Flipboard Culture Desk@flipboard.social · 8 months agoIn 1939, the Dongs, a Chinese American family, could not find a house to rent in Coronado, Calif., because of racially restrictive housing laws. Emma and Gus Thompson, a Black couple, allowed theplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareIn 1939, the Dongs, a Chinese American family, could not find a house to rent in Coronado, Calif., because of racially restrictive housing laws. Emma and Gus Thompson, a Black couple, allowed theplus-squareFlipboard Culture Desk@flipboard.social · 8 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Flipboard Culture Desk@flipboard.social · edit-29 months agoIndieWire's Carole V. Bell says that the movies many of us think of in terms of Black film are from the 1960s, at the earliest. But when curator Doris Berger looked through the archives of the Academyplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareIndieWire's Carole V. Bell says that the movies many of us think of in terms of Black film are from the 1960s, at the earliest. But when curator Doris Berger looked through the archives of the Academyplus-squareFlipboard Culture Desk@flipboard.social · edit-29 months agomessage-square1fedilink
The Conversation U.S.@newsie.social · 9 months agoFor decades, it has been common for people to throw around terms like “voodoo politics,” “voodoo economics,” “voodoo science” and “voodoo medicine” to reference something that they think isplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareFor decades, it has been common for people to throw around terms like “voodoo politics,” “voodoo economics,” “voodoo science” and “voodoo medicine” to reference something that they think isplus-squareThe Conversation U.S.@newsie.social · 9 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Flipboard Culture Desk@flipboard.social · edit-29 months ago"Rhapsody in Blue," George Gershwin's iconic, soaring work, premiered on Feb. 12 1924 as part of "An Experiment in Modern Music," a concert that sought to "make a lady out of jazz." Ryan Raulplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-square"Rhapsody in Blue," George Gershwin's iconic, soaring work, premiered on Feb. 12 1924 as part of "An Experiment in Modern Music," a concert that sought to "make a lady out of jazz." Ryan Raulplus-squareFlipboard Culture Desk@flipboard.social · edit-29 months agomessage-square0fedilink
fulanigirl@blacktwitter.io · edit-29 months ago#ThoughtExperiment #politics #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter The second part of the ThoughtExperiement asked you all to assume Trump was a distraction and to indicate what you thought theplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-square#ThoughtExperiment #politics #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter The second part of the ThoughtExperiement asked you all to assume Trump was a distraction and to indicate what you thought theplus-squarefulanigirl@blacktwitter.io · edit-29 months agomessage-square7fedilink
Aires@tiggi.es · edit-29 months agoIn 1969, an American soul group based out of D.C. recorded the song "Amen, Brother". Halfway-ish through the track, the band pauses to let the drummer, G.C. Coleman, perform a solo. This 7 second soloplus-squaretiggi.esimagemessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1imageIn 1969, an American soul group based out of D.C. recorded the song "Amen, Brother". Halfway-ish through the track, the band pauses to let the drummer, G.C. Coleman, perform a solo. This 7 second soloplus-squaretiggi.esAires@tiggi.es · edit-29 months agomessage-square0fedilink
fulanigirl@blacktwitter.io · 10 months ago#politics #trump #fascism #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitterplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-square#politics #trump #fascism #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitterplus-squarefulanigirl@blacktwitter.io · 10 months agomessage-square19fedilink