Black history & animals

(Please scroll down to find links on topics including Leadership,  Institutional racism,  Ku Klux Klan,  Pit bulls & the black community,  Slavery & resistance,  Environmental justice,  African animal advocates,  Africa Network for Animal Welfare,  and Integration era.)

Lillian & Dick Gregory.
(Beth Clifton collage)

Leadership

• What animal advocates owe to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

• A black-and-white issue that the humane community has yet to face

• Four black leaders who built the humane movement

• Dick Gregory, 50 years a vegan activist, dies at 84

• Best Friends & MOVE: cults, “white privilege” & the rise of animal rights activism

Birmingham, Alabama,
May 3, 1963.

Institutional racism

• Galveston mock lynching may hasten police horse era to an end

• How Standing Rock 2016 echoes Birmingham 1963

• Pooped on for profit: pigs, chickens, & people in North Carolina

• When dogs mauled children outside the White House

• Echoes of the Old South in pigeon-shooting lawyer’s promotion to judge

(Beth Clifton collage)

Ku Klux Klan

• Did the Omak Suicide Race start with a horse massacre & the KKK?

• Why mass shooters sometimes sound like conservationists

• Cockfighters “win” from delay of hurricane aid to Puerto Rico

• “Dog Fighting Awareness”: what the ASPCA ignored

• What was No Kill Nation founder Debi Day doing in Charlottesville?

• End of Debi Day for Nathan Winograd follows Charlottesville debacle

Michael Vick

Pit bulls & the black community

• Pit bull advocates owe Michael Vick bigtime, at victims’ expense

• Bad dogs & minority communities

• Pit bulls, “bullying & backlash,” & who is really threatening whom

• Alabama mauling: “Emily’s Law” fails to protect public from pit bulls

• Four-year-old killed by pit bulls because Miami-Dade law was not enforced

The Georgia Militia in 1839.

Slavery & resistance

• Hurricane Dorian helps to solve the mystery of the extinct Abaco wild horses

• Why the Second Amendment does not protect hunting animals

• SHARK fights pigeon shooters where black man was hunted for sport

Environmental justice

• Film “Indian Point” shows how nukes hit river life

Paula Kahumbu, U.S. ambassador Robert Godec, and Africa Network for Animals founder Josphat Ngonyo (far right), with other participants in the “Global March for Elephants & Rhinos” on October 3, 2014 in Nairobi, Kenya.

African animal advocates

• Leading Kenyan conservationist barred from Nairobi National Park

• What Kenya’s wildlife needs most is water––not “fake news”

• $10 billion from China buys big changes in Kenya wildlife tourism

• Trophy hunting scheme & Chinese-built railway fire debate in Kenya

• “Kenya’s wildlife should remain in the wild” –– Sidney Quntai, 57

• South Sudan bans hunting; follows Kenya, with Chinese support

• Drought-driven land invasions hit Kenya wildlife conservancies

• Kenya crisis shows need to transition out of animal agriculture

• Kenyans rise in protest over lions shot & speared

• Fighting rabies panic & dog poisoning in Kenya

• Will Nairobi shoot dogs, vaccinate them, or serve them for dinner?

• Botswana,  please rethink resuming hunting! by Sebastian Mwanza

Africa Network for Animal Welfare

• The untold story of the conflict in Laikipia, Kenya by Sebastian Mwanza

• Desnaring in Kenya with ANAW and China House

• World Animal Day in Nairobi, Kenya

• Kenya adds humane education curriculum

• South Sudan bans hunting; but will the ban last? by Sebastian Mwanza

John Walsh & friends.

Integration era

•  Time Is Short And The Water Rises