El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, best known to the world as Malcolm X, was a social revolutionary, human rights leader, civil rights activist, cleric & one of the most powerful voices in the fight for freedom, equality & justice for African Americans in the United States A thread…

‘To be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost, almost all of the time — and in one's work. And part of the rage is this: It isn't only what is happening to you. But it's what's happening all around you.’ ——- James Baldwin

Afro-French psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer Frantz Fanon addresses the reasons of gatekeeping in jazz. 🧵 A thread.

Today is the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech that he made at the March on Washington in 1963. The @librarycongress has a vast collection of items from that historic day incl a copy of Dr King’s speech. 🧵👇🏽

"This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy." the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr, March on Washington. for Jobs and Freedom, 8/28/1963 bit.ly/2FNpKOD

Happy birthday, Frantz Fanon ✊🏿❤️‍🔥

My voice rings down through thousands of years To coil around your body and give you strength, You who have wept in direct sunlight, Who have hungered in invisible chains, Tremble to the cadence of my legacy: An army of lovers shall not fail. RMB in bit.ly/2QldMj4

Sylvia Rivera was a trans Latina activist who fought for the inclusion of all people in the gay liberation movement. Meet Rivera, a DEFENDER, then go take the Civic Superpower quiz to discover your civic strength at thecivicseason.com/quiz/

Did you know that this famous watercolor of enslaved Africans celebrating some event or day on a Beaufort County, SC, plantation is the only known painting of its era, the late 18th century, that depicts captives by themselves—concerned only with each other.

Children's Game 32: Estrellas ⁠ Selva Alegre, Ecuador, 2022;⁠ francisalys.com/category/chi… #francisalys #art #artist #film #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #artwork #children #childrensgames #games #gamers #play #world #travel #travels #story #ecuador

I will always love this photo:

¡Feliz Día del Libro! 📚 Hermann Hesse, “Escrito en la arena”.

#OtD 16 Apr 1889, Charlie Chaplin, actor, filmmaker and staunch critic of capitalism, militarism and racial prejudice, was born. This is perhaps his most heartfelt speech, from the film The Great Dictator: libcom.org/library/great-dic…

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Para las derechas es esencial que no se hable de desigualdad sino de pobreza. Porque pobreza remite al individuo pobre como sujeto aislado. Mientras que desigualdad remite a las relaciones sociales que la crean. En un caso se tocan las estructuras de poder y en el otro no.

El niño Luis Gabriel Vázquez Castillo, originario de Tabasco, resultó ganador del premio de poesía que otorga la Fundación de Aerolíneas de Japón (Japan Airlines Foundation) Su poema titulado “Amo la lluvia”, acompañado de un dibujo, fue premiado por Haikú para Niños del Mundo.

Drawings of the Amistad captives, New Haven bit.ly/3p9pNab

Slavery was rooted in violence and intimacy. The children of enslavers and the enslaved sometimes grew up in the same households with minimal social distance. Affective bonds developed alongside the constant threat of violence and separation from kith and kin. Last weekend, I went to the @MFAH for a talk and, while there, a curator shared this miniature with me, which reiterates the above point. Considering the dress of the sitters, it can be inferred that it dates back to the early 1800s. The fact that this type of miniature was most common in France and the French Caribbean indicates that it may have been produced for or in a slave-holding region of the French Empire. Though the black girl might have been free or freed, but her life was certainly circumscribed by slavery. The intimate embrace between these two girls does not erase the power differential that also separated them.