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.”

hello everyone - happy Black history month 🌌 here's a massive archive list of Black and Marxist writing and film (with downloads!) to check out xoxo

by @777

The State and Revolution :flag-su:

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The Conquest of Bread :ancom:

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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:

  • Parzivus [any]
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    4 years ago

    Also there's a very good chance that the gamestop shit crashes tomorrow so keep an eye out for cope

      • Parzivus [any]
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        4 years ago

        My bet is WSB, the various financial institutions have had a weekend to come up with something and it ain't gonna be good for the "little" guy

      • longhorn617 [any]
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        4 years ago

        If people start to think there are a bunch of counterfeit shares on the market and they try to cash out so that they aren't left holding the bag.

          • longhorn617 [any]
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            4 years ago

            Basically, when I sell a stock short, I am supposed to be borrowing a share from (and paying interest to) someone who does own the stock. The person that I sell to electronically gets the stock, but I have (generally) three days to deliver the actual stock to the clearinghouse. When I don't deliver that stock, it's calls a failure to deliver. The thing is, nothing really happens with FTDs. The clearinghouse let's the person who purchased it keep the stock, and the brokerage that doesn't deliver the stock generally gets in no trouble because the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, which is responsible for clearing and settling the trades, is owned by the brokerages. And the SEC has been completely deranged at this point by the financial industries influence over politics and is essentially a paper tiger. So the idea is that I sell you something that I never had in the first place, but because of the way the market works, you get to keep it like it's real anyways, which means you own stock that the company it represents ownership in didn't actually issue, which makes it counterfeit.

              • longhorn617 [any]
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                4 years ago

                In the case of GameStop it deinfiely seems possible, and there is evidence that supports that. There is also evidence that the same tactic was used to tank Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2008.