“Why don’t you do something?” -Stormé DeLarverie “We have to be visible. We should not be ashamed of who we are.”-Silvia Rivera ״No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.” Marsha P Johnson
Stop being ignorant about white privilege. It does NOT mean you're racist. It does NOT mean your life has been easy. It does NOT mean you don't face struggles too. It means your life isn't made harder by your skin color. THAT'S IT. HAVE SOME EMPATHY. DON'T MAKE IT ABOUT YOU.
In 1954, American tap dancer Arthur Duncan made his first appearance on the Betty White show. Despite criticism for featuring a Black performer, Betty White stood up for him and gave him more airtime. Duncan later expressed his admiration for Betty, acknowledging that she played a significant role in launching his show business career. Unfortunately, her show was cancelled shortly after that incident. Betty White passed away at age 99, leaving behind a remarkable legacy. Rest in peace.
This is Princess Lili'uokalani. She became the last sovereign ruler of Hawaii. The photo was taken in 1859 when she was only 21 years old.
In 1874, Lili'uokalani's brother, David Kalakaua, became king, and a few years later, she was named the heir apparent. She spent the next few years building schools for the people of Hawaii.
In 1881, Liliuokalani served as regent while the king was away on his tour of the world. When a smallpox epidemic broke out on the island of Oahu, she made the quick decision to close down all its ports, which helped contain the spread and ended up saving many lives. However, her decision irked many of the wealthy sugarcane plantation owners.
In 1891, her brother died, and she became the ruler of Hawaii. Unfortunately, her reign would be very short-lived as a coup led by Sanford Dole (his cousin founded the Dole Food Company) and several other white businessmen and lawyers, with the backing of the United States, would annex the islands. Two years later, when Lili'uokalani and her supporters attempted to return to power, she was charged with treason and forced to go under house arrest. In order to pardon her supporters, she agreed to yield her power to the United States.
"Now, to avoid any collision of armed forces and perhaps loss of life, I do, under this protest, and impelled by said forces, yield my authority until such time as the Government of the United States shall, upon the facts being presented to it, undo the action of its representative and reinstate me in the authority which I claim as the constitutional sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands."
She spent the remainder of her life in exile until her death in 1917 at age 79.
After the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862 , Many Civil War soldiers' lives were saved by a phenomenon they called 'Angel's Glow.' The soldiers who lay in the mud for two rainy days had wounds that began to glow in the dark.
The men had no explanation for the strange glow, but doctors soon discovered that soldiers who had reported seeing their wounds glow had a higher chance of survival than soldiers who did not. Not only that, they also seemed to have lower rates of infection. Moreover, their injuries appeared to heal much faster than their non-glowing counterparts.
In 2001, 17-year-old high school student, Bill Martin and his friend, Jonathan Curtis, won an international science fair by discovering that the soldiers had been so cold that their bodies created the perfect conditions for growing a bioluminescent bacteria, Photorhabdus luminescens, which ultimately destroyed the bad bacteria that could have killed them.
A group founded by the right-wing activist behind the Supreme Court’s decision to reject affirmative action has sued a venture capital fund that supports Black women who own small businesses, accusing it of unlawful racial discrimination https://t.co/3Q4VEY2iam