Black history & animals

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

Leadership

•  Sojourner Truth, her vegetarian Adventist friends, & the White lady

•  Vegan advocate Dexter King, son of Martin Luther King Jr., dies at 62

• 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

Birmingham, Alabama,  May 3, 1963.

Institutional racism

• Five tried, 3 convicted for killing vegetarian shelter volunteer Elijah McClain

• The USDA “milk mandate”: a black-&-white issue on school lunch trays

• 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

• Charges in police killing of veg animal shelter volunteer Elijah McClain

•  “Slow response & jerky gestures” in death of vegetarian Elijah McClain

• Police dog attacks on black children soar in Baton Rouge

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

•  Charges in police killing of veg animal shelter volunteer Elijah McClain

• “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

•  Dogfighter runs for office in North Carolina, backed by cockfighting money;

•  Stoney Greene tries to lose dogfighting & cockfighting tail;

• Cullman County, Alabama: combatting cockfighting in a KKK stronghold

• 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 African-American community

•  43 dogfighting suspects busted in Texas, 41 of them out of jail in 48 hours

•  Dog breeds & human races: critique of a false analogy, by Jerry Phillips

•  “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

Paula Kahumbu, U.S. ambassador Robert Godec, and Africa Network for Animal Welfare 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

• 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

Josphat Ngonyo, founder of Youth for Conservation in 1999 and the African Network for Animal Welfare in 2005.  (ANAW photo)

Africa Network for Animal Welfare

• Africa Network for Animal Welfare founder Josphat Ngonyo steps down

• 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