Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their central role in U.S. history.

The story of Black History Month begins in 1915, half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.

That September, the Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Woodson and the prominent minister Jesse E. Moorland founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), an organization dedicated to researching and promoting achievements by Black Americans and other peoples of African descent.

Known today as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the group sponsored a national Negro History week in 1926, choosing the second week of February to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. The event inspired schools and communities nationwide to organize local celebrations, establish history clubs and host performances and lectures.

In the decades that followed, mayors of cities across the country began issuing yearly proclamations recognizing Negro History Week. By the late 1960s, thanks in part to the civil rights movement and a growing awareness of Black identity, Negro History Week had evolved into Black History Month on many college campuses.

President Gerald Ford officially recognized Black History Month in 1976, calling upon the public to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”

hello everyone - happy Black history month 🌌 here's a massive archive list of Black and Marxist writing and film (with downloads!) to check out xoxo

by @777

The State and Revolution :flag-su:

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Rosa Parks :rose-fist:

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Islamic Golden Era :inshallah:

Huey Newton :huey-wut:

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    • thelasthoxhaist [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      i find this comment by @redditors_are_racist to be quite correct

      Aung San Suu Kyi was always a thinly veiled despot that let the western left/liberals impose whatever horseshit they wanted on her. That’s it. She never described herself as an activist, stateswoman, or any of the laudatory bullshit that came out of the “Free Burma!” reading rooms and agitation from the 1990s. She won a Nobel Prize because Myanmar was aligned with China and she was a thorn in their side. If you actually looked at her interviews she always despised the rohingya as foreign invaders.

      Fast forward to Obama’s pivot to Asia and wanting to knock Myanmar out of the Chinese orbit into the American one. The US promised to wipe the slate clean and lift all the sanctions and meanie bullshit if the junta let her form a government, and for a while it looked like Myanmar would get normalized relations with white nations. Hell, Obama and co. were willing to wipe away a real deal, 100% legitimate genocide in order to get them out of the Chinese camp (look at the rohingya camps in Bangladesh, the mass displacement, the rapes and mass graves etc. to see what genocide looks like. no adrian zenz required).

      Of course, this didn’t work, and she never recanted nor repented for her distaste for the rohingya, even doubling down and going to the Hague to tell them to fuck off for calling their genocide a genocide. Obviously this left the west with egg on their face. Turns out she wasn’t a democrat and a liberal, just another power hungry and connected politician who wanted to be in charge and was willing to let the west do the shaming and sanctioning if it got her the job.

      Today Myanmar is still best buddies with China, the sanctions are back on, and the junta that runs the show no longer needs the fig leaf of keeping her around since the rohingya have mostly been driven out into bangladesh (who are also committing their own slow motion ethnic cleansing by resettling them onto marginal land and letting social murder/neglect do the work). The story of Myanmar is why white countries should really just fuck off altogether from giving a shit about countries that aren’t their own. At best, they shined a spotlight on a mass murder the world would rather ignore. At worst they gave cover to a regime and a scammer working together to accelerate a genocide because the west want to triangulate China.

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