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Today begins Women’s History Month! Consider becoming a charter member of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum. Coming March 8: the "first digital exhibition, 'Becoming Visible: Bringing American Women’s History Into Focus,' will introduce you to our work expanding the story of America, by confronting how women’s histories have been recorded and remembered, lost and recovered." https://lnkd.in/gFeYHEMM

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As far back as 1915, there had been proposals for a museum recognizing the achievements of African Americans. In 1929, President Herbert Hoover approved a commission to create such an institution, but it never received funding. Various attempts were made to pass legislation establishing a museum through Congress, including multiple bills introduced by Georgia congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis, but even after the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution joined the effort in the 1990s it still took more than a decade. Finally, in 2003, Congress approved and President George W. Bush signed legislation allocating $17 million to plan the museum and choose a site. Eventually, it was decided that the museum would sit on the National Mall, the newest addition to what is literally a long line of museums stretching from the Washington Monument to the Capitol. The final design, however, was like nothing else in the area: an inverted step pyramid, encased in a bronze screen that references historic iron grilles from African American communities in Charleston, South Carolina and New Orleans, Louisiana. The building rises five stories into the air and reaches equally deep underground. More than 15 years after it was first established, the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened on the National Mall on September 24, 2016. Barack Obama, the nation’s first African American president, led the ceremony and officially opens the museum by ringing the Freedom Bell, a bell from an African American Baptist church founded in 1776. The NMAAHC drew 2.4 million visitors in its first full year of operation and is the world’s largest museum dedicated to African American history and culture. https://nmaahc.si.edu/ #BlackHistoryMonth

We have so much global conflict today under crushing debt & few economic resources to meet present needs. Senseless crimes are escalating and traditional values have no place in our homes today. Resolution comes with a massive dose of truth. We need to release primary sources to verify and confirm our true black history. American red Indians came from Mongolia 🇲🇳 in the 1800s and were never indigenous to America. The real American Indians were black when a black Columbus showed up from black Europe in 1492. Blacks lived in America over 2,000 years. Equally, blacks lived in Europe for over 2,000 years. The Black Hebrews occupied Europe and Scotland. Ben Franklin's Essay of 1751 on the increase of mankind par.24 is the clearest statement on race with an extremely small white population tied to the Caucasus but housed in England mid 1700s when the global population was 600 million. Today of 8.2 billion souls UN /CIA report 5 % is considered pure white. How can history be accurate? In North Africa this summer I was called a Berber blue man but quite content with the genetically proven black bin Yahya Hebrew / Al Ali label. Blacks managed the planet as leaders for 5,800 years going back to a black Adam in BCE 4000. Today blacks are assigned to Africa which appears much smaller on a real map of the world, and is the only continent owned & controlled by other nations. In the Western hemisphere there are no known communities speaking an African language or dialect yet we are called African. There are many European languages spoken to this day in the West by black islanders. Why? Their black ancestors came from Europe. So sad we are living in an extremist and white supremacist world influenced by twisted theories penned by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach b. 1752 and Georges Louis Leclerc b. 1707. But after closer inspection I find it extremely hard to accept these two whitewashed Euromoors had anything to do with racist ideologies conceived in the mid to late 19th century which influenced Darwin, and gave birth to Eugenics and Zionism. The DNA, i.e. fraudulent Haplogroups R, J and I assignment to Europe and MENA, and primary sources like the Anglo Saxon Chronicles based on copies of unknown and unverified material need to be tossed out the window to make way for the real story of black mankind and humankind (not the same thing and read the writings of EG White along a timeline of circa 6,000 years). Our black leaders and black academics have failed 95 percent or 7.79 billion melenated souls on our planet. They are either too lazy to read / think for themselves OR lack the courage to speak out ! As to primary sources I have over 5m records, 30k DNA matches, over 90 kits managed on both sides of the family. Incredible insights from my wife's Polish family with Haplos R, J, I, and H with strong matches among modern Jews & modern Western Europeans. Always remember black history is inextricably linked to Biblical Hebrew history. Shalom.

What’s the relationship between public art and gentrification, and can the arts bridge the gap between past and present? It’s a question I consider a lot in my work in museum education and programming, and something I explored for the Free Times Identity Issue. This article was the product of so much generative and challenging dialogue about the balance between preservation and progress—and how art can work (and sometimes fail) to balance those two things. https://lnkd.in/eFajpwUY

Transform your understanding of the transatlantic slave trade and its impact at The World Reimagined Globes Launch on 4th July. The World Reimagined is a ground-breaking, mass participation art education project to transform how we understand the transatlantic slave trade and its impact. One of the many globes from the project, ‘A Dark Cloud’ by artist Caroline Daly, is now on display outside the Environment and Sustainability Institute, at the Penryn Campus, University of Exeter. As part of the launch event, we’ll be showing the short film "To Whom Does This Belong?", a poignant exploration of Black history in Cornwall's archives. Made by Ashton John with Museum X, UK Activist Museum Award 2024 recipient,  together for Black Voices Cornwall CIO and Cornwall Museums Partnership, the film amplifies the often-overlooked narratives of Black Cornish history.  Through encounters with archival materials and documents, some containing harrowing accounts of violence and trauma,"To Whom Does This Belong?" highlights the care and sensitivity required when engaging with such sensitive historical material. Join us on July 4th at the University of Exeter's Penryn campus to take part in conversations surrounding Black history and representation. Register to attend using the 'reserve a spot’ link on this page by 17:00 on Wednesday 3rd July: https://lnkd.in/eNKUwjeT If you have any questions regarding the event, please contact us via email: edi@exeter.ac.uk #WorldReimagined #TransatlanticSlaveTrade #RacialJustice #SocialJustice #BlackHistory #BlackVoices #MuseumCollections #Archives #FilmScreening #Documentary #HistoricalNarratives #UntoldStories #LearningOpportunities #CommunityEngagement #SocialImpact #CornishHistory #CornishBlackHistory #BlackHistory #BritishBlackHistory 

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It is now even more imperative that museums and cultural institutions understand their position in civic engagement and social impact. Celebrate #Juneteenth by reflecting and learning in what ways you can honor and celebrate African American resilience and achievement.

When I wrote this post, little did I know that LinkedIn #AI would take the title of my article mentioned and turn it into a question. It then cites me as the source but when it puts my very words in as the AI response to its own, there are no quotation marks to show that AI is virtually shoplifting the words I wrote & presenting it as if AI just randomly generated a response. In effect, AI is #plagerizing our work. LinkedIn do rethink this method of knowledge production. It is extractive & dishonest. The only good thing is that it also cited this source that I had not read. Wilson, Mabel O. Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums. 1st ed. University of California Press, 2012. https://lnkd.in/eZE779H8.

Think on how we present info to kids in classes, exactly like we present a mechanical Hare to racing greyhounds on a racetrack, adjusting the speed as needed to deliver the desired outcome. Your thoughts on a racetrack comparison in regard competition in edu? It is the same with health insurance, and with food insecurity, and with impoverished families, and with the education-system too.  We carefully monitor the number of developing children going hungry to be sure the number is acceptable without asking ourselves why we accept any hunger in any child anywhere, ever - treatable diseases left untreated - hungry left unfed - unhoused left unsheltered from the weather - WHY? Why do we fail to do these things in adequate measure? Why is it so important to ration the minimum needed to survive? Why are teaching & learning competitive sports? Why is having good health into a very old age by surviving bad luck & disease treated like a competitive sport, even including rewards & penalties? Competition has zero to do with education (or healthcare), period. If 85% of kids are physically able to read, then 85% should be able to read! How dare we blame students by presuming they cannot read because they haven't "wanted" & "deserved" it enough to deserve to be allowed to "catch" our reading"-Hare!" Why do we do this to our children? This is the root cause of all of these seemingly disconnected issues that result in poor reading outcomes. Why? Here is what to do:  De-Colonialize the grading system at K-12 & Universities! #ColonializedEdu is "Why" & you/we are the Reason that "Most Kids Can't Read!" --> 2LEARN is 2CHANGE:  What is #DeColonializedEdu?  #DeColonizeEdu! - YOU were FALSELY taught to think that the "#naturallaw" of "#evolution" by "#competition"& "#survivalofthefittest" "optimizes for fitness & survival!" FACT: "Evolution" does NOT work by "competition"& does NOT "optimize!" If 85% of 3rd graders are fully-able to earn an A+ in reading & math, yet only 30% can read at their grade level, then... what? - We must expect that all that can learn, learn - Expect 100% of all, equally - Go! Dear School Board Members/Others - Just use the same assessment pedagogy as do the #Ancient8 Ivy & #Divine9 #HBCU Universities! All of the most elite Ivy & HBCU Universities use (with varying fidelity) a de-Colonialized P/F (pass-fail) grading assessment pedagogy that expects 100% scores from each of their fully-capable students! What is a De-Colonialized (#decolonialized) Grading (#dcgrading) Assessment (#dcassessment)? This: If 85% of 3rd graders are able-bodied enough to fully-earn an A+ in reading & math, then 85% must be our goal as trained professionals, paid to do this. For real. All means all. Equity. Decolonialize. Right? #Ancient8 Ivy's + #Divine9 #HBCU's = #dc17 #decolonialized-17 #decolonialize17/#decolonialized17