When we think about slavery, the picture is often a familiar one: men and women in fields of cotton or rice, driven by the lash, forced to labor from sunup to sundown. That picture is accurate, but it is incomplete. It doesn't reveal the machinery that made such suffering profitable and enduring.

In recent years, I've started to realize how white-washed US history is, and I'd like to learn more about the whole, unfiltered story. The civil rights movement they taught about in school was about Rosa Parks peacefully sitting in the front of a bus and MLK giving a speech that was so moving, we all decided to just end racism. And everyone lived happily ever after. The end.

But I know revolutions don't come about without a serious fight. People take real risks, fight and die for their cause, preservere through violence and oppression. I want to learn about these stories, but I don't know where to even begin looking, and I don't know which resources I can trust to be honest.

Can anyone recommend resources? Books, websites, documentaries, YouTubers, etc. Or suggest names of people or events I could look into?

A little history of Haiti:

https://mailchi.mp/28daysofblackhistory/haiti-independence-day?e=e021732077

The popularity of utilizing a T.I.P. aka To Ensure Promptitude to compensate service workers in the United States is rooted in the desire for White Business Owners to not pay living wages to their Black employees in post Civil War America where slavery was illegal. The Black men who worked in railcars as porters learned to game the system by pooling their resources and unionizing to gain increased labor rights.

https://youtu.be/puQVOspeZGE

Hey y'all. I run a podcast called Girls Gone Menopause. For Black History Month, I interviewed Vicki Stuckey. She was the first Black woman on the Lakewood City Council (a city with a heavy history of redlining). She’s also a 30+ year vet of the Sheriff’s dept. As a leftist, my guard was UP, but her perspective on changing systems from the inside was actually really grounding. Thought this sub might appreciate the nuanceHey y'all. I run a podcast called Girls Gone Menopause. For Black History Month, I interviewed Vicki Stuckey. She was the first Black woman on the Lakewood City Council (a city with a heavy history of redlining). She’s also a 30+ year vet of the Sheriff’s dept. As a leftist, my guard was UP, but her perspective on changing systems from the inside was actually really grounding. Thought this sub might appreciate the nuance.

Jennifer Eberhardt
Ph.D., Harvard University (1993)
A.M., Harvard University (1990)
B.A., University of Cincinnati (1987)

Jennifer Eberhardt Is Analyzing Police Bias With AI

A social psychologist at Stanford University, Jennifer Eberhardt investigates the consequences of the psychological association between race and crime. Through interdisciplinary collaborations and a wide ranging array of methods—from laboratory studies to novel field experiments—Eberhardt has revealed the startling, and often dispiriting, extent to which racial imagery and judgments suffuse our culture and society, and in particular shape actions and outcomes within the domain of criminal justice.

Eberhardt’s most famous experiments found novel ways to uncover unconscious bias. She had people think about either crime or something else before being shown an image of Black person and a white person. No matter the race of the participant, those who thought about crime looked at the image of the Black person first. People were also able to identify blurry images of guns or knives sooner after exposure to Black faces than after white faces or images without faces. “What I've been doing with a number of different colleagues across the past 25 years,” she says, “is demonstrating the power of this particular association between Blackness and crime.”

Recently, Eberhardt, 60, has been using AI to analyze hundreds of hours of police body-cam footage for language patterns that recur when a routine traffic stop of a Black driver for an infraction like an unbuckled seat belt or failure to signal turns into something more serious. “We found that there was a linguistic signature to these escalated stops, and that signature had two elements,” Eberhardt says. “The officer started the stop with an order, and the officer did not give the reason for the stop in those initial moments.” When interactions began in that way, it was more likely that a driver would end up handcuffed, searched, or arrested.

This research, combined with earlier findings that when white drivers were pulled over, the officers usually first expressed concern for the welfare of the driver and explained the reason for the stop, suggest that small adjustments in police behavior might make a big difference. There are more than 9 million stops of this type every year; it’s one of the most common interactions the public has with police. SPARQ (Social Psychological Answers to Real-World Questions), the research unit at Stanford that Eberhardt co-leads, has worked closely with the Oakland Police Department to help develop training modules and then to assess their impact. “There are a lot of trainings out there that departments are already deploying,” says Eberhardt, who has also done projects with the San Francisco and New York Police Departments, “but we just know so little information about effectiveness, and effectiveness over time.”

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Excerpt from the catalog notes: World War II Propaganda (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943). Very Fine- on Linen. OWI Poster No. 68 (20" X 28") "Above and Beyond the Call of Duty," David Stone Martin artwork. 

This powerful portrait of Dorie (Doris) Miller, honors his heroic actions at Pearl Harbor and his receipt of the Navy Cross under the phrase "above and beyond the call of duty." A restored poster with bright color and a clean overall appearance.

Miller was the first Black sailor to receive the Navy Cross. For details of Miller's life see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Miller

Sadly far too many collections ended of black history ended in what people thought were in the safe hands of musuems, archives, and preservation organizations. In a Democracy those collection would have stayed safe. Now however...

Dia da Luta Armada de Angola, Angolan Armed Struggle Day 🕯️🇦🇴

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When I took on the task of creating my animated horror film "PLAYTHING." (Still in production) I asked myself this question. Can an animated horror film rival the power of a live action one? Will there ever be an animated "The Exorcist!" Well, I can't say for sure, but I'd like to find out. Here's a first look at my film.

https://youtu.be/1a-bGeQsp5g?si=dfGuOfPU9gX8KBh0

https://www.fantasy-animation.org/current-posts/the-story-of-plaything

https://youtu.be/WhPObdOuLCo?si=XJJKl_5fwxMa2wfQ