#The abcs of black history

[covergirlnay]

Video credit: @thewokemama

If you want to ban uplifting stories with people of color, just say that. Based on this list, my office library is in complete violation. 🤷🏾‍♀️😂 Oh well. All of my students love the books that I share with them. Especially the ones that they do not normally get to see. 🤓📚

[weepingcloudyouth]

My Story and Hope for Survival😭😭😭

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

A Call for Help from Gaza

Dear compassionate hearts,

My name is Manal. My husband was everything—a father, a husband, a brother. I live in Gaza with my family, which includes his elderly mother, myself, our children, my widowed sister, and her children. We used to live together in a modest home that provided us with safety and shelter despite our struggles.

During the recent war, our lives turned into a nightmare. We were forced to flee on foot for 10 kilometers with our children, hoping to return to something resembling normal life once the war ended. But when we came back, we found our home reduced to rubble.😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Today, we have no roof over our heads. We live among the ruins, exposed to the harsh winter cold and strong winds. My children, like all children, deserve warmth, safety, and a secure place to sleep, but we are unable to provide them with any of that.

I am reaching out to anyone who can hear my plea—whether Arab or international—to help us rebuild our lives. We are in desperate need of assistance to rebuild our home or at least rent a small apartment where we can find shelter and protection from the elements.

Any contribution, no matter how small, would mean the world to us. Your support can be the light that restores hope to my family and gives my children a chance for a safer and more dignified life.

May Allah bless all those who extend a helping hand and reward you abundantly in this life and the hereafter.

With gratitude and prayers,

Manal from Gaza

Please donate together we will achieve the goal.

[theblvcksupreme]

Grace Jones by Jean-Paul Goude, for the album Nightclubbing.

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Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character designed by Grim Natwick at the request of Max Fleischer. She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop film series, which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She was featured in 90 theatrical cartoons between 1930 and 1939. She has also been featured in comic strips and mass merchandising.

A caricature of a Jazz Age flapper, Betty Boop was described in a 1934 court case as "combin[ing] in appearance the childish with the sophisticated—a large round baby face with big eyes and a nose like a button, framed in a somewhat careful coiffure, with a very small body of which perhaps the leading characteristic is the most self-confident little bust imaginable". Although she was toned down in the mid-1930s as a result of the Hays Code to appear more demure, she became one of the world's best-known and most popular cartoon characters.

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[khaledabosamak]

🇵🇸 Very important‼️

Please don’t skip🙏🏻

I am Khaled, I live in Gaza

I am writing to you while living in harsh conditions as a result of the war that has destroyed my life and the life of my family. We have lost everything: our future, our security, and even our dreams. Today, I find myself unable to meet my most basic needs and the needs of those I support.

For this reason, I have reached out with a heavy heart, asking for your support and assistance in any way I can, whether material or moral. Any contribution, however small, means a lot to us.

I trust your humanity and generosity, and I know that goodness still exists in people's hearts. I ask God to make what you offer in the balance of your good deeds, and to relieve your distress as you seek to relieve mine.

May you be well, and may Allah reward you with all good.

@gazavetters

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[schlock-luster-video]

On December 7, 1978, Trilogy of Terror debuted theatrically in Italy.

Here's some new Karen Black art!

[adrenajhonson]

5 posts!

[luckyluan]

SHORT STORY ALERT!

Two retired spies, in Louisiana Suburbia, have set up a beautiful life together with their children, but when their anniversary is interrupted by a mysterious foe, they are thrust back into the Abnormal world and their old lives. Maxim and Antwan Sharpe must stick together to find their would be assassin and the reason they are running for their lives!

USE THE FIRST HASHTAG TO GET STARTED!

[youngbloodoldsoul]

Could #AbbottElementary even have afforded to employ a teacher to come up there and teach Black History for #BlackHistoryMonth? Unless they were willing to work for even lower pay or school credits or it was a volunteer position I doubt it.

Seriously, I'd be all for a Black teacher teaching Black history (even though Jacob did do a great job) but did this man expect a school that can't even afford supplies or one computer to pay for a teacher that's only going to be around for 28 days?

Doesn't Melissa teach two grades and they have to basically pay out of pocket for school and cleaning supplies?

Imagine taking this job (or volunteer position) for #BlackHistoryMonth then finding out you have to buy your own supplies and books for each student. (If not each history class). So that's your entire pay for that month. You're paying to work.

I copied and pasted this from my Twitter thread.

I have one more question. Would Jacob still be getting paid or would be jobless and without a paycheck for a month to for the sub while the sub basically has to spend both their paycheck on books and supplies?

[calicojack1718]

The Emotional Turmoil of White Racists versus The Early Deaths of Black Folks

When you put the whining white grievance of white privilege being violated side-by-side with the actual damage that systemic racism does to Black people, i.e. driving them to an early grave, #sciencefact

This week’s news juxtaposed two interesting stories that cast our structural racism in the spotlight and in stark relief contrasting the woes of being a white openly racist man in America with being an average Black person living in white culture. Let’s present the emotional turmoil news first and then move on to the effect of racism on Black folks. Pity the White Racist Meme: Epitome of White…

[carnie-calliope]

im gonna add the most popular tag for every letter to this post

that way people searching those tags might see me

unfunny queer jumpscare

[elonmuskverify01]

Elon Musk’s Bold Move: Unveiling the Game-Changing ‘Cybercab’ at Tesla’s Robotaxi Showcase!

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[fathol91]

EPIC MOTIVATION CINEMATIC

[goonmilk]

Breaking News

Mama we made it! The Alumni Spot was featured on Good Morning Washington ABC7 News last month and I had the pleasure of capturing the Behind The Scenes footage and getting a cool lil shoutout for my Photography and Marketing at The Alumni Spot. Also got some great shots of Yadi and Trae Backstage. The segment focused on Yaddiya’s continued community involvement and his venture into the Restaurant business, the amazing food Chef Chefe curates in the Alumni Spot, as well as how it all came about from Yaddiya’s Long Live Gogo Movement.

[k3mistryproductions]

K3mistry News Brief 📰

“Black-ish” and Black Men

The following speaks on the struggles Black men go through in America.

Narrated by: J. Stokes

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[kosher-toasty]

There's a movie coming out fairly soon called September 5. It's a dramatic retelling of the hostage taking and massacre of the Israeli Olympic team in Munich in 1972, told from the perspective of the ABC sports journalists who had to make the decision to air the event live to the United States as part of their Olympic coverage.

The movie has gotten... fairly middling press? Reviews I've seen say that it's pretty bog standard as historical action/thriller movies go. I, as a Jew, take some umbrage with having the PoV of a recent traumatic event in Israeli-Jewish history be that of the unaffected goyim on the sidelines, but... eh, fine. If it's a story told well, then gei gezunte heit.

I bring this up because the staff of the NYC location of Alamo Drafthouse - a US movie theater chain that I can only really describe as "the Trader Joe's of cinema" (in that it purports to have a better customer experience and support more out there projects) is trying to cancel screenings of September 5, calling it "Zionist propaganda" because, according to their petition:

So right off the rip, they call the Munich massacre by Black September's name for the plan, Operation Iqrit and Biram. This signals to the reader that they believe the massacre to have been a legitimate military operation, rather than what it was - the kidnapping and wanton murder of civilian athletes in the middle of the Olympic games. The rest of the paragraph is the same asinine drivel about how this is obviously Western propaganda and how portraying Black September as evil, antisemitic terrorists (which, by the way, they were, by dint of the fact that they kidnapped and murdered Israeli Olympic athletes at the Olympic games), and they plan to bring this petition to their union meeting later this month.

I spent the last few paragraphs writing about this because I'm disappointed. I've been to that Alamo Drafthouse, and I support the company's ideals of bringing less mainstream cinema into the greater fold, and having cool and interesting showings of popular movies. And now I probably can't go back there, ever, because even if Alamo Drafthouse dismisses the workers' petition and shows the movie anyways, I'll never feel comfortable supporting an institution that can see the existence of a film where terrorists kill my people and cry that it's propaganda by the victims.