The Tignon laws of the 18th century were laws that banned black women from exposing their natural hair in public. #InternationalWomensDay Their hairdos was obscuring the status of the white women and this threatened the social stability. The law would control colored women “who

With #2024MPA right around the corner, we are getting excited to see all the amazing research and present our own. Sheba, M.A. Nadia Floyd Andrew White Tiffany A. Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social Evava (Eva) S. Pietri Amanda Diekman MidwesternPsychAssociation

Exactly how many Black students do people think elite schools admit? The where are the Black people tweets regarding the protest seem confused. Trust me, I asked the same thing at Northwestern and I wasn’t talking about a protest.

The reason why y’all keep trying to equate Haiti to settler colonialism is because y’all don’t see Africans as indigenous people. If you did, you would know the Africans in the Americas are indigenous people whose ancestors were victims of displacement and human trafficking.

That you’d have people in Ohio believing Haitians are running around and randomly eating wildlife and are a threat to them, is directly related to the fact that US politicians have been spreading myths of “Haitian cannibalism” to justify getting police + troops into Haiti

I firmly believe that anti-Haitian racism is deeply tied to the legacy of the Haitian Revolution. It feels like we're still being penalized for that historic fight for freedom.

The real debate about Haitians we should be having is that the USA and France owe Haiti many billions in reparation.

while haiti is in the news so much this week maybe we should all take a moment to discuss the fact that their economic destitution is entirely due to being forced to spend ~80% of their federal budget every year for 150 years on reparations to france for freeing the slaves

solidarity with haitians love to haitians. and if you refuse to stand up for any of these groups targeted by outlandish disgusting xenophobia, please just know: you will be next

White and non-Black people cannot tell the difference between a Haitian, Black American, Jamaican, Nigerian, or Kenyan. Y’all better learn some solidarity or die. Honestly, they were all right. Thomas Sankara, Kwame Ture, James Baldwin, Malcolm X. They were all right.

Western colonialism did not bring civilization into Africa, instead, it interrupted the African civilization.

innocence cannot be our metric for determining who is and is not worthy of life, of living. guilt & innocence is a binary that folds under the weight of this nation’s history and cruelty. your innocence is always conditional

Sudan is still bleeding. Congo is still in crisis. Haiti is still destabilized. Remember them as you remember other people.

Hip hop in its purest form will always make America uncomfortable. The genre has been watered down in mainstream culture for so long that folks have forgotten it was never designed to be accepted by the masses. Enjoyable? Yes. But accepted as equal to pop, country, rock? Never.

Thematically the show was about Kendrick refusing to conform to white Americans standards so this makes sense

Happy Black History Month

On Feb 14th in 1779, native Hawaiians killed Captain Cook, a ruthless coloniser and imperialist, because he tried to kidnap their chief. Have a beautiful day everyone!