On this day in 1865, the Kentucky General Assembly refused to endorse an end to slavery in America. Kentucky did not officially ratify the Thirteenth Amendment until 1976. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

BALTIMORE: DRUID HILL PARK POOL NO. 2 Built: 1921 Desegregated: 1955 Drained: 1956 Public pools were common in American cities before the 1950s and most were officially “whites only”. When the Supreme Court declared segregated access to public amenities (such as pools) to be

Right in front of Leopold II statue in Belgium 🇧🇪, the people of Congo protest against the ongoing genocide in Eastern Congo and the looting of resources by the west in the Region. #CongoGenocide

Protest against the ongoing genocide in Congo right in front of Apple Store in London (UK). Remember About 70 per cent of all the global cobalt consumed in a year is mined out of the DRC. Big Tech like Tesla, Apple and other hardware manufacturers take up a major chunk of this

Mary Jane Patterson made history when she became the first black woman to receive a college degree when she graduated from Oberlin College in 1862. She was also the first black principal at America's first public high school for black students. (Preparatory High School for

Dr. Nathan Mossell, whose great-grandfather survived the Middle Passage, was a highly accomplished surgeon & founded a hospital in Philadelphia in 1895.

On this day in 1886, white citizens in Boise, Idaho, organized an anti-Chinese convention and voted to expel Chinese citizens, who had moved to the area for work in mining and construction. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

Africa is portrayed as a continent without history before slavery and colonialism. African History isn't known by many people compared to the history of Europe, Americas, and Asia. Some of the world's great civilisations such as Mali flourished in Africa. A THREAD!

THE FACE OF SARAH BAARTMAN The story of Sarah Baartman of South Africa who had an unusual long backside. Sarah Baartman, also known as Saartjie Baartman, was a Khosa woman who was born in South Africa in the late 1789. She is famous for being exhibited as a freak show

Lorenzo Dow Turner (1890 –1972) was an academic and linguist who conducted seminal research on the Gullah language of coastal South Carolina and Georgia. He earned a master's degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He taught at Howard University

In 1961 they assassinated Patrice Lumumba and Congo have never been the same again…. All the Coup happened because we were disunited and weak. - Lumumba #Africa

Nannie Helen Burroughs (left) was an educator, an entrepreneur, a staunch advocate of women’s rights, & the daughter of formerly enslaved parents in Virginia. She founded a school in Washington DC in 1901. loc.gov/exhibitions/wo…

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3 More Universities Settle Price-Fixing Lawsuit for $132 Million insidehighered.com/news/quick-tak…

Two Penn State Berks #professors #elected as INFORMS #DEI #Ambassadors psu.edu/news/berks/sto…

#GreenBook #BlackHistoryMonth #Geography #professor #explores #historical #cartography in 'The Living Black Atlas' psu.edu/news/earth-and…

🎉We are so excited to welcome Allison Mitchell (@AlliMitch04) and Hannah Hicks as our next postdoctoral scholars! Allison will be the Richards Center and Penn State Africana Research Center postdoc in African American history and Hannah will be the Richards Center postdoc in the Civil War Era.🎉

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