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1 month ago | 
pushblack.us | Alyssa Guzik
May 13, 2025 Congress created the in 2018 to assist with disaster relief. It helped restore and revitalize Black communities. Now it’s gone. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) terminated the BRIC program, bending the knee to the Trump Administration's executive order to cut "wasteful spending." Interestingly, this “waste” has been a godsend to underserved Black areas.
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2 months ago | 
pushblack.us | Alyssa Guzik
April 3, 2025 Before the internet, the Black community moved and grooved in different ways and still changed the world. How did we do it? Historically, efforts like the Civil Rights Movement relied on word-of-mouth, flyers, and clandestine meetings. Black activists used locations like churches, community centers, and restaurants to stay connected and plan. Resistance movements require creative flexibility. When one path forward is blocked, and make another one.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
pushblack.us | Alyssa Guzik
February 13, 2025 You can’t garden without getting your hands dirty. And liberation works the same way. Our ancestors knew this well, but what does that mean for us today? Having to survive on the scraps their captors gave them, the enslaved often planted to supplement their diets. "" usually contained enough nutrient-rich crops like sweet potatoes, collard greens, and okra to help the enslaved survive starvation.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
pushblack.us | Alyssa Guzik
February 13, 2025 To the surprise of not a single Black person, Pulitzer Prize-winning Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show was one for the history books. Samuel L. Jackson’s minstrel caricature of Uncle Sam symbolized the government's manipulation of the rule of law against Black progress.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
pushblack.us | Alyssa Guzik
February 5, 2025 We owe our home security systems to a Black woman. In 1966, Marie Van Britton and her husband invented the closed-circuit security system to combat the increase in break-ins in their neighborhood. Firefighters, pilots, the military, industrial workers, and those of us who depend on them need to thank and praise Garrett Morgan. The gas mask he invented in 1916 has saved literally millions of lives. Are you reading this on a color screen?
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
pushblack.us | Alyssa Guzik
November 19, 2024 Sojourner Truth expressed herself without fear of the consequences. When she spoke at the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, however, a famous statement attributed to her wasn’t hers. In 1851, white women gathered for a Women’s Rights Convention. Invited to speak on the rights of Black women, Sojourner Truth took the stage and delivered powerful words, but “Ain’t I a woman?” wasn’t part of it.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
pushblack.us | Alyssa Guzik
October 20, 2024 We got greens, beans, potatoes, tomatoes… and all the other fixins of the Black culinary kitchen. Still, health experts say Black or soul food is unhealthy. But something doesn’t sit right about that. Auntie’s collard greens are an absolute necessity at Sunday or holiday dinner. Packed with vitamins A, C, and iron, these “bad for you” greens are also now ground up and used in high-end skin care products. Some like them candied, while others like them with butter.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
pushblack.us | Alyssa Guzik
Born into slavery in 1849, Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins had an extraordinary ability to play piano, memorize conversations, and emulate sounds. His gifts were quickly recognized by his owner, who exploited the child by dragging him around the country to play piano and perform on demand. Given Tom’s blindness, possible neurodivergence, and developmental delays, his life was unusually hard. When he was five, Wiggins composed his first piece of music.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
pushblack.us | Alyssa Guzik
June 11, 2024 Here's the thing about working together even when we disagree: it can move everyone forward. We challenge our own assumptions and the other side’s perspective, generate new insights, and reach better solutions. A perfect example is the beef between W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. W.E.B. Du Bois, an internationally respected civil rights leader and scholar, argued that freedom and autonomy would always remain out of reach without equal rights and opportunities under the law.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
pushblack.us | Alyssa Guzik
June 6, 2024 Ah, Black skincare rituals and traditions, a rich tapestry woven over millennia. From the legendary beauty secrets of Cleopatra to the intricate skincare regimens of ancient tribes, African diasporic beauty practices are as diverse as their people. With , Black folks have long understood that natural remedies are the secret to radiant skin. In Africa, people have used the shea tree's fruit for centuries to hydrate their skin.
