This post covers 2014 to 2020. For 2007 to 2014, see part 1.
Today on Juneteenth 2020, the top of my homepage looked like this on my computer (click to enlarge all images in this post):
Some masthead pictures from 2014 to 2020 (external links are in italics, subject to link rot):
November 25th 2014: Ferguson protests in November 2014. Via KTLA.
December 16th 2014: I put up my Christmas tree for the first time.
January 19th 2015, for Martin Luther King Day: Looks like the March on Washington, but it might be too cool to be real: notice the 48-star flag!
April 4th 2015: Part of the world map of Ptolemy, from the year 150.
March 7th 2015: The 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma.
May 1st 2015: Detail of an old Japanese map (10 Mb) showing the US and the part of Asia where most Asian Americans come from. For Asian American History Month.
June 27th 2015: Bree Newsome taking down the Confederate flag at the South Carolina capitol.
July 14th 2015: The last picture New Horizons took of Pluto before it went radio silent for its fly-by.
July 20th 2015: Detail from Lawrence Beitler’s photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, the picture that gave us Billie Holiday’s song “Strange Fruit”.
August 28th 2015: Books from the libraries of Timbuktu. From a photo by Brent Stirton, National Geographic, September 2009.
September 11th 2015: Detail from a Black Lives Matter T-shirt that Fatimah Bouderdaben was sent home from school for wearing. Of those listed, I have done posts on Rekia Boyd, Ramarley Graham, Sean Bell and Aiyana Jones. My Twitter masthead ever since.
October 6th 2015: Detail of the display from the time machine showing Back to the Future Day.
October 22nd 2015: Detail from “the scents of past journeys down from the shelves” (2013). Many posts started out in notebooks like those in the picture.
February 12th 2016: A still from Beyonce’s Super Bowl performance of “Formation”.
June 7th 2016: The phase of the moon updated for every day of Ramadan, something I have done every year since.
September 11th 2016: Colin Kaepernick kneeling during “The Star-Spangled Banner”.
January 31st 2017: Detail of Mark Bryan’s “The Nightmare” (2017), soon after Donald Trump became president of the US.
March 14th 2017: The number π to 898 places for Pi Day.
August 1st 2017: From the picture of a radio used by the (now defunct) YouTube channel where I listened to “Amos and Andy” for my 1949 media diet.
March 7th 2018: For Lent 2018, the Calçadão of Rio de Janeiro. Image from Mundo em Viagem.
March 16th 2018: Picture of Marielle Franco. From Racismo Ambiental.
April 4th 2019: Detail of Ortelius’s 1570 map of Africa. In honour of the Black American Quadricentennial (1619-2019).
May 29th 2020: The third precinct police station in Minneapolis being burned down during the George Floyd protests. Detail of a photo from Linda Ikeji’s Blog.
June 19th 2020: Detail from “They Killed The Dreamer But Not His Dream” (1968) by James L. Amos, from a protest in Atlanta in April 1968 after the The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Common themes: old maps, flags, holidays, Black history, astronomy.
– Abagond, 2020.
See also:
- blog masthead museum, part 1
- Juneteenth
- The 2010s
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Abagond 
Abagond, you’re probably as old as my old ass! I STILL have one of those old radios “used by the (now defunct) YouTube channel where I listened to “Amos and Andy” for my 1949 media diet” in my home (it has a turntable I’m trying to get restored right now too! I have albums!). When my mom died, that was something I wanted to have in my home — a history they need to remember…
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