✨ Support Black Creators Beyond Black History Month✨
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As BHM comes to an end I had to share this message.
Plenty of large companies will have one kind of person they show and just showcase ethnicities during their respective “months” because of their company’s “aesthetic”.
Repost from @dcwhatsnew using @RepostRegramApp - @lyft celebrates Black History Month by offering a free rides to Black History museums! They’ll take you to the @nmaahc, @smithsonianacm, & the Alexandria Black History Museum. DC riders use code BHMDCA19. If you’re in Baltimore, they’ll take you to the @ngbiwm, @lewismuseum, and the Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park. Use code BHMBWI19. The rideshare app is also asking riders to donate to Black Girls Code through their Round Up & Donate program. The promotion covers rides up to $10, and will be available through February 28.
“I wonder if our white fellow men realize the true sense of meaning of brotherhood? For two hundred years we had toiled for them; the war of 1861 came and was ended, and we thought our race was forever freed from bondage, and that the two races could live in unity with each other, but when we read almost every day of what is being done to my race by some whites in the South, I sometimes ask, “Was the war in vain? Has it brought freedom, in the full sense of the word, or had it made our conditions more hopeless?…
There are still good friends to the negro. Why, there are still thousands….Man thinks two hundred years is a long time, and it is, too; but it is only as a week to God, and in his own time…the South will be like the North, and when it comes it will be prized higher than we prize the North to-day. God is just; when he created man he made him in his image, and never intended one should misuse the other. All men are born free and equal in his sight.”
✨Black history month is everyday and doesn’t stop because we are now in March. This is a reminder for business, arts institutions, orgs, and foundations that you have to keep centering, supporting, and uplifting Black artists and cultural workers through out the whole year and not just in February! Here are a couple of amazing artists and cultural workers to support and follow!! Go buy their art, invite them to panels, commission them for new work, purchase their new books/zines, attend their workshops, listen to their music, and buy their tinctures!! #blackhistorymonth #blackartist #BIPOC #arts #illustrator #writer #herbalism #poetry https://www.instagram.com/p/CakohQyv-rK/?utm_medium=tumblr
My snap is not the same #freeprettyhoe #finehoe304 #pretty304 #prettyhoe #boskoe100 #blackhistorymonth #africanamericanmonth #fuckdonaldtrump #la #vegas
On the occasion of Black History Month, we want to highlight the participation of a prominent Haitian historical figure who gave the black movement a big boost.
Toussaint L’Ouverture will always remain a symbolic figure who gave hope, a remarkable figure who wanted to fight for this liberation movement.
As a revolutionary leader, Toussaint has always shown his political and military prowess for black causes. This helped him transform the slave rebellion into a revolutionary movement that would mark the whole world.
As a reminder, Toussaint L’Ouverture, also known as François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture, was born on May 20, 1743. He was a Haitian general and one of the most important leaders of the Haitian revolution.
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Nan lokazyon Mwa Istwa ak Patrimwan Nwa yo, #facesofhaiti vle soulinye patisipasyon kèk figi nan listwa Ayisyen ki bay mouvman nwa yo gwo jarèt.
Toussaint ap toujou rete yon figi senbolik ki te bay lespwa, se yon pèsonaj remakab ki te vle pou batay pou mouvman liberasyon sa.
Antanke yon lidè revolisyonè, Toussaint te toujou montre konpetans politik ak militè li yo pou kòz nwa yo. Sa ki te ede li transfòme rebelyon esklav la an yon veritab mouvman revolisyonè ki ta pral make tout mond lan.
Pou rapèl, Toussaint L'Ouverture, « François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture » ke yo rele tou Toussaint Bréda te fèt yon 20 Me nan lane 1743. Se te yon jeneral ayisyen epi youn nan lidè ki te pi enpòtan nan revolisyon ayisyen an.
If you’ve played a home gaming console, chances are you had the ability to choose from an array of cartridges to plug in and play. This ability is all thanks to Gerald “Jerry” Lawson; the mastermind behind the very first game cartridge and our final #BlackHistoryMonth highlight!
Encouraged by a first grade teacher, George Washington Carver, and the profession denied his grandfather, Lawson wanted to be a scientist from early on. His parents encourage this passion, so by 13 Jerry earned an amateur ham radio license and repaired TVs in high school.
This passion continued into adulthood, where in conjunction with joining Fairchild Semiconductor as a field application engineer in 1970, he created and built the arcade game Demolition Derby in his garage. Discovery of his side project allowed Jerry to become the Director of Marketing in the newly formed Game Development department at Fairchild. Now Lawson had the freedom to test whether games could run on microprocessors.
Here, he led the team that created the first game cartridge and console, the Fairchild Channel F - using the Intel’s microprocessor invented a few years prior. Lawson’s work was truly revolutionary and is the foundation for video games as we know it. . . . . #science #comics #videogames #fairchildchannelf #GeraldLawson #JerryLawson #STEM #blackhistorymonth https://www.instagram.com/p/CL207pQj2ss/?igshid=1wgc3ks7ydgfr
We honor the amazing work of Dr. Ivor Benjamin, a scientist and medical doctor focusing on cardiovascular disease at the Medical College of Wisconsin. His research involves understanding a family of stress proteins called Heat Shock Proteins and their role in heart disease.
Dr. Benjamin is recognized for both his clinical and research expertise. He has authored over 130 books, book chapters, and scientific papers which range from heat shock proteins, stem cells, COVID-19, and advancing/promoting healthcare.
Dr. Benjamin was the president of the American Heart Association (@american_heart) from 2018-2019 and is the Director of Cardiovascular Center at the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin (@medicalcollegeofwi). In addition, he was a recipient of the Pioneer Award from NIH. Keep on being amazing Dr. Ivor Benjamin!
Nurse. Inventor. Two nouns to describe the #STEM wonder that is our first #BlackHistoryMonth highlight – Marie Van Brittan Brown, a New York native who wanted to increase the security of her home and thus created the first home security system herself.
Marie Van Brittan Brown was born and raised in New York City where she resided for the entirety of her life until her passing on Feb 2nd, 1999. Her STEM path began with a nursing career, but she is best known as an inventor.
Working odd & opposite hrs to her husband which left her alone at night, Van Brittan Brown wanted to be able to see who was at her door if she heard knocking. Using peep holes, 2-way microphones, cameras, & a television, Marie invented what became the 1st home security system.
Additionally, her system had a built-in alarm that would allow her to contact police at the push of a button.
The closed-circuit television (CCTV) and security system Marie Van Brittan Brown invented are the foundation of what’s used today. We’re honored to help keep her legacy going through this highlight.
We’re super pump for the beginning of Black History Month! Every week we’ll be illustrating and highlighting black scientists that have made significant impact in their respective fields. Enjoy our digital illustration to kick off the month, each square signifies black scientists we’ve highlighted in the past and the ones we’ll be highlighting this month! #blackhistorymonth #blackhistorymonth2021 #blackinstem https://www.instagram.com/p/CKwg0gWj3jO/?igshid=1rfjkv44squ1l
