The Niagara Movement was a civil rights group organized by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter in 1905. After being denied admittance to hotels in Buffalo, New York, the group of twenty-nine business owners, teachers, and clergy who comprised the initial meeting gathered at Niagara Falls, Ontario (Canada) from which the group’s name derives.
The principles behind the Niagara Movement were largely in opposition to Booker T. Washington’s philosophy of Accommodationism. Trotter, editor of the Boston Guardian, had publicly reprimanded Washington at a Boston, Massachusetts meeting in 1903. In The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Du Bois had also condemned Washington for his lowered expectations for African Americans. The Niagara Movement drafted a “Declaration of Principles,” part of which stated: “We refuse to allow the impression to remain that the Negro-American assents to inferiority, is submissive under oppression and apologetic before insults.”
The Niagara Movement attempted to bring about legal change, addressing the issues of crime, economics, religion, health, and education. The movement stood apart from other black organizations at the time because of its powerful, unequivocal demand for equal rights. The Niagara Movement forcefully demanded equal economic and educational opportunity as well as the vote for black men and women. Members of the Niagara Movement sent a powerful message to the entire country through their condemnation of racial discrimination and their call for an end to segregation.
While the movement had grown to include to 170 members in 34 states by 1906, it also encountered difficulties. W.E.B. Du Bois supported the inclusion of women in the Niagara Movement, William Monroe Trotter did not. Trotter left the movement in 1908 to start his own group, the Negro-American Political League.
The Niagara Movement met annually until 1908. In that year a major race riot broke out in Springfield, Illinois. Eight blacks were killed and over 2,000 African Americans fled the city. Symbolically important because it was the first northern race riot in four decades and because it was in the hometown of Abraham Lincoln, black and white activists, including members of the Niagara Movement, felt a new more powerful, interracial organization was now needed to combat racism. Out of this concern, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was formed. The Niagara Movement was considered the precursor to the NAACP and many of its members, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, were among the new organization’s founders.
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Does anyone even like work do’s? Does anyone really actually enjoy mandatory talking and eating and drinking with people?
Rant: I can’t eat any of the food because I’m vegan and apparently no one has any conception of what that means. I am the only one wearing a mask indoors. We are expected to work our entire shift, clock out, then go to another location off the clock. The last part of my 10-12 hour shifts involves washing dishes, so I’m soaked and overheated. It is a Friday, I want to go home. If I’m not aggressively cheerful I hear about it. They raffle off some work branded garbage I don’t want. I win a giant rocking camping chair, the box it comes in is like my size. I live in a one bedroom apartment and have no use for it or even place to store it. I have to say thank you convincingly enough to be believed, and no one offers to help me get it into my car while it’s raining outside
I enjoy free food of any kind
depends if you like your coworkers i guess
"this question asks you to consider the design aspects of a cluster delivery systems to distribute massed, small spherical payloads of cheez ballz over a large urban area to help feed many people’
I can’t believe they used my research to develop weaponsI hit them with the ‘hey mate i don’t use fb very much please message me on whatsapp’
Then I ignore them on what’s app
If it ain’t WeChat I ain’t responding
I went from working too many hours to working barely any hours and I don’t like either of these
it’s fucked up that i like being high but the way tolerance works I basically can’t even get high high (*unless I make my own extremely potent tinctures or edibles)
if nerds were so smart how come nobody’s figured out a way to stop you from building tolerance to fun shit
Rotate drugs. Like one week you’re into booze, one week you’re a weed guy, then you switch over to meth for a week, then coke, then benzos, then back to booze.
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Eating salad placebos me into thinking im healthy. Like…I’ve been vegan for a long ass time now, there isn’t really much going on in a salad that isn’t in most of what im already eating but a bowl of straight up veggies hits different when theyre cold and without rice
Fun Darby Lore: she got taught as a kitten that play biting is okay on the knuckles cause theres no risk of real damage there, I keep a closed hand and those are the clear targets. Now she likes to have her teef on my knuckles while cuddling and will go walrus mode to do so
fuuuck why is uber so slow right now it’s fucking Saturday I should be rolling in it
James Carter Cathcart, a voice actor who portrayed some of the most memorable characters in the “Pokémon” franchise and became a familiar presence in several other popular animated series, died on Tuesday in the Bronx. He was 71. His wife, Martha Jacobi, said in a social media post that he died in a hospital.
Voice actress Erica Schroeder reported on Thursday that fellow voice actor and script adaptor James Carter Cathcart has died. Cathcart’s wife Martha Jacobi had announced in January 2023 that he had been diagnosed with an advanced form of throat cancer. Cathcart voiced several characters in the Pokémon anime such as Professor Oak, his grandson Gary, and Team Rocket’s James and Meowth. Cathart had been involved in the franchise since its first episode. He had also worked as a script adaptor for many TV series and films in the franchise.
Aside from Pokémon, Cathcart (who also goes by the names Jimmy Zoppi, Billy Beach, and Carter Cathcart) also voiced the character of Miki Kaoru in Revolutionary Girl Utena, Cyniclons Tarb in Tokyo Mew Mew, Dilgear and others in The Slayers, Weevil Underwood in the 2000 Yu Gi Oh! anime, Kumi’s Borg in Alien Nine, Sir Gallant in Kirby: Right Back At Ya!, and Butchie in One Piece.
Fun NBA story. Hansen Yang, a Chinese Basketball Association player, was drafted about 40-50 spots above his draft projection by the Portland Trailblazers and everyone was doing some major headscratching about how much ofba stretch the pick was.
Fast forward to today and he’s tearing it up in his 2nd summer league game after an incredible opener a day ago with court vision way, way beyond his age.
He has a few things to figure out (primarily defensive intensity and also needs to put more muscle on like most players as they transition to the pros), but he’s been incredibly fun to watch and I can’t wait to see him develop more. Incredibly exciting player and a joy to watch in his early, early NBA career.
They’re calling him the Chinese Nikola Jokic, which would be amazing if it pans out that way.
Will supperman make sense if I haven’t seen breakfastman and lunchman
Brevity is the soul of a Megathread bit
Dr. Who rant
The Disney Dr. Who plots are so confused. I just got to a particularly egregious one titled “Lucky day” Wherein a guy named Conrad 🙄 is anti-UNIT (The secret? “good guys” government organization that deals with things like aliens). To discredit UNIT and prove that aliens are made up, he and his buddies dress up as scary aliens, so UNIT will show up with guns, and then Conrad and his bros livestream it and call them fascists. This is obviously supposed to somehow mirror both right wing disinformation, and left wing activism (both sides equally bad obv.) and somehow works and everyone is mad at UNIT.
But if UNIT lied about aliens existing, and some aliens show up that look just like a particular alien they made up, wouldn’t they know it’s a hoax?? So what did they prove??
