Capitalism.

Melanated Female Inventors. Ten inventions that happened because of Black Women.

Three words: Black Women Magic! Please pass it on!!!

Awesome

This Guys Low-Budget Recreations Of Celebrity Photos Have Me Howling

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RIP Manu Dibango (1933-2020)

Before Rosa Parks…The story of Elizabeth Jennings who was the first African Woman in America who stood up against Segregation in Public Transport..

Elizabeth Jennings was born in 1826 to Thomas L. Jennings and his wife, also named Elizabeth. He was a free African and she was born into slavery. He became a successful tailor, and was also the first known African-American holder of a patent in the United States which was granted to him by New York State in 1821. He and his wife was an influential member of New York’s African community. With fees from his patented dry-cleaning process, Thomas Jennings bought his wife’s freedom, as she was considered an indentured servant until 1827 under the state’s gradual abolition law of 1799. Elizabeth was born free and received an education. Elizabeth Jennings’s mother became a prominent figure under the issues of African women and the African community at large. Due to her association of the Ladies Literary Society of New York, which was founded in 1834 by New York’s elite African Women whose goal for the society was to promote self improvement through community activities, reading and discussion. She made a famous speech called “On the Cultivation of African Women’s Minds.” in 1837, when the younger Elizabeth was still a young girl. In her speech, Elizabeth Jennings, Sr. speaks about how the neglect of the cultivating mind will keep the Africans inferior to the whites. This will also have the whites/enemies believe that the Africans do not have any minds at all. Jennings believed the mind was very powerful and could help with the improvement to abolish slavery and discrimination. Therefore, she called upon African women to have a mind and take action. The importance of improving the mind was a consistent theme among elite African women at the time. The speech and her Mother’s boldness had an influence on the younger Elizabeth Jennings. In the 1850s,Elizabeth Jennings, Jr. had grown up as a strong African woman in her own right and perhaps in her mother’s image. She had become a schoolteacher and church organist. She taught at the city’s private African Free School, A school founded on the basis to teach former slaves and other children of color. . The biggest mode of public transport in this time was the horse-drawn streetcar on rails itself competing with the horse-drawn omnibus in the city. Like the omnibus lines, the streetcar lines were owned by private companies, and their owners and drivers could refuse service to any passengers. They enforced segregated seating. Which at times became inconvenient for African Americans especially if they needed to get to a destination quickly. And this is exactly what happened on Sunday, July 16, 1854, Elizabeth Jennings set off for the First African Congregational Church, where she was organist. Because she was running late, she boarded a streetcar of the Third Avenue Railroad Company at the corner of Pearl and Chatham Streets. The conductor ordered her to get off. However he did not expect the reply she gave to him. NO! After her refusal, the conductor was further taken aback when the African woman insisted that she had rights and would not be removed because of those rights as a citizen of america. Infuriated he tried to remove her by force.He grabbed Elisabeth’s Bonnet and managed to push/drag her down the platform but she still resisted shouting NO! I SHALL NOT BE MOVED! I WILL NOT BE MOVED! And she wasn’t as the conductor was still unable to remove her and was not able to get her out of the carriage. Eventually,with the aid of a police officer, Jennings was ejected from the streetcar. But this was not the end of the matter.The African community especially those of the elite were outraged. And they showed their disgust en mass. An organized movement among African New Yorkers began to end racial discrimination on streetcars, led by notables such as Jennings’ father Thomas, Rev. James W.C. Pennington, and Rev. Henry Highland Garnet. Her story was publicized by Frederick Douglass in his newspaper, and received national attention. Jennings filed a lawsuit against the driver, the conductor, and the Third Avenue Railroad Company in Brooklyn, where Third Avenue was headquartered. This was one of four streetcar companies franchised in the city and had been in operation about one year. She was represented by the law firm of Culver, Parker, and Arthur. Her case was handled by the firm’s 24-year-old junior partner, Chester A. Arthur who was to become President of the United States. In 1855, the court ruled in Elizabeth’s favor. In his charge to the jury, Brooklyn Circuit Court Judge in his ruling stated this: “ Colored persons if sober, well behaved and free from disease, had the same rights as others and could neither be excluded by any rules of the Company, nor by force or violence.” The jury awarded Elizabeth Jennings damages in the amount of $250 as well as $22.50 in costs. The next day, the Third Avenue Railroad Company ordered its cars desegregated. The Jennings case was instrumental in establishing policy for what was a new service industry. A month after the verdict, Rev. Pennington was refused admission to a car of the Eighth Avenue Railroad, another of the first four companies. He won a similar judgment against that company when the case was appealed to the State Supreme Court. He was represented by the Legal Rights Association, founded by Thomas Jennings, Elizabeth’s father. Elizabeth Jennings later found love and married Charles Graham and had a son, Thomas J. Graham. He was a sickly child who died of convulsions at the age of one during the New York Draft Riots of July 1863. Like many other African after the riots, the Grahams moved out of Manhattan. They moved to Eatontown, New Jersey, where her mother and sister lived. After her husband Charles died, Elizabeth, along with her mother and sister, moved back to New York City in the late 1860s . Elizabeth Jennings Graham lived her later years at 247 West 41st Street. She founded and operated the city’s first kindergarten for African children in her home. She died in 1901 and was buried in Cypress Hills Cemetery. However her impact had been made. When she made her return back to New York she returned to a New York that had public transit services which were fully desegregated which became like that in 1865.

WATCH VIDEO:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu0z6zyc2J8

Chicago

That's freaking awesome and hilarious! 🤣

Finally like just now? Like this week? Forreal?

Alabama Police department flaunting all the homeless people they’ve arrested. 

That ripped blue line flag really make the image. And they just stand there and smile not really considering what they actually ‘accomplished’.

Stop giving people like this privacy…

Not cool at all.

Well, on the surface, this looks pretty bad. But another perspective is this: have you ever tried to buy a meal for one of these panhandlers instead of giving them money? My experience has been that they won’t take it. They want the money. Generally, they aren’t homeless. To say they are homeless is just a tug on the heartstrings so you’ll give more money. One specific panhandler I know about lived in a comfortable, but not fancy, home, rode a mid-expensive bicycle to “work”, and made, on average, $1200 tax free dollars a week. That’s nearly $5000 a month with no taxes taken out for anything. Nice gig there. So, based on these types of people, cities started passing ordinances against panhandling, which, no doubt, hurt some ppl who are truly homeless and just trying to get some money for whatever they need. There are homeless shelters and tent cities in most big towns and cities, and there are free meals offered by churches, the Salvation Army, and others, so panhandling just might not be what the signs say. Just a different perspective on this.

I’ve been in a position to have to beg before, I don’t want you to buy me an unhealthy meal when I am probably already full. I want money so I can buy diapers for my daughter or medicine for my wife. I need cash to avoid having to raise a 5 year old autistic child in a TENT FUCKING CITY in sub freezing weather while being harassed by the police every morning. 

Also food stamps are a thing you moron, this is the ONE THING that is most reliably provided for us and it is the only thing you assholes want to give. We don’t want to be pulled away from what is effectively our fucking job so you can get a good feel spending $5 to give us a shitty third rate meal - $5 that could actually do something for us if you were not such a distrustful prick and just gave it to us instead. I’m so very sorry that I want to plan my life more than one meal in advance so I can have just the smallest amount of confidence that I wont be dead by tomorrow morning.

Not one of those signs even says anything about food or being hungry! People are begging for medicine and shelter and work and you offer them a fucking McDouble and large coke. Of course they are going to refuse! And then you use it as an excuse for why those dirty ungrateful poors might actually deserve the treatment they get.

I have no idea what third hand bullshit information you are getting that pan handlers make $5000 a month but it is frankly absurd and insulting. I am legitimately angry. So my friend who has to go out and offer blow jobs on the street to afford her medication is just doing it for fun huh?

I’ve seen the police round ups of the poor who sleep in tents outside the homeless shelter that is filled to capacity. I know that there isn’t half as many beds available as are needed and many homeless shelters are not fit to server the needs of many of the homeless. I know how dangerous it is to live in a tent city.

And get this, I live in a city that is well known nationally for how well we handle our homeless problem.

You and your ‘different perspective’ can go to hell. God knows that if hell exists that is the direction you are headed.

Offering a different “perspective” in something you haven’t experienced is always risky, but that one up there is just…wow. So disconnected from the reality of what they are judging.

We are sharing some of our favourite gifs each day this month for Antifa International’s fifth anniversary. Today: Nazi monuments being destroyed after the defeat of Nazi Germany.

If this offends you 😊 unfollow me 😊

And a note to confederates: these monuments weren’t kept because this was “history”. These monuments celebrated horrible things and we BLEW THEM UP.

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We love facts.

“Without Sister Rosetta Tharpe, we wouldn’t have rock and roll as we know it now. Her pioneering guitar virtuosity was fueled by the gospel swinging, shouting, holy-spirit energy of the evangelical church and the blues she heard on Chicago’s Maxwell Street, which crossed each other like crackling live wires in her hands – and boom, we’re at the beginning of the revolution that would later be widely and wrongly attributed, almost entirely, to the white teens and young men who emulated her. “ - Cheryl Pawelski

every photo of a shoebill eating is progressively worse than the last

the one exception: this gentle boy who just wants to share a snack with you

I feel I should point out that the penultimate stork is being slandered. That duck was uneaten; the stork was just moving it out of the way, and promptly dropped it. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1225223/Dont-forget-duck-Giant-Shoebill-picks-feathered-friend-blocks-path.html

Look at the duck’s FACE

H A L P

I love shoebills so much

Our Strange and Mysterious Moon …

… is not the only artificial moon in our solar system:

Mars two moons, Phobe and Diemas, appeared seemingly out of nowhere in 1876, in a place previously observed for hundreds of years. The evidence has been overwhelming since the 1960’s that they are artificial constructs, spacecrafts of some kind, and it was even recently concluded by the European Space Agency that Phobe is indeed hollow and likely artificial. Pictures really do speak a thousands words here:

Another interesting note in history; Venus had a moon 2,000 miles in diameter (slightly smaller than ours) that was observed from 1672 until 1764, and then it simply vanished. Today Venus has no moons. Oddly, this disappearing moon cannot be found in any astronomy books.

They’ve Always Been Watching Us: From COINTELPRO and Martin Luther King, Jr to the NSA’s surveillance program, the US Government has been keeping a close watch on the American Left for a long time.

by Andy Warner and Jess Parker

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