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Toni Morrison was born on this day (Feb. 18) in 1931.

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RETWEET if you are with Gus Walz’s dad tonight! #VPDebate2024

RETWEET if you are with her! #Debate2024

Rest In Power Faith Ringgold, a powerful textile and visual artist who created powerful quilts depicting the African American experience. Ringgold passed in April, but her work and legacy opened doors for countless artists. Read about her story on NPR: n.pr/3UJiCHj

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of same sex marriage in Massachusetts and learn about the lives of Black and LGBTQ+ community members TONIGHT at 7:30pm on a new episode of Basic Black. Watch on GBH-2 or Youtube.

"Your ability to feel other people's pain doesn't mean it’s your responsibility to fix it."

Watch as Steph Curry makes a young fan's dream come true when he sees him wearing his high school jersey. #sportskind

Meet @DawnPorter, the director of LUTHER: NEVER TOO MUCH, the #HotDocs24 opening night film! Dawn gives us a glimpse of her film subject Luther Vandross—a legendary singer and producer. The Festival is just 10 days away ⏱️ Have you booked your must-watch films yet?

Whether she worked as painter, mixed media sculptor, fabric artist, author, educator, political activist or book illustrator, Faith Ringgold spent nearly 7 decades telling stories, moving minds, & changing hearts. Her work explored women’s issues & the Civil Rights Movement.

Joseph Douglass, Director of the Department of Music at Howard University and his Grandfather Frederick Douglass.

The Boston Common was the happiest place on earth this morning, for the 2nd annual golden retriever meet up before the #BostonMarathon 🦮 @GBHNews

In 1957, Nashville's all-white Hattie Cotton Elementary School was destroyed by dynamite blast when black kids integrated the school. —On September 9, 1957, as 19 Black six-year-olds integrated all-white elementary schools in Nashville, Tennessee, white church members—including one local minister—organized a persistent and violent campaign to oppose the integration of Nashville public schools. Outside Fehr Elementary School, one person held a sign that read “God is the author of segregation” and pursued two Black children walking to the school. Outside three different elementary schools that same morning, Fred Stroud, a white minister, sought to dissuade white parents from allowing their children to be educated alongside Black children by preaching damnation for those who did not uphold segregation. The next day, 100 sticks of dynamite were thrown into Hattie Cotton Elementary School and exploded. Patricia Watson, the one Black elementary student who had been in class the previous morning, did not return. No Black children returned to Hattie Cotton Elementary School the following year, and no one faced criminal charges for the bombing. Though Brown v. Board of Education determined in 1954 that school segregation was unconstitutional, for three years white residents in Nashville relied on intimidation and organized political resistance to maintain segregation in the public schools. In 1957, Nashville finally developed a “stair step program” which permitted a few Black elementary school students to enroll in eight elementary schools in their zones. Throughout the summer of 1957, white segregationists in Nashville held intimidation rallies to terrorize Black families. In the days leading up to the first day of school, as Black parents pre-registered their children for school, mobs of white church members gathered outside buildings with signs calling segregation the “will of God.” One leader declared that “integration can be reversed” and that “blood will run the streets” before Nashville’s schools were integrated. By the morning of September 9, out of the 126 Black children eligible to attend all-white elementary schools in their zones, only 19 Black children matriculated. Reverend Stroud gathered crowds at Glenn Elementary to preach about the evils of integration, and white people in cars outside of Jones Elementary held signs emblazoned with KKK iconography and Biblical quotes. As opposition grew throughout the morning, white mobs crowded the sidewalks and threw rocks and bottles at Black children and their parents who attempted to pass through the crowd. By the end of the day, half of the white students at Glenn Elementary School—nearly 250 children—had not arrived, as white parents chose to deny their children education rather than permit them to learn alongside Black children. That evening, 300 white people gathered downtown and continued to threaten Black families who sent their children to school. They strung an effigy in blackface from a stoplight with a note pinned to its chest that read “this could be you.” As the mob around Fehr Elementary grew to at least 400, white people burned two outbuildings located on the property of a Black family that had sent their daughter to the school. The mob also continued to burn crosses on lawns of Black families who had dared to enroll their students that morning. 🖊️As the only admin behind this page, I try to research to educate. If you appreciate this effort, you can support to help the page thrive on ko-fi.com/africanarchives. Your support is deeply appreciated! (Or just the ko-fi page for articles/posts roundup)

John Morton Finney was a Buffalo soldier who fought in World War 1, earned 11 degrees and practiced law until he was 106 years old. He was believed to be the longest practicing attorney in the United States. —John Morton-Finney (June 25, 1889 January 28, 1998) was an American civil rights activist, lawyer, and educator who earned 11 academic degrees, including 5 law degrees. —He spent most of his career as an educator and lawyer after serving from 1911 to 1914 in the U.S. Army as a member of the 24th Infantry Regiment, better known as the Buffalo soldiers, and with the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I. —Morton-Finney taught languages at Fisk University in Tennessee and at Lincoln University in Missouri, before moving to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he taught in the Indianapolis Public Schools for forty-seven years. —Morton-Finney was a member of the original faculty at Indianapolis's Crisps Attucks High School when it opened in 1927 and later became head of its foreign language department. He also taught at Shortridge High School and at other IPS schools. —Morton-Finney was admitted as a member of the Bar of the Indiana Supreme Court in 1935, as a member of the Bar of the U.S. District Court in 1941, and was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1972. 🖊️As the only admin behind this page, I try to research to educate. If you appreciate this effort, you can support to help the page thrive on ko-fi.com/africanarchives. Your support is deeply appreciated! (Or just the ko-fi page for articles/posts roundup)

The president of Lincoln University in Missouri will keep his job. An investigation found "no evidence" that John Moseley had bullied Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey, an admin at the HBCU who died by suicide earlier this year. nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/li…

Are you a woman of color? Do you use makeup? This 2022 episode of @NPRCodeSwitch tells the story of Fashion Fair Cosmetics, which launched in 1973 to sell makeup for darker skin, then filed for bankruptcy in 2019 and returned in 2021. npr.org/2022/04/11/109…

Tonight, we're bringing back a fabulous conversation about Black dolls with Debra Britt of @BlackDollMuseum, Widline Pyrame of fusiondolls.com, Lisa Simmons of @RoxFilm, and @DrTahirah of @UMassBoston. Watch at 7:30 on GBH-2 or YouTube: youtu.be/uy9ev_1tbko?si…

Civil rights leader Opal Lee was 12 years old when her family's home was destroyed by a racist mob. Now, 85 years later, she's getting ready to move into a new home on the same lot by Juneteenth, which she helped make a national holiday. blavity.com/opal-lee-grand…

Following the outcry of “Oscars So White” in 2015 and 2016, the academy established DEI rules for films to be eligible for Best Picture. But the bar is low. nytimes.com/2024/03/08/us/…

The president of Lincoln University was cleared of wrongdoing after Antoinette Candia-Bailey, an admin at the school, accused him of bullying and died by suicide earlier this year. The HBCU's alumni association has called the decision "unacceptable." capitalbnews.org/lincoln-univer…

Check out the upcoming conference. ssblackcreatives.com/events-2-1/202…

Basic Black @BasicBlackGBH

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Tomorrow on Basic Black: What's the film industry like for Black and Brown creatives in Massachusetts and beyond? How can young people get involved? What will the Konnect Konference from the Secret Society of Black Creatives teach filmmakers, from newcomers to veterans?

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