On this day in 1862, California approved a burdensome tax on Chinese workers to “protect free white labor” and discourage immigration from China.
https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/apr/26
#usa #canada #xenophobia #sinophobia #yellowperil #china #immigration #dei #history #education #blackmastodon #cdnpoli #tiktok
@blackmastodon #antiPalestinianracism #whitesupremacy #tax #tariffs #labor #canada
APRIL 25, 2025
Jeff Hauser on DOGE, Karen Thompson on ‘Fetal Personhood’
COUNTERSPIN
https://fair.org/home/jeff-hauser-on-doge-karen-thompson-on-fetal-personhood/
#DODGE #elon #usa #trump #democracy #tiktok #usa #blackmastodon @politics
@blackmastodon
@blackvoices
Gerald Horne Around The Horne: Nvidia v. Huawei; Australia & Canada Elections; Kabila's DRC Return
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw6uIn5WzN8
#tiktok
#blackmastodon #drc #africa
@blackmastodon @BLKNewsNow @blackvoices
#democracy #Election2025 #humanrights #usa #canada #cdnpoli #publicgood #montreal #australia
@blackgirlnerds
How Elites Concern Troll 'Waste' to Gut Social Welfare and Divide the Working Class
#blackmastodon @blackmastodon @BLKNewsNow @blackvoices
#democracy #socialism #labor #pension #health #humanrights #usa #tiktok #cdnpoli #publicgood #SocialWork #socialprograms #workingclass #labor @workingclasshistory
@blackgirlnerds
But if she were a country music act?
Or white?
There's places in NYC and Newark that will support and love her.
#cornelluniversity #blackmastodon https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2025-04-25/kehlani-loses-cornell-gig-university-president-cites-anti-israel-sentiments
Peer reviewed science has costed climate damage caused by the worst businesses to $28 trillion, equivalent a bit less than the sum of all goods and services produced in the United States last year. 1/2
https://x.com/ExtinctionR/status/1916056262988664834
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-world-biggest-companies-trillion-climate.html
#ecocide #genocide
#climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #pollution #capitalism #economy #environment #nature #cdnpoli #tiktok @UnicornRiot
#usa #health #eu #politics #geopolitics #blackmastodon
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#africa @yemen
@palestine
In 1920 the NAACP began flying a flag from the windows of its headquarters at 69 Fifth Avenue when a lynching occurred. The words on the flag were “a man was lynched yesterday.”
The threat of losing its lease forced the NAACP to discontinue the practice in 1938.
Shedeur Sanders: “It's About the Color of His Skin”
Belief is favor. 
When someone believes in you, they awaken the greatness God planted inside you. 
Today’s #FavorFridays celebrates the power of speaking life.
#BeliefIsFavor #SpeakLife #FaithOverFear #BlackWomensHistoryMonth #MentorshipMatters
#black #blackwomen #blackmastodon
[Charquisa Johnson was murdered by pigs on April 26th 2003.]
Attorneys for the family of a 23-year-old woman fatally wounded by D.C. [pig]… accused the department yesterday of protecting the
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Thank God I have my birth certificate.
I will need to start carrying it with me.
Trump's goons may start arresting and deporting Black Americans at some point.
A non-franchise James Bond short film (12 minutes), innit? 
CFL fans watching the NFL bypass Shedeur Sanders in the NFL Draft because he's "too short" and "acts too (stereotypical) Black".
He'll likely be the QB of the Toronto Argonauts or Edmonton Elks next season as a result.
A federal judge in California has ruled that the #Trump administration's actions to deny federal funds to sanctuary jurisdictions were #unconstitutional, stating that the president exceeded his authority with executive orders.
The real tragedy of the commons is…
The Privatization Of Everything w/ Dasia Sade
#BlackMastodon #Culture #Economics #Politics #Project2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEtEvnhziPM&t=28s
The Mississippi Museum of Art is home to one of the American South's largest collections of quilts. A new exhibition there, Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South, aims to offer "a cohesive experiential study of American art through a Black feminist lens," curator Dr. Sharbreon Plummer explained in her guide to the show. Here's more from @colossal; the exhibition is on until May 18.
#Art #Craft #Quilting #History @histodon #BlackHistory #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon
Living While Black.
They will now have to take the slow ass 113 bus to Darby for medical and emergency care at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital.
Or have someone drive them 40 miles to Center City to get care at HUP,Penn Presbyterian or Jefferson.
Or drive 30 minutes south to Wilmington.
#delawarecounty #philadelphia #blackmastodon
https://6abc.com/post/crozer-health-hospital-emergency-rooms-stop-accepting-patients/16228691/
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