Dammit RIP indeed.

The below from qospress is not Freddie’s work; here’s a typical example. I don’t think this one was a Tiptree t-shirt.

A snapshot that completely establishes -- to my satisfaction, anyway -- that the current AI boom is nothing but a fragile bubble. And we will end up paying the price.

2/28: #BlackHistoryMonth We'll close with the late great #Octavia_Butler, whom I was privileged to know casually. She was basically the first science fiction author to win a Macarthur "Genius Grant," to go along with her PEN Lifetime Achievement Award. ...

www.octaviabutler.com

2/27: #BlackHistoryMonth is almost over. I want to end with two much more familiar names, people whose lives and work matter to me personally. Since Friday is #BuyNothingDay, tonight we honor the great #John_Lewis. He would undoubtedly be participating (if not leading) if he were still with us. ...

2/26: #BlackHistoryMonth Because of my own lifelong connections with publishing, I'm especially glad to know about Robert Sengstacke Abbott. Abbott got his law degree in 1898, but was prevented by racism from practicing law. ...

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2/24: #BlackHistoryMonth We wouldn't have Black history without Black historians, so today I uplift Drs. #SharonHarley and #RosalynTerborg-Penn. Their book, The Afro-American Woman: Struggles and Images, was first published in 1978 and reissued in 1997 ...

www.blackclassicbooks.com/the-afro-ame...

Many of his portraits were of people who came in off 125th Street. His famous subjects include poet Countee Cullen, dancer Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson, and black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. This one is called "Portrait of a Young Woman."

bell hooks, whom I was lucky enough to hear speak one time, was a scholar of race, feminism, capitalism, gender ... and love. Her ALL ABOUT LOVE: NEW VISIONS made the NY Times bestseller list during protests in response to George Floyd's murder, more than 20 years after it was published.

The list of her awards as the artistic director is too long for skeets. And there are so many photographs of her dancing. Here's one:

#Judith_Jamison
#AILEY
#contemporary_dance

We wouldn't have what we call "country" if it wasn't for Rodgers, who pioneered much of the genre, including the yodeling that was emblematic of the music for many decades. Rodgers won a Lifetime Achievement Grammy in 2017. Like so much else in the U.S., country music is Black music.

Catching up on #blackhistorymonth. Mary Church Terrell co-founded the National Association of Colored Women, the 1st secular national organization dedicated to African-American women. One thing they did was create nurseries and kindergartens for Black children.

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I missed 2/5 and 2/6 for #blackhistorymonth. Catching up now.

In Colin Kaepernick's lineage we find high-jumper Eroseanna ("Rose") Robinson, a civil rights activist who refused to stand for the US anthem in 1959 at the PanAmerican games in Chicago.

tinyurl.com/4kbyzrck

#black_activism
#protest

2/4 Guion Bluford, the first Black U.S. astronaut. More about him and other Black astronauts in THE SPACE RACE films.nationalgeographic.com/the-space-race

Thanks to @waywardcats.bsky.social for this one.

#BlackHistoryMonth
#astronaut
#space_exploration

Okay, they can’t have #blackhistorymonth and Black people shouldn’t have to carry the ball on this one. I’ll start by lifting up my hero, #PauliMurray (1910-1985): legal scholar who designed the basis of Brown v Board of Education (and didn’t get any public credit). …

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