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When the #feminist movement took root in America in the 1970s, #africanamerican women and their needs were largely left out. In 1971, #tonimorrison wrote an essay for the New York Times Magazine called "What the Black Woman Thinks About Women's Lib." It pointed to the long standing antipathy Black women had to the idea that White women needed liberation. This video looks in depth at this histor...

When the #feminist movement took root in America in the 1970s, #africanamerican women and their needs were largely left out. In 1971, #tonimorrison wrote an essay for the New York Times Magazine called "What the Black Woman Thinks About Women's Lib." It pointed to the long standing antipathy Black women had to the idea that White women needed liberation. This video looks in depth at this histor...

If you think that beauty #pageants are an unlikely venue for #feminist #activism , then you don’t know enough about the NASA beauty pageants, or about the women at NASA. NASA held a #beautypageant in most of its Centers, until a group of women at the Johnson Center put a stop to it. Here are links to the books mentioned at the end: www.amazon.com/Apollo-Age-Aquarius-Neil-Maher/dp/067497199X Apo...

Part 1 of this video created the weirdest controversy. One that had nothing to do with #steelydan .

#affirmativeaction has become controversial in the US these days. This video looks at how it helped Black people during the #spaceprogram (a part of #spacehistory that is not well known). It also looks at how and why it has been attacked during the past 60 years. We hear about #georgewallace (and how his action is like that of #gregabbott), the #supremecourt decision on reverse discrimination, ...

The work of women pioneers in the field of #satellites is an under-explored realm of #womenshistory . During #womenshistorymonth , we present #women who overcame enormous #discrimination to make strides in #outerspace . Two of these videos are narrated by #maejemison To buy the book mentioned at the end, you can go here: shorturl.at/ltvBC

There’s an idea that Black Americans hated the Space Program. This idea stems from two places, principally the #gilscottheron song #WhiteyOnTheMoon, the protest at Cape Canaveral the day before Apollo11 left Earth for the Moon . This video combs through the #blackpress to try and determine whether this narrative is true. To buy the book mentioned at the end, you can go here: shorturl.at/ltvBC

Are these song loved and borrowed from, or stolen from outright is it love or is it a #ripoff ? You can judge. Compare the themes from #onlymurdersinthebuilding and #serial . Listen to songs from #zztop , #rollingstones , #doobiebrothers . Also, did #steelydan steal from #horacesilver ? How about from #keithjarrett ? And what about #somewhereovertherainbow from #wizardofoz ? Did #HaroldArlen st...

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For #womenshistorymonth a series of videos looking at underreported stories from #spacehistory and #womenshistory , profiling #women who made #ushistory and a portion of space history that you definitely didn’t learn in school. These videos are either narrated by or featuring #MaeJemison. To buy the book mentioned at the end, you can go here: shorturl.at/ltvBC

The #oscar winning #screenplay for #americanfiction by #cordjefferson asks important questions about #culturalsensitivity in the #us in the #21stcentury . These same questions were asked by #zoranealehurston all the way back in 1950. This century's attitudes have caused a reevaluation of the work of #alanlomax (a champion of #ethnomusicology #folkmusic #folklife #folklore and #folksongs ) who m...

I know you've never heard this, but #lyndonbjohnson was kept off the #ballot for #president of the #unitedstates in #alabama in 1964. Unlike with #colorado, the #supremecourt of the #us (#scotus) was not asked to weigh in about it, so it has been largely lost to #ushistory. Surprisingly, this also impacted #NASA. Learn more in this video. To buy the book highlighted in this video, you can go he...

The #american #spaceprogram is well known to everyone, but what few of us know about are the first #black men to work for the agency. #hiddenfigures didn't tell their stories. This video tries to make up for that. These are the first Black people to work for #NASA in the South. They came to #alabama, #florida, #texas and other states in a part of the country with terrible #segregation. They bla...

The all-Black town of Allenhurst was destroyed by #NASA, when the agency needed to expand @NASAKennedy (in #capecanaveral) in 1963. This video talks about a man who lived in Allenhurst and is an unknown story of #civilrights history, and #spacehistory.

NASA & Zora Neale Hurston!

Figures. Hidden. Why?

Race and Space - Presidents and Policy

NASA & Civil Rights Are Connected? How?

Race and the Space Race

How Did We Get Jim Crow?

Frank Crossley - Stronger Than Steel

Black Women Have Had A Terrible Time Getting Science Educations In America

Why No Black Women At NASA in the South?

Houston We Have A Race Problem

Clyde Foster - Another Hidden Figure

Julius Montgomery - A Figure Hidden in Plain Sight

Dr. Gladys West - A Very Hidden Figure

Alabama A and M Computer Class

Jeanette Scissum