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A. Reflux @astridreflux.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Day 22, Black History month! Carter G. Woodson, historian/ documentarian of Black culture & experience; taught Black children & academia alike vital contributions of Black folk to history. Proposed what became Black History month. "You must give your own story to the world." shorturl.at/m98gT

Carter G. Woodson: Writing Black History into America's Culture

YouTube video by University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education

A. Reflux @astridreflux.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Day 21, Black History Month! Booker T. Whatley, deeply vested in land ownership profitable for Black farmers as a path to equality: creator of the CSA, forerunner of today's small farm regenerative agricultural mvmnt, u-pick farms & diversified cash crops. www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/y...

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You Can Thank Black Horticulturist Booker T. Whatley for Your CSA

Long written out of the narrative, the Tuskegee University professor first introduced the concept in the 1960s as a solution for struggling Black farmers

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A. Reflux @astridreflux.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Day 20, Black History Month! Booker T Washington, 1st Tuskegee prez, hoped Black education would end white prejudice; he & WEB DuBois disagreed on how to reach Black equality but both knew it had to happen. "I would permit no man..to narrow & degrade my soul by making me hate him." shorturl.at/XrNQQ

Faith in History | FROM SLAVE TO COLLEGE PRESIDENT: Booker T Washington

YouTube video by TCT Network

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A. Reflux @astridreflux.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Day 19 of Black History Month! today, WEB Du Bois, sociologist, scholar, early defender of Black women's rights & Pan-African decolonialism, unwilling to accept Booker T's Atlanta Compromise, co-founder of the NAACP. "Men must not only know, they must act". www.youtube.com/watch?v=olz0...

The GREATEST Intellectual of His Era (The Life of W.E.B Du Bois) #onemichistory

YouTube video by One Mic History

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A. Reflux @astridreflux.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Day 18 of Black History month! Ida B. Well, investigative journalist on lynchings; activist who fought for desegregated schools, & for jobs & voting for women. Lynching became a fed hate crime...in 2022. "The way to right wrongs is to cast the light of truth upon them." m.youtube.com/watch?v=vgb0...

Ida B. Wells and the Long Crusade to Outlaw Lynching | Retro Report

YouTube video by RETRO REPORT

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A. Reflux @astridreflux.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Day 17 of Black History month! Today, Brave Bessie Coleman, first Black/Native woman aviator & daredevil: trained in France bc no US school wd teach her to fly. She planned to open an aviation school for others like her. "The air is the only place free from prejudice." m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ix4...

Bessie Coleman - Daredevil Aviator

YouTube video by Woodson Center

A. Reflux @astridreflux.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Cooperation yields benefits in the long run if there are immediate repercussions for non-cooperation. In this example, tit-for-tat maximizes benefit for both sides in most (but not all) cases, now matter how the other side plays. Sometimes *addl forgiveness is needed* www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScp...

What Game Theory Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything

YouTube video by Veritasium

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A. Reflux @astridreflux.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Happy day 16 of Black History month! Today, Florence Price, the 1st Black woman to have her music performed by a major orchestra in the US (in 1933, by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,) & played for Eleanor Roosevelt, all while being a single mom. youtu.be/O65IQkRz3bk?...

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Everything You Need to Know about Florence Price

YouTube video by Portland Symphony Orchestra

A. Reflux @astridreflux.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Woops, almost missed Day 15 of Black History Month! Today, I honor Katherine Dunham, who brought the joyous dance of the African diaspora home to Chicago & broke color barriers as well as making safe spaces for children in her community. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRgg...

Katherine Dunham | Queen Mother Of Black Dance (Biography)

YouTube video by Onyx Queen Channel

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A. Reflux @astridreflux.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Black History Month day 14! Madame CJ Walker spun her own medical hair loss into a million $ Black beauty empire, employed 1000s, mostly women; & as a civil rights activist, funded the NAACP, the Black YMCA, & scholarships (esp for women) at Tuskegee & beyond. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEKX...

Meet the First Self-Made Female Millionaire

YouTube video by Smithsonian Channel

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

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A. Reflux @astridreflux.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Happy day 13 of Black History month! Shirley Chisolm, "unbought & unbossed," 1st Black woman in Congress, served 14 yrs, started WIC, fought for women, for native land rights, & ran for pres...& decried a takeover of media and "family" rhetoric by the religious right. m.youtube.com/watch?v=VZjM...

Shirley Chisholm Was a Trailblazer for Change | Retro Report

YouTube video by RETRO REPORT

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A. Reflux @astridreflux.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Happy day 12 of Black History Month! Today i thank George Washington Carver, whose brilliance in botany & innovation enabled him to teach, thru Tuskegee, farmers to rotate crops, replenish soil health, & limit reliance on the volatile market for cotton/tobacco. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2WYf...

George Washington Carver: Agricultural scientist and inventor | Black History Facts

YouTube video by Noire History

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𝓛𝓲𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓡𝓮𝔂 🦋 My emotions identify as Sɪɢʜ﹗Gᴜʟᴘ﹗Hᴀʜᴀ﹗Sᴏʙ﹗ @lindarey.com · 11/02/2025

This is NOT a little local vote. This is to flip the seats in CONGRESS. find out more and follow @joshweil.bsky.social and @gayforcongress.bsky.social ! THEY NEED OUR SUPPORT.

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A. Reflux @astridreflux.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Happy day 11 of Black History month! I am in awe of Robert Smalls, who escaped slavery by stealing an entire damn confederate ship and piloting thru south-infested waters to become a civil war freedom fighter, congressman, and american hero. youtu.be/hMfBhPDxLQM?...

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From Slave to Congressman: The Story of Robert Smalls - Kevin Hart’s Guide to Black History

YouTube video by Comedy Central

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Mr. Newberger @jeremynewberger.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Super Bowl lesson: Stopping an arrogant Chief from a third term is probably a good move for America right now.

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A. Reflux @astridreflux.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Happy day 10 of Black History Month! saluting Nat Turner, rebel and freedom fighter whose violent insurrection told the nation: not today, assholes. He was hung & dismembered for killing white slave owners, but his action galvanized abolitionists in the north. www.google.com/search?q=nat...

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A. Reflux @astridreflux.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Happy day 9 of Black History month! Today I honor Sojourner Truth, former enslaved woman who successfully threw off her chains & called for abolition & rights for women, an early example of intersectionality & firebrand for justice. "The truth is powerful & will prevail." youtu.be/0sn8CUyvG2k?...

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The electrifying speeches of Sojourner Truth - Daina Ramey Berry

YouTube video by TED-Ed

A. Reflux @astridreflux.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Happy day 8 of Black History month! Today I honor everyone who's BEEN saying it...if we'd been listening. m.youtube.com/watch?v=57Yk...

Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

YouTube video by MarvinGayeVEVO

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 07/02/2025

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PRRI [Feb 5] -- Poll : By providing moral cover for so many clearly illegal acts, it can feel like a wave of white Christian nationalism is crashing over the U.S. But while a sizable minority, they're outnumbered over 2-to-1 (66%-30%) among gen public. [by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

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New PRRI Survey: A Reality Check on the Reach of White Christian Nationalism in Seven Charts

White Christian Nationalism is Neither the Best of Us, Nor the Majority of Us

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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. @estebanjq.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable... its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down."

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What can you do about the assault on USAID? Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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So, not letting elected officials into government buildings, eh? How long you think before the firing squad shows up?

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@budzinski.house.gov what is Illinois going to do about this????

Jenny Emelie @jennyemelie.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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As a white person I second this.

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Happy day 7 of Black History month! Today I honor Ms Mary McLeod Bethune, tireless fighter for the Black right to vote, the power of education, opportunities for Black women and protection of Black children. "Knowledge is the prime need of the hour." www.youtube.com/live/cenCnld...

Historically Speaking: A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McCleod Bethune

YouTube video by NMAAHC

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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Attended the EPA press conference. When I arrived, I heard that members of Congress were talking to security. So I walked over and into what turned out to be a private press briefing. Guess anyone can walk into anywhere nowadays. (learned that trick from DOGE) That’s Sen. Ed Markey in the center.

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🦋 BlueDaisy 🦋 @bluedaisyrose.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Let's get this circulated!! 😤

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A. Reflux @astridreflux.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Day 6 of Black History Month! An indomitable James Baldwin discusses reasons for riots in '68. "I want exactly what you want. And you know what you want. I want to be left alone.....to be able to raise my children in peace, and arrive at my own maturity, in peace." www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yzg...

James Baldwin In 1968. Brilliant. Articulate. Angry. He Defends Why He Protested

YouTube video by David Hoffman

🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

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He’s on a “personal” mission.

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Melissa Good & Feral 😾🇺🇦🇨🇦 @meltart.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

They're eating the checks! They're eating the balances!

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A. Reflux @astridreflux.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

@repjasmine.bsky.social - just want to say we SEE YOU and we are WITH YOU. You're one of very few elected officials who seem to have any damn sense right now and your reach is far beyond Texas.