#bhm 2026

[intersexcrittor]

Loving and supporting Black people is intersex! Happy Black History Month! 🫶🏾

[atlasrainerot]

I wanted to draw my two favorite dinosaur-adjacent Black girl superheroes interacting while it’s still Black History Month~ ✨

I think they would get along great honestly & that warms my heart greatly :’) (also Shelby would LOVE Devil like are you kidding— ♥️🦖)

[champmorado]

Highlighting the Black characters of the World of Cars!

since Black history month is ending soon, i wanted to make an appreciation post for some of the Black cars and planes characters :>

note: i will only be including characters who are/were originally voiced by Black voice actors. we are also appreciating the actors (and racers) that brought these characters to life!!

Flo, voiced by Jenifer Lewis

Lewis Hamilton, voiced by and based on himself

Leadbottom, voiced by Cedric the Entertainer

Roper, voiced by Sinbad

Dynamite, voiced by Regina King

Natalie Certain, voiced by Kerry Washington

River Scott, voiced by Isiah Whitlock Jr. and based on Wendell Scott

Bubba Wheelhouse, voiced by and based on Bubba Wallace

[profeminist]

"Rosa Parks was born on this day Feb 4, 1913. Often wrongly described as "quiet", she was actually a lifelong activist who supported Black power, Malcolm X and worked alongside the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit."

Learn more about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers on the Working Class History podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e61-the-league-of-revolutionary-black-workers-in-detroit/

[burbujita-arts]

BHM

Being afro _ doesn't mean only afro american.

in February of all years i will say:

You're welcome Afro Americans

You're welcome Afro Latinos and Afro Latinas

You're welcome Afro Brazilians

You're welcome Afro Caribbeans

You're welcome Afro chinese

You're welcome Afro Russians

You're welcome Afro Japenese

You're welcome Afro Koreans

You're welcome Afro Indians

You're welcome Afro Muslims

You're welcome Afro Arabs

You're welcome Afro christians

You're welcome Afro Jews

You're welcome Afro Balkans

You're welcome Afro Slavic

You're welcome Afro Nordics

You're welcome Afro Baltics

You're welcome Afro Mediterraneans

You're welcome Blasians in general

You're welcome Afro Europeans in general

You're welcome Afro/Black people with Vitiligo

You're welcome Afro headcanons on Non-Human Characters

You're welcome Positive Black Coding Characters

You're welcome Mulattos

You're welcome good black represitation in cartoon, movies, videogames, books and series.

You're welcome Non-Black people that celebrate BHM and suppors every race and color

You're welcome every color in the planet Earth

You're welcome Afro Feminists

You're welcome Afro children

You're welcome Afro music

You're welcome Afro Artists

You're welcome Afro Writers

You're welcome!

DNI RACISTS, TRANSIDS AND TRANSRACIAL/TRACE/DIARACIAL (BECAUSE IT'S NOT LIKE A GENDER IDENTITY, IT'S CULTURAL APPROPRIATION AND THAT'S WRONG!)

[swan2swan]

[robtrujilloart]

Black Is Beautiful- Freedom House Ambulance

The Freedom House Ambulance service was founded in 1967 in Pittsburg, PA by Phil Hallen (former ambulance driver) and Dr Peter Safar (Pioneering Dr @ Univ of Pittsburgh) in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, a predominantly Black neighborhood. EMT, Paramedics, and modern ambulances in the US owe a great deal to the Black men and women of Freedom House Ambulance. Around this time there were no ambulances for most working class folks in big cities, you called the police and they threw you in the back of a cop car or a police wagon. Being that there was rampant police brutality, profiling, harassment, and murder at the hands of police there was a contentious relationship when it came to emergency medical service. The majority of officers had no medical training and Black folks were at their wim when it came to being "sick enough" to warrant emergency medical services. As a result so many died from treatable things.

Enter Freedom House, a community based organization that got funding to not only create a hood based ambulance service, but to hire Black men; many of which were unemployed, did not graduate college, or had been in the system. Pioneering Dr Safar and several others gave them 12 months of medical training learning anatomy, physiology, resuscitation, etc. In addition to hundreds of hours in classroom settings , they spent time in the emergency and operating rooms, as well as the morgue before hitting the streets. And when they hit the streets they responded to six thousand calls in the first year or 16 emergency calls daily. Coming from the neighborhoods they were serving they understood when people were having a medical emergency relating to overdose, sickle cell anemia, diabetes, etc. In fact they were among the first paramedics to pioneer techniques using narcan for overdose, electric shock for heart attacks, intubating patients, CPR, and IV's. They were a mobile emergency hospital because they stabilized patients, saving thousands of lives.

Fast forward to the mid 70s, word got around that wealthier more white neighborhoods were not receiving the same level of expertise; the mayor and white establishment got jealous; and they intentionally pulled funding and support for the program. The city began randomly testing Freedom House medics, ruling out anyone who had been locked up, and using them to train white EMT's who got better promotions. Eventually everyone was pushed out and only a select few were able to find employment with the city. But their work went on to help save lives nationwide and is still being used today.

Sources: WQED Pittsburg, Film: Heroes on Call, Wikipedia, and Sage Journals

Dig this? Check out my piece about these medical professionals: Dr Muriel Petioni, Dr Dorothy Brown, or Alice Augusta Ball

[realjonghyun90s]

hey so uhhh....

consider clicking this link to help a Black disabled person escape abusive family this BHM!

thank you! please have a nice day! 💜