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It’s a scary time but an important time…We as people have the power to stand up and make noise and make a difference!

I don’t know your struggle but I will stand with you and support you every damn step of the way

Black lives matter ✊✊✊✊✊

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Today I found this on the app store. What an absolutely disgusting thing. This is is a spit in the face to human dignity that needs to be eradicated.

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Feb 1:

Christina Jenkins: the Black woman who created the sew in weave technique. Thank her for y’all inchesssss‍♀️

Feb 2:

Katherine Johnson: the Black woman who calculated rocket trajectories BY HAND because her boss at NASA Buzz Aldrin trusted no one not even the computers

Feb 3:

John Morton-Finney: a Black man who earned 11 degrees and practice law until he was 106 years old and is believed to be the longest practicing attorney in the US ‍⚖️

Feb 4:

Haben Girma: the first deaf-blind student to graduate Harvard Law School

Feb 5:

Viola Davis: the first Black woman in history to win an Oscar, Emmy, and Tony

Feb 6:

Otis Boykin: a Black man that owned 26 patents one of which being the invention of the pacemaker that saved a lot of lives even in today’s world

Feb 7:

Mansa Musa: richest man in world history with a fortune of about 4 trillion

Feb 8:

Arsenio Hall: in the 50’s he hosted the first black late-night talk show in history

Feb 9:

Clare Hale: opened up a business caring for children and founded Hale house which is the first care center for infants born addicted to drugs

Feb 10:

Michele Obama: the first First Lady to attend and Ivy League university for undergrad. She graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law ✨

Feb 11:

John Mercer Langston was the first Black man to become a lawyer when he passed the bar in Ohio in 1854. When he was elected to the post of Town Clerk for Brownhelm, Ohio, in 1855 Langston became one of the first African Americans ever elected to public office in America. John Mercer Langston was also the great-uncle of Langston Hughes, famed poet of the Harlem Renaissance.

Feb 12:

While Rosa Parks is credited with helping to spark the civil rights movement when she refused to give up her public bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955—inspiring the Montgomery Bus Boycott—the lesser-known Claudette Colvin was arrested nine months prior for not giving up her bus seat to white passengers.

Feb 13:

Thurgood Marshall was the first African American ever appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. He was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson and served on the court from 1967 to 1991. ‍

Feb 14:

Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American ever elected to the U.S. Senate. He represented the state of Mississippi from February 1870 to March 1871. ‍

Feb 15:

Madam C.J. Walker was born on a cotton plantation in Louisiana and became wealthy after inventing a line of African American hair care products. She established Madame C.J. Walker Laboratories and was also known for her philanthropy.

Feb 16:

Before Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan joined the billionaire’s club, Robert Johnson became the first African American billionaire when he sold the cable station he founded, Black Entertainment Television (BET) in 2001.

Feb 17:

The Black population of the United States in 1870 was 4.8 million; in 2018, the number of Black residents of the United States 43.8 million.

Feb 18:

The celebration of Black History Month began as “Negro History Week,” which was created in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson, a noted African American historian, scholar, educator and publisher. It became a month-long celebration in 1976. The month of February was chosen to coincide with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.

Feb 19:

On February 12, 2019, the NAACP marked its 110th anniversary. Spurred by growing racial violence in the early 20th century, and particularly by 1908 race riots in Springfield, Illinois, a group of African American leaders joined together to form a new permanent civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). February 12, 1909, was chosen because it was the centennial anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.

Feb 20:

Jack Johnson became the first African American man to hold the World Heavyweight Champion boxing title in 1908. He held onto the belt until 1915.

Feb 21:

As a child, Muhammad Ali was refused an autograph by his boxing idol, Sugar Ray Robinson. When Ali became a prizefighter, he vowed to never to deny an autograph request, which he honored throughout his career. ✍

Feb 22:

Jazz, an African American musical form born out of the blues, ragtime and marching bands, originated in Louisiana during the turn of the 19th century. The word “jazz” is a slang term that at one point referred to a sexual act.

Feb 23:

Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on friend Maya Angelou’s birthday, on April 4, 1968. Angelou stopped celebrating her birthday for years afterward, and sent flowers to King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, for more than 30 years, until Coretta’s death in 2006.

Feb 24:

Louis Armstrong learned how to play the cornet while living at the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys.

Feb 25:

After African American performer Josephine Baker expatriated to France, she famously smuggled military intelligence to French allies during World War II. She did this by pinning secrets inside her dress, as well as hiding them in her sheet music.

Feb 26:

Scientist and mathematician Benjamin Banneker is credited with helping to design the blueprints for Washington, D.C.

Feb 27:

The parents of actress Halle Berry chose their daughter’s name from Halle’s Department Store, a local landmark in her birthplace of Cleveland, Ohio.

Feb 28:

In 1938, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt challenged the segregation rules at the Southern Conference on Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama, so she could sit next to African American educator and activist Mary McLeod Bethune. Roosevelt would come to refer to Bethune as “her closest friend in her age group.” ‍♀️

For too long, academia has remained silent and uncaring about Black Lives Matter.

Academia needs to step up and address the deep roots of white supremacy and systemic racism in their institutions. Universities exclaim in their mission statements that they are committed to diversity, inclusion , and equity; however they do not practice this commitment. Only 2% of undergraduates are Black in my university; they are deeply underrepresented. No area of study is exempt from addressing issues of systemic racism. Psychology was built by white men and studies where only white males participated. Medical textbooks still primarily show symptoms such as rashes on white skin tones. When our education refuses to address white supremacy and systemic racism, it will continue to bleed into our future generations.

Academics can #strike4blacklives and take time to reflect, evaluate, and re-educate ourselves

Particles for Justice

#ShutDownAcademia #ShutDownSTEM

I’m aware this is a plant blog, but as a person, a black women, I have to use whatever platform I have to spread awareness. Everyone has a part to play and if you are doing nothing you are part of the problem.

Silence is betrayal

Silence is violence

Silence is complicity

Black Lives Matter

credit goes to @sfbucketlist on instagram for these 40 ways you can help right now

so my best friend is a digital artist (@/kaosic on instagram and twitter) and right now she is offering 27-dollar commissions of which all the money will go to black lives matter funds, specifically https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019. since i know a lot of people on tumblr are willing to pay for commissions, please consider commissioning her, and if you can’t/don’t want to, please consider donating whatever you can directly to the link i’ve added above.

this is the link to her instagram account. she also has tumblrbut instagram is preferable.

and here’s her post about it if you want more details:

hi everyone! i’ve gained more followers due to a couple of my posts blowing up, and i just want to say something.

if you are racist, homophobic, sexist/misogynistic, transphobic, xenophobic, ableist, etc, please unfollow me… i do not want those kind of people to be associated with my account. this also applies if you are against the black lives matter movement, the me too movement/feminism, atheism, and/or abortion.

please respect my beliefs and unfollow me if the above describes you. Thank you to the rest of you for following me