Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their central role in U.S. history.
The story of Black History Month begins in 1915, half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
That September, the Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Woodson and the prominent minister Jesse E. Moorland founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), an organization dedicated to researching and promoting achievements by Black Americans and other peoples of African descent.
Known today as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the group sponsored a national Negro History week in 1926, choosing the second week of February to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. The event inspired schools and communities nationwide to organize local celebrations, establish history clubs and host performances and lectures.
In the decades that followed, mayors of cities across the country began issuing yearly proclamations recognizing Negro History Week. By the late 1960s, thanks in part to the civil rights movement and a growing awareness of Black identity, Negro History Week had evolved into Black History Month on many college campuses.
President Gerald Ford officially recognized Black History Month in 1976, calling upon the public to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”
by @777
The State and Revolution :flag-su:
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The Conquest of Bread
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Stalingrad :stalin-fancy:
Rosa Parks :rose-fist:
Kropotkin :kropotkin-shining:
Islamic Golden Era :inshallah:
Huey Newton :huey-wut:
Deng Xiaoping :deng-salute:
Communist manifesto :marx: no engels emoji :angry-hex:
Cuauhtémoc :hisssssss:
We could use more Indiaposting right now. I would but I'm dumb and don't really understand what's happening, but it seems like there is an active communist revolt happening and our boards are pretty silent about it?
Unless there's something I'm missing about the farmers I figured there would basically always be some post about India on the front page.
its not a communist revolt, its an agrarian revolt lead by Sikh farmers and heavely supported by the communist and liberal factions in india, against the Neoliberal Farm bills of the Fascist BJP
Ah, ok I see. I've just seen the photos with all the communist flags and I thought the farmers were Marxists. Not so hey?
some are communist but mostly they are against the 3 farm bills of the BJP gov
Feel like it would be really good to get a comm or like a daily thread to chat more about international events. Like instead of just the usual US soc-dems and China struggle sessions.
Although I guess we'd need to rely a lot on the people here that know a lot more about international events than most of us to fill everyone in. But would still be good to have some good faith dialetical discussions about shit in other countries, international proletarian solidarity is necessary after all.