I know you’re being inundated too but from black brands (and I hope you are) and listening to Black voices (I pray you do) but how are each of you learning Black HISTORY this month?
Especially as it’s being systematically silenced.
I’m actually asking.
From Carter G. Woodson’s Mis-Education of the Negro:
“This crusade is much more important than the anti-lynching movement,
because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.”
Timely, no?
Historian & author Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week in 1926 expressly because he understood how powerful truth is. To a people. To a nation. To a future.
So again, I’m genuinely asking, how are you learning Black HISTORY this month & year? #BHM
The first tweet should say “to buy from black brands.” APPLE IS MY NEMESIS
Ok I’m seeing some awesome replies-some of which include working with Black brands, reading Black fiction and listening to Black perspectives via podcasts and more on current events.
All that is great! AND—I asked SPECIFICALLY about Black HISTORY because it matters so much
Non-fiction, historical accounts, films, books, essays, children’s lot, documentaries, etc.
Black HISTORY-not just something BLACK. 👍🏾👍🏾
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Honestly? So far Biden is making common sense appeals to the folks at home and hammering home on the economy in a v plain way.
He’s making Republicans look like elitist snobs (which they are) and they’re falling into it. #SOTU
“No billionaire should be paying a lower tax rate than a teacher or a fire fighter.” YUP.
Meanwhile the republicans are going to war with teachers and unions. And behaving childishly during a speech during which he has been overly kind to them. #SOTU.
Big yikes
Shout out to those who’ve been pushing from the left on making the wealthy pay their fair share. Shaping policy is often a long game.
I’m still annoyed that some folks ain’t vote for Bey for AOTY because “there were 8,000 writers” on it but then I remember white supremacy culture sold y’all rugged individualism over community when the truth is the “individuals” only win bc of the community they erase so…
RENAISSANCE was such a complex, communal, affirming album and one thing I’ll never be over is how Beyoncé continually understands her impact on the lives and careers of others. Meticulously chosen lyrics, collaborators, even words in acceptance speeches.
I’m upset about AOTY (because like what else she gotta do?!?) but I do love that this is the album with which she set a new record of Grammy wins.
It is something, though, to watch the entire room shift because of her presence & the entire industry shift because of her innovations and yet and still, a voting pool of her peers feel the need to keep her humble.
What’s really clear about some of the reaction to the murder of #TyreNichols is that we’ve failed to fully understand race and it’s construction as a *systemic tool.*
The entire system of policing sees the Black body as a problem. No matter who pulls the trigger.
Black bodies were America's first capitol. Bought, sold, priced with cattle: property. And property is controlled.
So our Black bodies are meant to be controlled by the American institutions that have roots in and replaced enslavement--*particularly* the criminal legal system.
So no matter who you are, or what your intentions are, or even how Black you are, being a part of an inherently anti-Black institution like policing puts you in position to do anti-Black work.
The Woman King shut out from awards season is truly a sight to behold. The film, director & actors gave us some of the best work this year.
But I tell you what- #TheWomanKing went triple platinum with THE PEOPLE. @GPBmadeit will continue to do queen things!
[correction- there were SAG and BAFTA nominations for The Woman King as there should be! But they shoulda DOMINATED this whole season and it’s upsetting me and my homegirls!!!]