Jason Ethen

Jason Ethen

@jsnethen.bsky.social

Just trying to make sense of it all. I try to speak with my amateur photography. I believe in shadows truth lies.

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@sk-76.bsky.social

Elizabeth Cotten performing at the ninth annual University of Chicago Folk Festival, Chicago (1969) Raeburn Flerlage, Chicago History Museum

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Historical Marker Ahead
@historicalmarker.bsky.social

On the anniversary of John Brown’s doomed, Civil War-inducing 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry: near Brown’s obelisk monument is a Confederate “tribute” to Haywood Shepherd, a Black train porter who was the first person killed by Brown’s men. A rejoinder sign is up, but the Shepherd monument remains.

Historical Marker Ahead@historicalmarker.bsky.social

Hello, Interior Dept? I’d like to report a sign. It’s the 1931 Confederate monument outside the John Brown museum at Harpers Ferry NHS, WV. It exploits the death of a Black man during Brown’s 1859 raid to mark the “character and faithfulness of … Negros” who left no stain on our “peculiar heritage.”

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The Indiana Citizen
@indianacitizen.org

Black journalists on TV have had to think about their appearance on air in ways that other journalists do not. In August 2020, broadcast journalist Jalea Brooks knew she needed to have an... indianacitizen.org/compton-comm... #hoosiersky #indianapolitics #media #mediapolitics #contracts #crownact

indianacitizen.orgCompton Commentary: What do braids, cornrows, and Bantu knots have to do with the news? - THE INDIANA CITIZENBy Tracey Compton Indianapolis Public Editor September 30, 2026 Black journalists on TV have had to think about their appearance on air in ways that other journalists do not. In August 2020,…

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Shooti
@bambooshooti.bsky.social

#ResistanceRoots Alice Coltrane was born on this day in 1937 in Detroit. She was a jazz pianist, organist, harpist, composer and Hindu spiritual leader. Also known by her religious name Swamini Turiyasangitananda (or Turiya), her music influenced jazz, New Age, electronic and hip-hop genres. /1

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Shooti
@bambooshooti.bsky.social

#ResistanceRoots “When we speak, we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So, it is better to speak.” — Audre Lorde

Jason Ethen
@jsnethen.bsky.social

#photography #HumansOfBlueSky #hoosiersky Grave of a ten year old child, Nathaniel, 1987-1997. Another name on the headstone, Denise, born 1953, no date of death recorded yet. The grave is well tended. Roberts Settlement, Indiana.

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AfroLA
@afrolanews.bsky.social

Who makes the mac and cheese when Grandma's gone? The new Nobody Told Me This is about Black matriarchs — the seat nobody prepares us for, and the neighborhood Mama who showed @write-this-way.bsky.social how it's done. New issue is live. ntmt.beehiiv.com/p/black-wome...

ntmt.beehiiv.comWhen Black women become their family matriarchsDana Amihere on the Black women who hold families together — grandmothers, mothers, and neighborhood Mamas — and what it means to inherit the matriarch’s seat.