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Hair Ice, associated with the fungus Exidiopsis effusa, South Downs NP in West Sussex England
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Smashed windows create a set of frames for this industrial backdrop at Millennium Mills, East London.
Highest position: 9 on Friday, September 27, 2013
Your Hands Are Clean... But the Water Runs Red!!
Non-being
non-white
non-entity
I think but am not
but to think I am not
is to be
not what I can
but what I must
invisible
unseen
In shades of yellow, brown and black
that fade in the white glare
of the being one
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 25 miles (40 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2019 census, the city has an estimated population of 182,437. Fort Lauderdale is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control, operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
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São Paulo's old city center, a display of history, diversity, segregation, wealth, homelessness and the hope for a better city.
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a lazy day on PaD front otherwise but I just have to do this one as my public service effort, my contribution to Apple Amnesty International, the deal is as follows:
apples are oppressed , their voices are suppressed , their fruit rights are violated in a most violent fashion. You are certainly well informed about 23 year war between apples and pears which ended with Orchard Treaty and apples humbly admitting defeat and surrendering the whole stock of their next generation hi-end scarecrows to full and exclusive use of pears as well as losing their cider press taken by pears as " compensation for our loss and suffering" , shameless fruit!, ... What you didn't know is that after Orchard Treaty had been signed things got really pear-shaped, apples got effectively occupied by pears , the fact not known to world media, they have been beaten into submission and put behind barbed wire with all their fruit rights taken away, fruit segregation , shame!, has been introduced by pears when apples can't be put into same jam as pears, can you believe that?!
This will not stand!
Enough is enough!
Apples of the world unite!
Venceremos!
Free the apples!
"Get up , stand up , stand up for your right,
get up , stand up, don't give up the fight"
A 1955 Chevrolet is parked down the street from Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth home on Auburn Ave NE in Atlanta, GA.
Born in 1929, Dr. King became a civil rights activist early in his career.
He led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
This particular street corner might have looked exactly the same in 1955...
Canon EOS 6D - f/6.3 - 1/200sec - 88mm - ISO 100
typical Dutch landscape: water, grass, cows
grassenscheiding: koeien hoog, vogels laag
▶ Learn about Wheeling's segregated Blue Triangle Branch of the YWCA
#blackhistorymonth
- photo from the YWCA Collection of the Ohio County Public Library Archives.
▶ Visit the Library's Wheeling History website
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The Wind Palace is the symbol of the pink city of Jaipur in India. It was built as a place of segregation for the ladies of the court who could attend processions and public activities through the dozens of windows.
A Apologia Ao Segregacionismo - Escultura Instalação / The Apology for Segregation - Sculpture/Installation by Daniel Arrhakis (2025)
A Apologia Ao Segregacionismo - Escultura /Instalação
As formas na parede semelhantes a colunas de som envolvem a escultura central. Um forma prismática rectangular que encerra em compartimentos outros prismas retangulares com diferentes cores. Enquanto na sala se ouvem discursos contra as cores minoritárias.
The Apology for Segregation - Sculpture/Installation
The shapes on the wall, similar to loudspeakers, surround the central sculpture. A rectangular prismatic shape that encloses other rectangular prisms with different colors in compartments. While in the room, speeches against minority colors can be heard.
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Antologia Do Formalismo Fascista - Projeto de Exibição Artística
Uma antologia é uma coleção de obras escolhidas, selecionadas pela relevância em relação a um tema, autor ou período específico. Neste Projeto de Exibição Artística para um futuro próximo o Artista através de uma coleção de trabalhos em Arte Digital e Instalações faz a denuncia dos formalismos do pensamento Fascista através do jogo de geometrias simples e cores.
Anthology of Fascist Formalism - Art Exhibition Project
An anthology is a collection of chosen works, selected for relevance in relation to a specific theme, author or period.
In this Art Exhibition Project for a near future, the Artist, through a collection of works in Digital Art and Installations, denounces the formalisms of Fascist thought through the play of simple geometries and colors.
Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Before becoming a judge, he was a lawyer who was best remembered for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education. He was nominated to the court by President Lyndon Johnson in 1967.
On November 30, 1993, Justice Marshall was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton.
Marshall graduated from Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore in 1925 and from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1930. At Lincoln University, Marshall was initiated as a member of the first black Greek Lettered organization Alpha Phi Alpha. Afterward, Marshall wanted to apply to his hometown law school, the University of Maryland School of Law, but the dean told him that he would not be accepted because of the school's segregation policy. Later, as a civil rights litigator, he successfully sued the school for this policy in the case of Murray v. Pearson. As he could not attend the University of Maryland, Marshall sought admission and was accepted at Howard University School of Law.
Marshall won his very first U.S. Supreme Court case, Chambers v. Florida, 309 U.S. 227 (1940), at the age of 32. That same year, he was appointed Chief Counsel for the NAACP. He argued many other cases before the Supreme Court, most of them successfully, including Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944); Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1 (1948); Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629 (1950); and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, 339 U.S. 637 (1950). His most famous case as a lawyer was Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), the case in which the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" public education, as established by Plessy v. Ferguson, was not applicable to public education because it could never be truly equal. In total, Marshall won 29 out of the 32 cases he argued before the Supreme Court.
President John F. Kennedy appointed Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1961. A group of Democratic Party Senators led by Mississippi's James Eastland held up his confirmation, so he served for the first several months under a recess appointment. Marshall remained on that court until 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him Solicitor General, the first African American to hold the office.
On June 13, 1967, President Johnson appointed Marshall to the Supreme Court following the retirement of Justice Tom C. Clark, saying that this was "the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man and the right place." Marshall was confirmed as an Associate Justice by a Senate vote of 69-11 on August 30, 1967. He was the 96th person to hold the position, and the first African-American. President Johnson confidently predicted to one biographer, Doris Kearns Goodwin, that a lot of black baby boys would be named "Thurgood" in honor of this choice.
Marshall served on the Court for the next twenty-four years, compiling a liberal record that included strong support for Constitutional protection of individual rights, especially the rights of criminal suspects against the government. His most frequent ally on the Court (indeed, the pair rarely voted at odds) was Justice William Brennan, who consistently joined him in supporting abortion rights and opposing the death penalty. Brennan and Marshall concluded in Furman v. Georgia that the death penalty was, in all circumstances, unconstitutional, and never accepted the legitimacy of Gregg v. Georgia, which ruled four years later that the death penalty was constitutional in some circumstances. Thereafter, Brennan or Marshall dissented from every denial of certiorari in a capital case and from every decision upholding a sentence of death. In 1987, Marshall gave a controversial speech on the occasion of the bicentennial celebrations of the Constitution of the United States. Marshall stated,
"the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and major social transformations to attain the system of constitutional government and its respect for the freedoms and individual rights, we hold as fundamental today."
In conclusion Marshall stated
"Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original document, and observe the anniversary with hopes not realized and promises not fulfilled. I plan to celebrate the bicentennial of the Constitution as a living document, including the Bill of Rights and the other amendments protecting individual freedoms and human rights".
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Latomia of paradise today is a charming and delightful place; originally it was an immense stone quarry mostly covered and subterranean. According to the story of the ancient historians the latomie were also used as a place of segregation.
Gordon Parks was born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1912. An itinerant laborer, he worked as a brothel pianist and railcar porter, among other jobs, before buying a camera at a pawnshop, training himself, and becoming a photographer. In addition to his storied tenures photographing for the Farm Security Administration (1941–45) and Life magazine (1948–72), Parks evolved into a modern-day Renaissance man, finding success as a film director, writer and composer. The first African-American director to helm a major motion picture, he helped launch the blaxploitation genre with his film Shaft (1971). He wrote numerous memoirs, novels and books of poetry, and received many awards, including the National Medal of Arts and more than 50 honorary degrees. Parks died in 2006.
Kapstadt - Bo-Kaap
The Bo-Kaap is an area of Cape Town, South Africa formerly known as the Malay Quarter. It is a former township, situated on the slopes of Signal Hill above the city centre and is an historical centre of Cape Malay culture in Cape Town. The Nurul Islam Mosque, established in 1844, is located in the area.
Bo-Kaap is traditionally a multicultural area. The area is known for its brightly coloured homes and cobble stoned streets.
As a result of Cape Town's economic development and expansion, and after the demise of forced racial segregation under apartheid, property in the Bo-Kaap has become very sought after, not only for its location but also for its picturesque cobble-streets and unique architecture. Increasingly, this close-knit community is "facing a slow dissolution of its distinctive character as wealthy outsiders move into the suburb to snap up homes in the City Bowl at cut-rate prices". Inter-community conflict has also arisen as some residents object to the sale of buildings and the resultant eviction of long-term residents.
(Wikipedia)
Bo-Kaap (Afrikaans; deutsch etwa: „Über dem Kap“), auch Malay Quarter („Malaienviertel“) oder Slamsebuurt („Islamviertel“), offiziell Schotschekloof, ist ein Stadtteil von Kapstadt in der südafrikanischen Provinz Westkap (Western Cape). Er entstand als Siedlung von Kapmalaien, die bis heute die Mehrheit der Bewohner stellen.
Bo-Kaap liegt zwischen dem Stadtzentrum und dem Hang des Signal Hill im Westen des Kapstädter Zentrums, etwa einen Kilometer vom Bahnhof Cape Town entfernt. Nördlich liegt der Stadtteil De Waterkant.
Bo-Kaap ist – historisch gesehen – etwa einen Quadratkilometer groß; über 6000 Menschen leben dort. Über 90 Prozent von ihnen sind Muslime, darunter wiederum 90 Prozent Schāfiʿiten. Insgesamt gibt es zehn Moscheen im Bo-Kaap. Der Stadtteil zeichnet sich durch enge, steile Gassen und in unterschiedlichen grellen Farben gestrichene Fassaden aus. Der Baustil ist eine Synthese aus kapholländischer und Edwardianischer Architektur.
Offiziell wird der Stadtteil als Sub Place Schotschekloof geführt und liegt zwischen Signal Hill und Buitengracht Street, dem Motorway M62. 2011 hatte er 3203 Bewohner.
Bo-Kaap wurde im 18. Jahrhundert von Kapmalaien besiedelt, nachdem sie aus der Sklaverei entlassen worden waren. Ältestes erhaltenes Haus im Originalzustand ist das heutige Bo-Kaap Museum aus den 1760er Jahren. Tuan Guru gab von hieraus der Islamisierung der Sklaven und freigelassenen schwarzen Bevölkerung wichtige Impulse. In der Folge wurden mehrere Moscheen errichtet, 1794 die Auwal Mosque in der Dorp Street – die erste Moschee Südafrikas –, ab 1811 die Palm Tree Mosque in der Long Street, die historisch zu Bo-Kaap gehört, und 1844 die Nural Islam Mosque. 1886 sollte auf Anordnung der Behörden die 1805 eingerichtete muslimische Begräbnisstätte Tana Baru Cemetery geschlossen werden; der – letztlich erfolglose – Widerstand tausender Bewohner gilt als bedeutendste Aktion der Kapmalaien gegen die Obrigkeit.
Nach dem Ende der Apartheid und der Aufhebung des Group Areas Act wurden viele Häuser instandgesetzt. Es setzte aber auch mit dem Zuzug reicher Bewohner und der Kündigung bestehender Mietverträge eine Gentrifizierung ein. 2016 wurden Planungen für ein 17-stöckiges Hochhaus mit Luxusapartments bekannt.
Bo-Kaap gilt mit seinen grellbunt gestrichenen Häusern, den Moscheen, dem Bo-Kaap Museum und Straßen mit Kopfsteinpflaster als touristische Sehenswürdigkeit. Die Straße M62 führt durch Bo-Kaap.
(Wikipedia)
Shot with 1 Nikon SB-700 with a strip softbox and grid located in front and above. Triggered by a Yognuo trigger. On black lucite.
Constructed in 1930 and burned by arson in 2016. Demolished in 2023.
The community of Lincoln Heights was formed out of the impetus of two groups in 1926. The first group was a mix of African American southern migrants and Cincinnati residents. The other group included White land speculators from out of town. These speculators provided few improvements to the land, which was subdivided and sold in an effort to maximize profit. Out of this new community arose the Lincoln Heights Elementary School in 1930. For some African Americans, Lincoln Heights offered an opportunity to escape the crowds, blight, and crime of downtown Cincinnati. For those who came from the south, it was a chance to own property and build a home that they could afford.
In January of 2015, the entire 65,500 square foot Lincoln Heights Elementary School building failed to attract the attention of buyers, despite being listed for a little under one dollar per square foot. Its replacement school was constructed in 2006, resulting in the abandonment of this school. We have lost this part of our history because of neglect and the story (all too common) of wanting to forget the inequalities inherent in space and place. This building held memories and community. The decision to demolish and destroy our history happens over time, as a frog is boiled. We can't accept the destruction of our painful past. We must tell the stories of discrimination and segregation. Without this acknowledgment, we can't move forward.
480 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Ave.
Now the City of Memphis OBDC Entrepreneurs Network Center, including the offices of Self + Tucker Architects, which bought the building in 2006 and reopened it for business in 2018.
The two sides of the historical marker say:
Universal Life Insurance Company
Founded in 1923 by Dr. J.E. Walker, with co-founders A.W. Willis, Sr. and M.W. Bonner, this family business grew to be the fourth largest African-American-owned life insurance company in the United States. Dr. Walker’s son, A. Maceo Walker, continued the business from 1952 until 1983. He was succeeded by his daughter, Patricia Walker Shaw, who ran it until her death in 1985. Descendants of all three families made significant contributions to the company’s growth.
Universal Life Insurance Building
Designed by the African-American architectural firm of McKissack and McKissack and constructed in 1949, this building houses the national headquarters of the Universal Life Insurance Company. The Egyptian-Revival style of this building is an ongoing example of the interest that African Americans developed in the 1920s in Egyptian art. During the era of racial segregation, it was one of the few places where Blacks could gather for their civic and social affairs.
From the historical marker: Rabbit's Ferry School educated Native American and African American students from 1920-1965. Built in 1919 through Pierre S. du Pont's school rebuilding program, the school served students in grades 1-9 and later, grades 1-6. Rabbit's Ferry was one of the last active one-room schools in the state when it closed in 1965. Remaining students transitioned into the Lewes Special School District, which desegregated 11 years after the U.S. Su;reme Court ruled segregation in schools unconstitutional. After the school closed, the building was repurposed as the Rabbit's Ferry Community Center.
*Working Towards a Better World
I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King’s I have a dream speech August 28 1963
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an shameful condition.
In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s Capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.
This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check; a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?”
We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.
We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.
We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.
We can never be satisfied as long as our chlidren are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating “for whites only.”
We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.
No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, that one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exhalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I will go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning, “My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrims’ pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that; let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️❤️❤️
In a remark extraordinary even by the standards of conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, the right-wing radio heavyweight declared on his program Wednesday that the United States needed to return to racially segregated buses.
Referring to an incident in which a white student was beaten by black students on a bus, Limbaugh said: “I think the guy’s wrong. I think not only it was racism, it was justifiable racism. I mean, that’s the lesson we’re being taught here today. Kid shouldn’t have been on the bus anyway. We need segregated buses — it was invading space and stuff. This is Obama’s America.”
A full transcript of Limbaugh’s comments on his radio show is available at MediaMatters.org.
Limbaugh’s comments came after a called complained to say that local law enforcement said the attack probably wasn’t racially motivated. The incident had been hyped by the conservative Drudge Report, which posted a video of the fracas.
“Police initially said the beating of the white student by two black students appeared to be racially motivated,” the Associated Press wrote. “But police on Tuesday backed away from that.”
That didn’t stop Limbaugh from making his comments Wednesday.
“In Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, ‘Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on,” Limbaugh also said. “I wonder if Obama’s going to come to come to the defense of the assailants the way he did his friend Skip Gates up there at Harvard.”
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These scans come from my rather large magazine collection. Instead of filling my house with old moldy magazines, I scanned them (in most cases, photographed them) and filled a storage area with moldy magazines. Now they reside on an external harddrive. I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history.
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A covered corridor connecting homes made of sheet metal and corrugated tin. These are one room homes providing shelter for entire families. No running water.
A sign of pride is the perfectly swept entrances and grounds--bright color shows care.
South Africa.
July, 2005.
(Kodachrome slide.)
Latomia of paradise today is a charming and delightful place; originally it was an immense stone quarry mostly covered and subterranean. According to the story of the ancient historians the latomie were also used as a place of segregation.
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I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history of People of Color.
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana
Taken at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore.
Central State Hospital, formerly known as the Georgia Lunatic Asylum, admitted its first patient in 1842, but it wasn't until almost 40 years later that the Walker Building was erected.
This building was constructed during a time when racial segregation was common in the south and because it was intended for white male convalescent patients, its design seemed less institutional than the buildings housing the African American patients.
Europe, Netherlands, Rotterdam, Centre, Schiekade, Luchtsingel, Schieblock, Pedestrians, Brollies (uncut)
The Luchtsingel and the Schieblock projects are interesting cases of the positive effects of being smart.in the counteracting of the detrimental effects that the combination of modernist urban planning (with its rigorous segregation of work, living and commercial functions) and chronic high levels of vacancy of office buildings have on the liveability and vitality of the city.
Pictured here are two people with their brollies at the place where the Luchtsingel (a wooden viaduct for pedestrians) enters the Schieblock building, It was built in the early 60s, stood empty and probably faced demolition A coalition of an architecture bureau (ZUS), a real estate developer, the owner of the building and the municipality of Rotterdam turned it in to a creative hotspot and a laboratory of urban redevelopment. A specialty is the “Dak Akker” an agricultural facility on the roof of the building with its ‘outlet’ the ‘Op het Dak’ restaurant.
Leading from the Schieblock, the Luchtsingel offers a circuit of elevated walkways that crosses major roads and a railroad to offer the pedestrian new ways to discover the city, help them to avoid the anonymous and sometime unsafe existing urban ground level and realizing a connection between emerging cultural hotspots in the Rotterdam Central and Noord areas. Funding: the municipality of Rotterdam and crowd sourcing / crowd funding. For 25 € people could and can buy planks on which the name of the buyer is printed (as can be seen on this capture).
The first two parts of the walkway is realized. They lead to the square of the former Hofplein railway station and cross the 4 tracks of the Rotterdam-Dordecht railway main line to connect to the Hofpleinviaduct redevelopment project. Hopefully It will be realized in the last quarter of this year.
The projects are urban renewal ‘light’, intervening before demolition and total redevelopment are the only options left.
The pic is number 159 of my Urban Frontiers album
04 Oct 1954, Baltimore, Maryland, USA --- Police stand guard as a group of African American students, escorted by Reverend James L. Johnson, march past two demonstrators protesting desegregation at Baltimore high schools. Some 2000 white teenagers, shouting pro-segregation slogans, paraded through the streets and staged noisy demonstrations outside of several high schools. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
This was made in Lexington Cemetery in Lexington Kentucky. There is a section for US soldiers - www.flickr.com/photos/jeffdamron/2159586427/ - but those who fought for the Confederate States during our Civil War are buried in a separate section. Following the Civil War, segregation of blacks was enforced through laws allowing/mandating "separate but equal" facilities (such as public schools, restrooms, etc.) for blacks. These persisted until our Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954 began the slow process of integration. And that is the history lesson for today.
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In the wake of a major world event in the UK and on the heels of a potentially catastrophic election in the US, the topic of xenophobia cannot be ignored.
"The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong"
-David Levithan
As a humble onlooker from Canada, the intensity of the xenophobia seen in these events makes me scared for our world. Its influence in driving the Leave vote for Brexit was evident, which is sad. Immigration is common everywhere, and it is common because because people are leaving broken countries for a chance at a better life. In the US, the blatant hatred toward the Muslim population by a presidential potential is beyond shocking. What world do we live in where this behaviour is ok or possible?
When did our fellow humans stop being just that.... a fellow human being? Living in Toronto, one of the most multicultural cities in the world, has been so eye-opening for me. Walking down the street I see people from every walk of life living in harmony. We aren't pushing for immigration to kick everyone out who is not natively Canadian (and let's be honest, Canadian are not natively Canadian unless they are aboriginal). In fact Canada opened it's arms to Syrian refugees. (There is lots we get wrong however, no worries!! Toronto is just a lovely example of a city that gets that harmony right). Imagine however, if this natural study of harmony was common everywhere?
The beauty of this world is that there is individuality and differences. If every rock on that beach was the same it would be boring. Yes there is a little island seemingly segregated in the water but it is still part of the beach and comprised of the same rocks. The beauty of human beings is that we all share our underlying humanity while each being is an individual with different looks, preferences, memories, behaviours, etc. Those differences should be treasured. It breaks my heart that we just want to impose our views are correct so it becomes "us" versus "them".
The theme this week is Earth from the 4 elements. In week 9, the challenge was water. I did snow as water with a nod to earth since it is crystallized (i.e. hardened) water (flic.kr/p/EWrhUt). In this week's photo, there is "earth" as it touches the water. The Beach. And... to contrast the delicate snow I previously photographed, this photo focused on the hard rocks. The plays on the theme of earth element are the Earth (ie the world), the rocks, the island of rocks, the sand/beach.
There is still so much beauty and goodness in the world. Dare we hope?
Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 45428 Eric Treacy runs round after bringing in the 12.00 train from Pickering.
Note the crowds of people leaving the train on the right (including me) and the crowds of people waiting to get on the train for the return trip on the left. This segregation of passengers is necessary because platform 2 is a much narrower platform than before due to the selling-off of railway land to build a supermarket some years ago.
Note also the size of those crowds - mid-week in June - which translates into a very profitable venture for the North Yorkshire Moors Railway even after spending £70k to install the mandatory main line equipment to its engines.
Minolta SRT 100b, Vivitar Telezoom lens with Kodak Ultramax 400 film. (slight crop, no other editing)
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr."
Pardon the more "conceptual" approach of the "challenge"!
Inspired but the famous "UNITED COLORS OF BENETTON" campaign.
Macro Monday project – 02/24/14
"One Color”
Latomia of paradise today is a charming and delightful place; originally it was an immense stone quarry mostly covered and subterranean. According to the story of the ancient historians the latomie were also used as a place of segregation
The US 369th Infantry Regiment the “Harlem Hellfighters”, nicknamed by their German enemy, was one of the only all-black military units to serve on the frontlines during WW1. Since the segregation of the black troops from the white in the American army was still strong, it was decided the regiment would serve along side the French. The French army welcomed the troops into their country; there was very little if not no hatred shown towards them. The French had very little concerns about race, but much bigger concerns of their man power shortages they were experiencing. Upon being assigned to the French 16th division, the soldiers were re-equipped with an all French load out, however the soldiers did keep their American uniforms. They went into the trenches on 8th May 1918 to 19 August, when they were taken off the line for rest and the training of new recruits. While overseas, the troops saw the German’s aims at demoralizing them; stating the Germans had done nothing wrong to blacks, and that they should be fighting for them. This had no effect on any of the soldiers’ morale, and they headed back to the frontline to participate in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. The regiment was reassigned to be part of the French Fourth Army, acting as the spearhead in the frontal attack. Through the advance, taking heavy losses, the regiment was forced to regroup and pull back, advancing much faster then the French troops on their flanks, having gone 14km (8.7 mi) through heavy German resistance. In mid-October the regiment was transferred to a much quieter section of the front in the Vosges Mountains, where it was stationed on the 11th November, the day of the Armistice. A week later, the Regiment began their final advance, and on 26th November was the first Allied unto to reach the Western banks of the Rhine river. There were two Medals of Honour distributed to Private Henry Johnson and Private Needham Roberts, the highest USAF Award for bravery and valour in combat. At the time, the regiment was stationed on the edge of the Argonne forest, in the Champagne region. During the night of May 14th, 1918, these two friends were on observation post duty (in a shell crater) in no-man’s land, looking for enemy activity. During the night, they could hear wire cutters clipping at the barbed wire, although it was pitch black. Then, out of the shadows came a large German patrol of nearly 24 men, and suddenly they were under attack. Jackson and Roberts fired away with their rifles, until Roberts was hit. Jackson’s gun had just jammed due to the wrong ammunition, and the first Germans were closing in for the kill. He beat one down, then used his rifle as a club on a German soldier trying to take Roberts as a prisoner (depicted here). Jackson battled on with a Bolo knife and his fists, killing at least 4 Germans and wounding several others. He suffered nearly two dozen wounds, and was hailed a hero by his fellow soldiers, being nicknamed the “Black Death”. The regiment had many heroic acts, and distinguished itself as a very capable fighting force during its service period; which was a record for American units during WW1.
Joliet Correctional Center. "Old Joliet Prison" North Segregation. Once home to Death Row and High Risk Disciplinary Segregation Inmates.
Inanda is a complex of townships, a heritage of the eras of segregation and Apartheid, where poorer Black urban workers lived and still live. Some white South Africans (and visitors to the country) have never visited a township. Here is an open invitation, high on a wealthy hillside in Durban.
The Homeless - The Segregation of Poverty by Populisms and the Far Right
O Sem Abrigo - A Segregação da Pobreza Pelos Populismos e a Extrema Direita by Daniel Arrhakis (2025)
Em Portugal como em muitos países onde ascendem as teorias do Liberalismo Económico, de um Oligarquismo Tecnológico ou de uma Extrema Direita começam a surgir de novo os discursos populistas contra os mais pobres, os mais frágeis e excluídos.
Num discurso falacioso, tendencioso, ignóbil e sem escrúpulos morais, certos líderes como Trump, Milei ou partidos como o chega e André Ventura em Portugal segregam uma franja de cidadãos com fracos recursos e que necessitam de ser apoiados pelo Estado como bandidos, usurpadores ou preguiçosos que não querem trabalhar, sem distinção!
Para além do corte de fundos para ajudar os que mais precisam no Planeta como foi o fecho da USAID (United States Agency for International Development) feito por Trump estes políticos populistas pretendem ainda cortar ou simplesmente terminar com subsídios e abonos que sustentam neste momento uma parte significativa da franja da população mais pobre.
A taxa de pobreza na Argentina, que andava em torno dos 40% quando Milei tomou posse, disparou ao longo do ano e atingiu uns impressionantes 52,9% no final de 2024, o que significa que, só nesse ano, 3,4 milhões de argentinos foram empurrados para a pobreza.
Em Portugal o discurso segregacionista do Chega e de André Ventura coloca estas franjas da população mais fragilizada numa situação de suspeição geral de uso indevido de subsídios e abonos do estado e tem conduzido a uma revolta latente e crescente contra elas, ao ponto de se verificarem ataques a quem vive nas ruas!!
Se juntarmos a isto uma crescente inflação com grande incidência nos bens alimentares e no preço das casas e das rendas, muitas pessoas mesmo empregadas viram-se nos últimos tempos na iminência de ir para as ruas e engrossar o número dos que já lá vivem e dos que precisarão de apoio.
A Pobreza atinge hoje novos grupos, designadamente jovens à procura de primeiro emprego, trabalhadores com baixos salários e trabalhadores em geral a que se juntam os grupos tradicionais como pensionistas com baixas reformas, desempregados e incapacitados.
O discurso de ódio tem vindo a ganhar cada vez mais espaço dentro dos diferentes países da Europa e em Portugal não é exceção e apresenta-se como uma crescente ameaça à coesão social e aos valores da solidariedade. Em certas zonas e regiões as doações têm decrescido em virtude da desconfiança crescente!
A Retórica Populista em Portugal promete redistribuição de riqueza, mas as suas políticas favorecem elites económicas em detrimento dos mais frágeis como aliás vimos em países como os Estados Unidos ou Argentina.
E Mesmo neste último alguma recuperação foi feita á custa dos despedimentos de milhares de trabalhadores e das privatizações do sector do estado, cujo dinheiro da venda não se repetirá.
Urge, portanto, defender as políticas económicas e sociais que salvaguardem a coesão social e a proteção dos mais desfavorecidos contra um populismo indiferente.
Termino com uma frase minha que é também um desejo:
"Para enfrentar a crise da pobreza é necessário enfrentar a crise da desigualdade, da desinformação e da Indiferença!"
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The Homeless - The Segregation of Poverty by Populism and the Far Right
In Portugal, as in many countries where theories of Economic Liberalism, Technological Oligarchy or the Far Right are on the rise, populist discourses against the poorest, the most vulnerable and the excluded are beginning to emerge again.
In a fallacious, biased, despicable and unscrupulous discourse, certain leaders such as Trump, Milei or parties such as Chega and André Ventura in Portugal segregate a fringe of citizens with weak resources and who need to be supported by the State as bandits, usurpers or lazy people who do not want to work, without distinction!
In addition to cutting funds to help those most in need on the planet, such as Trump's closure of USAID (United States Agency for International Development), these populist politicians also intend to cut or simply end subsidies and benefits that currently support a significant part of the poorest segment of the population.
The poverty rate in Argentina, which was around 40% when Milei took office, soared throughout the year and reached an impressive 52.9% at the end of 2024, which means that, in that year alone, 3.4 million Argentines were pushed into poverty.
In Portugal, the segregationist discourse of Chega and André Ventura places these most vulnerable segments of the population in a situation of general suspicion of misuse of state subsidies and benefits and has led to a latent and growing revolt against them, to the point of attacks on those living on the streets!!
If we add to this growing inflation, with a major impact on food and housing and rent prices, many people, even those with jobs, have recently found themselves on the verge of taking to the streets and swelling the ranks of those already living there and those who will need support.
Poverty is now affecting new groups, notably young people looking for their first job, low-wage workers and workers in general, along with traditional groups such as pensioners with low pensions, the unemployed and the disabled.
Hate speech has been gaining more and more ground in the various countries of Europe, and Portugal is no exception, and it presents itself as a growing threat to social cohesion and the values of solidarity. In certain areas and regions, donations have been decreasing due to growing distrust!
Populist rhetoric in Portugal promises redistribution of wealth, but its policies favor economic elites to the detriment of the most vulnerable, as we have seen in countries such as the United States and Argentina.
And even in the latter, some recovery was achieved at the cost of laying off thousands of workers and selling off state sector privatizations, the money from which will not be returned.
Therefore, it is urgent to defend economic and social policies that safeguard social cohesion and protect the most disadvantaged against indifferent populism.
I will end with a phrase of mine that is also a wish:
"To face the crisis of poverty, we must face the crisis of inequality, misinformation and indifference!"
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