February is Black History Month in the US and on this blog. Below are some posts I am thinking of doing or have done this month on the history of Africa and the Diaspora, especially in the US. Suggestions are welcomed!
Posts I have done so far:
- (none so far)
Posts I might do this month:
Promised posts:
- series: Egyptian century of the week
- series: chapters of “The 1619 Project”
- slavery in Libya
- War in Ethiopia
- African Christianity
- “Dum diversas”
- Mary Seacole
- Moors
- South Africa
- voter suppression
- Wilmington Riot
- Zimbabwe
Proposed posts:
- 1619
- Black genocide
- Nilo-Saharans
- Black Britain
- Rand rebellion
- Ghana Empire
- neocolonialism
- decolonization
- Pan-Africanism
- Afropolitanism
- Afrofuturism
- noirisme
- Black Lives Matter
- woke
- Brixton
- Windrush migration
- Whitehawk Woman
- Beachy Head Lady
- Ivory Bangle Lady
- blackamoors
- Black Panthers
- Haile Selassie
- The New Negro
- Black Wall Street
- Black Literature (series): Egyptian, Ethiopian, Hausa, Swahili, Black Arab, Black American
- Bostwana Gold Rush
- Zanzibar Slave Trade
- Nat Turner
- Liberia
- Republic of Maryland
- Haitian Revolution
- Toussaint Louverture
- Maroons
- Queen Nanny
- Axum
- African Burial Ground (New York)
- Africa Free School (New York)
- Sojourner Truth
- Stokely Carmichael
- Thurgood Marshall
- US racism in the 1800s
- US racism in the 1900s
Suggestions are welcomed!
– Abagond, 2023.
See also:
- Black Americans – a brief history (and a history of the history)
- history months past:
- Black – 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
- White – 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
- Asian – 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 (a bust) 2021 2022
- Aboriginal – 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
- Hispanic – 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
- Native – 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
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Abagond 
Love it. Just a slight suggestion: if you do decide to write about ‘black’ Arabs, make sure to distinguish between Afro-Arabs (citizens of modern Arabian countries with relatively recent African ancestry) and the aboriginal Arabs (who can still be found mostly in southern Arabia whose ancestors were part of the OOA migrations and retained their melanin-rich skin thus are still ‘black’) because they’re not the same even though modern ‘academia’ tries to equivocate them. Also, on the topic of Afro-Arabs especially, please talk about them without recourse to slavery because that narrative is being pushed far more than was historically accurate. More racist propaganda that needs to be deprived of its voice. Thanks.
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Today is the 229th year since France decreed the abolition of Negro slavery in its empire, naturally, you ignored that anniversary. Why am I not surprised?
Your take on history is a moralistic one, you can’t handle complexity. You need “good guys” and “bad guys” as if history is a comic book.
Since you insists on pretending to be interested on writing about the “Haitian Revolution” and/or “Toussaint Louverture”, how about Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the founder of the Haitian nation, his struggle to end racism by destroying the racial classification system the French created, See Médéric-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Méry’s “Description topographique, physique, civile, politique et historique de la partie francaise de lisle Saint-Domingue. 3 vols.(Philadelphia, 1797).” His support for Latin American independence by backing Francisco de Miranda. Settling Poles in Cazale: “Cazale (French: Casale) also Cazales, is a village in Haiti. It is located in a mountainous region more than 70 kilometers from Port-au-Prince, the capital. It is the main population center of the Polish community in Haiti, called La Pologne (Poland). The name Cazale may have originated as kay Zalewski, meaning “home of Zalewski” (a popular Polish surname). The village is populated by descendants of Polish soldiers sent by Napoleon in 1802.[1][2]. You might look into the claim that Dessalines was an anti-white racist who got Mr. Pierre Nicolas Mallet a/k/a Mallet the good white to sign Haiti’s Declaration of Independence.
I won’t hold my breath expecting you to do justice to this great humanitarian.
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There are many millions of people in India who are black but are never considered so, and are not featured on your map.
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