#art #history: whenever i question what a government is capable of perpetrating in the service of self-preservation, i remind myself of what the FBI did to jean seberg (born #otd in 1938). for the things he did to her, to fred hampton & to the black panther party: fuck j edgar hoover forever.
[more about jean below these sketches in her memory]

#OtD 20 Sep 2015 the #piggate scandal broke when claims from Tory donor Lord Ashcroft were published in a right-wing newspaper that UK Prime Minister David Cameron had sex with a dead pig's head while at university

#OnThisDay, 7 Aug 1948, American high jumper Alice Coachman wins Olympic gold, the first Black woman to win gold.

Later in life, she established the Alice Coachman Track and Field Foundation to help support younger athletes and provide assistance to retired Olympic veterans.

On this day, in 1969, for the first time in thousands of years of human history, people walked on the surface of a celestial body that was not our world.

First, tentative steps out of the cradle by those who really did go where no-one has gone before...

"We came in peace, for all mankind"

#Apollo11 #Apollo #science #OTD #1969