Aparna V

"In Kashmiri Muslim society, there is strong evidence that the consumption of varying kinds of meat plays a significant role in creating and perpetuating social barriers and caste hierarchies."
https://www.himalmag.com/k...

himalmag.com

The hidden stigma around beef in Kashmir - Himal Southasian

In Kashmiri Muslim society, beef and mutton consumption entrenches caste and class fault lines

01:41 AM - Oct 29, 2023

0

dailykos.com

Please Don't Discount Death Tolls from Gaza: It Is Dangerous

It is wrong to discount the death count from Gaza. Further, it is dangerous. Why is that? What is the point of discounting a death count? Discounting death tolls means people will not have incentive to step back and revise their actions and choose a...

03:18 AM - Oct 28, 2023

0

(About yet another Black American death at the hands of their racist police.)
https://www.dailykos.com/s...

03:18 AM - Oct 28, 2023

0

2

dailykos.com

Caribbean Matters: Will Jamaican Patois achieve official language status?

The lyrical sound of what is often referred to as “Jamaican English,” “Jamaican Creole,” “Patwah,” or “Patois”�is familiar to many non-Jamaicans around the globe via the popularity ...

11:18 AM - Oct 26, 2023

0

4 Threaded Spouts

dailykos.com

Black Kos: Kudos to a trio of kick-ass Black sisters - Fani, Tish, & Tanya

Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver-Velez They get death threats. They get disrespected daily by MAGA Trumpsters and RepubliKlan elected officials. Pundits (who I think of as pun-idjits) question their competency daily on a loop on cable news...

12:31 AM - Oct 25, 2023

0

1

0

dailykos.com

Black Music Sunday: Exploring the rich history of jazz in San Francisco

In the course of more than 180 installments of Black Music Sundays , we have traveled here in the U.S. to New York City ,

11:26 AM - Oct 22, 2023

0

1

0

Read about the career of Dr. Theodore Roosevelt Mason "T. R. M." Howard (March 4, 1908 – May 1, 1976) was a Civil Rights leader, entrepreneur and surgeon in
Black Kos, Week In Review
https://www.dailykos.com/s...

dailykos.com

Black Kos, Week In Review

Commentary: African American Scientists, Explorers and Inventors By dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor Theodore Roosevelt Mason � "T. R. M. "� Howard � (March 4, 1908 – May 1, 1976) was a ...

12:51 AM - Oct 21, 2023

0

1

0

2 Threaded Spouts

There are numerous “solutions” being proposed by the United Nations, CARICOM, Haitian organizations and activists, and global humanitarian agencies.

dailykos.com

Caribbean Matters: Death toll in Haiti rises as outside intervention put on hold for now

The ongoing death and destruction in Israel and Gaza currently dominate global news coverage, as does the continuing battle of Ukraine defending against Russia. But here at home in our hemisphere, the death toll continues to rise in Haiti due to gang...

08:58 AM - Oct 19, 2023

0

1

0

Black Kos Tuesday: Just Deserts
"In my ninth grade world history class, I remember my teacher Mr. H. standing up and asking, rather flatly, a socratic question: What is justice?"
https://www.dailykos.com/s...

dailykos.com

Black Kos Tuesday: Just Deserts

Just deserts Review by Chitown Kev Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance by Nikki M. Taylor Cambridge University Press, 250 pp. In my ninth grade world history class, I remember my teacher Mr. H. standing up and asking,...

12:50 AM - Oct 18, 2023

0

1

0

1 Threaded Spouts

dailykos.com

You don't have to read this, but I have to say it.

When I was in high school, George HW Bush launched the war in Iraq. A sophomore at the time, I was quite idealistic and already engaged in political thought. For starters, I was already committed to feminism, which boiled down to the right to bodily...

01:13 AM - Oct 16, 2023

0

2

0

In the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico, there have been efforts to erase the historical footprint of Christopher Columbus given his and Ponce de Leon’s genocidal role in the island’s history, which decimated the island’s Taino population."
https://www.dailykos.com/s...

dailykos.com

Caribbean Matters: Should the 'Birth of the New World' Columbus statue in Puerto Rico be removed?

On Oct. 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus and his crew spotted land in the Caribbean and changed history—for better or for worse. For many years Columbus Day was celebrated on Oct. 12 here in the U.S.

10:53 AM - Oct 12, 2023

0

For Black History Month in the UK, Ms. Dee explores dub poetry and two of its greats from the UK: Linton Kwesi Johnson and Jean “Binta” Breeze.
https://www.dailykos.com/s...

dailykos.com

Black Music Sunday: Celebrating Black History Month in the UK with dub poetry

The month of October is celebrated as Black History Month in the United Kingdom . This year’s theme celebrates Black women�and the contributions of the Windrush generation on the “

11:27 AM - Oct 08, 2023

0

2

AV; Muslims, Dalits, Adivasis have a right to joy.
Did you know the story of Black Ceaser (or the three pirates with that moniker), a pirate of the Caribbean during the 'golden age of piracy?" If not, read this and you will know more than you did.
https://www.dailykos.com/s...

dailykos.com

Black Kos, Week In Review - Black Caesar, The Real Pirate Of The Caribbean

Black Caesar’s Rise From Enslaved African Warrior Chief to Pirate of the Caribbean — by dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor Black Caesar � (place date of birth unknown — died 1718) was a ...

12:42 AM - Oct 07, 2023

0

"Very clearly, a selection of Mottley would break a gender glass ceiling. She would also continue and expand Guterres’ focus on climate change." Please read for more on PM Mottley and UN Secretary Generals.
https://www.dailykos.com/s...

dailykos.com

Caribbean Matters: Barbados PM Mia Mottley viewed as top choice for future UN secretary-general

The current prime minister of the Caribbean nation of Barbados , Mia Amor Mottley , who assumed office on May 25, 2018�and was sworn in as the country’s first female prime minister, has become a ...

08:56 AM - Oct 05, 2023

0

"As a person who has read books, magazines, newspapers, comic books, and even matchbook covers for as long as I can remember, I have to confess that I simply do not understand this craze of a few for banning books."
https://www.dailykos.com/s...

dailykos.com

Black Kos Tuesday: Excellent libraries at home and in the world

Excellent Libraries at Home and in the World Commentary by Chitown Kev As a person who has read books, magazines, newspapers, comic books,�and even matchbook covers for as long as I can remember, ...

01:02 AM - Oct 04, 2023

0

"It is wonderful to open the month of October with a celebration. Oct. 1 is the date of birth of one of our most memorable soul singers, songwriters, and arrangers: Grammy Award-winning Donny Edward Hathaway."
https://www.dailykos.com/s...

dailykos.com

Black Music Sunday: 'Someday We'll All Be Free'—Remembering Donny Hathaway on his birthday

It is wonderful to open the month of October with a celebration. Oct.�1�is the date of birth of one of our most memorable soul singers, songwriters, and arrangers:� Grammy�Award-winning Donny Edward ...

11:42 AM - Oct 01, 2023

0

1

0

"This latest right-wing move will simply piggyback onto those efforts, since Afro-Latinos in the U.S. Caribbean diaspora and Indigenous-ancestored Latinos have long been targets of both historical and contemporary racism and erasure."
https://www.dailykos.com/s...

dailykos.com

Caribbean Matters: Republicans attack National Museum of the American Latino

It’s officially Hispanic Heritage Month, �which runs from Sept.�15 to Oct.�15. That heritage includes the history of Latino engagement in civil rights struggles here in the U.S. I find it deeply ...

10:58 AM - Sep 28, 2023

0

I am so very glad she is doing this; and I think we need more of working together and listening to (but also teaching) young folks of all backgrounds here in India too. (Esp non-UC kids).
https://www.dailykos.com/s...

dailykos.com

Black Kos: MVP Kamala Harris wows students on her 'Fight for Our Freedoms College Tour'

#Kamalove is what it is. Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver-Velez You can take all the fake and flake-ass polls, right-wing hate pieces, pieces of pathetic punditry and malignant�...

12:26 AM - Sep 27, 2023

0

3

"But here’s my problem with Wenner’s flawed gatekeeping. I don’t listen to music because of how well a musician can philosophize about his or her music in an interview. I’m drawn to music because of how it communicates spirit, soul, and magic to me."
https://www.dailykos.com/s...

dailykos.com

Black Music Sunday: Let's talk about 'articulate' and the caucacity of Jann Wenner

Controversy has swirled around Jann Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone magazine and cofounder of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, since The New York Times published an interview with him on Sept. 15. The focus: His stunningly offensive defense of the choice...

11:01 AM - Sep 24, 2023

0

"Queen Nzinga Mbande 1583–1663 (also spelled Njinga), was a monarch of the Mbundu people. Mbande was a resilient leader who fought the Portuguese’s expanding slave trade in Central Africa."
https://www.dailykos.com/s...

dailykos.com

Black Kos, Week In Review - Angola's Warrior Queen Nzinga

Queen Nzinga � Mbande � 1583–1663 (also spelled � Njinga ), was a monarch of the Mbundu people. Mbande was a resilient leader who fought the � Portuguese’s e xpanding � slave � trade in ...

12:25 AM - Sep 23, 2023

0

5

15

"So here we are again: Another year has passed. In some ways, conditions on the island have worsened since Maria, complicated by and contributed to by Hurricane Fiona last year."
People in the US should care more about Puerto Rico and speak up for their independence, or rights, whichever they pre

dailykos.com

Caribbean Matters: Six years after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans are still suffering

On Sept.�17, 2017, the deadly Category 5 Hurricane Maria first devastated Dominica ,�then headed toward�Puerto Rico, making landfall there as a Category 4 storm near� Yabucoa on Sept.�20. Maria ...

10:56 AM - Sep 21, 2023

0

1

3

5

Read for musings on health from Mr. Kev and round up of stories important to Black Americans from around the world.

https://www.dailykos.com/s...

dailykos.com

Black Kos Tuesdays: Sloooooooooow Down!

Slooooooooow Down! A personal note by Chitown Kev Even under the best of circumstances, it seems as though I am always chasing...something whether it’s�trying to cross one more item off of my ...

12:40 AM - Sep 20, 2023

0

Did you know that Los Angeles was segregated in the early twentieth century? That there were no hotels that served Black people until a Jamaican born Black man built Somerville (Dunbar) hotel in 1928. Read to know more about Black LA history.
https://www.dailykos.com/s...

dailykos.com

Black Music Sunday: A visit to Central Avenue, the center of the early Los Angeles jazz scene

Over the course of nearly 180 installments of this�series, we have traveled to New York City , Philadelphia ,

11:41 AM - Sep 17, 2023

0

1

0

1

"In tennis — as in previously lily white gymnastics — Black athletes have stormed the citadel. The gate has been kicked off its hinges, and there’s no way to hold the fort."
https://www.dailykos.com/s...

dailykos.com

Black Kos, Week In Review: Have tennis fans become less racist over the last 20 years?

Commentary by Black Kos editor JoanMar Tennis crowned a new queen at the US Open this past weekend.� Nineteen-year-old Coco Gauff fought her way into winning her first grand slam title. She became ...

12:54 AM - Sep 16, 2023

0

2

0

2

Civil rights litigator, first Black woman to be a US District Court judge, NY state senator, inspiration to many Black and women lawyers and justice after her: read to know more about Constance Baker Motley

https://www.dailykos.com/s...

dailykos.com

Caribbean Matters: Celebrating Constance Baker Motley, who should have been a Supreme Court Justice

News coverage of United States federal Judge Tanya Chutkan—the�Black woman and Jamaican immigrant currently overseeing one of Donald Trump’s four criminal trials—so often mentions� the racist �...

10:54 AM - Sep 14, 2023

0

1

"The only real course to stem this ruination then, is to embrace Knowledge and not Ignorance, to arm our minds and soul and activism against those corporate armies of propaganda, against those mobs of malice and hate..."
https://www.dailykos.com/s...

dailykos.com

Black Kos Tuesday's, "Let America Be America Again"

by Justice Putnam, Black Kos Poetry Editor Being the son of a professional Historian, having a degree in History myself,�I am both, amazed and appalled, by the blatant historical revisions and ...

01:03 AM - Sep 13, 2023

0

1

2

"Musicians who weave their musical magic for us for decades truly are a blessing. One of them, groundbreaking vibraphonist, composer, and producer Roy Ayers, celebrates his 83rd birthday today."
https://www.dailykos.com/s...

dailykos.com

Black Music Sunday: Let's vibe with Roy Ayers on his 83rd birthday

Musicians who weave their musical magic for us for decades truly are a blessing. One of them, groundbreaking vibraphonist, composer, and producer Roy Ayers, celebrates his 83rd birthday today. With ...

11:37 AM - Sep 10, 2023

0

3

6

"Henry Ossian Flipper (March 21, 1856 – April 26, 1940) born near Thomasville, Georgia was an American soldier, engineer, former enslaved person and in 1877,"
https://www.dailykos.com/s...

dailykos.com

Black Kos, Week In Review

Commentary: Black Scientists, Explorers, Historymakers, and Inventors By dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor Henry Ossian Flipper (March 21, 1856 – April 26, 1940) b orn near Thomasville, ...

01:38 AM - Sep 09, 2023

0

1

4

5