Innocent-bistanderd-number7 - *Shrug*

Georgia Tennant’s twitter is a gift Part 3

staff You are recommending that I follow a nazi blog I blocked last night. Your site promotes anti-semitism to Jews. Your site shoves Nazi Swastikas in the faces of Jews. It’s bad enough that the Nazi blogs seem to be sprouting up like weeds on a site that claims to have an anti-hate policy, but to actively promote them to people who have taken the steps of blocking these blogs is beyond the pale. Clean this place up. It’s turning into Stormfront. I encourage everyone who sees this post, Jewish or otherwise, to reblog it. Tumblr has been ignoring the growth of Nazism on this site for too long. It needs to end.

Oh Peter 😏

Ever wonder who decided Black History Month would be in February?

Well, meet Dr. Carter G. Woodson!

Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Historian | December 19, 1875–April 3, 1950

“Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.”

A son of former slaves, Dr. Woodson earned a Ph.D. from Harvard, was a pioneer in the study of African-American history, and was named “The Father of Black History.” 

Back in 1926, Black History Month was celebrated during the second week of February and was known as Negro History Week. In 1976, that week evolved into Black History Month.

So why February? 

Dr. Woodson chose the second week of February in commemoration of the birthdays of abolitionist Frederick Douglass (February 14) and President Abraham Lincoln, who signed the Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery in the southern states (February 12).

Original portrait by Tumblr Creatr @persistheillustrator

“Dr. Carter G. Woodson is known as the creator of Black History Month. If it wasn’t for him, we wouldn’t know about black individuals who helped contribute to the progress of mankind. I wanted my painting to show that he deserves more recognition as a symbol of African-American history.“

-@persistheillustrator

Did anyone else know right away that Bob was gonna die?

this photo of Viola Davis being all smiley in her green jumper has substantially improved my mood🥺

I was today years old when I realized the song beat it by Michael Jackson goes "no one wants to be defeated" and not "no one wants to beat it, beat it" 😑🤦🏾‍♀️

Reblog if a fictional female character has positively influenced your life

Trying to prove something to my sexist grandfather