.” Her work focused on the heritability of cancer in mice. She was also an advocate for the comprehensive archiving of human medical records, believing that proper mate selection would help...