Sankofa: How the History of Black Liberation Movements Prepares Us for This Moment The past has taught us that progress is not permanent, but the past will also teach us how to fight.

We ready

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

Archives of the Surveilled Arthur Huff Fauset’s elision from literary history was not merely a scholarly oversight but a reality constructed in advance by powerful forces.

“One good thing about this is: all of my speeches, wh/I had lost, all of my public utterances, exist now, because the FBI did ‘watch’ over me. It was beautifully done” Natl Negro Congress member Arthur Huff Fauset on using his FBI surveillance file as an archive. www.publicbooks.org/archives-of-...

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

THIS is not helpful, American Philosophical Society.

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Dear Librarians & Archivists,

If I open the finding aid to one of your digitized collections and the contents of each box and/or the summary of each item are just a copy and pasted summary of what's in the entire collection, I'm going to send you hate mail.

signed,
Frustrated Dissertator

Land of the Lotos Eaters (1861) by Robert S. Duncanson (Collection of His Royal Majesty, the King of Sweden) is large scale luminous landscape with a river and falls, figures in and on the river

Robert S. Duncanson, whose work hangs in numerous museums today, was an internationally revered painter whom the US press dubbed “the best landscape painter in the West” in the mid 19th century. Duncanson’s ancestors had been enslaved in Virginia.

DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’

More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”

trains are such a great example of how the future is here, if we want it and are willing to subsidize it

Happy Haitian Independence Day! ❤️💙

You liberated yourselves and then set the spark of liberation in motion for the entire hemisphere, including for my Black American ancestors.

Love you all to life! The Diaspora and the world will never forget all you’ve endured over the centuries.

Viv Ayiti! ❤️💙

Nothing like pulling visuals for a presentation to remind you exactly how little you’ve used visual material in thinking about the dissertation. #documentsfordays That changes today.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, 100, dies Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at home in Georgia.

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, has died

#BeyonceBowl did that. Bey > NFL > NBA.

How Philly became the ‘Mural Capital of the World’ One of Philadelphia’s signature touches and defining achievements are the beautiful murals throughout the city. In total, there are more than 4,000 murals in Philly honoring politicians, athletes, mus...

How Philly became the ‘Mural Capital of the World’

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please do what you can.

Well, before the "other" place starts complaining about the holiday, I just wanna tell #BlackSky Happy Kwanzaa.

Maybe for those not familiar, we can go through some of its origins .

But anyway, today is Umjoa. It means Unity ❤️💚🖤

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A gingerbread man went to the doctor’s complaining of a sore knee. The doctor asked him. “Have you tried icing it?”

Beyoncé brings out Tiera Kennedy, Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer and Reyna Roberts

Senate Review Of Supreme Court Ethics Finds More Luxury Trips, Urges Code Of Conduct The report released by the Democratic majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee found travel taken in 2021 by Thomas but not reported on his annual financial disclosure form.

A new report on Supreme Court ethics found more luxury travel by Clarence Thomas in 2021 that wasn’t reported on his financial disclosure form

Uncovering the "Harriet Tubman" of the Underground Railroad to Mexico Silvia Hector Webber helped enslaved people escape to Mexico, but her legacy is largely unknown today.

Descendants of Silvia Hector Webber, who helped enslaved people escape through Texas to the underground railroad into Mexico, are working to resurrect her story: www.axios.com/2024/02/20/u...

When the Feds Are Still Watching Former Black Panthers fear the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after COINTELPRO. In at least one case, they were right.

For years, former Black Panthers have feared that the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after its notorious COINTELPRO program.

Malik Rahim had never been able to prove he was targeted. Now, government docs show he was correct.

If the government shuts down Saturday, the richest man in the world will be largely to blame.

You may not get access to services you depend on just before the holidays because an unelected billionaire shadow president wanted it that way.

If this isn’t oligarchy, I don’t know what is.

How a Homeless Ex-Slave Found His Voice Through Brutal Art He was born into slavery in Alabama.

This is one of the reasons why I like Substack - finding informative gems like this about the once enslaved artist Bill Traylor, shared by Gerrit Walters:

#enslaved #art #American #African #brutality

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Can the Rodeo Save a Historic Black Town? One woman’s quest to rescue Boley, Oklahoma

In its heyday, Boley, Oklahoma, a town built by Black people, was known for hosting the oldest Black rodeo in America — attracting visitors nationwide

Today, a group of volunteers hope the 121-year-old rodeo can help revitalize the dying town

Smh. Very on-brand lol.

When we said this would happen, the majority of y’all weren’t listening…

‘So familiar.’ Poet unearths personal Kentucky history that feels eerily similar to today. | Opinion Linda Blackford: In ‘Load in Nine Times,” poet Frank X. Walker writes about Black Kentucky families through the Civil War and its aftermath.

Former Kentucky Poet Laureate Frank X Walker writes about the history of US Colored Troops who served at Camp Nelson - including his own ancestors - in his new collection, “Load in Nine Times." 🗃️