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"You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea." – #MedgarEvers #BlackHistory
deewani
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🚦🧊 The traffic lights on our streets and the refrigerators in our kitchens exist thanks to the work of inventors like Garrett Morgan and John Standard.
The #Indianapolis Recorder looks at the history of American #infrastructure that highlights the Black innovators who designed the everyday tools we often take for granted.
👉 https://indianapolisrecorder.com/black-innovation-2026/
#history #STEM #innovation #technology #tech #education #blackhistory #inventions
"You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea." – #MedgarEvers #BlackHistory
🚦🧊 The traffic lights on our streets and the refrigerators in our kitchens exist thanks to the work of inventors like Garrett Morgan and John Standard.
The #Indianapolis Recorder looks at the history of American #infrastructure that highlights the Black innovators who designed the everyday tools we often take for granted.
👉 https://indianapolisrecorder.com/black-innovation-2026/
#history #STEM #innovation #technology #tech #education #blackhistory #inventions
Happy Black History Month!
Dr Mark Dean is one of the main geniuses behind the AT bus (which allowed hardware to easily communicate) and the original IBM PC. He was director of IBM’s Austin Research Laboratory, and under his leadership, IBM developed the first 1GHz processor. In 1999, he led the team to create "Blue Gene", the fastest computer at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dean_(computer_scientist)
Happy Black History Month!
Sarah Breedlove was born in 1867, the child of two former slaves. By age seven, she was an orphan. By age 14, she married to escape an abusive brother-in-law.
In her early twenties due to overwork and financial problems, she started losing her hair. She tried many solutions for her hair loss, started selling one made by another black woman entrepreneur, and moved to Denver as a sales agent.
In Denver, she created a better scalp conditioning and healing formula and took on a new name, "Madam C J Walker". She extensively promoted her product through the South and Southeast -- and they sold very well.
Eventually, she built a factory, hair salon, and training school. She gave high commissions to her sales representatives -- but still grew to become one of America's wealthiest citizens.
She fought lynching, became a leader of New York's NAACP, and led by example.
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/madam-cj-walker
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Majority Report welcomes #JamieHolmes, author of the #TheFreeAndTheDead, which tells the story of how a free Black American and an #Indigenous warrior resisted the US attack on the #Seminole nation in pre-statehood #Florida
https://youtu.be/mLToM17mbos?t=1487
#SouanaffeTustenukke #Osceola #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericans #Seminoles #BlackSeminoles #SeminoleWars #SecondSeminoleWar #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #UShistory #AmericanHistory #forcedRemovals #colonialViolence #books @bookstodon
Majority Report welcomes #JamieHolmes, author of the #TheFreeAndTheDead, which tells the story of how a free Black American and an #Indigenous warrior resisted the US attack on the #Seminole nation in pre-statehood #Florida
https://youtu.be/mLToM17mbos?t=1487
#SouanaffeTustenukke #Osceola #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericans #Seminoles #BlackSeminoles #SeminoleWars #SecondSeminoleWar #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #UShistory #AmericanHistory #forcedRemovals #colonialViolence #books @bookstodon
RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/116017403663182843
Im Monat Februar, dem kürzesten Monat, erinnern Menschen an Schwarze Geschichte. Dass @gutenberg_org sich beteiligt ist schön.
Danke an @SuicideSchaf für den Hinweis darauf.
#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory 👩🏿🤝👩🏽
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Ich fang hier mal eine Liste an:
Frederick Douglass https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
Cumulonimbus
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Celebrating Black History Month
February marks Black History Month, a month-long observance in the United States and Canada that recognizes the significant contributions of Black Americans to history, as well as the historical legacies of the African diaspora.
By The Editors
https://daily.jstor.org/black-history-month-editors-picks/
Black history at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=black+history
RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/116017403663182843
Im Monat Februar, dem kürzesten Monat, erinnern Menschen an Schwarze Geschichte. Dass @gutenberg_org sich beteiligt ist schön.
Danke an @SuicideSchaf für den Hinweis darauf.
#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory 👩🏿🤝👩🏽
Celebrating Black History Month
February marks Black History Month, a month-long observance in the United States and Canada that recognizes the significant contributions of Black Americans to history, as well as the historical legacies of the African diaspora.
By The Editors
https://daily.jstor.org/black-history-month-editors-picks/
Black history at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=black+history
RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/116017403663182843
Im Monat Februar, dem kürzesten Monat, erinnern Menschen an Schwarze Geschichte. Dass @gutenberg_org sich beteiligt ist schön.
Danke an @SuicideSchaf für den Hinweis darauf.
#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory 👩🏿🤝👩🏽
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“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
Periodic reminder that Rosa Parks was part of a community that trained for resistance and civil disobedience. Parks was an organizer and activist. She did not simply “decide to sit down one day.”
These moments are not about us as individuals. These moments are about forming and supporting community that includes us. Together, we are less afraid.
Happy Birthday, Rosa Parks
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“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
Periodic reminder that Rosa Parks was part of a community that trained for resistance and civil disobedience. Parks was an organizer and activist. She did not simply “decide to sit down one day.”
These moments are not about us as individuals. These moments are about forming and supporting community that includes us. Together, we are less afraid.
Happy Birthday, Rosa Parks