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Saturday, February 11, 2017

neontoxicity: weavemama:WAKE UP AMERIKKKA This is terrifying.... 14

weavemama:

WAKE UP AMERIKKKA

This is terrifying. The government has been taken over. Voices of citizens are actively ignored. America has fallen.

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Vermont's Only Black Woman Lawmaker Pulls Out Of Race In Wake Of Online Threats 14

Vermont's Only Black Woman Lawmaker Pulls Out Of Race In Wake Of Online Threats

Sunday, August 13, 2017

Kentucky mayor announces removal of Confederate statues in wake of Charlottesville 14

Kentucky mayor announces removal of Confederate statues in wake of Charlottesville:

lexaproletariat:

God damn right.

Saturday, January 7, 2017

January 7th 1923: Rosewood massacre endsOn this day in 1923,...

January 7th 1923: Rosewood massacre ends

On this day in 1923, the Rosewood massacre ended in the Florida town after raging for a week. The violence began on January 1st, the day after a Ku Klux Klan rally was held in the area. It started when a white mob descended on the predominantly black town in response to a rumour that a black Rosewood man had sexually assaulted a white woman. The group of over 400 whites attacked African-Americans who they believed were involved, torturing people for information and targetting a family home. They then rampaged throughout the town burning buildings to the ground, including houses and churches. The black residents were forced to hide in the nearby swamps until they were evacuated to other towns, leaving Rosewood completely deserted in the wake of the violence. The carnage ended on January 7th when the mob burned the last structures and there were no black residents in Rosewood remaining. The final death toll was officially six blacks and two whites killed, but according to witnesses closer to thirty African-Americans died. A white jury decided there was insufficient evidence and none of those involved were ever charged for their role in what was erroneously portrayed as a ‘race riot’. In 1994, almost seventy years after the event, the Florida legislature passed a bill that gave each of the nine remaining survivors of the massacre $150,000 in compensation. While it is not enough to provide justice for the Rosewood victims and survivors, the 1994 law ended decades of refusal to come to terms with the horrors committed at Rosewood.

“It has been a struggle telling this story over the years, because a lot of people don’t want to hear about this kind of history … It’s a sad story, but it’s one I think everyone needs to hear”
- Lizzie Jenkins, descendant of a Rosewood survivor

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

June 1st 1921: Tulsa riotOn this day in 1921, the black district...

Fires rage in Tulsa (AlJazeera)

Armed white men escort black men in Tulsa (NY Times)

The Greenwood district after the riot (AlJazeera)

June 1st 1921: Tulsa riot

On this day in 1921, the black district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was destroyed by a white mob. The Greenwood district of Tulsa had one of the most affluent black communities in the United States at this time, earning the nickname ‘Black Wall Street’. On May 30th 1921, a young black man called Dick Rowland rode in an elevator with a white woman; false rumours swirled in the white community that Rowland had attempted to assault her. Rowland was arrested on May 31st, and sensationalist newsaper coverage of the incident fuelled talk of lynching. This led to a confrontation between white and black mobs outside the courthouse, which resulted in a gun being discharged, sparking violence. The following day, June 1st, the Greenwood District was looted and burned by white rioters. The governor declared martial law, and National Guard troops were called to quell the violence. Law enforcement officials imprisoned black Tulsans, with over 6,000 people held for days on end; most white rioters, in contrast, were not arrested. In the wake of the violence, 35 city blocks lay in ruins, thousands of African-Americans were left homeless, and over 800 people had been injured. The dead were buried in mass graves, with the toll initially placed at 36, but revised by a 2001 report which rose the estimation to 300 fatalities. This report, which recommended paying reparations to the survivors and victims’ families, was part of a concerted effort in recent years to end the silence about the event. The scale of the violence was covered up at the time, and the incident was omitted from state and national histories. The Tulsa riot was one of a number of attempted ‘racial cleansings’ by white mobs against black communities in the United States, which had the tacit support of law enforcement and government. It is vital that this event, which saw white mobs destroy an entire black neighborhood, is remembered and placed in the long narrative of systemic racism in the United States.

Saturday, August 12, 2017

untilstarsfall: brianjayfuller: Guess whose wearing the... 14

untilstarsfall:

brianjayfuller:

Guess whose wearing the Arkansas Shirt???? He works for the university 😉 ✊🏾

Ya’ll Help me gives this guy a wake up call ✊🏾 looking for twitter, fb, and whatever else you got!

They do this crap because they will still have jobs Monday morning! ✊🏾

These are people who have students’ grades and lives in their hands I’m going to be sick.

Friday, August 26, 2016

Animated comedic hand-colored stereoview of a girl and a cat... 13

Animated comedic hand-colored stereoview of a girl and a cat titled “wake up; you lazy pussy,” 1898. Published by Underwood and Underwood.

Source.

Sunday, December 20, 2015

The First Harrison White House Christmas, 1889 11

From Memories of the White House (1911)

By Colonel W. H. Crook, bodyguard to Lincoln, Disbursing Officer to Executives

Compiled and Edited by Henry Rood

The first Christmas tree that ever lifted up its gift-laden green in the White House was placed there during the administration of President Harrison — and in my memories of many years’ service within the walls of the Executive Mansion, this stands out as one of the pleasantest. There had been plenty of young people these during previous administrations from Lincoln’s down through Johnson’s, Grant’s, Hayes’s, Garfield’s, Arthur’s, Cleveland’s — and plenty of excuse for a Christmas tree as each December came around its season of joyousness and generosity of spirit; yet, for some reason that I have never been able to understand, one Christmas after another came and went, with every remembrance and observance of the day excepting that which most young people is the crowning feature; a beautiful, tall, graceful tree, laden with gifts and ornaments, shimmering under the weight of numberless pretty devices and glittering baubles.

Cold though he appeared to most people, and indifferent, President Harrison nevertheless was warm-hearted and sympathetic to those who knew him well. He had a merry side to his nature, and with it the love of childhood that is almost always its accompaniment. Mrs. Harrison, too, was warm-hearted, loving to give others happiness, devoted to her children, and almost idolizing her grandchildren — as is not uncommon with grandmothers, whether they live in the White House, or in the humblest cottage. Therefore it was almost inevitable, under the circumstances, that the first Christmas season under General Harrison’s presidency should see a tree set up for the delight and delectation of the children in whom so much of his thought was centered.

In addition to the President and Mrs. Harrison, there were in the White House at the time Mr. and Mrs. Russell B. Harrison and their little daughter; Mr. and Mrs. James Robert McKee and their two children, Benjamin Harrison McKee (better known to the public as “Baby McKee”), aged about two years, and his sister Mary, who was about a year younger. Mrs. Harrison’s niece, Mrs. Mary Scott [sic] Dimmick, also was there, if memory serves; and Mrs. Harrison’s father, the Reverend Doctor Scott, then an aged man. So there were plenty of all sizes and years to make the most of the Christmas season, and they did so right royally.

For days before the one great day, the children grew more and more excited as to coming events, telling each other what they hoped Santa Claus would bring them, running in and out with important, confidential messages and questions to parents, grandparents, uncles, and aunts, and generally infusing a spirit that was infectious to all who breathed its atmosphere. Then, late in the afternoon of the day before Christmas, they suddenly found the doors closed and locked which led into the great circular library. They hovered around, wondering what it all meant, until taken away on one pretext or another; but they guessed the Pfister, head gardener of the White House, was inside that enchanted chamber, with a force of expert assistants, who were putting up the most beautiful and perfect tree that could be found in all the country.

Somehow the afternoon passed, supper was disposed of, and Christmas Eve stories were told while stockings were being hung up; and at last the little people drowsily went to bed, still wondering, still hoping that they might wake up late at night, at just the moment when dear old Santa would be coming down the chimney. Long after they were asleep Pfister and his men, and a good many more — including the President of the United States himself — were working like beavers within that library; and it was quite late when the tree was in place, and dressed, and hung with countless gifts.

I saw it Christmas morning, as did others in the Executive Office who had been invited to be present; and it was truly the most beautiful I have ever seen, before or since. From topmost point to the floor it was laden with decorations, with toys innumerable for the children, and with gifts for the older ones. And Mrs. Harrison had made sure that each member of her husband’s office staff was remembered with a personal token. I, for example, received a dainty little book from her, with her good wishes. In addition to the family gifts, the library held a multitude of presents of every imaginable kind, from scores if not hundreds of persons, friends and strangers — or comparative strangers — alike; for at the Christmas season the President and his household are very widely remembered.

I have often wished that those who sometimes called President Harrison “a human iceberg,” could have seen him at that time, and at many another time when he threw aside official reserve. For he truly was a man who enjoyed his family and his intimates to a marked degree. Although he and Mrs. Harrison made no pretension of social superiority they were well educated, accustomed to the best of society, and were wholly at ease wherever they might be. A frequent visitor at the White House while in the Senate, General Harrison felt no strangeness of surroundings when he came there as President, and his family life moved along smoothly from the first. Owing to his stoutness he did not look as tall as he really was, and perhaps for this reason he wore a silk hat and a frock coat when weather conditions permitted. Always dignified, with keen eyes that never wavered, with his military habit of command, it was only natural that those who did not know President Harrison well should have though him extremely cold, reserved, uncommunicative concerning his plans and purposes.

Saturday, March 26, 2016

March 26th 1995: Schengen agreement comes into effectOn this day...

Schengen agreement (wikipedia)

A Schengen visa for non-EU citizens (BBC)

Migrants pass under a security fence on the Hungarian/Serbian border (http://ift.tt/1od3grI)

March 26th 1995: Schengen agreement comes into effect

On this day in 1995, the Schengen agreement - which allowed for the free movement of people in European countries - came into effect. Schengen is a town in Luxembourg where the agreement was signed on June 14th 1985. Initially, its members were Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. The agreement abolished internal borders within the Schengen zone, creating a single external border and allowing for citizens to travel without passport controls. The Schengen zone continued to grow, coming to incoporate 26 countries including Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Austria, as well as some Nordic and Eastern European states. Four Schengen countries - Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein - are not part of the European Union. Six EU states remain outside the Schengen zone, including the United Kingdom and Ireland, who opted-out. The Schengen agreement is particularly pertinent at this crucial moment in European history, as the unprecendented flow of migrants - over one million people, mostly Syrian refugees, arrived in 2015 - has brought the basic principles of borderless movement under scrutiny. The economic uncertainties and issues of overpopulation that accompany mass migration have been compounded by fears of terrorist plots, especially in the wake of devastating attacks on Paris and Brussels. Schengen has come under fire from nationalists and Eurosceptics, and some members of the Schengen zone, including Hungary, France, Germany, Austria, Denmark, and Belgium, have reimposed border controls in response to the crisis.

“We want to defend everything that Schengen represents, and as we prepare for a new year, our determination is stronger than ever. So let me tell you: Schengen is here to stay.”
- President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, December 16th 2015

Saturday, March 11, 2017

kosherqueer: liberalism is a wild ride, pornhub advertises for breast cancer awareness, monsanto is... 14

kosherqueer:

liberalism is a wild ride, pornhub advertises for breast cancer awareness, monsanto is an “LGBT-friendly” place to work, “this is what a feminist looks like” t-shirts are being made by impoverished bangladeshi women for cents a day. literally what is it going to take for people to wake the fuck up and realize that this is not what “progress” looks like?

Friday, April 15, 2016

April 15th 1865: Abraham Lincoln diesOn this day in 1865, after...

Lincoln's belongings when he was shot (https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/719295643215347713

April 15th 1865: Abraham Lincoln dies

On this day in 1865, after being shot the previous day, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln died aged 56. Lincoln’s election in 1860 on an antislavery platform prompted the Southern slaveholding states to secede from the Union. The new President led the Union during the subsequent American Civil War, and furthered the abolition of slavery by issuing his Emancipation Proclamation and encouraging the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. Almost a week after the Confederacy’s surrender to Union forces at Appomattox, Confederate sympathiser John Wilkes Booth shot the President while he was attending a performance of ‘Our American Cousin’ at Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C. Booth shot Lincoln in the head at point blank range, and the injured President was immediately taken across the street to Petersen House. However, the wound was clearly fatal and after a nine hour coma, Lincoln died at 7.22am on April 15th. When he was shot, the President was carrying in his pockets a pocket knife, a watch fob, a handkerchief, a wallet, spectacles, newspaper clippings, and, interestingly a new Confederate five-dollar bill; Lincoln’s face now appears on the five-dollar bill. Upon Lincoln’s death, Vice President Andrew Johnson was swiftly sworn in as seventeenth President of the United States. Booth was soon tracked down and killed, while Lincoln was widely mourned in the North as the steadfast leader who had seen the nation through its bloodiest war. The nation’s sadness was coupled with shock in the wake of the first presidential assassination; three of Lincoln’s successors would meet the same fate.

“Now he belongs to the ages.”
- Secretary of War Edwin Stanton after Lincoln’s death

Friday, March 10, 2017

jamaicanblackcastoroil: refinery29: McDonald’s workers are... 14

jamaicanblackcastoroil:

refinery29:

McDonald’s workers are protesting across the country in the wake of serious allegations that the company has been encouraging a culture of sexual harassment

McDonald’s workers in over 30 U.S. cities will stage a lunchtime protest of the company’s lax response to a rash of sexual harassment complaints. 15 distinct complaints have been filed over the past month against the company and its franchisees. And the company has responded in a horrible way.

Gifs: fightfor15.org

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And you was just saying this tho @ithotyouknew2

Sunday, December 20, 2015

The First Harrison White House Christmas, 1889 11

From Memories of the White House (1911)

By Colonel W. H. Crook, bodyguard to Lincoln, Disbursing Officer to Executives

Compiled and Edited by Henry Rood

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

August 4th 1901: Louis Armstrong bornOn this day in 1901,...

Louis Armstrong (1901 - 1971)

August 4th 1901: Louis Armstrong born

On this day in 1901, American musician Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Armstrong was born into a poor background, with his father leaving when he was an infant and his mother frequently leaving her children with relatives. When he was eleven, Armstrong fired a gun into the air in celebration of New Year’s Eve and was arrested and sent to the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys. It was here that Armstrong was first introduced to music, and upon leaving the home he entered the blues scene and learned the trumpet. His music career continued to grow, and he became a famous jazz musician in New Orleans, often playing on riverboats in the summer. In the 1920s, he moved to Chicago and then New York, beginning to record solo music and playing in big bands. Armstrong’s music was hugely influential in the development of the jazz style, however, many critics at the time failed to see past his race and wrote scathingly racist reviews. Additionally, Armstrong had difficulties throughout his life, often running into trouble with the mob and having a series of failed marriages. Undeterred, Armstrong toured Europe in 1933, and went on to set a number of precedents for African-Americans, including becoming the first African-American to get featured billing in a major Hollywood movie. In 1957, in the wake of the desegregation situation in Little Rock, Armstrong vocally spoke out in favour of the civil rights movement, famously declaring “The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell”. By the 1960s, he was touring the world and performing 300 nights a year, even breaking the Iron Curtain and performing in communist countries. Despite a slight drop in popularity, in 1967 Armstrong released a lasting hit with ‘What a Wonderful World’. His health gradually declined, and Louis Armstrong died in his sleep in July 1971, aged sixty-nine.

Sunday, August 2, 2015

August 2nd 1964: Gulf of Tonkin incidentOn this day in 1964,...

North Vietnamese torpedo boat engages USS Maddox

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara briefs the press on the incident

Johnson signs the Tonkin Gulf Resolution

August 2nd 1964: Gulf of Tonkin incident

On this day in 1964, North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fired on American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. The incident was used by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson to demonstrate the aggression of the North Vietnamese communists, and to justify an escalated US military presence in the country. In the wake of the incident, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Joint Resolution which authorised the President to intervene in Vietnam to counter “communist aggression”. Thus, Johnson was authorised - in what was essentially a blank cheque from Congress - to send troops into Vietnam to fight the communist North and aid the South; there was no formal declaration of war by Congress. It was later confirmed that the USS Maddox in fact fired first on the North Vietnamese, and that the incident was twisted for the purposes of the Johnson administration.

Saturday, July 11, 2015

July 11th 1960: To Kill a Mockingbird publishedOn this day in...

**July 11th 1960: To Kill a Mockingbird published**

On this day in 1960, the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was published by J.B Lippincott & Co. The novel tells the story of the trial of a young African-American man in Alabama in the 1930s, and is told from the perspective of the daughter of the defendant’s lawyer, Scout Finch. Lee was partly inspired by events she recalled from her own childhood growing up in Alabama in the days of Jim Crow segregation. To Kill a Mockingbird was released during a turbulent time for American race relations, as the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement was beginning to get underway with sit-ins and Freedom Rides in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education (1954). The novel was originally going to be called ‘Atticus’ for Scout’s father and the moral centre of the story, but was renamed for one of Atticus’s iconic lines. The novel was an immediate success, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. In 1962 it was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Gregory Peck and featuring the film debut of Robert Duvall as the elusive Boo Radley. The influence of To Kill a Mockingbird has never faded in the 55 years since its release, and is a favourite of many for its warmth and humour while tackling some of the most troubling issues of its day. Harper Lee has lived a reclusive life, and until this year had only published one novel. However, on July 14th 2015, Lee’s original version of To Kill a Mockingbird - which saw an adult Scout visit her father Atticus in the 1950s - will be published as Go Set a Watchman.

“Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”

Monday, April 11, 2016

April 11th 1981: Brixton riotsOn this day in 1981, rioting began...

Police arrest young men in Brixton (http://ift.tt/1qJs0Kd)

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April 11th 1981: Brixton riots

On this day in 1981, rioting began in Brixton, in the Lambeth borough of London, which ultimately left over 300 people wounded. Brixton was an area with high unemployment and a large Afro-Caribbean community. Due to the high crime rate in the area, in April 1981 the police began a crackdown nicknamed ‘Operation Swamp’. This led to thousands of people - mostly young black men - being stopped and searched under the pretense of the ‘sus’ law, which allowed police to arrest people they suspected intended to commit a crime. The disproportionate profiling and targetting of black men led to rising tensions between police and the black community. Rumours of police brutality added to the climate of unrest, and the arrest of a young black man on April 11th sparked off violent clashes with police. The riots lasted for two days, and saw protestors throwing petrol bombs at police, burning cars, and looting shops. In its wake, the Brixton riots left 300 police officers and 65 civilians injured, along with an estimated £7.5 million in damages. An inquiry into the riots led to the end of the ‘sus’ law and the establishment of the Police Complaints Authority, but denied that the Metropolitan police was institutionally racist. Outrage at the continued targetting of black residents by police also encouraged a rise in black political participation in the United Kingdom. Just four years later, Brixton again erupted in violence after a black woman was accidentally shot during a police raid on her home.

35 years ago

Monday, October 26, 2015

October 26th 899: Alfred the Great diesOn this day in 899,...

Alfred the Great (849 - 899)

Depiction of a Viking battle

October 26th 899: Alfred the Great dies

On this day in 899, Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, died in Winchester aged 50. Born in Wantage in 849, Alfred was the son of Aethelwulf, king of the West Saxons. During this period, the country was plauged by the threat of Viking raids, with the Danes capturing York in 867 and defeating all major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms bar Alfred’s Wessex. Prior to ascending to the throne, Alfred proved his military skill in victories against Danish forces. Alfred succeeded his brother as king in 871, and continued to wage war against invading Danes, despite being forced to retreat into the marshes of Somerset. In 878, in the wake of another victory for Alfred’s forces, the Danes accepted peace, and Alfred later negotiated a treaty dividing England and establishing the Danelaw territory in the north and east. Alfred thus successfully preserved Wessex, and expanded his own kingdom by gaining control of West Mercia and Kent. The treaty did not inaugurate total peace, however, and Alfred still had to contend with the threat of Danish attacks, leading him to reorganise Wessex’s defenses and establish a navy. Alfred is also renowned for his reforms of the justice system and education, especially in his efforts to boost literacy by translating important books from Latin to Anglo-Saxon. Upon his death in 899, Alfred was buried at his capital city of Winchester. His succesors continued Alfred’s efforts to liberate and unite Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, paving the way for the future unity of England. Alfred has the distinction of being the only English king refered to as ‘the Great’, a title earned through his reforms and his defense of the country against Vikings.