It seems the only hope left for gun control in red states is to hide all the bullets in books written by Black people, Wajahat Ali writes.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/florida-gov-ron-desantis-pushes-guns-state-rcna68938
While Amazon celebrates its record breaking revenues, they want you to forget about the worker death that happened during Prime Day.
Especially since they didn't help the victim over 20 mins after he collapsed, and told his coworkers to just keep working.
Amazon has always picks profits over people. #FightCorporateGreed #UnionsForAll #DemCast
All this #BlackHistoryMonth, I'll be sharing from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in DC. Some pics I took and some from their collection directly. The lead designer for the project was Sir David Frank Adjaye, a Ghanaian-British architect born in Tanzania. The design is Yourba inspired. It sits on the last spot left on the National Mall.
https://nmaahc.si.edu/about/building
Police do not save lives.
Doctors save lives. Emergency medical technicians save lives. Firefighters save lives.
Police do not save lives. They take them.
Disappointing to see an ISP strategically filing false information to the FCC to block funds to potential competitors.
But even more Infuriating that the FCC knew this would happen and has no plan except to say it would be nice if everything worked out.
Millions of Americans won't get better Internet access that they need because FCC Commissioners refuse to take their job seriously.
“Each note that Jake Blount plays on the banjo is a step toward helping his audience better understand a piece of Black history he believes has been lost.
Blount is a professional touring musician who plays traditional Black Folk Music.” https://www.denver7.com/news/national-politics/the-race/meet-the-musician-teaching-the-banjos-african-roots
Mekka is schooling us daily, and today's thread answers "Why do Black people see racism in everything?"
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109801619225078087
Any of of the posts in this thread could be a book or two, and many of them are.
It's the First Friday of February, a Fantastic time For Following Fine Folks. The mastodon experience is better when you Follow more people, and these are some people who are worth Following:
@nataliedavisgdread@newsie.social Natalie Davis
@kyra_davis Kyra Davis
@dtgeek Anthony Dean
@funcrunch Pax Ahimsa Gethen
@midnightcommander@linuxrocks.online midnightcommander
I've interacted with Natalie Davis for many years on several different platforms, so I can promise you: she's the real deal!
Here is the original inventor of rock and roll—and the steel guitar. Sister Rosetta Thorpe doesn’t get the credit—and she really should. Many of the rock and roll “inventors” need to pay their respects to her. Little Richard and Chuck Berry others owe a great deal to her. 🙏🏿
samson and delilah #blackart #aiart #afrofuturism #conceptart #blackhair #blackhistory #blackmastodon #blackfediverse #blackfriday
Happy Black Friday!
I try to spend some time every Friday boosting posts of music videos by Black artists. I'm not Black myself, so I'm taking a chance today by posting my own. I hope it's okay to participate in the hashtag!
Summertime, by Lena Horne
https://youtu.be/EIHPHMUZoq0
Lena Horne was an amazing woman. Not just a singer, she was a very popular actress who wouldn't take roles she thought typecast her. She was a civil rights activist, and participated in protests and marches. She also sued clubs that wouldn't let her perform, and ended up blacklisted during the McCarthyism of the 1940s because of her leftist progressive views.
This song makes me wistful for relief from the ice currently blanketing my city. This video is from:
Black History Music Playlist
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMGH4dosQ9fyz1ZUuPEW9qsRNgdlHMH0T
The playlist starts with 85 great videos in alphabetical order by first name, adds 9 more videos in no particular order, and ends on a 15-minute tech product review for reasons unclear to me.
More on Lena Horne: https://www.biography.com/musicians/lena-horne
#BlackFriday #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLivesMatter #MusicVideos #blog
The next time you use any navigation device, software or Google Maps thank Dr. Gladys West. Her contributions to the mathematical modeling of the shape of Earth, and her work on the development of the satellite models that were eventually incorporated into the Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. #BlackMastodon #BlackHistoryMonth
We all admire Amsterdam for having the vision to replace car infrastructure with bike infrastructure. We see the positive uplift in small business activity, and livability. 🙂👍🏿
Now imagine doing that in reverse. Replace relatively safely walkable and bikeable infrastructure with car infrastructure. In fact, put in freeways. Demolish entire thriving wealthy neighborhoods with freeways that don't serve the neighborhood.🙃
That's what we did to Black folk. That's how we destroyed Black wealth.
In light of a deeply-disturbing ruling from the U.S. 5th Circuit court today, a reminder that even before the United States Supreme Court decided D.C. v. Heller in 2008, inventing an individual "right" to own guns separate from any considerations of militias, and long before they decided the Bruen case last year apparently made it impossible to apply any considerations that have surfaced since 1788, the second amendment itself is rooted in this country's original sin of enslavement.
The Second Amendment Was Ratified to Preserve Slavery
https://truthout.org/articles/the-second-amendment-was-ratified-to-preserve-slavery/
Today we sacrifice our children's lives at the altar of the NRA, and it's all a bitter fruit of sacrificing the lives of those whom we consider "Black" during enslavement.
#BlackLivesMatter #BlackHistoryMonth #blog #politics #guns #DomesticViolence
Love conquers fear
#nerdery #books #puzzles #ttrpg #anime #Christian #feminist #antiracist #photography #sudoku #golang #python #OpenWeb #AIart #GenshinImpact #tfr