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Black History Month 2016 |OT| - The last one before President Trump cancels it
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TheGreatDirector
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I remember doing a report on them in elementary school. This is what really sparked a lot of the sit ins across the country.
I knew there was a reason I liked you.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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On a lighter note, if anyone can get a hold of this documentary I recommend it.
Mo' Funny: Black Comedy in America
It was on HBO when I was a kid.
Mo' Funny: Black Comedy in America
It was on HBO when I was a kid.
Prototype Viktor
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for 24 (25 total) more days of the only part of the year people from Africa are black. But as it's a year that ends with a digit on the glorious 26th we will give up their blackness to the white people so they can relate to a movie
LookAtMeGo
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I was doing some reading and I saw some photos taken by James Van Der Zee who was a photographer during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. Figured I'd share a few here. Good stuff.
And a more recent one from when he was 95 years old.
timetokill
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In elementary and middle school we always had projects or presentations that we had to do about eminent black Americans. It was tough because I couldn't really ask my parents for help unless I wanted a big dose of "why isn't there a white history month." :/
I think in high school it was mostly limited to English class and then we'd read a book by a black author and discuss it.
Greensboro is my hometown. They named the street the sit in took place February one. Good stuff.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Nice finds!
Urban Scholar
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Anyone read wired's feature on Jerry Lawson? The creator of the first disk based gaming console?
http://www.wired.com/2011/04/jerry-lawson-dies/
http://www.wired.com/2011/04/jerry-lawson-dies/
MWS Natural
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Checking In.
I feel like each year BHM fades more and more into obscurity. Hopefully our kids kids will keep it alive!
I feel like each year BHM fades more and more into obscurity. Hopefully our kids kids will keep it alive!
I see recommended movies to watch.
Any recommended books to read?
Books on my list to read this year are:
The Color Complex
Roots
Race Matters
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The New Jim Crow
Also, why doesn't The History Channel have programming about this stuff anymore? On Presidents Day they play blocks of programming about out Founding Fathers. What about the forced labor that was utilized in order to realize the dream of our nation?
Any recommended books to read?
Books on my list to read this year are:
The Color Complex
Roots
Race Matters
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The New Jim Crow
Also, why doesn't The History Channel have programming about this stuff anymore? On Presidents Day they play blocks of programming about out Founding Fathers. What about the forced labor that was utilized in order to realize the dream of our nation?
andthebeatgoeson
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http://sfglobe.com/2015/12/07/white-man-in-the-photo-is-the-third-hero-that-night-in-1968/
In the history of BHM, this article on Peter Norman strikes a lot of spots. Untold story, life long suffering in silence, recognition that comes way too late. It's beautifully crafted, by an Italian writer about the other guy in the iconic photo in the 1968 Mexico City Olympic black fist protest. Or I might just be cutting onions.
It really has to be read and shared with your kids in the future.
I can't really stand the thought of the isolation or the loneliness. The rejection.
The one picture that brings it all back to BHM is this:
That's Tommie Smith and John Carlos as Norman's pallbearers. A way to honor Norman's courage.
If ever a man got the black experience...
BTW, that was 2000 when Australia got the Games and never honored their record holder of the 200 meter sprint. Dude blasted their record in 1968 and it still holds.
In the history of BHM, this article on Peter Norman strikes a lot of spots. Untold story, life long suffering in silence, recognition that comes way too late. It's beautifully crafted, by an Italian writer about the other guy in the iconic photo in the 1968 Mexico City Olympic black fist protest. Or I might just be cutting onions.
It really has to be read and shared with your kids in the future.
I can't really stand the thought of the isolation or the loneliness. The rejection.
The one picture that brings it all back to BHM is this:
That's Tommie Smith and John Carlos as Norman's pallbearers. A way to honor Norman's courage.
If ever a man got the black experience...
BTW, that was 2000 when Australia got the Games and never honored their record holder of the 200 meter sprint. Dude blasted their record in 1968 and it still holds.
Urban Scholar
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^ Damn, the feels man. Very sad & inspiring story.
Kid Kamikaze10
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Personally, I think a lot of people need to read Between the World and Me. And I wish I could think of a black female counterpart.
Count Dookkake
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The other day I saw the new Rob Zombie horror movie, 31.
I think it might be relevant to BHM because it has 3 black characters, 2 of whom I would describe as key protagonists, which I think might be a first for this type of horror film.
I think it might be relevant to BHM because it has 3 black characters, 2 of whom I would describe as key protagonists, which I think might be a first for this type of horror film.
LookAtMeGo
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Here is something about a not so well known place called Africville in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africville
A community that was neglected and forced to migrate to make way for a new bridge and facilities for the port of Halifax. The first settlers arrived in the 1840's until they were forced out in the 1960's. You can read more about its relocation here.
An apology was finally made in 2010 after years of protest.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africville
A community that was neglected and forced to migrate to make way for a new bridge and facilities for the port of Halifax. The first settlers arrived in the 1840's until they were forced out in the 1960's. You can read more about its relocation here.
wikipedia said:
An apology was finally made in 2010 after years of protest.
theignoramus
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So my "WTF" moment of the day was reading up on the Omaha, Nebraska race riot during the Red Summer of 1919.
Oh but the lynch mob wasnt done: they rioted till 3 am in the morning, attacking any blacks they could lay hands on until the US army arrived and restored order.
http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0700/frameset_reset.html?http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0700/stories/0701_0134.html
Oh but the lynch mob wasnt done: they rioted till 3 am in the morning, attacking any blacks they could lay hands on until the US army arrived and restored order.
Today in Forgotten Black Heroes - The Yanga Rebelion and who is Gaspar Yanga
Gaspar Yangaoften simply Yanga or Nyanga (c.1545-?) was an African leader of a maroon colony of fugitive slaves in the highlands near Veracruz, Mexico during the early period of Spanish colonial rule. He is known for successfully resisting a Spanish attack on the colony in 1609, although both sides suffered losses. The maroons continued their raids. Finally in 1618, Yanga achieved an agreement with the colonial government for self-rule of the settlement, later called San Lorenzo de los Negros and also San Lorenzo de Cerralvo.[2] Located in today's Veracruz province, in 1932 the town was renamed as Yanga in his honor. In the late 19th century, Yanga was named as a "national hero of Mexico" and El Primer Libertador de las Americas.
Yanga, aka Nyanga, was said to be of the Bran people and a member of the royal family of Gabon. He was captured and sold into slavery in Mexico, where he was called Gaspar Yanga. Before the end of the slave trade, New Spain had the second-highest number of African slaves after Brazil and developed the largest free black population in the Americas.
Around 1570, Yanga led a band of slaves in escaping to the highlands near Veracruz. They built a small maroon colony, or palenque.[4] Its isolation helped protect it for more than 30 years, and other fugitive slaves found their way there. Because the people survived in part by raiding caravans taking goods traveling the Camino Real (Royal Road) between Veracruz and Mexico City, in 1609 the Spanish colonial government decided to undertake a campaign to regain control of this territory.
Spanish 1609 attack
Led by the soldier Pedro González de Herrera, about 550 Spanish troops set out from Puebla in January; an estimated 100 were Spanish regulars and the rest conscripts and adventurers. The maroons were an irregular force of 100 fighters having some type of firearm, and 400 more armed with stones, machetes, bows and arrows, and the like. These maroon troops were led by Francisco de la Matosa, an Angolan. Yangawho was quite old by this timedecided to use his troops' superior knowledge of the terrain to resist the Spaniards, with the goal of causing them enough pain to draw them to the negotiating table.
Upon the approach of the Spanish troops, Yanga sent terms of peace via a captured Spaniard. He asked for a treaty akin to those that had settled hostilities between Indians and Spaniards: an area of self-rule in return for tribute and promises to support the Spanish if they were attacked. In addition, Yanga said this proposed district would return any slaves who might flee to it. This last concession was necessary to soothe the worries of the many slave owners in the region.
The Spaniards refused the terms and went into battle, resulting in heavy losses for both sides. The Spaniards advanced into the maroon settlement and burned it. But, the maroons fled into the surrounding terrain, which they knew well, and the Spaniards could not achieve a conclusive victory. The resulting stalemate lasted years; finally, the Spanish agreed to parley. Yanga's terms were agreed to, with the additional provisos that only Franciscan priests would tend to the people, and that Yanga's family would be granted the right of rule. In 1618 the treaty was signed. By 1630 the town of San Lorenzo de los Negros de Cerralvo was established. Located in today's Veracruz province, the town in the 21st century is known as Yanga.
Legacy and honors
In 1871, five decades after Mexican independence, Yanga was designated as a "national hero of Mexico" and El Primer Libertador de las Americas. This was based largely on an account by historian Vicente Riva Palacio. The influential Riva Palacio was also a novelist, short story writer, military general and mayor of Mexico City. In the late 1860s he found in Inquisition archives accounts of Yanga and of the 1609 Spanish expedition against him, as well as the later agreement. He published an account of Yanga in an anthology in 1870, and as a separate pamphlet in 1873.[4] Reprints have followed, including a recent edition in 1997. Much of the subsequent writing about Yanga was influenced by the works of Riva Palacio. He characterized the maroons of San Lorenzo de los Negros as proud men who would not be defeated.
"El Negro Yanga" in all his Monumental Glory
"African Black liberator and precursor of the black slaves who founded the town of San Lorenzo de Cerralvo (now Yanga) by agreement of the viceroy of New Spain, Rodrigo Pacheco, on the third day of October 1631 by order of the viceroy's pen.Village Captain Hernando of Castro Espinosa H. Ayuntamento Constl. 1973-1976"
''Yanga is important to the people of Mexico and America," said Gordillo Jaime Trujullo, who along with his wife Maria Dolores Flores promotes the town's history. "It is a great deal and has not been taken into account. This town is the birthplace of freedom. The most important legacy of black Yanga is freedom. Freedom is what we appreciate most in this community."
Like his birth, no definitive records are available regarding Yanga's date of death. There is said to be a great deal of information in the national archives of Mexico and the archives of Spain, according to historian and anthropologist Antonio García de León. The first information about Yanga arose in the second half of the nineteenth century by the historian and military-man Vicente Riva Palacio, grandson of Mexico's first black president, Vicente Guerrero.
Today, the town reportedly hosts the "Carnival of Negritude" every August 10th in honor of Gaspar Yanga. The town reports approximately 20,000 citizens that is now primarily considered mestizo, Spanish for "mixed heritage".
Gaspar Yangaoften simply Yanga or Nyanga (c.1545-?) was an African leader of a maroon colony of fugitive slaves in the highlands near Veracruz, Mexico during the early period of Spanish colonial rule. He is known for successfully resisting a Spanish attack on the colony in 1609, although both sides suffered losses. The maroons continued their raids. Finally in 1618, Yanga achieved an agreement with the colonial government for self-rule of the settlement, later called San Lorenzo de los Negros and also San Lorenzo de Cerralvo.[2] Located in today's Veracruz province, in 1932 the town was renamed as Yanga in his honor. In the late 19th century, Yanga was named as a "national hero of Mexico" and El Primer Libertador de las Americas.
Yanga, aka Nyanga, was said to be of the Bran people and a member of the royal family of Gabon. He was captured and sold into slavery in Mexico, where he was called Gaspar Yanga. Before the end of the slave trade, New Spain had the second-highest number of African slaves after Brazil and developed the largest free black population in the Americas.
Around 1570, Yanga led a band of slaves in escaping to the highlands near Veracruz. They built a small maroon colony, or palenque.[4] Its isolation helped protect it for more than 30 years, and other fugitive slaves found their way there. Because the people survived in part by raiding caravans taking goods traveling the Camino Real (Royal Road) between Veracruz and Mexico City, in 1609 the Spanish colonial government decided to undertake a campaign to regain control of this territory.
Spanish 1609 attack
Led by the soldier Pedro González de Herrera, about 550 Spanish troops set out from Puebla in January; an estimated 100 were Spanish regulars and the rest conscripts and adventurers. The maroons were an irregular force of 100 fighters having some type of firearm, and 400 more armed with stones, machetes, bows and arrows, and the like. These maroon troops were led by Francisco de la Matosa, an Angolan. Yangawho was quite old by this timedecided to use his troops' superior knowledge of the terrain to resist the Spaniards, with the goal of causing them enough pain to draw them to the negotiating table.
Upon the approach of the Spanish troops, Yanga sent terms of peace via a captured Spaniard. He asked for a treaty akin to those that had settled hostilities between Indians and Spaniards: an area of self-rule in return for tribute and promises to support the Spanish if they were attacked. In addition, Yanga said this proposed district would return any slaves who might flee to it. This last concession was necessary to soothe the worries of the many slave owners in the region.
The Spaniards refused the terms and went into battle, resulting in heavy losses for both sides. The Spaniards advanced into the maroon settlement and burned it. But, the maroons fled into the surrounding terrain, which they knew well, and the Spaniards could not achieve a conclusive victory. The resulting stalemate lasted years; finally, the Spanish agreed to parley. Yanga's terms were agreed to, with the additional provisos that only Franciscan priests would tend to the people, and that Yanga's family would be granted the right of rule. In 1618 the treaty was signed. By 1630 the town of San Lorenzo de los Negros de Cerralvo was established. Located in today's Veracruz province, the town in the 21st century is known as Yanga.
Legacy and honors
In 1871, five decades after Mexican independence, Yanga was designated as a "national hero of Mexico" and El Primer Libertador de las Americas. This was based largely on an account by historian Vicente Riva Palacio. The influential Riva Palacio was also a novelist, short story writer, military general and mayor of Mexico City. In the late 1860s he found in Inquisition archives accounts of Yanga and of the 1609 Spanish expedition against him, as well as the later agreement. He published an account of Yanga in an anthology in 1870, and as a separate pamphlet in 1873.[4] Reprints have followed, including a recent edition in 1997. Much of the subsequent writing about Yanga was influenced by the works of Riva Palacio. He characterized the maroons of San Lorenzo de los Negros as proud men who would not be defeated.
"El Negro Yanga" in all his Monumental Glory
"African Black liberator and precursor of the black slaves who founded the town of San Lorenzo de Cerralvo (now Yanga) by agreement of the viceroy of New Spain, Rodrigo Pacheco, on the third day of October 1631 by order of the viceroy's pen.Village Captain Hernando of Castro Espinosa H. Ayuntamento Constl. 1973-1976"
''Yanga is important to the people of Mexico and America," said Gordillo Jaime Trujullo, who along with his wife Maria Dolores Flores promotes the town's history. "It is a great deal and has not been taken into account. This town is the birthplace of freedom. The most important legacy of black Yanga is freedom. Freedom is what we appreciate most in this community."
Like his birth, no definitive records are available regarding Yanga's date of death. There is said to be a great deal of information in the national archives of Mexico and the archives of Spain, according to historian and anthropologist Antonio García de León. The first information about Yanga arose in the second half of the nineteenth century by the historian and military-man Vicente Riva Palacio, grandson of Mexico's first black president, Vicente Guerrero.
Today, the town reportedly hosts the "Carnival of Negritude" every August 10th in honor of Gaspar Yanga. The town reports approximately 20,000 citizens that is now primarily considered mestizo, Spanish for "mixed heritage".
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In the spirit of good news and to bring a bit of awareness to the subject here: A UN committee is urging the government to pay reparations for slavery. Although I think it should be for the other issues that took place after slavery, including some of the events mentioned on this site.
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Panthalassic
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Great reads today. I went to school in NS and didn't know about Africville, but I know that Dartmouth has a high black population. Also love reading about black heroes.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing.
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Fixed, but with another source since the last one is banned here apperently.
Skateboard P
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Thanks for the lesson on Black Wall Street.
That Peter Norman story hit me kinda hard too. Keep up the good work posters!
That Peter Norman story hit me kinda hard too. Keep up the good work posters!
For the last couple of hours i got STUCK reading about Yanga and learned more about africans and what they give to my country, is enlightening to say the least so i decided i should write a longer post, then i realized i better do a separate thread for forgotten black heroes and specially ones that were part of the history of latin America since we routinely forgot that our countries were build on (figuratively and literally) both native slaves but also african slaves.
So, i'll just leave this here:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=194070020
If anyone wants to contribute, be my guest.
So, i'll just leave this here:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=194070020
If anyone wants to contribute, be my guest.
timetokill
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I was thinking this too, but then again I wonder if it's just because I'm older and BHM was always a thing in schools for me and not so much outside of it. Hard for me to compare.
I don't think so. In my lifetime -- from 1970 until now -- it seems to me it has mostly grown in importance. I remember its introduction during the bicentennial year, and all the attendant outrage. I remember a bunch of places refusing to do anything for BHM, and treating it like a joke. What I don't remember is many people actually talking about it, which is something I saw later and still today. I think it grew, then flagged, then saw renewed growth with the birth of the internet, when disparate black communities could come together online.
timetokill
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That certainly could be. There's something to be said too for getting older and it becoming a "usual" thing, and losing some personal impact even if it's actually grown overall.
I've experienced this, in a way. Since I moved on to university, I haven't really heard much of it. There aren't any announcements that throw in the odd Black History Month bit, or assemblies/performances, or small classes dedicated or tying in the month and the content being taught. I have to seek this stuff out now, which I'm definitely not complaining about, but I most people my age around here probably aren't. Just another day mentalities.
Not so much that it's faded, we just aren't in a position where we realise its prevalence.
ShadowSwordmaster
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If you guys are interested, Mike Ducan is doing a series on the Saint-Domingue Revolution of his Revolutions podcast.
Ah, I forgot, I have that on hold at my local library.
Tangentially related, but I wish Marvel had the balls to make Truth: Red, White and Black into a movie.
theignoramus
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Jesus christ. So in between the inhuman medical experiments,racial pogroms, and apartheid system, literally the only major difference between the treatment of blacks in America and Jews in Nazi occupied Europe was that the Nazis wanted wholesale extermination of Jews, whereas America wanted to keep some African Americans around for cheap labour.
NipplesAndToes23
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That was an excellent read and I full approve of us rising and making success after facing racial discrimination.
I also have some history to share in that of the first black neighborhood in America, Pocahontas Island.
I visited this neighborhood myself when I went to a family reunion a few years ago.
Angelus Errare
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iMAGINATION
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Great OT, love the title!
Happy BHM
Happy BHM
Trojita
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Don't read the comments. Whatever you do, don't read the comments.
Count Dookkake
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Had a good reminder this morning of the importance of BHM.
My GF was scrolling through FB and saw a white friend of hers had posted the famous picture of Tommie Smith and John Carlos giving the Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics. The accompanying text, however, would be laughable were it not so sad. Although sharing the picture of that powerful moment, the poor girl presented it as though it was of Jesse Owens at Hitler's 1936 Olympics.
To make matters worse, in the time since the post went up last night, it had received 17 likes and no comments. Out of curiosity, I asked her to click on the likes to get a breakdown of the ignorant. It was about 60% white and 40% black. GF posted a polite correction explaining the distinction between the two events. Her comment was deleted minutes later. The ignorant post is still up, unedited. I suppose it matters more to appear like you care, then to actually wish to learn.
My GF was scrolling through FB and saw a white friend of hers had posted the famous picture of Tommie Smith and John Carlos giving the Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics. The accompanying text, however, would be laughable were it not so sad. Although sharing the picture of that powerful moment, the poor girl presented it as though it was of Jesse Owens at Hitler's 1936 Olympics.
To make matters worse, in the time since the post went up last night, it had received 17 likes and no comments. Out of curiosity, I asked her to click on the likes to get a breakdown of the ignorant. It was about 60% white and 40% black. GF posted a polite correction explaining the distinction between the two events. Her comment was deleted minutes later. The ignorant post is still up, unedited. I suppose it matters more to appear like you care, then to actually wish to learn.
If you haven't looked at the OP recently, I implore you to do so now.
EDIT: Oh and here's today's history lesson.
WARNING!
WARNING!
This one is pretty rage inducing.
EDIT: Oh and here's today's history lesson.
WARNING!
WARNING!
This one is pretty rage inducing.
Gordon Shumway
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Thanks for the updated OP.
Wow. They deleted the correction? Guess you're right..somethings are more important.
Wow. They deleted the correction? Guess you're right..somethings are more important.
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