🥥 "Donald Trump supporters have been creating and sharing AI-generated fake images of black voters to encourage African Americans to vote Republican."
"The co-founder of Black Voters Matter, a group which encourages black people to vote, said the manipulated images were pushing a "strategic narrative" designed to show Mr Trump as popular in the black community. 🥥 #Voting, #AI, #BlackVoters, #Trump, ##2024Election, #AfricanAmericans, #TuckersBalls https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68440150
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASA’s next flagship astrophysics mission, set to launch by May 2027.
Once #Roman launches, it will allow astronomers to observe the universe like never before. In celebration of Black History Month, let’s get to know some Black scientists and engineers, past and present, whose contributions will allow Roman to make history.
The first book to examine the full range of black life from the vantage point of psychiatry, this widely-acclaimed work has established itself as the classic statement of the desperation, conflicts, and anger of black life in America.
The remarkable story of J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict, and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray.
The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth
This sweeping survey of Black history shows how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery can save the humanity of us all.
Using history as a foundation, The Humanity Archive uses storytelling techniques to make history come alive and uncover the truth behind America's whitewashed history.
'The Black Business Association of Oregon this week launched a new tool to access data on the socioeconomic status of Black Oregonians. The Black Economic Prosperity Dashboard... draws on existing federal, public and proprietary data. It includes data across five topics: population, health, education, economic well-being and business ownership.'
'The old journals and bulletins chronicle the acts of resistance in places like Mississippi, Louisiana and North Carolina, where Black educators fought against injustice in education under Jim Crow. Those stories are now chronicled in the Black Teacher Archive, a groundbreaking new digital portal that was unveiled at Harvard University last month.'
The comments and abuse reports about people sympathetic to the Palestinians or to the Israelis is getting out of hand. I understand this is an incredibly charged and difficult situation for everyone. Seek first to understand before being an asshole to your fellow humans from behind the relative safety of your computer monitor, please.
@PadreWil@cirriustech@jerry #AfricanAmericans, aborigines of Australia, Indigenous North and South Americans, South Africans and people of every formally colonized country in Africa and Asia recognize what is happening in #Palestine.
Europeans& white Americans have never acknowledged the barbarity, cruelty and terrorism of their invadion and extermination of native peoples. Zionists are doing it now. #Netanyahu is trying to drag the world into war just to stay in power. #StopGenocideInGaza
Nancy Gradwell, left, and Bradley Johnson, 8th graders at Philadelphia's Wagner Jr High, listen intently as Mrs, Phyllis Eggleston,
mathematics teacher, explains how to use an IBM 1050 terminal to help solve homework problems, 1966.
'Black defendants were 34% more likely to be recommended to be held behind bars until their cases were resolved, researchers found. ... The vast majority of the racial disparity in detention recommendations operated through pretrial policies and guidelines."
Out of curiosity:
Decolonialization, from my limited perspective, can only be carried with regard to
a) the former mother countries (#France and the #UK) and
b) if you are not a direct descendant of the colonists.
I don't know how many #Canadians there are of (chiefly) #European heritage (#AsianAmericans, #AfricanAmericans,...), but due to a thread I did awhile ago I know that only 4.4% are
of native heritage.
In short, I don't see how and why these other...