Black History Month 2025

Hey! Before retiring, i want to post another year’s thread for wayspots honoring Black History from any nation. I personally made an effort to submit more in this category last year, so I’m excited to show you those. I just submitted many new ones on Feb 1st, so hopefully a few will be approved before the month is over for me to post an update.

It’s fine if you want to post older wayspots, just try not to repeat any that have been posted under this topic in prior years.

Let’s see them!

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Atlanta is kinda spoiled with the amazing things we can submit. This is just a fraction of what i submitted in 2024.

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Here’s a mural image i updated

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I haven’t been submitting much, but I am pretty sure I haven’t posted this one yet.

and i just noticed the comma that needs to be replaced with a dash.

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Check out Erma Haymens story at…

https://www.ermahaymanhouse.org/

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Sorry, please don’t post anything that has not been approved.

Here’s a few wayspots from my 2024 nominations.

“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble” is a shortened quote famously said by civil rights activist John Lewis.

Got to a concert early; was astonished to find something there that I could nominate!
B.B. King was an American blue guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

This had been buried in my camera roll for a while because you come across these plaques in the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta airport immediately after the security scanners, so every time I’m flustered trying to put gather all my stuff back to continue on. Jackson was Atlanta’s first African-American Major; the airport’s name was renamed to include his name to honor him, as he also greatly contributed to the expansion of the airport.

The Atlanta airport is a very lovely airport by the way! I am not biased when I say this, definitely not… :innocent:
There is the [famous?] “plane train” that you can ride between the different concourses, but it is much more fun to walk along the moving sidewalks instead… decorated with different themed art installations or historical signs. :heart_eyes:

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This story always fascinated me:

The village of Bamber Bridge hosted black servicemen during World War II. The US military tried to enforce a colour bar which of course was unenforceable in the United Kingdom, and as the locals (who would seldom have seen a black person in the local area) liked the servicemen they responded by putting signs up saying “Black Troops Only” in the village pubs.

Tensions came to a head, and after the Detroit race riots of 1943 it boiled over. MPs attempted to arrest some of the black soldiers drinking in Ye Olde Hob Inn and it deteriorated rapidly into a firefight where one soldier was killed.

You can read the story here - Battle of Bamber Bridge - Wikipedia - this wayspot is in a garden erected in 2022 as a memorial. The pub still exists as well…
https://maps.app.goo.gl/d1aDtWqQkmHkEFBq6

What I find interesting about the story is that the local villagers were perfectly happy to accept these black soldiers and defy those other Americans who wanted to impose racist values.

Not my submission, I’ve never paid a visit but I hope I will one day.

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Since I’m here, let me introduce you to my favorite mural. This is Mr. Pharoah Sanders. It was created in memory of him in 2022 when he passed away.

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Very nice addition! I don’t usually see wayspots from Japan for this topic. Post more!

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The approval dates shown are incorrect…

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I really like that the mural also recognizes Mr. Reid as a Shriner.

Indeed /G\

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This is an older wayspot, and may even predate Pokemon Go, but definitely worth sharing.

For those who may not know the history behind the Greensboro Four, and the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins of 1960:

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Submitted by a member of our local discord group after hearing about this mural on the news:

Better than Me
“I hope you only turn out better than me” Mural by Dare Coulter depicting Busta Rhymes and his son Trillian as a tribute to black fatherhood.

That was 2023, so I may have posted it before.

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Here’s one that was recently approved.

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