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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Black AuDHD Rape Survivor lived in US, lived/visited six continents. Understand now can sound like attacking others bc can't read tones. +447341446247 Stands for everyone but Black Women most of all. In the context of binary gender and ethnicity/race they are the most marginalized. In the context of gender/ethnicity/race/sexuality Black Lesbian/Trans Women are the most marginalized and so on...
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'However, some of the almost 4,000 [Black People] who were lynched between 1882 and 1962 [and there were far more than 4,000 according to Jeff Fager further below] were lynched in settings that are appropriately described as
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#slavery #whitehistory #blackhistory #blackmastodon
Melvin Van Peebles (born Melvin Peebles; August 21, 1932 – September 21, 2021) was an American actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer. ...
Personal life and death
Van Peebles married Maria Marx, a German actress. They lived in Mexico for a period
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#blackfilm #mexico #blackmastodon
Growing list of those born or died on September 21 in any year
Melvin Van Peebles (born Melvin Peebles; August 21, 1932 – September 21, 2021)
https://mastodon.social/@audubonballroon/117302663766569116
#blackwomen #blackhistory #whitehistory #northernireland #ireland #colonialism #newcrossfire #animations #blackfilm #mexico #blackmastodon
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Melvin Van Peebles (born Melvin Peebles; August 21, 1932 – September 21, 2021) was an American actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer. ...
Personal life and death
Van Peebles married Maria Marx, a German actress. They lived in Mexico for a period
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#blackfilm #mexico #blackmastodon
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#blackwomen #92percent #blacklivesmatter #prochoiceAF #lgbtq #undocumented #blackmastodon
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country.
Because there were big nations such as Gamilaroi and the Wiradjuri people in what is called New South Wales, they took up two thirds of the state. They could have conquered all of Australia. But they didn't, because they honored and respected protocol and culture -
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With alarming regularity, galleries all over Tinseltown have been closing, reducing their footprints, or decreasing their programming. “Hiatus” is a frequently heard word and there’s an expectation that more spaces are set to shutter soon.
Artist Amir Falah noted on Threads
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Roland Charles (August 31, 1938 – May 26, 2000) was an African-American photographer and gallerist, best known for co-founding The Black Photographers of California and its associated exhibition space, the Black Gallery, in Los Angeles,
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Growing list of those born or died on August 31 in any year
Sharisse Jackson
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#blackwomen black women #blackhistory #whitehistory #rape #blacktv #blackmastodon
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@iraiah8, Black Royalty, wrote:
My dad is 85.
He grew up in the Jim Crow South. This isn’t distant history. it’s his memory.
He told me a story:
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#blackhistory #whitehistory #blackwomen #92percent #misogynoir #segregation #whitefragility #blackmastodon
Frantz Omar Fanon (20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a French Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, political philosopher, and Marxist from the French colony of Martinique (today a French department).
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#blackmastodon
Some young white man at the gym asked me why I had chosen to wear my tee which reads:
DEAR POLICE:
I AM A
WHITE WOMAN
"One of the reasons is to challenge racism..."
...and he immediately backed off to a considerable distance.
It reminded me of when I took the mic to speak up at work against the genocide of Tibetans. Most colleagues wouldn't even look me in the eye afterwards bc they knew what was coming. I didn't mind. I could always get another job.
Elmer Allen was declared paranoid after he claimed that he received a plutonium injection during a secret experiment [in 1947]. Now, a newspaper says, it turns out he was telling the truth.
[No doubt he was declared paranoid by some who knew what had happened to him.]
Source: https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19931121/1732986/traced-patients-injected-with-plutonium----18-in-all-were-subjects-of-government-experiments
#blackmastodon
Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, filmmaker, and activist.
Whitaker went on to earn a reputation for intensive character study work for films, such as Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
Whitaker won the Academy Award for Best Actor for
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#blackmastodon
@1b1gall, Black Royalty, shared the text and video below.
The WORST Feeling… When You Cut Someone Off Then Hit The Same Red Light 😭
#blackpeople #whitewomen #interracial #funnyvideos #blackmastodon
from Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr Joy DeGruy
Slavery is a brutal institution in any society, yet it seems the treatment of slaves by Europeans was particularly so. In ancient Greece, Rome and
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#blackwomen #92percent #blackbooks #blackhistory #whitehistory #blackmastodon
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Ford vs Dodge 1919
[Ford wanted to use its $60 million profits to hire more workers. Dodge sued for profits to be shared with shareholders instead and won and this became a mainstay to
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#workingclass #business
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isn't in the history books. We don't see these pictures. We don't talk about it, you know, and even the first line of the story Oprah says: It's aa reckoning. Oprah: "There is a reckoning taking place in [the US]." It is with history and so we have to show them.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCfGlS8el-o&rco=1
More of Oprah as referred to above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQK1rNd7Qo
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Every $1 of USAID funding in FY 2024 generated approximately $2–$4 in measurable economic and strategic returns to the United States
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/usaid-return-investment-roi-analysis-fy2024-lee-mazanec-fcugc
#charity #foreignaid #kickbacks #profits #roi
'Shame On You': Christina Ricci Calls Out Jimmy Fallon After McGregor Interview
In 2024, a 12-person jury found McGregor liable in a civil case after Nikita Hand accused him of raping her in a Dublin hotel back in 2018.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/christina-ricci-fallon-mcgregor_uk_6a3b8d16e4b0488a51b1828c#jimmyfallon #conormcgregor #rapist
"When Rafael Correa becomes president of Ecuador in 2007, the West will no longer lend money to the country. Instead, the president turns to China and starts making a flurry of deals and contracts with the Chinese, giving the big Asian country mining, oil and influence over infrastructure in the small South American country, among other things."
There is a documentary about this but no similar documentaries when Ecuador was happy to borrow money from the West.
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2017) was an American singer.
Sheena Shirley Easton (née Orr; born 27 April 1959) is a Scottish singer, songwriter and actress. Her commercial prominence in the 1980s led to collaborations with Prince
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Women of any age will always need protection unfortunately. I would say that those men who attack women are weaker in various ways. It seems unlikely that men will ever behave universally. Perhaps, a better solution would be to use science to limit the number of men or eliminate men going forward.
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congenital disorder albinism. Ross has worked with various fashion designers, magazines and campaigns, including Givenchy, Alexander McQueen, Vogue, GQ, Nylon and others. In 2018, he collaborated with designer Nina Athanasiou for the "In My Skin" clothing line to bring awareness
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but memorable roles in such films as Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Elias Abraham Bowie Jr. (May 10, 1910 – January 26, 2005) was an American professional stock car racing driver. He is credited as being the first African-American to start a top-level NASCAR race, doing so in 1955 at Bay Meadows Racetrack.
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Tet Offensive...
On May 11, thousands of Black residents rose up. [pigs] responded with shoot-to-kill orders, [executing] Charlie Mack Murphy, age 39; William Wright, Jr, 18; Sammy McCullough, 20; John Stokes, 19; John Bennett, 28; and Mack Wilson, 45.
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He was also dragged face down while handcuffed and shackled, and he was left face down for at least nine minutes.
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'"In South Dakota, 40% of reported sex trafficking victims were Native women, even though they represent only 8% of the population."
...Native Americans have been exploited since the 1700s.
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Source: https://ourrescue.org/resources/sex-trafficking/human-trafficking/human-trafficking-demographics/exposing-racial-disparities-in-human-trafficking
#blackwomen #92percent #indigenous #blackmastodon
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to albinism. He has also appeared in several videos from music artists, including Beyoncé's "Pretty Hurts"
Larry "Flash" Jenkins (May 10, 1955 – April 25, 2019) was an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter.
Jenkins was also known for his performances in minor
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Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode (July 25, 1914 – December 31, 1994) was an American athlete, actor, and author. He was a decathlete and football star who was one of the first Black American players in the National Football League (NFL) in the postwar era. After football, he went on to become a film actor
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Strode
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Marley is also considered a global symbol of Jamaican music, culture and identity. Marley also advocated for pan-Africanism.
Moses Fleetwood Walker (October 7, 1856 – May 11, 1924), sometimes nicknamed Fleet Walker, was an American professional baseball catcher credited with
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A Jewish woman said on LBC that all marginalized groups should stand by each other.
I will always stand by everyone including Jewish people but where were Jewish people when others were and are being oppressed?
I'm being literal and sincere. I will always stand by all Jewish people. I will never stand by zionists.
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(born Louis Eugene Walcott, later Louis X; May 11, 1933) is an American religious leader who has been the head of the Nation of Islam (NOI) since 1981, an organization which combines [Black] nationalism and Islamic teachings. Prior to the NOI, Farrakhan was a calypso singer who
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Sharisse Jackson (born August 31, 1976) is an American actress. ...
Early life
Her mother is of mixed African-American and Puerto Rican heritage.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar_Jackson
#blackwomen #92percent #tv #blacktv #afrolatino #afrolatina #blackmastodon
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used the stage name Calypso Gene from 1950 to 1955 and a violinist from 1939 to 1955.
On April 30, 1970, President Richard Nixon, elected on promises to end the war in Vietnam, instead announced U.S. ground troops would invade neighboring Cambodia to prevent another
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On May 10, 2019, Ronald Hardin Greene, an unarmed 49-year-old Black [Man], was [executed] after being arrested by Louisiana State [pigs] following a high-speed chase outside Monroe, Louisiana. During the arrest, he was stunned, punched, pepper sprayed and placed in a chokehold.
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is an American actress.
Chief John Big Tree (born Isaac Johnny John; June 2, 1877 – July 6, 1967) was a Seneca actor who appeared in at least 60 films between 1915 and 1950.
On July 6, 2016, Philando Castile, a 32-year-old African American man, was [murdered] during a
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traffic stop by [pig] Jeronimo Yanez of the St. Anthony [pig] department in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area.
July 6 is comoros independence day and malawi independence day
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rocksteady, and was renowned for his distinctive vocal and songwriting style. Marley increased the visibility of Jamaican music worldwide and became a global figure in popular culture. He became known as a Rastafarian icon, and he infused his music with a sense of spirituality.
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being the first [Black Man] to play major league baseball.
Walker played in the minor leagues until 1889, and was the last African-American to participate on the major league level before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line in 1947.
Louis Farrakhan
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Tamera Darvette Mowry-Housley (née Mowry) (born July 6, 1978) is an American actress, television personality, and former singer. She first gained fame for her teen role as Tamera Campbell on the ABC/WB sitcom Sister, Sister (opposite her twin sister Tia Mowry).
Tia Dashon Mowry
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