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Because they have an agenda against LGBTQIA+. And against women in general.

Especially Black women.

They also hyped up Caitlin Clark.

#BlackMastodon
https://share.newsbreak.com/6nnoc54x


On this day 61 years ago (April 16, 1963) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote the legendary “Letter From Birmingham Jail”. Here is the letter in its entirety.

https://letterfromjail.com

#LetterFromBirminghamJail #MLKJr #usa #Mastodon #BlackMastodon


One fact you might not know about #JackieRobinson: he was a Republican. Millions of Blacks were also Republicans at the time. Robinson even endorsed Nixon in the election of 1960. But by 1968, Robinson was done with the GOP.
https://theconversation.com/jackie-robinson-was-a-republican-until-the-gop-became-the-white-mans-party-181014
#JackieRobinsonDay #Baseball #History #Histodons @histodons #BlackMastodon


After Jackie Robinson hung up his cleats in 1957, he became a constant presence on picket lines and at #civilrights rallies.

https://theconversation.com/jackie-robinson-was-a-radical-dont-listen-to-the-sanitized-version-of-history-179732
#JackieRobinsonDay #Baseball #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon


What we've been saying all along.

Most Black folks are Democrats and despise Trump.

Though in the media,all you hear about is Candace Owens,Lil Wayne,Ice Cube,50 Cent, Charlemagne Tha God and whomever pastor they can find,telling us to vote for Trump because "he helps Black people".

He'd send us on the boat to Sudan,Congo,Burkina Faso or whatever African country whose dictator is BFF's with him and Putin.

Pay attention.

#BlackMastodon
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-black-voters-republicans-pew-report-rcna147645


O.J. Simpson may never have said the words Jay-Z put in his mouth, but they capture something interesting about O.J.’s place in America’s ongoing discussion about race.

https://theconversation.com/im-not-black-im-o-j-what-o-j-simpsons-life-showed-about-transcending-race-and-being-trapped-by-it-227822

#news #breakingnews #ojsimpson #BlackMastodon


According to a working paper by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago, job applicants with names that suggest they are Black are getting fewer callbacks from employers than those with names that suggest they are white. The typical employer called back the presumed-white applicants around 9% more than Black ones. That rose to around 24% for the worst offenders. The research team has now named the 97 companies they studied and assigned them grades. "Putting the names out there in the public domain is to move away from a lot of the performative allyship that you see with these companies, saying, 'Oh, we value inclusivity and diversity,'" Pat Kline, an economics professor who worked on the study told NPR.

https://flip.it/HoZRiH

#Employment #Research #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #HumanResources #Discrimination


Got just one Twitch stream this week, but it's an interesting one!
Join me on Saturday at 1pm UK time @ https://twitch.tv/airadam13 for my guest appearance on the Coffee & Donuts raid train, which will be an hour set of strictly 7" vinyl - always amusing when your hands are as large as mine 😆 I've shortlisted some Hip-Hop, dancehall, 80s, and more - and it'll be a radio-friendly mix too!

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackMusic #dj #twitch #vinyl #recordcollector


Two tracks on Beyoncé’s new album feature the voice of Linda Martell, the first commercially successful Black female country music artist, who faced exclusion in #countrymusic throughout her career

https://theconversation.com/the-most-important-voice-on-beyonces-new-album-226907
@blackmastodon #BlackMastodon


“For 300 years, we’ve given them time. And I’ve been tired so long, now I am sick and tired of being sick and tired, and we want a change.”

Fannie Lou Hamer became one of the most respected civil rights leaders during the 1960s with her courageous and heartfelt resistance to racist voting laws in Mississippi, and her pressure on the Democratic Party to change

Know her story: https://theconversation.com/why-civil-rights-icon-fannie-lou-hamer-was-sick-and-tired-of-being-sick-and-tired-214527
@blackmastodon #BlackMastodon #BlackFriday


#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #ECOWAS #WestAfrica #DMV For folks in the DMV who are interested in the political/economic reasons for much of the chaos in West Africa (Senegal, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso), you have to know about the currency imposed upon them by the French at independence. This film is fantastic. Saw it during the New African Film Fest and there is a special showing April 8 at Sankofa book store in DC. Q&A with the director:
https://www.sankofa.com/events/money-freedom-a-story-of-the-french-cfa-with-director-katy-lena-ndiaye


“The problem is not a general lack of historical knowledge but its disparity along racial lines. Black students do know this history, or at least more of it than their white peers.”

https://theconversation.com/the-black-history-knowledge-gap-is-widening-and-gop-politicians-are-making-it-worse-223605
#BlackHistory #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #History #Histodons #USPolitics


Author and activist Don Winslow rightly says that “Donald Trump should have been taken out of the White House in handcuffs before the sunset on January Sixth. And if he had been—if people had done the jobs they were supposed to have done, we wouldn’t be where we are now.”

#The11thHour #vote #November5 #Mastodon
#BlackMastodon #politics


Dear conservatives, as much as I wish Black people had the power to crash planes out of the sky and single-handedly cause bridges to collapse, I promise you, we don't.

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackTwitter

https://www.businessinsider.com/right-wing-commentators-baselessly-blame-diversity-for-plane-safety-incidents-2024-1


“It’s not just the beating me down that is hard,” one Black woman PhD candidate told a researcher. “It is the fact that it feels like I’m villainized and made out to be the problem for trying to advocate for myself.”

Women interviewed for the study report feeling isolated, abused and overworked. One said she had been tricked into handling a two- to four-person job entirely by herself.

https://theconversation.com/the-hostility-black-women-face-in-higher-education-carries-dire-consequences-224319
#DEI #Inclusion @blackmastodon #BlackMastodon
@academicchatter


The 5 freeway displaced a huge Black,Latino and Japanese-American neighborhood in Boyle Heights after WWII.

Where my family once lived.

The 10 freeway destroyed a middle-class Black neighborhood in West Adams and Mid-City. Including where my grandparents lived after they moved from Boyle Heights.

#BlackMastodon https://theconversation.com/black-communities-are-using-mapping-to-document-and-restore-a-sense-of-place-221299