Archive for the 'Activist' Category

SOME HUMOR FROM THE PDX RETRO BLOG

Climate activists us constitution
Climate activists (Dumb and Dumber) dumped red powder
Wednesday on the protective display case holding the U.S. Constitution.
 

climate activists red powder rotunda
The suspects were arrested by D.C. police.

posted by Bob Karm in Activist,Blog Department,Climate Change,Constitution,CURRENT EVENTS and have No Comments

DRIVERS ORDER REJECTED ON THIS DAY IN 1955

Rosa Parks Day | OC Human Relations
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
(February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005)

(FOX NEWS) – Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American
seamstress and local activist, refused to give up her seat
to a White passenger on a
Montgomery, Alabama, public
bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955.

"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in," Parks said of
her decision to challenge local authority.

Black bus riders were required to sit in the back of the bus,
and to also give up those seats to White riders if the front
seats were filled, under local Montgomery ordinance.

The case became bogged down in the state courts, but the
federal Montgomery bus lawsuit Browder v. Gayle resulted
in a November 1956 decision that bus segregation is
unconstitutional under the
Equal Protection Clause of
the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

‘Tired of giving in’: Civil rights activist Rosa Parks born on this day in 1913 - pennlive.com
Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala. after her arrest for civil disobedience.

Black History of Health: Rosa Parks - BlackDoctor.org

posted by Bob Karm in Activist,African American,ANNIVERSARY,Arrest,Bus,HISTORY and have No Comments

MAN OF MANY TALENTS HAS DIED AT 96

Harry Belafonte Through the Years | EW.com

Frank Thompson | BCProductions Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia
Harry Belafonte ( Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.)
(March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023)

Belafonte was a Jamaican-American singer, actor and activist,
who popularized
calypso music with international audiences
in the 1950s. His breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the
first million-selling
LP by a single artist.

Belafonte was best known for his recordings of "Day-O
(The Banana Boat Song)
".

In 2022  Harry Belafonte was inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame
in the Early Influence category.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Harry Belafonte - His Best Ever! Romance - Calypso - Spirituals - CD

posted by Bob Karm in Activist,Actors,African American,Album,Awards,Broadway,CURRENT EVENTS,DEATH,HISTORY,MOVIES,MUSIC and have No Comments

SINGER OLIVIA NEWTON—JOHN HAS DIED

See the source image

See the source image
Olivia Newton-John (26 September 1948 – 8 August 2022)

Olivia Newton-John, beloved actress and singer best known for
her role as Sandy Olsson in Grease and for hits such as 1981’s “Physical,” died on Monday (Aug. 8) at her ranch in California. She
was 73 years old.

It was announced in May of 2017 that Newton-John’s breast
cancer from past years had returned and metastasized to her lower
back. Her back pains had initially been misdiagnosed.
She was 
experiencing a
great deal of pain from the metastatic bone lesions
and had openly
spusing cannabis oil to ease her pain. Her daughter Chloe owns a cannabis farm in Oregon.

See the source image

posted by Bob Karm in Activist,Actors,Awards,Cancer,CURRENT EVENTS,DEATH,HISTORY,Musical,Singers and have No Comments

CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1929

The Life of Dr Martin Luther King Jr - HubPages

13-things-you-probably-never-knew-about-martin-luther-kings-college-years
Martin Luther King Jr.
(born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

On January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta,
Georgia, the son of a Baptist minister. King received a doctorate
degree in theology and in 1955 helped organize the first major
protest of the African American civil rights movement: the
successful
Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The night Martin Luther King Jr. came to Grosse Pointe

Vala Afshar su Twitter: "April 4, 1968 — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was  assassinated at Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.  https://t.co/1x5ASZoJaX" / Twitter

Back to the Bridge | Via Ex Machina

posted by Bob Karm in Activist,African American,BIRTHDAY,Civil rights,CURRENT EVENTS and have No Comments