"One hundred years later, Tulsa is still reckoning with this violent history. As it does, Americans across the country face another truth: Tulsa wasn’t alone............." #tulsa #TulsaRaceMassacre #blacklivesmatter (fb)

"Intentional Exclusion is a Form of Holocaust Denial" by Danny M. Cohen, founder of Unsilence On this day in 2005, Polish authorities prevented LGBTQ community leaders from attending the first official ceremony at Auschwitz to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Even though the Nazis tortured and murdered an unknown number of gay prisoners at Auschwitz and other Nazi camps, the Polish government refused to honor their memory in any meaningful way. This moment kickstarted my research. For more than a decade now, my colleagues and I have designed learning tools and trained teachers and communities to include - alongside the central Jewish Holocaust narrative - the Roma, disabled, homosexual, Black, political, and many other victims of Nazism within Holocaust education and commemoration. Intentional exclusion is a form of Holocaust denial. And it continues today. We still face pushback from teachers and community leaders who believe that LGBTQ history will harm young people. Others seem to fear that teaching about the Roma, disabled, Black, and homosexual victims of Nazism will dilute and diminish Jewish experiences under Nazism. This just isn't true. There is no limit to our capacity for empathy. To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day (today is the 76th anniversary of the Soviet liberation of Auschwitz) - and to push back against the intentional exclusion of the so-called "other victims" of the Holocaust - please explore and share HIDDEN: www.unsilence.org/hidden. HIDDEN is a series of free Unsilence learning experiences - including a webquest, a photography exhibit, an interactive testimony, and a choose-your-own-pathway mystery - that shed light on hidden Holocaust histories, address different forms of Nazi prejudice, and tell hidden stories of violence, loss, and resistance. #HolocaustRemembranceDay (fb)