Welcome to Black History Month 2018, one year into the Trump Era. God willing, I will get some posts done on Black history. “Black” means Africa and the Diaspora, not just the US part.
If you want to suggest or second a topic, please leave a comment below or “like” another person’s comment. Since I do a song every Sunday, musical suggestions are good too.
My suggestions (in alphabetical order):
- Ava DuVernay
- Almoravids
- Anglophone Cameroon
- Black Brazil
- Black Britain
- Black Great Recession
- Black Lives Matter
- Black Panther Party
- Crack Era
- Civil Rights Movement: 1950s
- Civil Rights Movement: 1960s
- Great Zimbabwe
- Harlem Renaissance
- John Hope Franklin
- Middle Passage
- Reconstruction
- SNCC
- Thurgood Marshall
- Trans-Saharan Trade
- US racism in the 1700s
- US racism in the 1800s
- US racism in the 1900s
- W.E.B. Du Bois
Promised posts (do four of these)
- African Christianity
- Bantu Expansion
- Black Israel
- Libyan slave trade
- Moors
- South Africa
- voter suppression
- Zimbabwe
Completed posts:
- Carter G. Woodson
- James Meredith
- Bob Dylan: Oxford Town
- Essence magazine
- Wakanda (fictional)
- Nefertiti So White
- Diana Ross: Love Hangover
- Black Panther
- Moonlight
- Duke Ellington: Take the A Train
- Bantu Expansion
- Black Brazil
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- lips
– Abagond, 2018.
See also:
Abagond 
I hope Wakanda and Black Panther crush the box office during Black History Month.
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Suggested Topic: The difference between “Black” and “African-American”
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Thurgood Marshall would be good, as well as the 2017 film biopic “Marshall”.
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Please write about the Exodusters –they seem pretty cool.
Please write something about A. Philip Randolph and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
I second the call to write about Thurgood Marshall.
Please write about Recy Taylor.
Please write about the Combahee River Collective and the Combahee River Statement (The latter is a precious document).Also the namesake battle fought by Harriet Tubman.
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I second Almoravids, Anglophone Cameroon, Black Great Recession, Crack Era, Great Zimbabwe, US Racism and Black Israel!
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A post on the history of Black Canadians would be enlightening.
Also a post on the Maroons of Jamaica.
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I think a post on “afropolitanism” if it hasn’t already been done, would be good.
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“The difference between “Black” and “African-American.” Walter H. Gavin
It may be for different reasoning, but I could hardly wait for this one! (chuckles)
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I second a post about Afropolitans and Afropolitanism. Great idea, Okaydaisy.
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I’ll second The Black Panther Party. If you haven’t read it, you may enjoy “Huey, Spirit of the Panther”.
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@ Afrofem
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/black-canada-a-brief-history/
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@ Abagond
Thanks!
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Black isrealites, 5%’ers?
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“Black” history month is obsolete ,has been for some time and when I use to comment here regularly I said as much, but of course I was ignored
So now I search deeper
Why is it that technology has made certain things obsolete but some people still cling to outmoded behavior?
What are the reasons?
I notice many pathological behavior patterns among african americans that
May indicate the limits of human adaption and flexibilty.
Indeed i see some in myself as well.
But as to focusing on one month,the shortest month of the year to study and be aware of one’s own culture’s history is to me like deliberately choosing to be a slave.
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@ Mbeti
“…as to focusing on one month,the shortest month of the year to study and be aware of one’s own culture’s history is to me like deliberately choosing to be a slave.”
The post on Carter G. Woodson outlined how Negro History Week started:
Negro History week was not started or celebrated by White people. They don’t care one bit about Black or African history. Black History month was not chosen by anyone because it was the shortest month of the year. It grew out of Black people’s own efforts and thirst for knowledge.
Woodson, started Negro History Week which morphed into Black History Month as a gateway to Black folk learning more about themselves and their place in the world. It is sad that some Black people are so ignorant about their own history that they complain about the timing of a holiday designed to encourage learning and celebration of their own history.
It was Woodson’s hope that extraordinary efforts like Negro History Week/Black History Month would become unnecessary in the future because every Black person would learn African and Black history every day of their lives.
That future has not yet arrived….
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Black Agenda Report
Black Capitalism
The Black Elite
Congressional Black Caucus
The Black Panther Party
The Chi
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Seconding:
Thurgood Marshall
Exodusters
African Christianity
Bantu Expansion
Libyan slave trade
Moors
voter suppression
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A post on C.L.R. James Black Jacobins.
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The Black Elite and Margo Jefferson’s Negroland
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A post on Ona Judge she was George Washington’s slave who managed to avoid being captured. I am interested in reading the book by Erica Armstrong Dunbar: Never Caught, The Washington’s Relentless Pursuit Of Their Slave Ona Judge. Also a post on Afrofuturism.
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Good to notice that there are White individuals who care about the persistent racism in their country, and to speak against it:
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/13/sport/popovich-racist-country-trnd/index.html
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@munubantu: I have respect for Coach Gregg Popovich he does call out dRump and displorable and degenerate administration, and he speaks out on the racism in America.
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My public library has a book on the Exodusters!!!
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@ Abagond
Is it Nell Irvin Painter’s book?
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@ Solitaire
Yes, the Painter one.
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My public library also has a book on Ona Judge! Wow.
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Your library ROCKS!
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Post on New York Times 1619 Project
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