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.)

Leadership

• Veguary re-introduces Afro-Americans to plant-based eating

• Charles Henry Turner proved Darwin was right about animal sentience

• Malcolm X on pit bulls, other dangerous dogs, & betrayal

• Afro-Vegan Society marks Black History Month 2022 with veg outreach

• Afro-Vegan Society marks Black History Month with veg outreach

• 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

• Black humane history found in great-grandpa’s attic near a town called Ark

• 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

Institutional racism

• One African-American journalist’s view of John James Audubon

• Audubon: brand recognition trumps what J.J. Audubon actually did

• Range war over diversity, equity, & inclusion in wildlife management

• California bill would halt use of unleashed K-9 dogs in arrests & crowd control

• Police dog attacks on black children soar in Baton Rouge

• ANIMALS 24-7 resigns from the Society of Environmental Journalists

• “I can’t breathe”: stealing slogan to use for animal causes is not fighting cruelty

• “Animals & thugs”: horses, dogs, police & the George Floyd protests

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

• How Standing Rock 2016 echoes Birmingham 1963

•  Why mass shooters sometimes sound like conservationists

• 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

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

Pit bulls & the black community

• “The Conversation” & the pit bull shit

• Why “Human races are not like dog breeds: Refuting a Racist Analogy”

• 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

• Severely injured Duane Eddie Vanlanham won a medal & a lawsuit,  but no payout

• Arthur Burrell, “Cat Man” of Chicago’s West Side, 57

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

• Leading Kenyan conservationist barred from Nairobi National Park

African animal advocates

• Why Namibia is losing wildlife despite claimed success of conservancies

• Namibia reports oral rabies vaccination breakthrough for street dogs

• “Ivory Queen” wins appeal––and gets 15 years again

• Will captive lions caught in wildfire light a fire under South African legislators?

• 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

• Passed on: a Kenyan hero, others who served, & a questionable Canadian

• 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

Integration era

•  Time Is Short And The Water Rises