Showing posts with label Black history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black history. Show all posts
Friday, February 01, 2019

Happy Black History Month 2019

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Black History Month may only happen in the shortest month of our calendar, but for me, every month is Black History Month.   Our greatness...
Tuesday, April 03, 2018

50th Anniversary Of The 'I've Been To The Mountaintop' Speech

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Today is the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's  'I've Been To The Mountaintop' Speech.  It was del...
Saturday, February 10, 2018

Meet The 1st Black Player Ever On The US Olympic Hockey Team

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FOX Noise's John Moody may hate the diverse US Winter Olympic team, but I don't.  One of the cool benefits of that team diversit...
Saturday, January 06, 2018

Erin Jackson Is Going To The Olympics!

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24 year old Erin Jackson has only been participating in long track speed skating full time for four months.   Coming into the US Olympic S...
Monday, October 02, 2017

50th Anniversary of Thurgood Marshall Becoming First Black SCOTUS Justice

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With all the horrible news coming out of Las Vegas concerning our latest domestic terrorist attack,  almost slipped my mind that today was...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

The New H-Town Emancipation Avenue Signs Are Up!

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I've known this was going to happen since January, but the city of Houston a month before Juneteenth finally has put the new street si...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Bethune-Cookman Students Are Part Of A Distinguished Heritage Of HBCU Protest

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For those of you tripping because Secretary of (Miseducation  Betsy DeVos' megabucks couldn't save her from getting dragged by the...
Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Coretta Scott King's 1986 Letter About Jeff Sessions

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US Senate Rule 19 doesn't affect me.   Here's the letter that Senator/Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)tried to read in the Senate chambers ...
Wednesday, February 01, 2017

Black Trans People Are STILL Making Black History

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"Black trans history is also vitally important to point out to Black cis people, our allies and our detractors we not only exist, we...
Monday, January 09, 2017

The ISS Will Finally Get A Black Astronaut On It!

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NASA has launched 14 African Americans into space through it history.   Thanks to the movie Hidden Figures , we now know that African-Ame...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Looking Forward To Seeing 'Hidden Figures'

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As a native Houstonian who also grew up as a space junkie, loved it when we got to do a field trip to NASA stating in our junior high scho...
Friday, December 09, 2016

Human Rights Activist Viola Desmond To Become First Canadian Woman On Canadian Currency

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I've talked about on the blog beautician and businesswoman Viola Desmond, who nine years before Rosa Parks did so in the US, the then...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Meet Our DNC 2016 Black Trans Delegates

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Trans people have been part of the DNC convention landscape since 2000, but it wasn't until 2008 that we African American trans folk...
Friday, January 15, 2016

Happy 87th Birthday, Dr King!

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Today is what would have been the 87th birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the greatest Americans our people have ever ...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

The Fascinating Story Of Mary Jones

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The ongoing mission of TransGriot is to unearth nuggets of our trans history so that we drive home the point that trans people didn't ...
Friday, July 10, 2015

Black Trans History Is A Fascinating And Evolving Story

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I was surprised, pleased and honored to see a meme created by TransMusePlanet that quotes me on the importance of Black trans history.  It...