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DoomsdaysCW

#WMPG, #CommunitySupportedRadio, needs your HELP! If you can, please donate to their #Begathon! WMPG broadcasts #DemocracyNow every weekday, and has some great volunteer DJs who play a variety of music (like #DJShaxx) -- and emphasize #BlackHistoryMonth, #WomensHistoryMonth, #Pride, and more! They even have #Caribbean and #Latin shows! And, of course, lots of community issues and commentary! Support Independent Radio!

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Trivial Einstein

Here's a thought: as a form of protest, why don't we make *every* month Black History Month from here on out until it's no longer necessary. That's not to devalue February, just to say that there's no reason to confine a heightened awareness of Black history to one month. Tell friends and coworkers interesting facts about Black history, and if they ask what's going on, tell them it's Black History Month with no explanation.

e.g.

"Hey, did you hear about the Tuskegee syphilis study where they infected a bunch of Black people with syphilis intentionally and without those people's knowledge? That's really fucked up, right?"

"I didn't hear about that. That's wild. Where did you hear about it?"

"Oh, you know, it's Black History Month."

"I thought that was February."

"Nope. It's this month too."

"Huh. Well, got to get back to shoveling coke into this furnace. Iron won't smelt itself."

"I hear that. By the way, did you know that some of the earliest iron smelting furnaces have been discovered in Tanzania, used in the production of carbon steel around the time of the birth of Christ?"

"No kidding? Wow, those Tanzanians could do this back then? Black history, I guess?"

"Yep. Black History Month."

Obviously you'll want to be more organic than that, but you get the idea.

#BlackHistoryMonth
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OUR COMMON GROUND

Today marks the 60th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday. The march was led byJohn Lewis, a young activist. 600 people peacefully marched to and across the Edmund Pettis Bridge for the right to vote and to protest police brutality.
The march was a defining moment in the Civil Rights Movement. T police savagery so horrific, Congress pushed to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965 under great public pressure.

The bridge has been renamed and the VRA massacred.

photo from the scene at the bottom of the Pettus bridge on Bloody Sunday 1965.
#BlackHistoryMonth#Resistance
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 2, 1962: Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in one basketball game, setting an NBA record. The closest anyone has come to this record was Kobe Bryant’s 81-point game in 2006. Chamberlain also broke the record for most free throws scored during a game. That season, he averaged over 50 points per game, scoring over 60 points in 12 games. No one has come close to this. Wilt also had a 78-point game in 1961, two 73-point games in 1962, a 72-point game in 1962 and a 70-point game in 1963. Chamberlain has 5 the 8 single highest single game point totals in NBA history. I was lucky enough to see him play once, as a kid, toward the end of his career, when he was playing for the now defunct San Diego Conquistadores.

Chamberlain holds 72 NBA records, including records in scoring and rebounding. He once made 55 rebounds in a single game. He is not only the only NBA player to average over 30 points and 20 rebounds per game over the course of a season, he did this seven times in his career. He left college early to play professionally, at first with the Harlem Globetrotters because, in those days, the NBA refused to accept players until their graduating year of college had ended. One of the Globetrotters’ skits involved team captain, Meadowlark Lemon, feigning injury and falling to the floor. Instead of helping him up, Chamberlain lifted the 210-pound Lemon and threw him several feet into the air, and then caught him, like a ragdoll. Lemon called Chamberlain the strongest athlete who ever lived. In 1967, Chamberlain nearly got the opportunity to box against Muhammad Ali.

Promotional phot of Wilt Chamberlain and Muhammad Ali boxing, with the arms outstretched, showing Chamberlain’s advantage.
#workingclass#LaborHistory#nba
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Early Modern Diplomacy

Although we somehow consider ourselves being experts in the field of #NewDiplomaticHistory, we faced great difficulties in finding information on #black #emdiplomacy.

One reason for this is that #GlobalHistory, however, focuses strongly on the Americas and Asia. Research on Africa and #earlyModern African #diplomacy is very limited though it has existed since the #MiddleAges at least.

Another reason for the underrepresentation of #earlyModern African history in #NewDiplomaticHistory is the lack of sources. As many African regions had other traditions than written sources, it is difficult to access African #emdiplomacy. This is also why existing research heavily focuses on a few exampels and regions when it comes to #black #emdiplomacy, mostly Ethiopa, Kongo and the North of the continent. (2/2)

#NewDiplomaticHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #history #histodons

@earlymodern @histodons @historikerinnen

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Early Modern Diplomacy

#BlackHistoryMonth ended yesterday. Therefore, we want to share some reflections with you.

#earlyModern #NewDiplomaticHistory is still heavily Eurocentric. Moreover, there is a risk that white and European perspectives prevail even in non-European contexts despite all attemps by #GlobalHistory to questions these approaches. During the last weeks we tried to set European perspectives aside and highlight #black diplomatic actors. In doing so, we encountered a huge challange: the lack of research. (1/2)

#emdiplomacy #history #histdons

@earlymodern @histodons @historikerinnen

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