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Announcements…………………………………….….…..3
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Boosting Black History Through Black TikTok……………...…...4
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Highlights of the Month…………….…………….……..…...5
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Feminist Five…….…………………………….......….….....6
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Happy Birthday To……………...……………..……....…......8
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Black History Month Timeline…..……….………………….....9
VII. Enrichment VIII. Bella IX.
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Highlights of the Month
The long-awaited “2020” Summer Olympics this year has a spotlight on City the Council racism, and more This put January, New York will make specifically, misogynoir that is entrenched in and the Just days after ofkilled Homeland On February 24th, the Russian government Sunday, January 9,the a Department devastating fire 17 history by inaugurating 31 female city-councilors. sports industry. First, Sha’Carri was Last month, horrific images ofRichardson United States Security that they cleared the injured residents ofwar Twin Parks North West, an launched aannounced complete onnever Ukraine inmore order to Up until60 now, the council has had than border patrol brutalizing Haitian migrants banned from the Olympics after a positive cannabis camp of 15,000, Haitian apartment complex the Bronx. Twin Parkscoming North 18 women sit on council, but this immigrants next “demilitarize” thetheinmostly country, forcing millions to sparked widespread outrage. The atrocities test, even though it is not a performance-enhancing West, lovingly nicknamed Touray Tower after Abdolie seeking asylum in Del Rio, Texas, horrifying year, Ukraine. the council will have a female majority. flee This humanitarian crisis, however, made by let the U.S. government against Hatian drug (and alone the fact that is many white Touray moved in in the 1970s, home to aathletes strong images were released of U.S. Border Patrol Furthermore, this year’s election has made history is a multifaceted tragedy. In an effort to migrants, however, extend far beyond the have been excused of much worse accusations). This Gambian community that is now reeling fromwith the Agents chasing Haitian immigrants on multiple accounts due toNaomi the diverse group of “prioritize Ukrainian citizens,” Officials are events ofSimone late September. Most of the past week, Biles and Osaka stepped loss of not only parents, children, and siblings, but horses and whips. This instance is one in a candidates. Crystal Hudson will within become the first immigrants depicted in theevents photos surfaced denying students Ukraine down fromAfrican their Olympic tothat protect their community members and chosen family. The fire is long line of atrocities comitted by the U.S. Black openly queer city council member, Shekar late September were deported back to Haiti physical and mental health. And as a result, these passage on buses and trains out of the country. said to have been initiated by athe space that government dating toestablished firstheater influx of under Title 42. Titleback 42, Indian by the Krishnan will be the first American, Chi champion athletes have faced immense Countless acrossdays, social platforms was turned videos on for several butmedia the gravity of the Hatian asylum seekers in teh 1970s. After Trump administration, allows the U.S. Ossé be of the youngest city council member, discrimination and judgment. These three instances fire is will a result deeper infrastructure issues and the document these students attempting to board the brutal “clearing” of the detention center government toothers immediately deport immigrants (among many atBronx. this year’s Olympics) begs and many more ofthethe recent elects willactivist make systemic neglect of As community buses and trains only to be pushed out of the that attempt cross the border under the this September, thecouncil overwhelming majority the question of to whether the Olympics and itsMany fans history by making the more diverse. and religious leader Sheik Musa Drammeh stated at way and told: “Ukrainians only.” Although this pretense ofimmigrants pandemic concerns. To tosupport of Haitian were forced travel care about their Black athletes beyond the rankfor choice of what asuggest public that funeral the voting victims,is part “If they livedhas in Haitian and Black migrants, consider donating of to humanitarian crisis impacts all residents back to Haiti. entertainment and talent they provide. made running for office more not accessible to For all midtown Manhattan, they would have died.”
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This summer, indigenous water protectors and allies have been Poland tirelesslyissued protesting the construction of In 2020, an almost-complete On 20, members of by Trans*, a resource LineOctober 3, a pipeline being built the Canadian oil ban ofyear, abortions; only permitting victims of This the United Nations Framework group for Netflix employees that are gender company Enbridge. The pipeline is being constructed incest, rape, or could medical emergencies Ketanji Jackson make as the Convention on Climate Change (COP finally minorities and staged a 26) Earlier inBrown January andallies, on the first day ofhistory Black History in Northern Minnesota even though it walkout violates access to safe and legal abortions. Many protesting Dave Chappelle’s comedy addressed the detrimental impacts faced first Black female Supreme Court Justice ifspecial she is Month, several HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges several treaties made with thehealth Ojibwe people of the have accused the Polish government of “The Closer,” which features a copious amount by vulnerable communities aisthreats result ofcross climate approved by the Senate inasthe coming weeks. and Universities) received bomb forced area. Furthermore, the pipeline set tothat 200 taking advantage of the COVID-19 of homophobic and transphobic jokes. The change. At the convention, preventative the cancellation ofthan all university programming. The bodies of and its carbon footprint would Jackson is water more qualified for themeasures position walkout was intended to pressure the company pandemic to quickly and quietly pass the FBI recently narrowed the perpetrators to six such as cutting emissions and stopping exceed that of methane all offrom Minnesota. The influx of withhas two degrees Harvard, experience to acknowledge the harm done by the special law. In response, the Belgian government juveniles who utilized sophisticated tech to conceal Enbridge workers into heavily Ojibwe territory hasMany also deforestation were discussed. clerking for Supreme Courtfilms Justice Stephen and tothe include more LGBTQ+ and TV shows funded 6 abortion organizations that will where threats originated. Some students report heightened COVID-19 cases and led to the assault of activists and an policymakers incareer attendance, however, Breyer, and impressive serving on the on the streaming service. Netflix co-Chief now invite people from Poland toForcome to that assumed racially motivated threats ofspecific these some indigenous community members. ways to report that the convention lacked a more US Court of Appeals for the DC circuit. While her Executive Ted Sarandos publicly stands by Dave Belgium andstopline3.org. receive safe andhopelegal kinds please have happened in the past, and they that help, see focus on health impacts with direct Chappelle and refuses to take the health-related special off of credentials are extensive, Jackson has been authorities will continue to investigate the issue. abortions.
solutions that address health disparities. Netflix. largely apolitical throughout her career.
Three months ago, the CDC announced that Steven Spielberg’s Westfree Side Story public has sparked vaccinated people were to enter indoor Crystal Hudson, Central Brooklyn’s newest city worldwide excitement. Saudi Arabia, the United places maskless without of ofcontracting or A recent lawsuither in Taiwan has the potential After surviving own fear bout postpartum This month, Canadian-backed oil company, council member, declared her mission to support Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait, spreading COVID-19. This month, however, due to to make historic change in to Taiwan. depression, Jade Kearny set out protectThis and Endbridge, was pressured to shut down Line 5 in renters in need inbanned aof recent interview with City several outbreaks the the Deltamovie variant of the virus however, have due toWatch. strict month, a Taiwanese court approeved Xiao support other Black women suffering from the Michigan for several hours after water She is most particularly focused onwhich supporting seniors (the revealing ofher occurred in censorship rules around sexuality. The E’s request to change gender onprimary her ID same mental health struggles. This vision took protectors called Enbridge and halted the with rental assistance after the expiration of eviction Provincetown, Massachusetts, where ofWest the issue that these countries have foundmost with without ofMatters, gender-affirming surgery. the shapeprove of She an app designed to operation the pipeline from within the protections onvaccinated) January 15th. In the interview, population is the CDC announced that Side Story is the Xiao minorEcharacter Anybodys. In the Back in 2019, was denied this right, facility. The construction of Line 5 provide community andand resources for Black Hudson also criticized the complex and vaccinated individuals inoperation fact,paperwork contract original film, Anybodys isenvironmental portrayed as athreat tomboy andposed in response, shecan, took her case straight has an immense to lack of communication froma government mothers in their postpartum period. itTheisofficials app is spread the disease. As result, now that seeksNow, acceptance fromDespite the have Jets, but inthat the to court. many activists hope that the Michigan community. the fact when those in that need Black apply for rental recommended everyone, regardless of designed to connect women to assistance qualified 2021 adaptation, Anybodys isprecedent portrayed as Xiao E’s case will set a and the state government and members of work the stating that “We need to create systems that vaccination status use masks indoors. The Delta therapists, all of whom have trained in a explicitly trans. Despite the censorship inthea abolish the thatthem.” states trans individuals Michigan community have actively resisted for people, notlaw against Hudson has made variant is near twice ashow transmissible asalso theBlack first 12-week course on to support use andhave of adaptation the pipeline, Enbridge must gender-affirming surgery to handful ofconstruction countries, this ofofAnybodys significant strides in the first few months her term strains of COVID-19, yet less than half of the U.S. women. Kearny and her co-founder Marguerite has exploited legalon in work order to change their gender theiron IDs. is monumental thanks toloopholes the in-depth and by halting developments Atlantic Avenue population istwo vaccinated. continue with construction. Pierce hope to use She Matters to change the research donedidn’t by screenwritier Tony from Kushner, because they have proper input the statistic that Black women are 57% less likely to Steven Spielberg, and iris menas, the community.
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Next month, the Supreme Court will take up two lawsuits against Senate Bill 8, a Texas In response to financial difficulties brought on by the abortion law that can ban abortions at as early COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC established a This6 weeks month, as intoCalifornia pregnancy, Governor well beforeGavin many moratorium that protected Americans from After a 20 -year career in the high court of Lahore, This month Sonia Sanchez, poet, activist, and individuals find out that they are pregnant. If Newsom established a three-year evictions. This month, even though the pandemic Pakistan, Justice Ayesha Malik made history by educator, will receive the coveted Edward passed, Senate15, Billtransformational 8,will would eliminate 85%-90% pilot-program that record data about the On December author, poet, and its subsequent obstacles are far from becoming Pakistan’s financial first female judge appointed to MacDowell Medal. Sanchez will join world of abortions in Texas. The two lawsuits made gender and sexuality of victims of violent and professor, bell hooks died at age 69. hooks over, the Supreme moratorium leaving many Pakistan’s Court.was Maliklifted, has spent her career against the billthe were made by the federal renowned awardees including Toni Morrison, deaths. While pilot-program is limited to published 30 books in her lifetime, and was best Americans the in the lurch for affordable housing. defending rights ofawomen in Pakistan. Last With year, government and collection of abortion Stephen Jamesn Ta-Nehisi six counties, areBaldwin, still that known forSondheim, heradvocates works About Love: New Visions, the moratorium lifted, many the she prevented legalization an hopeful unnecessarily providers and the advocates. AsAmericans ofofnow, it across is unclear Coates, and many others. Sanchez became an this landmark bill will be the first step in country owe test” months ofsome past-due rent with little invasive “virginity that lawmakers wanted Ain’t anow Woman?, and Feminist Theory: From what I the Supreme Court’s decision will be. addressing the increased violence faced by established writer in thededicated Black Arts no support. This already very present issue has to use ontoknown women who had reported cases of rape or Margin Center. hooks herMovement time as a What is now, however, is that the court the LGBTQ+ community. So far, Santa been by the pandemic not of 1960s 1970s isabortion bestand known for sexual assault. areand that Malik’s professor and aMany writer tohopeful making herwill work willtheexacerbated not beand discussing rights Clara, Los Angeles, Stanislaus and Fresno dissolve unless established, permanent change is position on the supreme court will pave the way for her work above Homegirls and Handgrenades themselves, butallrather, how SB 8 will be “healing” else, making her loss all and the made by thehave federal government. more female judges the court counties agreed to participate the enforced. Shake Loose My Skin. more impactful toand allinfluence those thatsupreme she in healed to make more women-centered decisions. program. through her writing.
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The tracks their lives generations, as their lives branch away from each other and society. All About Lovebook is just one family example ofacross howtobell writing beautifully heals its readers. concentration camps, the Wiesel is forced livehooks’ in a ghetto within their own village. #DisabledandCute Emezi recounts episodes is occasionally in their life, referenced from their without gender crediting confirmation Keah Brown. surgeries So to toand all purchasing ofrace ourinlovely home BALI (a readers place yet remain intertwined. It's a story that explores the intricacies of identity, family aaprovocative but they that might call their want“godhouse”), to contributetotobetrayal the hashtag, at the make hands sureoftoliterary tag hermentors. @Keah_Maria! Each letter chronicles a tension — compassionate way. between Western constructions of gender and “people like me: embodied but not human, terrified that
“The hardest part of becoming someone else is deciding to.there Theherbs rest waspersonal “Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, would beonly noto cleanup after Miami, we enterthe theeuphoria ubiquitous offer medicinal triumph and some sense of 9/11. it all.”In But also between andbotanicas, heartbreakwhich of love, professional andpotions those whose status blocks them from anyfuture." other healthcare options. In artificial, Flint, Michigan, we learn of demands for failure, the finality of lifesociety, and death. proves these while establishing the very real logistics." ―no Brit Bennett civilization, noEmezi ― oppositions Elie Wiesel
In New going York, we meet the undocumented who were into theBlack federally funded Zero they’re mad, unable to talk about it,workers and estranged fromrecruited the Indigenous realities thatGround might make
state ID in order to receive life-saving cleaninwater. Connecticut, Cornejo Villavicencio, childless by choice, solitude and weight of being uninterested them.InIncrementally, the chapters inch closer and closer to a finds familyreality. in two“There teenage whosebright fatherand is inbrilliant sanctuary. Andthey through alldoesn’t we see make the author grappling frightening is girls something in me,” write.it“It me feel special. with the biggest questions It makes me terribly alone.”of love, duty, family, and survival.
In her incandescent, relentlessly probing voice, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio combines sensitive reporting and powerful personal narratives to bring to light remarkable stories of resilience, madness, and death. Through these stories we come to understand what it truly means to be a stray. An expendable. A hero. An American.
“I don’t mind being an inspiration if it is for a valid reason, such as admiring how many slices of pizza I ate, an essay or an article I wrote, my clothing choices, or how quickly I can learn the lyrics to songs. As long as the inspiration doesn’t come with pity or Britt Bennett is an American writer based in Los Angeles. Her debut novel self-congratulatory pats on theThe back, I am (2016) all forwas it. aLetNewmyYork loveTimes for best-seller. cheesecakeHer inspire younovel, the Mothers second Elie Wiesel (1928 - 2016) was a Romanian-born Jewish writer who became The Vanishing (2020), a New Yorkfirst. Times best-seller; further, way it will one day inspire a nation. At you cantosaywas youalso were there “People can do spectacularfamous things if least you Half tell them it’sHolocaust. impossible.” for providing aforget vulnerable account of the Wiesel― grewAkwaeke up in a it was chosen as a Good Morning America Book Club selection. The - Keah Brown small Hasidic community in Sighet. In 1944, the Germans invaded and Wiesel Emeki, Dear Senthuran: A black Spirit MemoirHalf was also selected as one of The New York Times ten best Vanishing and his family were to Auschwitz, where mother and one actress, of his sisters In addition to being antaken author, Keah Brown is a his notable journalist, and “The twisted inversion that many bookschildren of 2020. of immigrants know is that, at some point, your parents Akwaeke Emezi is ahas Nigerian Tamil writer artist, best were killed. The next year, lgbo after he and fatherand were sent to apublications slaveknown labor screenwriter. Brown written for and and beenhisfeatured in video established
become your children, andand your ownandpersonal American dream becomes making sure forcamp, their 2018 debut novel Freshwater. Featured the1945. cover of TIME as his father died Wiesel was freed inon April After escape, including Essence, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue. Keah Brown is Wiesel’s alsoMagazine featured in
a Next Generation Leader (June 2021) for their debut memoir DEAR SENTHURAN, he settled in France and worked a journalist. In 1956, migrated to the United States and taught both they ageasBurke and die with dignity inhea transformative country that has never wanted them.” Tarana and Brené Brown’s anthology You Are Your Best at Thing. Emezi (b. 1987) is an artist and writer based in liminal spaces. City College of New York andAkwaeke Boston College. ― Karla Cornejo Undocumented While she was completing her M.F.A. at theVillavicencio, University of The Michigan, Bennett'sAmericans 2014 essay for Jezebel "I Don't Know What to Do With Good White People" gained considerable attention, generating over one million views Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (born 1989) is an Ecuadorian-American writer and the This, however, is just the beginning for Keah Brown. In 2022, she will publish her first children’s book, titled in threeof days. While at Michigan, also won ahisHopwood Award inthe Graduate Short well as the 2014 Wiesel was encouraged to she write about experiences inabout Holocaust byFiction French François author Thefirst Undocumented Americans (2020). She has written her experiences as as annovelist undocumented Sam’s Super Seats. Illustrated by Sharee Miller, this upcoming book will follow a young girl with cerebral palsy Hurston/Wright fortoCollege A Nationaland Book Foundation '5 Under 35'States. honoree, Emezi was born in Umuahia andfor raised in Aba, Nigeria. They Mauriac, theAward very first story heWriters. wrote was his world-renowned novel Night (1956). Wiesel went on toAward write immigrant from Ecuador the United In October 2020 it was shortlisted the National Book as she goes back to school shopping with her best friends. Though more information has yet to be released, The Town Beyond theThe Wall (1962), Souls on Fire (1972), and many others. of MADE Wiesel’s were named one of New Hollywood Guard: WritersThe by Testament Vanity Fair (1980), and their romance debut All YOU A for Nonfiction. Keahhas Brown is also set to other publishnonfiction a book geared young adults of in the next fewcalled years. "Addy Brown Walker, has big She since published essays,towards including a history black dolls novels explore different layersBEAUTY of the Holocaust and more question howwith suchthe awful events canselling come to to FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR is forthcoming frombroadly Atria Books in 2022, screen rights dreams when comes to television, many haveofalready been accomplished, but for now, we American Girl"itfor the Paris Review, as wellofaswhich a review the 2015 Ta-Nehisi Coates book Between theshould World be. Wiesel’s work is cherished for the thoughtful and somehow beautiful way he describes the loss of Amazon Studios inread aYorker. seven-figure deal with executive producer. Their debut poetry collection all take time her extensive works andEmezi wait toassee what she does next! and Methe for The to New Vogue said Bennett's nonfiction essays "recall Ta-Nehisi Coates [with]her a similar Cornejo Villavicencio was born in 1989 in Ecuador. When she was four or five, her parents brought to the innocence in such a terrifying experience, and for this reason, Night is still a staple found in classrooms across CONTENT WARNING: EVERYTHING is also forthcoming Copper Press 2022 and their sophomore ability toStates. contextualize thebrother. present The moment in lived a bigoted past." United She on has family in from the New YorkCanyon borough of in Queens. Sheappointed graduated the country. Later ina his career, Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace and was asfrom the YA novel in BITTER is willbelieves be published in February 2022undocumented by Knopf Books. Harvard 2011 she ismemorial. one of the first immigrants to do so. As of September 2020 first chairman of and the US Holocaust she is a PhD candidate in the American studies program at Yale. She was an Emerson Collective fellow.
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Black History Month Timeline Carter G. Farmer’s Woodson son of Fanny Wyoming is the(1875-1950), first territory cookbook toisformerly give enslaved parents attends the University of Chicago published women theinright which to she vote.standardized and Harvard University, where he is the second December 10, 1869 cooking measurements.. known Black person to earn a Ph.D. During his January 7, 1896 studies, Woodson discovers the erasure of Black Mary McLeod Bethune creates the National people in academic texts and lessons about Council ofHistory. Negro Nellie Tayloe RossWomen. is inaugurated as the first American
woman Governor December 5, 1935in U.S. history (Governor 1910s of Wyoming).
Pearl S. Buck receives the Nobelfound Prize for Carter G. Woodson Jesse E. Moorland Violette Neatlyand Anderson is the first the black Literature Earth. Association forfor theThe StudyGood of Negro Life and History, now woman to Association practice law before the U.S. known as the 10, December 1938 for the Study of African American Supreme Court. Life and History (ASALH), an organization dedicated to
January 5, 1925
encouraging the 1926 study and celebration of Black history. January 29,
1915
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her Amelia Earhart makes the first solo seat on a bus to a white person; her flight from Hawaii toenslaved North civil America. Richard Wright, formerly rights arrestR.sparks the modern civil rights advocate, and author, begins lobbying for the January 11, 1935 movement in the US. Day, a national creation of National Freedom
Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History introduce “Negro Capt. Annie receives the first Purple Hattie WyattFox Caraway (D-Arkansas) is the History Week” as a campaign for schools to highlight Black Heartwoman awarded to a woman for hertheservice first elected toWoodson the U.S. Senate, history in their curriculums. chose second week of February because it included Abraham Lincoln’s while under at Pearl becomes the attack first woman toHarbor. chair a Senate birthday, February 12th, and Frederick Douglass’ birthday, December 7, 1941 Committee and the first to serve as the February 14th.
Senate’s presiding officer. 1926 January 12, 1932
holiday celebrating the day the 13th amendment December 1, 1955 was officially approved on February 1st, 1865.
Marian Muriel Siebert Anderson becomes is the first the first African American woman to woman own a seat to sing on the at the N.Y. Stock In the midst of the Civil Rights Movement, Metropolitan Exchange. Opera.
1942
colleges and universities across the country
January December 7, 1955 28, 1967 begin celebrating “Negro History Week”
throughout the entire month of February. Several mayors across the country declare the month a municipal holiday as well.
1960s
Margaret President’s Chase Commission Smith (R-Maine) on the Status startsof President Harry Truman signs a bill her Women tenure is established in the Senate, to examine where she stays establishing National Freedom Day. in discrimination office until 1973, against became women theand firstways 1948 woman to eliminate to serve it. in both the House and Senate as she served in the December 14,previously 1961 House (1940-49). Judith Rodin is named president of Univ. President Ford decrees Black January 3,Gerald 1949 of Pennsylvania, woman to head History Month tothe be first a national holiday. Pauli ordained as the first an IvyMurray Leagueisinstitution. 1976 female African American Episcopal priest. 15 December 17, 1993 January 8, 1977
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