Month: December 2019

The African American pioneer built an alternative to Hollywood, starting in the year race riots burned across America.

Source: How Oscar Micheaux defied Hollywood to make the first all-black feature film – CNET

Many of us think of the word “ancestors” as referring to ancient human-like beings, but if we go further back into time, we can see that our ancestors WERE ACTUALLY microscopic entities. And since our digestive system consists of trillions of microbes, we actually carry around most of our bodily “ancestors”…in our guts. Isn’t that convenient? So IF we carry our ancestors in our guts, then shouldn’t we be able to connect to our ancestors at any time…by just listening…to our guts?

Source: How the Soil Became Our Soul: Fasting, Spirituality, and the Ancestors — Steemit

Technology is the single greatest contributor to climate change but it may also soon be used to offset the damage we’ve done to our planet since the Industrial Age began.

In September 2018, a project in Myanmar used drones to fire “seed missiles” into remote areas of the country where trees were not growing. Less than a year later, thousands of those seed missiles have sprouted into 20-inch mangrove saplings that could literally be a case study in how technology can be used to innovate our way out of the climate change crisis.

“We now have a case confirmed of what species we can plant and in what conditions,” Irina Fedorenko, co-founder of Biocarbon Engineering, told Fast Company. “We are now ready to scale up our planting and replicate this success.”

 

Source: These tree-planting drones are firing ‘seed missiles’ into the ground. Less than a year later, they’re already 20 inches tall. – GOOD

As the coffee harvest drew to a close in the rolling hills of southeastern Brazil, labor inspectors raced to two …

Source: While World Demand for Slave-free Coffee Grows, Brazil Finds Ways to Cheat Consumers – brazzil

For the past few months, I’ve been researching and writing a series of stories on the role of women in the 1920s-era Ku Klux Klan. It’s a sensational subject, full of disturbing anecdotes and…

Source: No, talking about women’s role in white supremacy is NOT blaming women

Modern slavery is still a huge issue across the world. Here’s how several countries are trying to end it.

Source: How Are Countries Trying to End Modern Slavery? | Time

Jesse Owens is still the most famous name from the 1936 Olympics in Nazi-controlled Berlin. But a new documentary highlights 17 other African-American athletes who also made their mark.

Source: Black U.S. Olympians Won In Nazi Germany Only To Be Overlooked At Home : The Torch : NPR

African American men, women and children were burned alive, shot, hanged or beaten to death by white mobs. Thousands of homes and businesses were burned to the ground, their owners driven out — many never to return.

Source: Hundreds of black deaths in widespread race riots during ‘Red Summer’ of 1919 are being remembered – Chicago Sun-Times