BlackPast.org
@blackpastonline.bsky.social
Winner of the 2015 Carter G. Woodson Award from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and the National Education Association
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ICYMI — a shell fired during Vance’s live-fire show of insecurity prematurely detonated over I-5, dropping fragments on his protective CHP detail on a ramp… which thankfully ordered closed by Gov. @GavinNewsom
a damn circus🎪
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
a damn circus🎪
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
October 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
ICYMI — a shell fired during Vance’s live-fire show of insecurity prematurely detonated over I-5, dropping fragments on his protective CHP detail on a ramp… which thankfully ordered closed by Gov. @GavinNewsom
a damn circus🎪
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
a damn circus🎪
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
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www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... Dr Quintard Taylor, founder of @blackpastonline.bsky.social, “there’s a direct frontal assault on African American history.” The rich detail @blackpastonline.bsky.social contains of AfAm achievement across a range of endeavors refutes DJT’s cynical worldview.
UW professor battles a ‘direct, frontal assault’ on Black history
When Quintard Taylor launched BlackPast in 2007, he didn’t realize attacks on history would make the site as necessary as it has proved to be, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes.
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April 5, 2025 at 5:20 AM
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... Dr Quintard Taylor, founder of @blackpastonline.bsky.social, “there’s a direct frontal assault on African American history.” The rich detail @blackpastonline.bsky.social contains of AfAm achievement across a range of endeavors refutes DJT’s cynical worldview.
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“4 months without any contact with the outside world. We were kidnapped. We got a beating for breakfast, a beating for lunch, a beating for dinner.”
Horror stories from the 200+ Venezuelans Trump sent to the El Salvador megaprison with no due process.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Horror stories from the 200+ Venezuelans Trump sent to the El Salvador megaprison with no due process.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
July 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“4 months without any contact with the outside world. We were kidnapped. We got a beating for breakfast, a beating for lunch, a beating for dinner.”
Horror stories from the 200+ Venezuelans Trump sent to the El Salvador megaprison with no due process.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Horror stories from the 200+ Venezuelans Trump sent to the El Salvador megaprison with no due process.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion (1945-46) was the only all-black, all-female battalion overseas during WWII. Known as the Six Triple Eight, they were brought in to manage a backlog of an estimated 17 million pieces of mail. Read more: bit.ly/3F1WnXv. #WomensHistoryMonth
6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion (1945–1946)
The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was an all-black battalion of the Woman’s Army Corps (WAC). The 6888th had 855 enlisted African American women and officers. The battalion was commanded b...
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March 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion (1945-46) was the only all-black, all-female battalion overseas during WWII. Known as the Six Triple Eight, they were brought in to manage a backlog of an estimated 17 million pieces of mail. Read more: bit.ly/3F1WnXv. #WomensHistoryMonth
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Breaking News: President Trump signed an executive order aimed at dismantling the Department of Education, which can’t be closed without Congress. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/4ikmXdm
March 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Breaking News: President Trump signed an executive order aimed at dismantling the Department of Education, which can’t be closed without Congress. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/4ikmXdm
The DoD may try to delete you, but we won't. Let's celebrate #JackieRobinsonDay early!
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March 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The DoD may try to delete you, but we won't. Let's celebrate #JackieRobinsonDay early!
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So students can be alert to scapegoating divide & conquer tactics, teach outside textbook about Red Scare, "a scorched-earth policy against country’s most progressive forces."
Not just McCarthy & Hollywood, it was an attack on Black freedom & labor struggles.
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Not just McCarthy & Hollywood, it was an attack on Black freedom & labor struggles.
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/su...
Subversives: Stories from the Red Scare
Students meet targets of government harassment and repression to analyze why disparate individuals might have become government targets.
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March 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
So students can be alert to scapegoating divide & conquer tactics, teach outside textbook about Red Scare, "a scorched-earth policy against country’s most progressive forces."
Not just McCarthy & Hollywood, it was an attack on Black freedom & labor struggles.
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/su...
Not just McCarthy & Hollywood, it was an attack on Black freedom & labor struggles.
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/su...
Born in Barbados, Mabel Keaton Staupers (1890-1989) a was a registered nurse & public health advocate. During WWII, she initiated a campaign that ended the exclusion of black nurses from the U.S. Army. #WomensHistoryMonth
Click the link to read more: bit.ly/4hk6K6p.
Click the link to read more: bit.ly/4hk6K6p.
March 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Born in Barbados, Mabel Keaton Staupers (1890-1989) a was a registered nurse & public health advocate. During WWII, she initiated a campaign that ended the exclusion of black nurses from the U.S. Army. #WomensHistoryMonth
Click the link to read more: bit.ly/4hk6K6p.
Click the link to read more: bit.ly/4hk6K6p.
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Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, civil rights leaders in Selma continue fight
Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, civil rights leaders in Selma continue fight
Election of Trump and threats to democracy front of mind as activists remember peaceful marchers attacked by police
What would John Lewis do today?
On a Sunday morning 60 years ago, activists rewrote the story of the civil rights movement in their own…
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March 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, civil rights leaders in Selma continue fight
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The USDA 1890 National Scholars Program for land-grant HBCUs has reopened after the federal government temporarily suspended it.
USDA Reopens 1890 Scholars Program at Alcorn and Other HBCUs
The USDA 1890 National Scholars Program for land-grant HBCUs has reopened after the federal government temporarily suspended it.
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March 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The USDA 1890 National Scholars Program for land-grant HBCUs has reopened after the federal government temporarily suspended it.
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What’s DC Mayor’s problem taking down BLM Plaza just because letters on a street tigger MAGA morons….and who is getting the bill
March 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
What’s DC Mayor’s problem taking down BLM Plaza just because letters on a street tigger MAGA morons….and who is getting the bill
March 10: Happy #HarrietTubmanDay! The holiday is celebrated in NY & MD and honors the abolitionist, Union Army scout & spy, and suffragist, who freed herself and returned to free others from slavery. Click the link to read more about Tubman (1813-1921). #WomensHistoryMonth
➡️ bit.ly/3cetw07.
➡️ bit.ly/3cetw07.
March 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
March 10: Happy #HarrietTubmanDay! The holiday is celebrated in NY & MD and honors the abolitionist, Union Army scout & spy, and suffragist, who freed herself and returned to free others from slavery. Click the link to read more about Tubman (1813-1921). #WomensHistoryMonth
➡️ bit.ly/3cetw07.
➡️ bit.ly/3cetw07.
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“Of course, people at first did not take to him, but then when they saw how dedicated he was in wanting to do the work, even the white people in the school system realized how dedicated he was, and so they helped him," Cheryl Kimmons Davis said.
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March 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“Of course, people at first did not take to him, but then when they saw how dedicated he was in wanting to do the work, even the white people in the school system realized how dedicated he was, and so they helped him," Cheryl Kimmons Davis said.
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Grammy-Nominated R&B Singer Angie Stone Dies in Car Crash: Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone, a member of the all-female hip hop trio The Sequence and known for the hit song “Wish I Didn’t Miss You,” was killed early Saturday in a car crash
Grammy-Nominated R&B Singer Angie Stone Dies in Car Crash
Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone, a member of the all-female hip hop trio The Sequence and known for the hit song “Wish I Didn’t Miss You,” was killed early Saturday in a car crash
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March 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Grammy-Nominated R&B Singer Angie Stone Dies in Car Crash: Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone, a member of the all-female hip hop trio The Sequence and known for the hit song “Wish I Didn’t Miss You,” was killed early Saturday in a car crash
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New York civil rights activist Hazel Dukes dies at 92: Former NAACP New York State Conference president and longtime civil rights activist Hazel Dukes died at age 92, her family announced Saturday.
New York civil rights activist Hazel Dukes dies at 92
Former NAACP New York State Conference president and longtime civil rights activist Hazel Dukes died at age 92, her family announced Saturday.
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March 2, 2025 at 2:35 AM
New York civil rights activist Hazel Dukes dies at 92: Former NAACP New York State Conference president and longtime civil rights activist Hazel Dukes died at age 92, her family announced Saturday.
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“A day over 150 years in the making.”
A Powerful ceremony in the rotunda honoring the enslaved craftspeople who helped build the Tennessee Capitol.
(H/T @brotherjones.bsky.social )
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGrwi02...
A Powerful ceremony in the rotunda honoring the enslaved craftspeople who helped build the Tennessee Capitol.
(H/T @brotherjones.bsky.social )
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGrwi02...
March 2, 2025 at 4:48 AM
“A day over 150 years in the making.”
A Powerful ceremony in the rotunda honoring the enslaved craftspeople who helped build the Tennessee Capitol.
(H/T @brotherjones.bsky.social )
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGrwi02...
A Powerful ceremony in the rotunda honoring the enslaved craftspeople who helped build the Tennessee Capitol.
(H/T @brotherjones.bsky.social )
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGrwi02...
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March 2: #OTD in 1955, Claudette Colvin (b. 1939) was arrested in Montgomery, AL for refusing to give up her seat to white passenger on a city bus. #WomensHistoryMonth
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March 3, 2025 at 5:02 AM
March 2: #OTD in 1955, Claudette Colvin (b. 1939) was arrested in Montgomery, AL for refusing to give up her seat to white passenger on a city bus. #WomensHistoryMonth
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My latest. Please read + share:
"Drain MSNBC of Viewers As It Whitewashes its Network to Placate Trump"
MSNBC has decided to silence, sideline, & cancel prominent anchors of color, such as Joy Reid. The rest of us can tune out and build our own media community.
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"Drain MSNBC of Viewers As It Whitewashes its Network to Placate Trump"
MSNBC has decided to silence, sideline, & cancel prominent anchors of color, such as Joy Reid. The rest of us can tune out and build our own media community.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Drain MSNBC of Viewers As It Whitewashes its Network to Placate Trump
Under the leadership of Rebecca Kutler, MSNBC has decided to silence, sideline, and cancel prominent anchors of color, such as Joy Reid. The rest of us can tune out and build our own media community.
open.substack.com
February 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
My latest. Please read + share:
"Drain MSNBC of Viewers As It Whitewashes its Network to Placate Trump"
MSNBC has decided to silence, sideline, & cancel prominent anchors of color, such as Joy Reid. The rest of us can tune out and build our own media community.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
"Drain MSNBC of Viewers As It Whitewashes its Network to Placate Trump"
MSNBC has decided to silence, sideline, & cancel prominent anchors of color, such as Joy Reid. The rest of us can tune out and build our own media community.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
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Plus Joy and Lester Holt? Looks like the slide deck of a Power Point presentation at an employment discrimination webinar. Not a good look @msnbc.com
Not a good look at all.
A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network.
www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...
Not a good look at all.
A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network.
www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...
New MSNBC Bloodbath of Non-White Anchors After Joy Reid Forced Out
Jonathan Capehart, Katie Phang, and Ayman Mohyeldin have all lost their shows.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Plus Joy and Lester Holt? Looks like the slide deck of a Power Point presentation at an employment discrimination webinar. Not a good look @msnbc.com
Not a good look at all.
A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network.
www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...
Not a good look at all.
A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network.
www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...
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Chris Jasper, a music legend known for his pivotal role in shaping the sound of The Isley Brothers, has died, his family announced. He was 73.
February 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Chris Jasper, a music legend known for his pivotal role in shaping the sound of The Isley Brothers, has died, his family announced. He was 73.
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Chris Jasper
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Chris Jasper
Jerry Butler
Gwen McCrae
February 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Roberta Flack
Chris Jasper
Jerry Butler
Gwen McCrae
Roberta Flack
Chris Jasper
Jerry Butler
Gwen McCrae