Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, June Jordan, Lori Sharpe, and Audrey Edwards circa 1977 at a Black women’s writing group.
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we're not kids anymore.
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Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, June Jordan, Lori Sharpe, and Audrey Edwards circa 1977 at a Black women’s writing group.
Black Novelists Royalty
The Earth, Math and Ether all at once! 👑🧠
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Dr. John Henrik Clarke Teaches!
Joshua Maponga is forcing people to ask a simple question: what exactly did we exchange for our land, gold, labor, and resources?
You sell land for $10,000. Five years later that same land is worth $10 million. The land still exists. The paper money is worth less every year because governments can print more of it at will.
One side gave up a real asset. The other gave up paper backed largely by confidence and promises. Then we're told this is "wealth creation."
The modern financial system often rewards those who own assets while impoverishing those who sell them. That's why so many nations rich in resources remain poor in reality.
Food, land, water, energy, minerals, and labor create wealth. Paper merely measures it—until it doesn't.
it's magic
Lol, I like the seriousness of my man in the background. No shorts taken!
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I dig it.
Reading is an act of resistance..📚
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Meet Lanny Smoot: a trailblazing inventor with over 100 patents and a 2024 National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee. From humble beginnings in Brooklyn to a stellar career at Bell Labs and Disney Imagineering, Smoot has turned science fiction into reality, creating innovations like the real-life Jedi lightsaber and the holo-tile treadmill for VR. His passion for combining storytelling and technology has brought joy to millions through live-action props and immersive theme park attractions. Smoot's advice? "Get it out of your head into the world." A true inspiration, he shows us the power of creativity, collaboration, and making the impossible possible. 🌟
Rosewood Survivors go Back to Rosewood
Sixty years after the Rosewood Massacre, survivors returned to the place where it all happened. This clip is from a 1983 60 Minutes report hosted by Ed Bradley, and it captures something rare — the moment Minnie Lee Langley and several other survivors set foot in Rosewood for the first time since they were driven out as children in January 1923.
What they returned to was almost nothing. No homes. No businesses. No memorial. No marker. Just land that was once theirs, that was taken from them by a mob, and never given back. They owned that land. They built on it. And it was stripped from them without consequence or compensation.
One of the things I really like about Tumblr is there seems to be a healthy appreciation for invertebrate biology here, which I don’t always see as much on other social media websites. Tumblr users overall seem to love bugs, and it’s important to me that every person who loves bugs knows the name Charles Henry Turner. If you’re not yet familiar with this man, I’m delighted to introduce you to one of the most remarkable minds ever born of this earth, and a true pioneer in the field of entomology and animal behavior.
Charles Turner was born in the United States just a few years after the end of the civil war. His brilliance was evident from the start, and after graduating valedictorian of his high school class he quickly went on to earn his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in short order. While in school, Turner’s relentless curiosity became his greatest advantage. He was drawn to and fascinated by topics that were largely ignored by modern science at the time, namely the cognitive behaviors of insects and other invertebrates. While many of his colleagues believed insects to be mindless automata acting on instinct alone, Turner felt deeply that the brains of these oft overlooked animals were far more complex than the scientific community suspected. He performed extensive experiments to test his theories and found overwhelming evidence of problem solving and individualism among organisms as small as ants and spiders.
By the time Turner earned his zoology pHD in 1907 he had published dozens of papers in highly esteemed journals and had even co-authored a book. It is likely that Turner was the first African American to earn a pHD from the University of Chicago. With such a sparkling academic reputation and enormous body of research, one would expect this candidate to have no issues obtaining a professorship at a prestigious school. Though by every right Turner should have been head of science department at a top university, the systemic racism that permeated academia meant that doors a white man would have walked through were locked and bolted shut for Charles Henry Turner.
Turner did not allow this prejudice to dim in any way his blindingly bright passion for knowledge. He took a job as a high school teacher, and continued to perform and publish research on his own all while he instilled his students with a love for zoology. He published more than 70 papers in extremely respected journals and he remained passionately curious for the entirety of his life. If I tried to list here all of the incredible discoveries Turner made in his lifetime it would take me days to sufficiently express the impact he had on the field of invertebrate behavior. His experiments were so ahead of their time that entomologists today marvel at his research and wonder how much more we would know if Turner’s work had been given the attention and respect of other scientists working at the time. Turner’s mind was about a century ahead of those entomological contemporaries who had no interest in giving him a seat at the table. His tombstone simply reads “scientist”
Like many people of color throughout history, Turner’s exceptional contributions to our world have been unfairly overlooked by many. His name has historically been left out of entomology textbooks and courses, despite laying down groundwork that is still used today. I really recommend that anyone interested in entomology or even biology in general read up on Charles Henry Turner and his works. This is an excellent article that discusses his many challenges and triumphs in the field.
Comrade Julius Malema of The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Was Sentenced To Five Years In Prison By A South African Court!
- “parable of the sower” | Octavia E. Butler
I love being shrouded in a little mystery. Too much sharing was never my cup of tea. Discreet, confidential, secretive had always been my way. Nothing sinister. It is just that I believe people need not know much...
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Yes, now that is one to grow on. In this social media age, there is something about being without the spotlight.