Happy Black History Month!
Here’s some Black history you should know:
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Dred Scott decision
- Brown v. Board
- Emmett Till/history of lynching
- Jim Crow laws (ongoing)
- Underground Railroad
- Great Migration
- Tulsa Race Massacre
- Birmingham Campaign
horror and where to watch it: black history month edition
us - paramount +/peacock
sinners - hbo max
vampire in brooklyn - paramount +
tales from the hood - starz
bones - starz
the blackening - netflix
barbarian - hulu
candyman (2021) - peacock
attack the block - pluto tv
It’s #BlackHistoryMonth and I have to ask:
Are people including enslaved Africans, descendants of those enslaved, and Black people whose unjust, low-wage labor sustained the economy in the 1800s/1900s as immigrants when they say “immigrants built this country”?
Because chattel slavery was for the express purpose of building empire.
But our ancestors weren’t folks who came here seeking a better life.
They arrived in chains, were bred like cattle, and severely violated, sexually and otherwise. Their trauma shouldn’t be diminished or forgotten, even in efforts toward freedom from ICE’s inhumane, violent tactics.
We can only get to justice for all when truth is taught, embraced, and spoken.
this is what i’m saying. so many of these celebrities are so fucking performative and just want their names off the slate they actually don’t care about the cause