https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2WkcKk3jDTE
Feb 2026
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Damn this really does make 100 years 
I'd been thinking about about "28 days" thread
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hruey1Jp0aU&pp=ygUWYXNhbGggY2FydGVyIGcgd29vZHNvbg%3D%3D
02/01/26
On February 1, as we launch Black History Month, join ASALH National President and Karson Institute Executive Director Karsonya Wise Whitehead in conversation with past ASALH National President Daryl Michael Scott, JAAH Editor Bertis English, Critical Race Theorist and Law Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, and other invited guests as they review where we have come from and offer suggestions for how we actively push back and push forward.
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This'll be our official BHM thread. Trying to learn/share something I never knew personally daily.
Dating back to 1639, both free and enslaved Black people in Massachusetts had their OWN election 
'Negro Election Day'. This 'king' or 'governor' would serve as the intermediary between them and the existing power structure. Black folks embodied democratic representation 150 years before the first presidential election!! 
The practice carried on and is still celebrated today.
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Great post.
Fascinating that the British recognized that the Africans came from hierarchal societies, and allowed elements of that to transfer
Maggie Lena Walker: The first female bank president of any race in America. The bank survived the Great Depression thanks to her continued foresight and mergers, surviving until 2005 as a Black owned Bank. They started in 1903.
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After completing his PhD at the University of Illinois in 1916 and becoming the first African American in the U.S. with a doctorate in chemistry, St. Elmo Brady faced a difficult decision.
“Here I was an ambitious young man, who had all of the advantage of a great university, contact with great minds, and the use of all modern equipment. Was I willing to forget these and go back to a school in the heart of Alabama where I wouldn’t have even a Bunsen burner?” Brady once said, according to Samuel Massie, who was a student and collaborator of Brady's at Fisk University.
Not only did Brady return to teaching at Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama, but he became an instrumental force in the developÂment of chemical education programs and facilities at four well-known Historically Black Colleges and Universities that continue today: Tuskegee University, Howard UniÂversity, Fisk University and TougaÂloo College.
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Sad to say I don't know much Black history out west. Allen Allensworth reminds me a bit of Martin Delaney
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Great work, Buddy. Good choice of lesser known pioneers. Looking forward to them.
Allensworth story does mirror a bit of Delany’s
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Missed yesterday's drop but I'm still doing this. Black History isn't some past relic, its a living and breathing experience. I shared this lady on the old site some years back and she's a great example of history in action: Meet Chaymeriyia Moncrief, Telecom provider
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March 2023 -- Carrie Mae Weems becomes the first black woman to win the Hasselblad Award, widely considered Photography's "Nobel Prize".
It's also a good chance to show off a gallery feature available on here. Only with uploads though. here's a bit of her most famous work "Kitchen Table" series along with a few other collections I found pretty dope.
Her website: https://www.carriemaeweems.net/
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February 2025 -- Dorothy Phillips becomes the first Black wokan president of the National Chemical Society
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Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first Black owned in America. Most of their work is lost, but this feature survived
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The NAACP was founded on this day in 1909
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Imagine its post emancipation, you wanna check uo on your kin thru a letter, and then here comes Mary "Stagecoach" Fields
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Honoring the life and work of Jesse Jackson today, RIP.
MLK sanctioned Jesse to run Operation Breadbasket in Chicago, but it was Jesse's execution that made it a success. According Operation Breadbasket: An Untold Story of Civil Rights in Chicago, 1966-1971, the operation created over 4500 jobs for Black Americans over the course of six years, generating 57.5 million dollars for Black Chicagoans
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NBA All-Star weekend just passed and the sport likely wouldn't be what it is today without "The Black Fives" era/movement. The Colored Basketball league actually precedes the Negro Leagues by over a decade. They didn't have a "league" in the same since, but the movement created dozens of teams and thousands of matches across the country. From 1904 until the 50s when the NBA integrated if I understand correctly. A non-profit has been created to preserve their history and legacy for anyone interested
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it's hard to see the significance in this digital age, but Shelby Davidson-- a lawyer AND inventor helped automate the US Postal Service in the early 20th century
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The Tuskegee Airmen receive all the hype but flowers are owed to Archibald "Archie" Alexander. The man designed Moton Field, where they trained himself.
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I'm proud to say my fam grew from of this town. The first all black town in Alabama
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