#a black womens history of the united states

[nickysfacts]

Johnson sounded like such a kind and fun person to meet, it’s good to know her kindness lives on today through the people she helped inspire and empower!

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[mindfulmuse88]

Unbiased: The DOD says no federal resources will no longer be used for "special observances" (Women's History Month, Pride Month, and more)

Disclaimer: I am neither Republican nor Democrat. Everything is unbiased and factual.

The Department of Defense (DOD) has announced that it will no longer allocate official resources, including man-hours, to host cultural awareness month celebrations. Their statement reads in part:

"Going forward, DOD components and military departments will not use official resources—including man-hours—to host celebrations or events related to cultural awareness months. This includes National African American/Black History Month, Women's History Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Pride Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and National American Indian Heritage Month. *Service members and civilians may still attend these events in an unofficial capacity outside of duty hours. However, installations, units, and offices are instead encouraged to honor the valor and achievements of military heroes from all backgrounds while focusing on the *character of their service rather than immutable characteristics."

Additionally, a memo from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)—a division within the DOD—has been circulating online, indicating that the agency will also pause its involvement in these observances in line with executive orders banning DEI initiatives. The memo states:

"Effective immediately and until further notice, the Defense Intelligence Agency will pause all activities and events related to agency special emphasis programs. Additionally, special observances hosted throughout the year by the command elect and special observances committee are also paused."

The memo further lists the affected observances, including Black History Month, Women's History Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pride Month, and National Disability Employment Awareness Month. However, it clarifies that this does not apply to federal holidays such as Martin Luther King Jr. Day or Juneteenth.

Why is the DOD taking this action?

This decision ties back to two executive orders signed by former President Trump:

"Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing"

"Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions"

These orders put a hold on government spending for all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, giving the administration time to reassess what, if anything, should receive funding in this area. Since hosting celebrations or observances could be classified as DEI-related spending, they must be paused to comply with these orders. Whether this pause will become permanent remains unclear.

What about Black History Month?

Many have asked whether Black History Month will still be officially recognized. On February 1, 2025, President Trump signed a proclamation acknowledging Black History Month, continuing the tradition upheld by every president since 1996. The proclamation reads:

"Now, therefore, I, Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim February 2025 as National Black History Month. I call upon public officials, educators, librarians, and all Americans to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities."

However, the use of government funds for Black History Month observances remains a gray area. The executive order on DEI spending states:

"Americans deserve a government committed to serving every person with equal dignity and respect, and to expending precious taxpayer resources only on making America great."

What qualifies as "making America great" is subject to interpretation by the administration. This is one of the key justifications the Defense Intelligence Agency cited when deciding to pause non-federal observances, including Black History Month.

What happens next?

At this point, the long-term impact remains uncertain. As with many policy shifts, time will tell how this decision will play out across different government agencies. For now, the DOD has made it clear that government resources will not be used to fund these observances, but individuals can still participate on their own time.

[wicked-books666]

These books have no business being banned

[theeiris16]

This is real. Stop sitting on the internet arguing with other people about celebrities. Who is who and all that bs. Ts is getting out of hand fr.

We’re taking multiple steps back in history. Everything your grandparents and great grandparents build is getting knocked down.

Mention these topics to your favs and get them to talk about it, yeah it maybe annoying but is getting scary out here and this shit will affect them too.

There is hundreds HUNDREDS of pages republicans have wrote that’s stripping minorities and women’s rights.

AMERICA HAS A FUCKING PROBLEM.

[tabney2023]

Michelle Obama and her daughters, Sasha & Malia.

[helen-magpies]

On social media the USA population are asking anyone from outside countries to properly document what is happening to them right now as they can't or are not able to.

As of the 20th of January 2025 up to the 24th January 2025 the following has happened:

Trump has signed several executive orders including:

Ruling that the United states will only recognise two genders, woman and man, and ones gender is determined by the sex they were conceived as. (his words not mine. By the way, this makes everyone effectively female) despite his stupidity, we know what he means, if one is born female, they are a woman. This effectively erases non-binary folk and forcibly de-transitions trans folk. This order claims to be defending woman from harmful gender ideology. The misogyny and outright bigotry within this order is genuinely terrifying and frustrating.

Fact sheet: Trump protects civil rights and merit-based opportunities by ending illegal DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion)

The death penalty. Trump is pushing for capital punishment to be used as often as possible for a certain list of crimes. Murder being one of them. Abortion and miscarriage has been described as murder. Woman are going to be imprisoned and slaughtered because they had a miscarriage or an abortion. This would also put those born outside of the US at greater risk of murder as the laws will be stricter towards them. Reading through the official documents, if a foreigner commits a federal crime (from as little as speeding 50miles over the limit to committing murder) they will be sentanced to death.

An alarming amount of executive orders are related to foreigners and foreign affairs such as:

Guardenteeing the states protection against invasion.

Protecting the United states from foreign terrorists and other national security and public safety threats.

Fact sheet: Trump protects the United states and American citizens by closing the borders to illegals via proclamation.

Trump has also stated in an executive order that there will be armed forces at the borders to prevent "aliens" from entering the country.

Source: WhiteHouse.com. (the constitution was replaced by Trumps executive orders and the White House Legislative Branch can not be found on the official website as it has been taken down.

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Books are continuing to be banned and religion is re-entering the schools, indoctrinating the children.

They want to take womens right to vote. They are starting with pregnant women and women on maturity leave. If they can't keep you pregnant (if you get an abortion) you would have your right to vote stripped from you as abortion is now classified as murder which is a felony. Felons can't vote.

Jim crow laws will be reinstated. The native children will be taken. You are the people, you don't work for the government, they work for you. Get the gelatine, take back your power as the people.

When Hitler first got control, he told the jews to leave germany. When Trump got control, he told the immigrants to leave the US.

When Hitler got control, he came for the Queers first. Trump went for the queers.

When Hitler got control, he came for the disabled. Trump went for the women.

There were people who came before the jews. There are going to be people who come before those of colour. Trump is a racist, a sexist and a rapist. There will be people who come before you. Stand up for them so they will stand for you, lest you stand alone.

"When they came for the Queers, i didn't say anything because i was not Queer. When they came for the jews, i didn't say anything because i was not a jew. When they came for the women, i didnt say anything because i was not a woman. When they came for the disabled, i didnt say anything because i am not disabled. But then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me."

There is an Australian song about inclusively, and how when we are together we are stronger.

"We are one, but we are many. And from all acorss the lands we come, to share our dreams, and sing with one voice. I am, you are, we are Australian." Honestly, the US need this song right now.

[oddwomen]

Rolling Stone (November 11, 1982)

[factoidfactory]

Black History Month Fact 1

In 1971 American journalist Melba Tolliver stood up against WABC-TV when she was reprimanded for wearing her natural Afro hair.

She had refused to cover it up with a scarf or wig when reporting on the wedding of President Richard Nixon's daughter Tricia Nixon.

[mimi-0007]

President Obama, Michelle, Malia and Sasha...

[blondebrainpowered]

Millie Ringold 1845-1906, also known as 'Aunt Milly', born enslaved, moved west to Yogo Creek, Montana,where she became a gold prospector during the strike of '79 and owned a boarding house. ca. 1904 or 1905

More information on Millie

[nicoleangelae]

the revolution is brewing.

black women, keep your peace.

i always say that i hate the United States but i love the land. this land has nourished my ancestors for centuries and it has given us connection to the earth. seeing what is happening on this soil infuriates me.

i’ve been quiet for about a week since the inauguration, and what i have noticed is that white women are the second biggest detriments to society, the first being white men. we all know that they lied about where they stand when it comes to women’s rights, but now i’m seeing white women act like they had nothing to do with the downfall of our country. they are talking about leaving. they haven’t fought for freedom not nearly as much as black women have and they have nerve to make plans to move abroad? weak! because black women are taking a step back, white women think they can too.

white women in the United States rarely start revolutions without it being attached to black trauma and black justice. they even used black people to get the women’s suffrage movement popularized when the suffrage movement didn’t give any thought to black women. they are constantly using black people for their own agenda!

what i fear is that black women will have to save the country again.

my thoughts on this revolution is not simple. there isn’t a large enough group of people that is currently in the United States that is ready to fight for justice, but my guess is that there will be one day. the government will not help us.

these are some recent revolutions around the world Sri Lanka 2022, South Korea 2025, Hong Kong 2019-2020, Bangladesh 2024, Palestine

i wish i could say more, and didn’t have to choose my words wisely, but you know, censorship.

even though tumblr will pretty much let you post about anything, still censorship is the state that our world is in.

being an observer this time around instead of protesting is an interesting prospective. it has shown me that each set of people is only looking out for their own. even while being oppressed themselves, the rules of this new government don’t seem to bother them until it hits their own communities. i’ve learned that as a black woman who is the most oppressed in this country, that our rights being held in the balance does not matter to other marginalized people unless our problem becomes their problem. it hurts and it is a shame.

my message to us black queens is to make self care a priority, observe, and continue to love who loves you.

[nickysfacts]

This makes Tiana the Princess of Creole Cuisine!

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[the-sweetest-pastry-of-all]

Returning to tumblr as a queer disabled leftist and budding and attempting activist.

I need community.

I am:

Anti-racist

Anti-fascist

Pro-trans

Pro-black

Pro-immigrant

Actively fighting for women’s rights, trans rights and the rights of my POC friends and neighbors.

I believe all people deserve basic human rights such as shelter, food and healthcare. I don’t think this is radical. I support so many other causes but this is where I will leave it at today.

If you are with me, shoot me a follow so we can be mutuals 💕✨

[wicked-books666]

Book haul

[lightdancer1]

The most disturbing reality of the life of Sally Hemings is that there is a spotlight on it because of who Thomas Jefferson was. It was not that unique in itself.

And that life testifies to the invisible reality that will be gone into in more detail tomorrow in the 19th Century. The experiences of Black women, as defined by modern scholars like Kimberle Crenshaw, form and have always formed an intersectional axis of how the various categories of repression and oppression in American democracy worked and continue to work. Black women were invisible, hence the phrasing "Blacks and women." Black women were also subject to very particular horrors and types of exploitation in slavery, one of the seediest, filthiest underbellies of the entire Old South.

Insofar as things were and are unique here, at another level, it is also because of Sally Hemings being Martha Jefferson's half-sister. THAT was an extra level of sleaze that really was unusual even for plantation owners. But beyond that, her life, as much as it was defined by being the most well-known case of what was standard practice on plantations, speaks of what the truth of the 'Peculiar Institution' was, the deformities worked on the corroded consciences of the slaveowner, and the realities of how much it took to endure those horrors when one was the enslaved person.

This is one of many, many invisible strands of American history whose recovery is no small part of the effort to censor and ban Black history today.