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The Gist of Freedom Preserving American History through Black Literature . . .
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Join The Gist of Freedom for a live online discussion in celebration of the African American experience—honoring all the people, past and present, black and white—who have determined to preserve history in literature, craftsmanship and artifact.
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Black Doll Creator Karen Byrd is hyped to watch Shonda Rhimes’ Black Barbie
Jun 18, 202400:19:00Tap to summarize{"#":"Shonda Rhimes' documentary Black Barbie Premieres on Netflix on Juneteenth; Wednesday June 19th 2024! Join. Shellie Gaines and Black doll creator Karen Byrd discuss her dolls, their hairstyles and her company Black Girls United.\n","@xmlns:content":"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"}
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Black Women's Club Movement The Phillis Wheatley Association
Dec 26, 202200:56:00Tap to summarize{"#":"Join Sherrie Tolliver as she shares her mother's artifacts and stories from her involvement in The Black Women's Club Movement. \n\nJane Edna Hunter (1882-1971) – Activist\n\nWith the help of other women and $1,500, Jane Edna Hunter opened the Working Girls Home Association, a boarding home for 10 women on East 40th, north of Central Avenue. The purpose of this voluntary association was to build a safe residence for the homeless, unprotected, newly arriving African American women and working women like herself.\n\nThe purpose of the Department was to build a national network of Phyllis Wheatley Associations to house self-supporting, self-respecting African American women and girls and provide a meeting place for club women.\n\nHunter acquired a 2-story building and the name changed to the Phillis Wheatley Association, in honor of the late 18th-century Boston slavery survivor considered the first African American poet. The number of residents soon strained the capacity of the 23-room house. By 1919 the association purchased a 3-story building and An adjoining building,\n\n \n\nThe PWA was one of the first institutions designed to meet the needs of African American social services in Cleveland. Hunter wrote an autobiography, “A Nickel and a Prayer,” in 1940.\n","@xmlns:content":"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"}
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Tamara Lanier Suing Harvard On Behalf Enslaved Ancestors Images
Dec 8, 202200:19:00Tap to summarize{"#":"Congratulating Harvard for appointing a Black President! Tamara Lanier is suing Harvard for perpetuating a eugenics racist experiement involving horrific dehumanizing nude images of her enslaved ancestors. Although enslaved Papa Renty was a self-taught literate patriarch Harvard purports his intelligence was equal to a 5 month old fetus. With unshakable faith and hope he educated his family and distant kindred. Once free Renty’s descendants overcame insurmountable challenges and accomplished miraculous success. Tamara Lanier and her stark resemblance to her Papa Renty is living proof of his level of intelligence and resilience. Renty’s children established and self-governed their very own towns. Books and movies continue to document Renty’s inspirational legacy. In spite of the voluminous wealth of documentation. Harvard refuses to acknowledge these facts because Renty and Tamara’s spiritual and physical bond are diametrically opposed to the images and the racist pseudo science they perpetrated. \n\nIn 2016, President Obama signed the Holocaust Expropriation Art Recovery Act - HEAR Act; introduced, 2016 by Senators Cronyn, Cruz, Schumer, and Blumenthal.\n\n“ Nations and civil society groups expressed a renewed interest in addressing the restitution of art lost in the Holocaust. The United States led these efforts. In 1998, 43 nations met and addressed the restitution of art lost in the Holocaust. They unanimously approved the Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art, which declared that Holocaust victims & their heirs \"should come forward and make known their claims to art that was confiscated restituted\".\n\n \n","@xmlns:content":"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"}
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Sesame Place The History of Black Theme Parks Granville T Woods
Jul 20, 202201:57:00Tap to summarize{"#":"Before there was Sesame Street or Sesame Place, there was Coney Island, “Granville’s Island”! \n\nGranville T. Woods Known as the “Black Thomas Edison” was an engineer who invented and patented the electric roller coaster, which he introduced in the summer of 1909 at Coney Island.\n\nHe developed dozens of innovative mass transit improvements. \n\n \n\n******\n\nJoin David Head \n\nEdison sued Woods charging that he (Edison) was the first to invent the multiplex telegraph. After a costly court battle, Woods won the case. But even after losing to Woods, Edison remained so impressed with him that he offered the Black genius a partnership in one of his companies\n\nWoods was inducted into the Coney Island Hall of Fame, and an adjacent street was renamed Granville T. Woods Way.Woods was inducted into the Coney Island Hall of Fame, and an adjacent street was renamed Granville T. Woods Way. \n\nList of BLACK RESORTS\n\n1. Highland Beach, Maryland\n\n\n2. Gulfside Assembly, Waveland, Mississippi\n\n\n3. American Beach, Florida\n\n\n\n4. Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts\n\n\n\n5. Idlewild, Michigan\n\n\n.\n\n6. Freeman Beach, Wilmington, North Carolina\n\n\n\n7. Sag Harbor, New York\n\n\n\n8. Bruce’s Beach, near Los Angeles, California\n\n\n\n9. Buckroe Beach, Bay Shore and Mark Haven, Virginia\n\n\n\n10. Gullah Sea Islands, Coast of Georgia and South Carolina\n\n\n\nThe Idlewild Club House, Idlewild, Mich., September 1938. \n\n \n\n *********\n\n#sesamePlace #GranvilleTwoods \n\n#GranvilleTWoodsPlace #GranvilleIsland’s\n\n#coneyisland\n\n \n","@xmlns:content":"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"}
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Buffalo’s Volunteer Ms. Penny Beckham Director of Plate of Love Soup Kitchen!
Jun 13, 202200:46:00Tap to summarize{"#":"Join The Gist of Freedom as we welcome Miss Penny Beckham, the volunteer director of The Plate of Love Soup Kitchen located at State Tabernacle Church of God in Christ in Buffalo. \n\n \n\nBeckham recalled many times seeing one of the victims of the massacre, Deacon Hayward Patterson take soup kitchen patrons aside while they waited for their food and give them needed encouragement.\n\n\"If you were down, he’d always say something to encourage you or lift your spirits,\" she said. \"He was one of those people who’d build you up. Even if you didn’t think you did much, he’d make you feel like you did.\"\n\n*******\n\nCoordinator ...Missionary Laura Beckham Chefs: Jeffrey Peace & Terry Wideman\n\nSoup Kitchen Hours of operation: Saturday, 10am-12noon Wednesday, 12noon\n\nState Tabernacle, in the spirit of love, serves dozens in the community and those in need of a hot meal. The number of people served continues to grow and include not only individuals but entire families. It is set apart from many other soup kitchens in that we offer breakfast meal on Saturday when most other serve lunch.\n\nState Tabernacle partners with WNY food bank and generous donors to bring this much needed service to a community with high unemployment, low income families and a growing homeless population.\n\nWe are expanding. Various individuals, ministries or auxiliary of the church assist in operation of the soup kitchen.\n\nVolunteers are Welcome\n\n \n","@xmlns:content":"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"}
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Detroit River Project and the Vigilance Committee: Kimberly L. Simmons
May 28, 202200:32:00Tap to summarize{"#":"Join Kimberly L. Simmons as she lectures on the Detroit River Project and the Vigilance Cmmittee.\n\n \n","@xmlns:content":"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"}
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Mary Ann Shadd Black Militant Abolitionist |Attorney | Newspaper Publisher |
May 22, 202200:30:00Tap to summarize{"#":"The Life of Black Abolitionist Mary Ann Shadd as told by her descendant Scholar Irene Moore Davis!\n\nA ceremony unveiling the statue of Mary Ann Shadd took place Thursday, May 12, 2022, at Windsor University in Canada. \n\nSculpted by local artist Donna Mayne. Watch it on the University of Windsor'sYouTube channel.\n\nShadd a black abolitionist was one of the first Black female newspaper publishers and female journalists in Canada. Shadd founded The Provincial Freeman in 1853. \n\nShadd also helped her cousin, Osborne Perry Anderson pen the book “Sole Survivor, A Voice From Harper's Ferry” which is an account of his extraordinary and courageous role in John Brown’s Harper’s Ferry Raid!\n\nThe event was live-streamed from the University of Windsor's downtown campus for the greater community.\n","@xmlns:content":"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"}
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Buffalo Massacre Dr. Manisha Sinha’s Monthly Black History University Recap
May 21, 202200:31:00Tap to summarize{"#":"Buffalo Massacre Dr. Manisha Sinha’s Monthly Black History University Recap!\n\n******\n\nIn honor of one of the ten victims, Ms. Pearly Young we ask that you donate food to your local food bank. Mrs. Young ran a food pantry and every saturday, for 25 years she donated food.\n\n***********\n\nR.I.P #BuffaloSaints~ NY state abolished slavery in 1827, but Black people remained in danger of enslavement & kidnappings.\n\nIn 1835, to fight back, Black abolitionist David Ruggles helped to found the N.Y. Committee of Vigilance an hybrid of the Black Panther Party & The NAACP.\n\nBlack New Yorkers remained in danger of enslavement or re-enslavement through widespread kidnappings. Black sailors would go missing from ports. Children would disappear on their way home from school.\n\nIn 1835, to fight back against the onslaught of oppression, Black abolitionist and businessman David Ruggles helped to found the New York Committee of Vigilance (NYCV), a multi-racial organization a hybrid of the Black Panther Party and The NAACP, would defend Black New Yorkers from predatory whites.\n\n Jamila Brathwaite, authored “The Black Vigilance Movement in Nineteenth Century New York City,” writes, Ruggles fearlessly boarded ships in the New York harbor in search of Black captives or for signs of participants in the illegal slave trade. He published a list bounty hunters kidnappers and the free black traitors who aided them.\n\nHis work would not have been possible without the efforts of the Black community and leaders like William Wells Brown, a promenient Black Aboltitionist from Buffalo. Brown along with unnamed black people passed along intelligence, fed, clothed, and sheltered fugitives. They also noted suspicious activities and people.\n\nRuggles’ bookstore on Lespenard Street. It is the first known Black-owned bookstore in the United States.\n\n \n\n\n\n \n","@xmlns:content":"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"}
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Grady Lewis Buffalo Witness who talked to Shooter for 1.5 hours
May 17, 202200:42:00Tap to summarize{"#":"Listen to Grady Lewis's in depth interview on the Gist of Freedom. Grady bought a drink for the mass shooter, in the Buffalo area shooting, one day before the allegedl gunman from Conklin, NY opened fire and live streamed the shooting of ten Black People at the supermarket in a predominantly black neighborhood.\n\n*******\n\nA Saint who cared for people in the community was one of the victims of the Buffalo mass shooting. Pearly Young, 77, ran a food pantry in the Central Park neighborhood for 25 years, feeding people every Saturday.\n\nYoung was killed Saturday while shopping for groceries.\n\nShe loved singing and dancing.\n\n******\n\nNew Zealand took 3 days to ban assault rifles after the mass shooting that inspired the Buffalo shooter.\n\n*******\n\nLewis said he and the shooter discussed \"theories\" like Time Machines, Critical Race Theory (CRT) and black holes just hours before the alleged shooter opened fire in the parking lot, which left 10 people dead and three wounded.\n\n“I’m wondering, could I have talked to him and said, ‘Hey, we’re all one,\" Lewis told ABC News. He came back here to the same spot where I bought him something to drink and shot people that looked like me and would’ve shot me if I was standing near.”\n\n*******\n\nIn 1835, to fight back against the onslaught of oppression, Black abolitionist and businessman David Ruggles helped to found the The New York Community of Vigilance (NYCV), a multi-racial organization that would defend Black New Yorkers from predatory whites. Jamila Shabazz Brathwaite authored “The Black Vigilance Movement in Nineteenth Century New York City,” \n","@xmlns:content":"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"}
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Black History University Monthly Recap April 2022 Dr.Sinha
Apr 16, 202200:30:00Tap to summarize{"#":"Black History University Monthly Recap, April 2022 with Dr. Manisha Sinha!\n\nEaster, Black Abolitionists, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.\n\nIn a rare occurrence on Good Friday, April 14, 2022 Christianity, Islam and Judaism was observed: Good Friday,Ramadan, and Passover.\n\nPassover, Easter, Ramadan 2022 fall simultaneously In a rare conjunction, three major holidays of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam\nHow Survivors of Slavery escaped with the help of the people of faith.Slavery Survivors conversion Society propagation of the gospel.John Wesley MethodistGeorge FoxAME church Bishop Richard AllenLawsuit against the AMEs Hush HarborsWatch NightGeorge Leile founder of The African First Baptist 1773 \nPolitics\n\nCorey Booker & Kentanji Brown \n\n\n\n \n","@xmlns:content":"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"}
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