Nominations for Black History Month 2015

Fri Jan 2nd 2015 by abagond

To avoid the disaster that was Native American Heritage Month 2014, I will be taking nominations for Black History Month early.

Nominate or second topics you want to see posts on for Black History Month in February 2015. It can be anything about Africa or the Diaspora, but topics that concern the history of US Blacks are preferred.

My own suggestions (in alphabetical order):

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr
African Diaspora
Asante people
August Wilson
Bacon’s Rebellion
Bantu Expansion
Bill Cosby
Black Codes
Black Lives Matter movement
Black Power
Black women, Asian men
Caribbean reparations
Carter G. Woodson
Central African Republic
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Cicely Tyson
Claudette Colvin
Colin Powell
comply or die
Detroit
Dogon people
Dream Defenders
extrajudicial killings
free Blacks before 1865
Fulani people
gentrification of Harlem
GI Bill
Harlem Renaissance
Henrietta Lacks
Igbo people
Jackie Robnson
Jacob Lawrence
James Baldwin
Jean Toomer
Jessye Norman
Joe Louis
John Hope Franklin – who turns 100 today!
Kerner Commission
Langston Hughes
Lee Daniels
Liberia
Malinke people
Marcus Gavery
Mary McLeod Bethune
Matthew Henson
Mbundu people
Meroe
Moors
mortgage discrimination: a brief history
Nat Turner
Nichelle Nichols
Nigeria: a brief history
Nigerian Pidgin English
obeah
Oscar Micheaux
policing and race: a brief history
Racial wealth gap
Reconstruction
redlining
Richard Pryor
Richard Wright
school-to-prison pipeline
SNCC
Songhay
Soninke people
Sony Pictures and racism
South Africa
Spike Lee
Stono Rebellion
stop and frisk
The Crack Epidemic
The Great Migration
The term “thug”
The War on Drugs
Thurgood Marshall
Tiger Woods
Toussaint Louverture
Tulsa Riot
voter ID laws
W.E.B. Du Bois
Wolof people
Wolof language
Zanj
Zimbabwe
Zora Neale Hurston

See also:

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on Sat Jan 3rd 2015 at 00:19:53 Just Me

Mr. Neely Fuller

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on Sat Jan 3rd 2015 at 00:56:36 A

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Asante people
Bacon’s Rebellion
Black Lives Matter movement
Bantu Expansion
Caribbean reparations
Fulani people
gentrification of Harlem
GI Bill
Igbo people
mortgage discrimination: a brief history
school-to-prison pipeline
Songhai-HELL Yeah
Toussaint Louverture
Tulsa Riot
The Great Migration- & re-migration of middle class blacks back to the South
The term “thug”
The War on Drugs

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on Sat Jan 3rd 2015 at 01:14:27 kdyounger

Cheikh Diop
Gullah People
The Sudden Popularity of Booty

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on Sat Jan 3rd 2015 at 01:41:14 Dylan H

Can you do a post on Detroit?

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on Sat Jan 3rd 2015 at 02:07:25 lifelearner

Kara Walker’s “A Subtlety”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Wilmington Insurrection/Massacre of 1898
Tulsa Riots/ Black Wall Street
The end of Hip Hop via cultural appropriation ( ie. Igloo Austrailia, and the like)

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on Sat Jan 3rd 2015 at 02:35:42 radicalhope

Please do a post on Detroit.

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on Sat Jan 3rd 2015 at 03:37:50 Mz.Nikita

Dogon people, Zora Neale Hurston, Wolof people, Songhay people, Bacon’s Rebellio, Fulani people, Comply or Die, W.E.B. Du Bois, The Crack Epidemic, Tulsa Riot, School-to-Prison-Pipeline, Jean Toomer, Gentrification of Harlem, Great Migration, Claudette Colvin, Free Blacks before 1865, obeah, Moors and Nigeria: a Brief History just for starters! : )

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on Sat Jan 3rd 2015 at 04:47:02 gro jo

Toussaint Louverture and the attempt to re-enslave the people of St-Domingue, Zimbabwe and the reclaiming of the land from white farmers, Stono Rebellion, Meroe Iron smelting, Songhay Empire, Zanj rebellion, Antar and the perception of Blacks by Arabs. Malik Ambar and the history of Africans in India, Igbo people, Langston Hughes and the fate of the project he went to the Soviet Union to film. Abubakari’s exploration of the Americas before Columbus, fact or fantasy? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1068950.stm

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on Sat Jan 3rd 2015 at 04:48:47 Paige

The history of Black names: why certain last names are common amongst Black Americans, how Black first names became a distinct cultural trend

How Black people influenced the development of electronic dance music (EDM)

I’m reading The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks right now.

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on Sat Jan 3rd 2015 at 04:50:30 gro jo

Antar, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWVpet3uOlM)

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on Sat Jan 3rd 2015 at 04:57:48 gro jo

Why are my choices in “moderation”?

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on Sat Jan 3rd 2015 at 05:00:29 aturnerj

Peace and Blessings, I cast my vote for the following : ●Black codes ●Claudettee Colvin ●Gentrification of Harlem ●Kerner Commission ●Moors ●Maroons ●Crack epidemic ●Black Wallstreet /Tulsa riots Race and policing ●Hollywood- – How it got started and Jewish influence and control ●Media- – Jewish influence and control- – how, when, and why ●Blacks in the media. History of, status report of today, and leading Black players. ●Black Panther Party and other groups formed historically to protect the community from the police. ●HBCUs- – History of these institutions. Interesting stories and facts about some. And appeal for support through attendance, financial support, and a call for state legislators to support them through funding them with state dollars. ●Ya Asantewa ●Black religious movements and their leaders Noble Drew Ali Elijah Muhammad Father Divine Black Hebrews

Thanks for all that you do to elevate by educating. Peace, Arthur Turner

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on Sat Jan 3rd 2015 at 17:30:53 Solesearch

Detroit and Chicago especially in reference to the high murder/ shooting rates of black people in these two cities and whats being done to combat it.

School to prison pipeline.

Zora Neale Hurston

Gentrification of Harlem

Claudette Colvin

Ava DuVernay

Mary McLeod Bethune

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on Sat Jan 3rd 2015 at 17:42:37 Solesearch

Tanisha Anderson

Black women and pre term birth rate and infant mortality disparity.

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on Sat Jan 3rd 2015 at 18:27:33 biff

I’d be interested in a post discussing the status of pygmies and Khoisan people in Africa

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on Sat Jan 3rd 2015 at 19:50:36 Déborah M

The Kingdom of Dahomey

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on Sat Jan 3rd 2015 at 21:28:59 A

Black women being sterilized in the US prison system without their consent.

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on Sat Jan 3rd 2015 at 22:05:55 Glenn (freedom of movement) Robinson @getgln

Black Power movement(s) including the move to say “All Power to the People”

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on Sat Jan 3rd 2015 at 22:34:36 gro jo

Why are you asking people to vote on subjects when you motto is “Abagond
500 words a day on whatever I want”?

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on Sat Jan 3rd 2015 at 23:23:28 abagond

@ gro jo

People come up with ideas I do not think of and it gives me a way to choose among dozens of topics. I am not going to go strictly by popular demand, but it will help me to decide.

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on Sat Jan 3rd 2015 at 23:26:38 Mary Burrell

Esther Jones the real Betty Boop.

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on Sun Jan 4th 2015 at 00:09:10 Mary Burrell

Zora Neal Hurston and The Crack Epidemic, Bill Cosby

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on Sun Jan 4th 2015 at 00:53:12 Zena

How about black trans people, misogynoir and intersectionality? #blacktranslivesmatter and #blackwomenmatter are apart of the Black Lives Matter Movement to show that antiblack violence just doesn’t happened to black men and to highlight the sexism and homophobia in black movements/community.

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on Sun Jan 4th 2015 at 01:01:25 Symphonic Zambophones

For starters

-150 Years Later…
-Aaliyah
-Ancient anthropological history of Africa
-Angelique Kiadjo (Salala is a nice song if you haven’t heard of her)
-August Wilson
-Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, other relevant affiliated actors/people
-Charles Barkley
-Ethiopia
-Faith Ringgold (suggesting Tar Beach)
-Good Times/actors
-Jacksons
-Langston Hughes
-Lil Wayne
-Moors
-Muhammad Ali
-Nation of Islam
-Princess Angela Gisela Brown
-Russell Simmons
-The Boondocks
-The Jeffersons/actors
-TLC the band
-The term “thug”
-Tiger Woods
-White people/non-blacks involved in black music ex: Beastie Boys, Eminem, Bubba Sparxxx, Iggy Azalea
-Whoopi Goldberg

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on Sun Jan 4th 2015 at 03:04:10 W F

Clarence Thomas (don’t think you’ve done a post on him yet)

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on Sun Jan 4th 2015 at 06:33:33 Curious

Since you have Joe Louis up there, could you include Jack Johnson, the first black man to win the Heavyweight Championship in boxing? Also Muhammad Ali G.O.A.T and his whole rivalry with “Smokin'” Joe Frazier that turned real ugly?

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on Sun Jan 4th 2015 at 07:10:29 Diasporan

Black Codes and their modern incarnation (school-to-prison pipeline, the war on drugs, stop and frisk, policing and race, extrajudicial killings)

Racial Wealth Gap, Redlining, Mortgage Discrimination (GI Bill, how white
Americans received a US version of the marshall plan *gov handouts* which created the white middle class, etc…)

Reconstruction

Tulsa Riot

Meroe & Moors

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on Sun Jan 4th 2015 at 09:06:15 Taju

*African Americans and the black African Diaspora
*Fulani people
*Black Americans through the eyes of black Africans
*Nigerian Pidgin English

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on Sun Jan 4th 2015 at 19:53:41 sharina

@Taju

I second your nominations.

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on Sun Jan 4th 2015 at 19:55:02 sharina

@Mary

I second yourseason as well. I just learned this year about the REAL Betty Boop.

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on Sun Jan 4th 2015 at 19:55:35 sharina

Yours* not yourseason

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on Sun Jan 4th 2015 at 21:43:26 Erik Sieven

the idea biff had is very good

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on Sun Jan 4th 2015 at 21:50:09 Lola Adewusi (@4majorlove)

how about Yoruba people.

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on Mon Jan 5th 2015 at 05:54:43 teddy1975

Maybe an article about when to use “Black”, “”Negro” and so on, and how those uses changed in history…

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on Mon Jan 5th 2015 at 14:15:54 Jeff Elberfeld

My choices:
* The term “thug”
* Zimbabwe
* Bantu Expansion

Or else anything goes, although I doubt if a Bill Cosby-blogpost will contain any surprising viewpoints…

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on Mon Jan 5th 2015 at 18:01:06 abagond

Mia Love
Almoravids
Black Madonnas
Whitney Young

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on Mon Jan 5th 2015 at 23:21:19 mstoogood4yall

@ mary and sharina

yes esther jones it is crazy I found out about her on tumblr, it is a shame that ppl have been imitating black voices and getting rewarded for it.

I also would like a post about queen califia a fictional black warrior queen whom the state of California is named after.

C.R. Patterson automobile company the first black owned automobile company in the world ,who some say his car was better than the ford model.

Joseph Phillippe Lemercier Laroche the only black passenger on the titanic.

Emmit mchenry a black man that created the internet domains

Rosetta Tharpe the godmother of rock n roll.

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on Mon Jan 5th 2015 at 23:57:58 Mary Burrell

@mstoogood4yall: Those are good choices.

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on Mon Jan 5th 2015 at 23:59:43 Mary Burrell

I love Black Madonnas. I just love all kinds of art with Madonnas. I collect them.

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on Tue Jan 6th 2015 at 00:01:29 Mary Burrell

Black ballerinas Michaela Prince and Misty Copeland. Dance Theater of Harlem.

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on Tue Jan 6th 2015 at 00:41:22 Aaron

In lieu of his passing, I think a write-up on Stuart Scott would be interersting. It could lead to an interesting discussion on what it means to be black and on the social/media pressure of appearing to be too black or not black enough. Another take could be about how America reacted to him on ESPN because he “talked different.”

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on Tue Jan 6th 2015 at 00:42:16 Aaron

*interesting

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on Tue Jan 6th 2015 at 06:50:48 abagond

African Burial Ground in Manhattan.

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on Tue Jan 6th 2015 at 10:59:22 jefe

I have a laundry list request for this:

1. First of all, I hope that at least one post a week is from the “promised” list, ie,

3. African Diaspora
9. Black/Asian American race relations
10. Black-ish
11. Black women, Asian men
16. Detroit
17. gentrification of Harlem
18. extrajudicial killings
21. Gloria Naylor: 1996
23. Henrietta Lacks
24.Jill Lepore: New York Burning
25. Lawrence Hill: The Book of Negroes
26. Lee Daniels
27. Lennon Lacy
29. Louis DeCaro Jr.: “On the Side of My People: A Religious Life of Malcolm X”
31. Melissa V. Harris-Perry: “Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America”
32. Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow
35. Neely Fuller
37. Nina Simone
38. obeah
40. Percival Everett: Erasure
43. slaveries compared (Roman, Arab, Brazilian, American, etc)
47. Tulsa Riot
51. Zimbabwe

2. I second the following from Abagond’s suggestions above (not in #1)

Bacon’s Rebellion
Cicely Tyson
free Blacks before 1865
GI Bill
Harlem Renaissance
James Baldwin
Reconstruction
redlining
Richard Pryor
Richard Wright
school-to-prison pipeline
SNCC
The Crack Epidemic
The Great Migration (This is a MUST in my opinion, long overdue)
Thurgood Marshall
voter ID laws
W.E.B. Du Bois

3. Seconded from suggestions from commenters
HBCUs- – History of these institutions.
Nation of Islam
Good Times
The Jeffersons
Black Power movement(s)
The African and West Indian brain drain

4. Personal nominations
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
*** Any law or court ruling which rolled back civil rights after Reconstruction
The Atlanta Compromise (1895)
The Talented Tenth
Niagara movement
Restrictive covenants (fits well with Blockbusting, racial steering and redlining)
Fair Housing Act
NAACP: origins and history
NAACP: Landmark court cases
NAACP and the civil rights movement
NAACP in the 21st century
CORE
Edward Brooke, JR. (the first black senator election by popular election – very timely, since he just passed away a couple days ago)
Black Indians (since not covered in Native American month)
Black Hispanics (since not covered in Hispanic month)
Black Asians / Blasians
Any other majority black city besides Detroit (eg, Cleveland, St. Louis, Baltimore, Newark, Oakland, New Orleans, Atlanta)
Well known black “ghettos” (eg, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Chicago Southside, Watts, Roxbury, etc.)
All black southern towns (many formed during or after Reconstruction)

Black middle and upper middle class neighborhoods (Previously I did an initial rough draft on Prince George’s country, MD, but any of the following are also OK – http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/01/03/10-richest-black-communities-america/) I noticed that 5 of the top 10 are in Prince George’s county, which is where I grew up.

Black Churches
Black slaveowners
Native Americans and black slaves
Affirmative Action
Selma (2014 film)

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on Tue Jan 6th 2015 at 11:11:24 jefe

In addition to my long list above (Still in moderation), want to add

– European Brown Babies
– Overseas African-American communities / organizations

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on Tue Jan 6th 2015 at 13:56:16 gro jo

Weren’t Almoravids Arabs or Berbers? I can see you putting them in a month on African history. If you’re going to write about them, you might find the story of Bertrand Du Guesclin “The Eagle of Brittany”, “The Black Dog of Brocéliande” and a French military commander during the Hundred Years’ War, of interest. He claimed that his family came from Africa, some say Algeria and others Nigeria, take your pick. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_du_Guesclin

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on Tue Jan 6th 2015 at 19:48:45 Mary Burrell

@jefe: You have a good list. And I cosign about a post on the ABC sitcom Black-ish, and the practice of Obeah and African religions and spirituality.

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on Tue Jan 6th 2015 at 23:45:50 resw77

Blacks in early Americas: Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable, Pedro Alonso Niño, Mustafa Zemmouri, Mathieu de Costa.

Blacks in Europe: Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Angelo Soliman

Blacks in Africa: Khufu, Amenhotep III, Shabaka, Ezana of Axum, Gebre Mesqel Lalibela, Fasilides, Menelik II.

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on Wed Jan 7th 2015 at 01:00:08 sharinalr

@mstoogood4yall

Those suggestions would be perfect. It is refreshing to learn about contributions that blacks can not get credit for, yet we are expected to marvel at the contributions of whites. *sigh*

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on Wed Jan 7th 2015 at 06:27:27 jefe

– the African-American diaspora (ie, the life and experience of African-Americans who live / work / study / settle outside of the United States.)

(actually, a related topic to the “Overseas African-American” I suggested above).

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on Wed Jan 7th 2015 at 12:30:53 sharina

Mary Burrell

Don’t forget Misty’s partner Brooklyn Mack. He is her prince in Swan lake.

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on Wed Jan 7th 2015 at 17:11:40 gro jo

The biological origin of the literary genius of Alexandre Dumas and his sons, Dumas fils and Henry Bauer. Biff, the ‘IQ expert’ in residence might care to enlighten us on that subject by showing us the contributions of the white ancestors and relatives of these men, and contrast their achievements to that of their black ancestors and relatives.

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on Thu Jan 8th 2015 at 04:37:24 H.A. Keller

If it is not too thematically divergent, is there any chance we could get a post on D’Angelo, his Voodoo album and the recording sessions, and especially his new record?

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on Thu Jan 8th 2015 at 19:06:55 Joe Hill

A. Philip Randolph
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Black trade unions
Black scabs (bosses using them as a tactic against white unions)

Stuck Rubber Baby (comic book)

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on Fri Jan 9th 2015 at 00:03:43 Mary Burrell

Neil de Grasse Tyson.

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on Sat Jan 10th 2015 at 16:49:49 Mary Burrell

Black inventors like Benjamin Bannecker and John Lee Love who invented the pencil sharpener.

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on Sat Jan 10th 2015 at 16:51:25 Mary Burrell

The amazing Underwater Sculptures in Grenada. It is awesome and sad and a beautiful tribute to those who were thrown over board during the “Middle Passage.”

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on Sat Jan 10th 2015 at 19:54:33 gro jo

Bava Gor, African Sufi saint and patron saint of the agate bead trade in India and Pakistan: http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africansindianocean/essay-south-asia.php
Malik Sandal, Architect of the Ibrahim Rauza funerary complex,http://www.kaladarshana.com/sites/bijapur/IMG00011.html, African or Iranian?
Elmer Samuel Imes, physicist. “His work demonstrated for the first time that Quantum Theory could be applied to radiation in all regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, to the rotational energy states of molecules as well as the vibration and electronic levels.”

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on Sun Jan 11th 2015 at 04:29:43 Brothawolf

I wish you could do them all lol. But here are some that stuck out with me.

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr
African Diaspora
Asante people
Bill Cosby (Only because he’s trending currently)
Black Codes
Black Lives Matter movement
Black Power
Caribbean reparations
Carter G. Woodson
Central African Republic
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Cicely Tyson
Detroit
Dogon people
Dream Defenders
free Blacks before 1865
Fulani people
gentrification of Harlem
Joe Louis
John Hope Franklin – who turns 100 today!
Kerner Commission
Langston Hughes
Lee Daniels
Liberia
Malinke people
Marcus Gavery
Richard Pryor
Richard Wright
school-to-prison pipeline
SNCC
Songhay
Soninke people
Sony Pictures and racism
South Africa
Spike Lee
Stono Rebellion
stop and frisk
The Crack Epidemic
The Great Migration
The term “thug”
The War on Drugs
Thurgood Marshall
Tiger Woods
W.E.B. Du Bois
Wolof people
Wolof language
Zanj
Zimbabwe
Zora Neale Hurston

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on Sun Jan 11th 2015 at 08:48:47 Mz.Nikita

@Mary..There is controversy as to whether or not those lovely sculptures in Grenada are a tribute to those who faced atrocities during the Middle Passage, (it has been reported that the artist did not intend to do a tribute to that event, but he is allegedly pleased with how so many people have interpreted this action as such since he wants everyone to be draw their own conclusions from viewing these figures). When I saw those statues it certainly crossed my mind that it was indeed a tribute to those who endured the Middle Passage, and even if it is not I do find it curious that his Original “denial” of this has not been officially linked to any credible source online-any thoughts on this?

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on Mon Jan 12th 2015 at 17:43:58 Omnipresent

Arthur Ashe

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on Mon Jan 12th 2015 at 19:28:13 Mary Burrell

@Mz. Nikita: The Underwater sculpture came up on my Google+ timeline. I appreciate you elaborating on this topic. It is very beautiful still whatever the interpretation.

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on Tue Jan 13th 2015 at 00:55:03 Mz.Nikita

@ Mary, it certainly is!

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on Tue Jan 13th 2015 at 23:23:35 Mbeti

Your list is too long and therefore unrealistic and the tradition of african americans celebrating much less restricting our awareness of our history to one month of the year is both arhiac and obsolete.
As just as an example any of the names listed can be googled to ones heart content.
That said i look forward to your take on those you manage to post on.

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on Thu Jan 15th 2015 at 19:05:42 jefe

Any short-listed topics yet?

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on Mon Jan 19th 2015 at 13:28:20 jefe

After mentioning Moms Mabley on the Dion post, it might be a good idea to have a post on the “Chitlin’ circuit”, since it was also mentioned in the Jimi Hendrix and Dorothy Dandridge posts.

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on Thu Jan 22nd 2015 at 13:51:08 Just Me

John James Conyers, Jr. US Representative

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on Sat Jan 24th 2015 at 19:06:46 Just Me

Gary Webb – investigative reporter best known for his 1996 Dark Alliance series of articles (about CIA involvement in cocaine (CRACK) trafficking into the US) and into Black communities to finance the Contras in Nicaragua.

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on Sun Jan 25th 2015 at 03:23:38 Legion

@ Brothawolf

As you may know Cicely Tyson married to Miles Davis for a time. Miles had some interesting and unflattering things to say about her in his autobiography. It is best if i refrain from trying to be specific, it is years since I read Miles’ autobiography.

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on Sun Jan 25th 2015 at 03:27:32 Legion

free Blacks before 1865

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on Mon Jan 26th 2015 at 03:51:35 Linda

Abagond,

Black/Brown Inventors — I don’t believe you have done that yet.

Here is a short list to get things started:
some of these inventor made original inventions, or improvements on original inventions, or they worked in conjunction with other people

(if you google some of these people, looking at their picture, you would never know they had African ancestry)

air conditioning unit: Frederick M. Jones; July 12, 1949
almanac: Benjamin Banneker; Approx 1791
auto cut-off switch: Granville T. Woods; January 1,1839
auto fishing devise: G. Cook; May 30, 1899
automatic gear shift: Richard Spikes; February 28, 1932
baby buggy: W.H. Richardson; June 18, 1899
bicycle frame: L.R. Johnson; Octber 10, 1899
biscuit cutter: A.P. Ashbourne; November 30, 1875
blood plasma bag: Charles Drew; Approx. 1945
gamma-electrical cell: Henry T. Sampson; July 6, 1971
chamber commode: T. Elkins; January 3, 1897
clothes dryer: G. T. Sampson; June 6, 1862
curtain rod: S. R. Scratton; November 30, 1889
curtain rod support: William S. Grant; August 4, 1896
door knob: O. Dorsey; December 10, 1878
door stop: O. Dorsey; December 10, 1878
dust pan: Lawrence P. Ray; August 3, 1897
egg beater: Willie Johnson; February 5, 1884
electric lampbulb: Lewis Latimer; March 21, 1882
elevator: Alexander Miles; October 11, 1867
eye protector: P. Johnson; November 2, 1880
fire escape ladder: J. W. Winters; May 7, 1878
fire extinguisher: T. Marshall; October 26, 1872
folding bed: L. C. Bailey; July 18, 1899
folding chair: Brody & Surgwar; June 11, 1889
fountain pen: W. B. Purvis; January 7, 1890
furniture caster: O. A. Fisher; 1878
gas mask: Garrett Morgan; October 13, 1914
golf tee: T. Grant; December 12, 1899
guitar: Robert F. Flemming, Jr. March 3, 1886
hair brush: Lydia O. Newman; November 15,18–
hand stamp: Walter B. Purvis; February 27, 1883
horse shoe: J. Ricks; March 30, 1885
ice cream scooper: A. L. Cralle; February 2, 1897
improv. sugar making: Norbet Rillieux; December 10, 1846
insect-destroyer gun: A. C. Richard; February 28, 1899
ironing board: Sarah Boone; December 30, 1887
key chain: F. J. Loudin; January 9, 1894
lantern: Michael C. Harvey; August 19, 1884
lawn mower: L. A. Burr; May 19, 1889
lawn sprinkler: J. W. Smith; May 4, 1897
lemon squeezer: J. Thomas White; December 8, 1893
lock: W. A. Martin; July 23, 18–
lubricating cup: Ellijah McCoy; November 15, 1895
lunch pail: James Robinson; 1887
mail box: Paul L. Downing; October 27, 1891
mop: Thomas W. Stewart; June 11, 1893
motor: Frederick M. Jones; June 27, 1939
peanut butter: George Washington Carver; 1896
pencil sharpener: J. L. Love; November 23, 1897
record player arm: Joseph Hunter Dickinson January 8, 1819
refrigerator: J. Standard; June 14, 1891
riding saddles: W. D. Davis; October 6, 1895
rolling pin: John W. Reed; 1864
shampoo headrest: C. O. Bailiff; October 11, 1898
spark plug: Edmond Berger; February 2, 1839
stethoscope: Imhotep; Ancient Egypt
stove: T. A. Carrington; July 25, 1876
straightening comb: Madam C. J. Walker; Approx 1905
street sweeper: Charles B. Brooks; March 17, 1890
phone transmitter: Granville T. Woods; December 2, 1884
thermostat control: Frederick M. Jones; February 23, 1960
traffic light: Garrett Morgan; November 20, 1923
tricycle: M. A. Cherry; May 6, 1886
typewriter: Burridge & Marshman; April 7, 1885

http://www.blackinventions101.com/inventionslist.html

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on Wed Jan 28th 2015 at 18:06:39 gro jo

Black administrators and soldiers of white imperialist states such as France, the USA, etc. Why did they play their role in a system that oppressed them? The lives of Messrs. Felix Eboue, Rene Maran, Camille Mortenol and the officers of black regiments such as the Buffalo Soldiers would help clarify the psychology involved.

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on Thu Jan 29th 2015 at 15:52:38 jefe

After reading many prior posts, I think we should also have a post on

sharecropping
since it is a major part of American history and fits in well with many previous posts.

But maybe split into 2 parts:
– black sharecropping (for Black History month)
– white sharecropping / tenant farming (for White History Month)

since there were some differences in the system as well as in the geographic regions, and crops used.

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on Sat Jan 31st 2015 at 22:32:04 Mary Burrell

Blacks in televison, Shonda Rimes, Scandal, and How To Get Away With Murder and now the new Lee Daniels show on Fox Empire. The black blogosphere and social media is on fire about this

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on Sun Feb 1st 2015 at 00:50:29 Speak Out

Medgar Evers
Fannie Lou Hamer
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
José María Morelos
Vicente Guerrero
even Russia’s Alexander Pushkin

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on Sun Feb 1st 2015 at 16:45:47 Mary Burrell

Great Britan’s black Victorians and Alexandre Dumas who wrote the “Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo” and poet Aleksandr Pushkin

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on Sun Feb 1st 2015 at 18:24:08 jefe

@Speak Out

Medgar Evers
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…

There is already a post on that.
(https://abagond.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/medgar-evers/)

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on Sun Feb 1st 2015 at 18:29:07 jefe

It is February 2 where I am already. Is there a shortlist of post topics?

@MB,
Abagond should probably just do a post on Lee Daniels (which he hopefully will do as it is on his list).

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on Sun Feb 1st 2015 at 19:33:13 gro jo

Sylla Volsant Laraque. Haitian multimillionaire, reputed to be the 3rd richest man of France circa 1890-1900, great grandson of an African woman who was sold into slavery in St-Domingue. He financed Louis Bleriot’s 1909 crossing of the English Channel by plane, built a resort at Saint-Lunaire after he purchased the grand hotel:

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422579428&v=LRTCMhpgO8I&x-yt-cl=85114404#t=30),

http://www.saint-lunaire.com/francais/visiter-saint-lunaire/patrimoine.html

Somebody should write a novel about this guy, given the fact that he amassed at least $20 million while juggling 4 wives, several mistresses and 24 to 26 children!

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on Sun Feb 1st 2015 at 20:59:16 abagond

@ jefe

The list will go up on the 2nd. It is still the 1st, Sunday afternoon, in the US where I am.

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on Mon Feb 2nd 2015 at 01:40:48 Mary Burrell

*Black Victorians of Great Britians

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on Tue Jul 21st 2015 at 21:56:55 abagond

@ Mary Burrell

“Black ballerinas Michaela Prince and Misty Copeland. Dance Theater of Harlem.”

I just did a post on Misty Copeland:

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/misty-copeland/

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