Threading my #BlackHistoryMonth + #BlackBotanistsWeek posts.

Day 1 👇🏿 https://twitter.com/localecologist/status/1356270680120164353
Day 2: Tree planter extraordinaire Wangari Maathai is today's Black Botanist. #BlackHistoryMonth
+ #BlackBotanistsWeek
👇🏿 https://twitter.com/localecologist/status/1281613854447935490?s=20
Day 3: Sadly, no post.
4: Celebrating northern red oak fan and botanist, @ColorfulSciGirl, for #BlackHistoryMonth
+ #BlackBotanistsWeek.
👇🏿 https://twitter.com/ColorfulSciGirl/status/1280939052150259712?s=20
5: I learned about Anne Spencer only recently! Spencer was a poet during the Harlem Renaissance. Her garden in Lynchburg, VA was a safe space for Black travelers during the Jim Crow era. She hosted "salons" for African American leaders. #BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackBotanistsWeek
6: Poetry is a way of knowing plants. Claude McKay wrote about flowers and such and the "Joy in the Woods." https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52982/joy-in-the-woods

#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackBotanistsWeek
7: Michelle Obama, the first Black First Lady and, kitchen garden advocate. Pic 1: Public domain photo of MO breaking ground for the White House Kitchen Garden. Pic 2: kitchen garden in Oct 2015, c/o me. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackBotanistsWeek
7: Michelle Obama, the first Black First Lady and, kitchen garden advocate. Pic 1: Public domain photo of MO breaking ground for the White House Kitchen Garden. Pic 2: kitchen garden in Oct 2015, c/o me. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackBotanistsWeek
7: Michelle Obama, the first Black First Lady and, kitchen garden advocate. Pic 1: Public domain photo of MO breaking ground for the White House Kitchen Garden. Pic 2: kitchen garden in Oct 2015, c/o me. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackBotanistsWeek
8: A #BlackHistoryMonth shout-out to Dr. @T_Marie_Wms, brilliant botanist and sage founder and facilitator of #BlackBotanistsWeek.

https://naturesplasticity.weebly.com/ 
9: One of my favorite books of 2020 was Carolyn Finney's BLACK FACES, WHITE SPACES. Finney's 2014 book is an evergreen examination of the sidelining and erasing of Black history and presence from public landscapes. https://www.carolynfinney.com/ 

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackBotanistsWeek
9: One of my favorite books of 2020 was Carolyn Finney's BLACK FACES, WHITE SPACES. Finney's 2014 book is an evergreen examination of the sidelining and erasing of Black history and presence from public landscapes. https://www.carolynfinney.com/  #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackBotanistsWeek
9: One of my favorite books of 2020 was Carolyn Finney's BLACK FACES, WHITE SPACES. Finney's 2014 book is an evergreen examination of the sidelining and erasing of Black history and presence from public landscapes. https://www.carolynfinney.com/  #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackBotanistsWeek
10: Edmund Albius, an orphaned, enslaved 12 year old boy developed a vanilla flower pollination technique that changed the course of vanilla bean cultivation. HT @StumpedGrad in her lecture @HFandG tonight. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackBotanistsWeek
11: Dr. @BerondaM gleans lessons for human behavior from her plant studies. Here’s a recent article by Dr. Montgomery in @AmSciMag about how people can modify their work-life balance to mimic the seasonal shifts plants undergo.

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackBotanistWeek https://twitter.com/amscimag/status/1359194140601417729
Day 12: I can't believe I forgot to post! đŸ˜©
Day 13: Dr. Marie Clark Taylor was "the first African American woman to gain a PhD in botany and the first woman of any race to receive a PhD from Fordham University." She was also a graduate of Howard University.
https://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/news/local/2021/02/13/black-history-month-garden-column-botanist-marie-clark-taylor/6729530002/
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackBotanistsWeek
14: Jumping “the pond” to s/o Thomas Birch Freeman, “Britain’s first recorded black botanist.” Also, “his father was a gardener, which may explain Birch Freeman’s lifelong interest in plants.” So much more: https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/people/pioneering-botanist-thomas-birch-freeman-729101
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackBotanistsWeek đŸ–€đŸŒ»
15: The Portrait of President Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley. Chrysanthemum, jasmine, and African blue lily "reflect both [Obama's] personal and professional history." https://npg.si.edu/learn/classroom-resource/barack-obama

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackBotanistsWeekđŸŒ»
16: In lieu of, I offer the final stanza from "I Am A Black Woman" by Mari Evans:

I am a black woman
tall as a cypress
strong
beyond all definition still
defying place
and time
and circumstance
assailed
impervious
indestructible
Look
on me and be
renewed
#ProtectBlackWomen
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