God bless you and keep you from harm, this day and forever.
As Black History Month winds to a close, we are reminded that observance of Black history can never and should never be constrained by a month. It is U.S. history that has been under-told and undersold and we are all better for it if the observances and reflections that this month inspires become constant in our consciousness.
In that spirit, this issue of the Red Canary Bulletin focuses on two of our current stories that delve into our harrowing legacy of dispossessing Black farmers not only from their land, but from their legacies and identities. Renowned journalist Dean Kuipers interviews historian Pete Daniel about his 2013 book, Dispossession: Discrimination
Against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights, which details how nearly a million black farmers were pushed off the land and out of their history. In an age of reckoning, and hopefully of recompense, this is a rich and urgent discussion.
https://redcanarycollective.org/
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Lord Comfy of Fugger mentioned that weekly issue of the failing Marxist Guardian (UK) had an article on DJT, frontpage.
Not unusual in itself but this one is an awesome counterfactual about DJT's "iron grip on the republican party."
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/feb/17/got-his-back-trumps-iron-grip-on-the-gop-inside-the-19-february-guardian-weekly
HAPPY DOGGEH COMS DAY
The history of dogs has been intertwined, since ancient times, with that of the humans who domesticated them.
But how far back does that history go in the Americas, and which route did dogs use to enter this part of the world?
A new study led by the University at Buffalo provides insight into these questions. The research reports that a bone fragment found in Southeast Alaska belongs to a dog that lived in the region about 10,150 years ago.
Scientists say the remains—a piece of a femur—represent the oldest confirmed remains of a domestic dog in the Americas.
DNA from the bone fragment holds clues about early canine history in this part of the world.
Researchers analyzed the dog's mitochondrial genome, and concluded that the animal belonged to a lineage of dogs whose evolutionary history diverged from that of Siberian dogs as early as 16,700 years ago.
The timing of that split coincides with a period when humans may have been migrating into North America along a coastal route that included Southeast Alaska.
The research will be published on Feb. 24 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Charlotte Lindqvist, an evolutionary biologist from UB, was senior author of the study, which included scientists from UB and the University of South Dakota. The findings add to a growing body of knowledge about the migration of dogs into the Americas.
https://phys.org/news/2021-02-dogs-americas-ancient-bone-fragment.html