The main side blog of Afromiscreant:

I spent the past couple days updating the css for Onticomic.com + 2 new pages are up!

The age of eligibility for an ABLE account, allowing USAmerican disabled people to save up money without losing their government assistance for having “too much,” is going to go up to cover disabilities diagnosed by age 46 (currently it’s age 26), meaning a much larger number of people will be able to access them. As the article notes, many Americans don’t know these accounts exist, let alone whether they or someone they care for could qualify for one, so please share this information around.

Everybody raise a glass to activist Opal Lee, one of the driving forces behind how we even got a Juneteenth in the first place.

Born Opal Flake in 1926 Texas, her home burned down when she was a small child and the family moved to Fort Worth. In 1939 the family purchased a home in a south side Fort Worth neighborhood --the first Black family to do so, which didn't sit well with some of the neighbors, and after only a few weeks an angry mob burned the house down. Despite these dual childhood traumas, Opal graduated from high school in 1943, and then eventually from Wiley College in 1953. She took a job teaching at an elementary school in Fort Worth, married fellow educator Dale Lee, and ultimately earned a Master's in counseling in 1968, from the North Texas State University (today the University of North Texas). She retired from her career in education in 1977 at the age of 51... and was clearly just getting started.

Beginning with a post-retirement career supervising a local food bank and its adjacent 13-acre farm, expanding it to a 33,000 sq. foot facility that today serves upwards of 500 families a day. More recently she also founded Transform 1012 N. Main Street, a coalition of Fort Worth area nonprofits and arts organizations aiming to reconstruct a former Ku Klux Klan auditorium into the Fred Rouse Arts Center (named for a Black man who was lynched by a Fort Worth mob in 1921). But Lee's greatest passion was always aimed toward preservation of local Black history, leading into the founding of the Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society. It was from this starting point that June 19th began to be more widely acknowledged and celebrated as a yearly event. Each year Lee and other members of the society made a point of walking two and a half miles, symbolically covering the number of years between the formal end of enslavement (i.e., the Emancipation Proclamation) and the time most Texans found out about it.

In 2016, now at the age of 89, Lee took the advice of the society to "go bigger," and walked from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C. (a distance of roughly 1,360 miles), taking more than five months to complete and collecting enthusiastic signatures along the way, in support of the premise of at last elevating Juneteenth to the status of a national holiday. On June 17, 2021, Lee was present at the White House when then-President Joe Biden signed the bill officially marking Juneteenth as an annual federal holiday. Today Lee is the oldest living member of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF), and is both a board member --and Honorary Chair-- of the National Juneteenth Museum. She was named by the Dallas Morning News as 2021's "Unsung Hero of the Pandemic," has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, and in 2024 received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

So you're black and you want to see black media from anywhere in the world. I got u.

I'm starting this lil thing where we shout out black media (from anywhere !! So long as it's made by black and features black people predominantly and/or discusses blackness) we watched recently and recommend it to others.

I'll start: have you watched Neptune Frost (2021) yet ?

About university students and coltan miners getting together to become a hacker group as a means for rebellion against fascist authorities ? A musical wherein black queerness is at the forefront of revolution and disrespect of anyone is not only addressed but also nipped at the bud. It's colourful, it's full of emotion, it takes place in Burundi and is all around quite an experience.

YOU CAN WATCH IT ON KANOPY !! Either though a university/college or via the public library.

Today in Hip Hop History:

People will focus so much on what they want to happen in a story, or what their headcanons are for a story, that it basically becomes the truth for them. So when a show doesn’t go in that direction, they feel betrayed and enraged at the creator. And that’s really discouraging.

Even with characters! Someone might like a character in a piece of media, and share this online with the community. But because in the fandom, they are not liked (whether it be that the character was mean to a fan-favorite, or just what people have speculated about a character) the community will find many reasons to try and convince them their opinion is wrong.

I drew this in 2017

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⭐️ Posting old art to fill up my page. I have new art but I want to share the old ones first.

The signs of decay have long since been there. But a good chunk of them were not worried about games becoming $80. Or that the people who made their favorite games were getting laid off, overworked, or paid pennies while a CEO went home with 10s of millions. Or that AI is ballooning prices and pricing people out of the hobby.

None of that.

To them the issue was a woman protagonist they couldn't sexualize. Or seeing a Black character they couldn't ignore; who was the main character and not a sidekick.

All that energy towards the wrong thing. Galvanizing people towards the nonissue. And now the actual one has reached an apex we likely can't come back from.