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After our #BlackHistoryMonth special we resume our introduction of the #handbook articles. We continue with a new section that focusses on the diversity of diplomatic actors, asking who was allowed to sent out diplomats and who acted as formal or informal #emdiplomats.
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@noondlyt I’m not saying we should stop celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth btw. Just that we should make people aware of just how much we take inequality for granted & that this hard fought for month, became enough for too many of us. It’s not enough.
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@noondlyt It’s like the white patriarchy conceding to the US, one month for #BlackHistoryMonth…Excuse me? Everyday is black history day & woman’s history day etc etc. We aren’t separate. We are all integral parts of the fucking whole. We should all be appreciated & celebrated everyday.
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Today marks the 60th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday. The march was led byJohn Lewis, a young activist. 600 people peacefully marched to and across the Edmund Pettis Bridge for the right to vote and to protest police brutality.
The march was a defining moment in the Civil Rights Movement. T police savagery so horrific, Congress pushed to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965 under great public pressure.
The bridge has been renamed and the VRA massacred.
I know this story is a few weeks old at this point, but given that just yesterday I was chatting with someone in my own life who was completely unaware of it, I thought I might take a moment to highlight why it's not being reported well in our media, and most importantly talk about what Google's open signal that they'd love to collaborate with Downmarket Mussolini and our fascist Pork Reich government on whatever nightmare bullshit these nazis want to do, actually means.
Amid Other Pro-Trump Moves, Google Maps Makes “Gulf of America” Name Change
"In the U.S., the gulf will be displayed as the “Gulf of America.” In Mexico, it will remain the “Gulf of Mexico.” From anywhere else in the world, the body of water will be labeled as “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America).”
Although the change is consistent with the Google Maps policy on names for geographic locations elsewhere, the move comes as Google has made numerous attempts to endear itself to Trump over the past several weeks.
The company, for example, gave $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund. It also opted to end its diversity hiring targets following Trump’s executive order terminating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and funding across the federal government. And along with the changes to its maps this week, Google removed Black History Month and Pride Month from its list of annual celebrations on Google Calendar.
Google also announced earlier this month that it would abandon its Responsible AI pledge, which included a promise not to use artificial intelligence to develop tech that could cause “overall harm” — including weapons and surveillance systems."
In terms of media coverage and how for-profit news orgs have treated this story, we're legitimately talking about a catastrophic failure to connect the obvious dots and ominous historical overtones in this situation. Most outlets are hell bent on covering Google's desire to collaborate with a fascist US government as a pathetic private sector attempt to curry favor with Trump, or story about Downmarket Mussolini's laughable obsession with names on maps. The sinister reality however is that it is in precisely HOW Google is choosing to curry favor with Trump, that how far they're willing to go reveals itself. Eliminating Black History Month from the calendar is objectively supporting a white supremacist regime objective, just as eliminating Pride Month from the calendar supports a heteronormative, anti-LGBTQ agenda. Changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico on its maps, even if it's just for American users, is an open signal of support for the Trump administration's hyper-nationalist, and increasingly expansionist agenda. This isn't currying favor with fascists; Google is signaling to the fascist administration, that they're ready to HELP THEM literally do fascism, presumably for profit.
All of which leads us to Google's abandonment of the responsible AI pledge, and why history doesn't repeat itself but often rhymes. In the lead up to the literal Holocaust, IBM (yes, THAT IBM) designed and supplied the Nazi Party with a punch card computing system that made it possible to identify and catalogue Jewish people and other targets of the Nazi regime for extermination; and they made a handsome profit doing so - as detailed in Edwin Black's groundbreaking work "IBM and the Holocaust: How America's Most Powerful Corporation Helped Nazi Germany Count The Jews." The fact is mass deportations, incarcerations, and exterminations are a data-centric activities, you simply can't undertake that kind of (repugnant) project without a way to organize, categorize, and easily access information about your targets; a task that becomes considerably easier if you can automate collection and analysis through say, fake AI programs. At its heart, Google is ultimately a data collection and organization company, which *already* maintains vast amounts of information about the populations and groups the Trump administration is threatening. And now that company is openly signaling to Downmarket Mussolini that they are not only "down to fascism" but are both equipped to help conduct various types of mass surveillance and organized purges, as well as prepared abandon ethical guidelines that would prevent them from doing so if the price is right - just like IBM did in the 1930's and the lead up to the Holocaust.
Of course you're not going to find that kind of analysis in the pro-capitalist, for profit media because those folks are just as busy trying to figure out how *they* can turn a profit from Trump's fascist agenda too; and that is a big part of why this modern fascist movement is winning, and easily.
Truthout · Amid Other Recent Pro-Trump Moves, Google Maps Makes “Gulf of America” Name Change OfficialGoogle also recently removed Black History Month and Pride Month from its calendar app.
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Today in Labor History March 2, 1962: Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in one basketball game, setting an NBA record. The closest anyone has come to this record was Kobe Bryant’s 81-point game in 2006. Chamberlain also broke the record for most free throws scored during a game. That season, he averaged over 50 points per game, scoring over 60 points in 12 games. No one has come close to this. Wilt also had a 78-point game in 1961, two 73-point games in 1962, a 72-point game in 1962 and a 70-point game in 1963. Chamberlain has 5 the 8 single highest single game point totals in NBA history. I was lucky enough to see him play once, as a kid, toward the end of his career, when he was playing for the now defunct San Diego Conquistadores.
Chamberlain holds 72 NBA records, including records in scoring and rebounding. He once made 55 rebounds in a single game. He is not only the only NBA player to average over 30 points and 20 rebounds per game over the course of a season, he did this seven times in his career. He left college early to play professionally, at first with the Harlem Globetrotters because, in those days, the NBA refused to accept players until their graduating year of college had ended. One of the Globetrotters’ skits involved team captain, Meadowlark Lemon, feigning injury and falling to the floor. Instead of helping him up, Chamberlain lifted the 210-pound Lemon and threw him several feet into the air, and then caught him, like a ragdoll. Lemon called Chamberlain the strongest athlete who ever lived. In 1967, Chamberlain nearly got the opportunity to box against Muhammad Ali.
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Let’s extend #BlackHistoryMonth for one more day and get into this masterwork of a take from @are0h, and boost/follow him.
Then, let’s not play daft about why most POC do not feel safe on any platform on the internet. Whether it be the casual corporate racism of bluesky or the inherent liberal racism of mastodon - Whiteness, delusion, and inherent anti-black bigotry is the root of the continued enshittification that goes occurs online.
h-i.social powered by Masto Glitch EditionGorgeous Killer (@are0h@h-i.social)I’ve been watching @ErickaSimone@mastodon.social’s timeline most of the day and seeing the outright delusion of alleged leftists defending themselves when talking about how white people vote.
Yeah, I get it, you voted for a not white guy, but most of your family and friends did. Your peer group may have voted for a not white guy, but so did the peer groups of the people that don’t like you.
In either case, the objective truth is your vote was nullified by a bunch of bigots that you *never* have any smoke for.
But when someone Black states the truth of saying, yes, this last election is the fault of white people, all the vitriol, hate, condescension and rage comes out of the woodwork.
So at the end of the day, there are still many white folks that still side with anti-Blackness, no matter how they vote.
Y’all just hate Black people more than you hate the people actually working to ruin the US.
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Although we somehow consider ourselves being experts in the field of #NewDiplomaticHistory, we faced great difficulties in finding information on #black #emdiplomacy.
One reason for this is that #GlobalHistory, however, focuses strongly on the Americas and Asia. Research on Africa and #earlyModern African #diplomacy is very limited though it has existed since the #MiddleAges at least.
Another reason for the underrepresentation of #earlyModern African history in #NewDiplomaticHistory is the lack of sources. As many African regions had other traditions than written sources, it is difficult to access African #emdiplomacy. This is also why existing research heavily focuses on a few exampels and regions when it comes to #black #emdiplomacy, mostly Ethiopa, Kongo and the North of the continent. (2/2)
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#BlackHistoryMonth ended yesterday. Therefore, we want to share some reflections with you.
#earlyModern #NewDiplomaticHistory is still heavily Eurocentric. Moreover, there is a risk that white and European perspectives prevail even in non-European contexts despite all attemps by #GlobalHistory to questions these approaches. During the last weeks we tried to set European perspectives aside and highlight #black diplomatic actors. In doing so, we encountered a huge challange: the lack of research. (1/2)
My latest food column is up!
Whether they're nurturing a new generation of farmers, continuing a legacy, creating new flavours or making it easier to find tastes of home, Waterloo-Wellington's Black food entrepreneurs are helping to shape our food scene and add to the nation conversation.
#Food #Mastonom #BlackHistoryMonth #Canada #LocalFood #WaterlooRegion #WellingtonCounty
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Day 29 of Black History Month 2025
Harry Belafonte
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/harry-belafonte-actor-and-activist
National Museum of African American History and CultureHarry Belafonte, Actor and ActivistTony award winner Harry Belafonte was at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement and remains a staunch human rights activist.
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I went to SFMOMA last night after a very long day at work because I wanted to see the Amy Sherald exhibit American Sublime before it closes on March 9.
The headline draw was Michelle Obama’s official portrait, and all the paintings were absolutely magnetic.
But I was particularly drawn to this canvas in the final room: a Black man leaning on an impossibly shiny and clean John Deer tractor.
So on this, the last day of #blackhistorymonth I wanted to share it with you.
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On this last day of Black History Month, here's our blogpost highlighting the stories, publications, Magazines and Storyboards we featured throughout the month, plus how you can follow them on Flipboard all year round.
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