#African

RERE 🧛

rereayodele

Fela Kuti did NOT create AfroBeat.A THREAD. AfroBeat actually started in Ghana in the early 1900s. It started off when Ghanaian artistes at that time fused different foreign sounds like

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blueivyslave

AAVE AND WHAT IT MEANS- a thread -rt to educate someone- AAVE stands for african-american vernacular english and black women and members of the black lgbtq+ community have been talked

Charlotte Frearson

little_frear

Treat yourselves: fellow whippet nut & talented bugger Wheeler’s new online shop including beautiful continuous line drawings, eco water bottles & amazing crocheted washing cloths! #shoplocal #eastfinchley #london https://www.whe

Joy Clarkson

joynessthebrave

Christianity is not a white religion. Its origins were in Palestine. Ethiopia was the first Christian kingdom (301). Some of the most important early theologians were African (Athanasius, Augustine). Demographically,

J.D. Greear

jdgreear

(1/5) Sometimes I hear people say, “All you Christians care about is the preborn!” Don’t believe it. Since 1973, for every 1 abortion clinic in America Christians have built 3

Anecdotal

anecdotal

Nobody asked me, but as a scholar of sonnets I have more to say about the historical use of "fettered" and "unfettered" than pretty much anyone else on the planet.

Justice for #BreonnaTaylor

KathrynAnnette

Despite not being included as those entitled to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," many great African Americans firmly believed in the principles espoused on July 4, 1776. In

THE BUREAU

thebureauco

The Great Depression was the most significant economic decline in the industrialized world. But the images associated with it are usually of rural, White Americans amidst extreme poverty. The reality

فارس ليبيا ‎﴿ض﴾ 🇱🇾

libya644

Thread on the Libyan slave trade The Libyan “slave trade” gained a lot of media attention towards the end of 2017, especially after news reports by CNN. First of

Legal Defense Fund

NAACP_LDF

BREAKING: LDF won a major #naturalhair discrimination VICTORY that gives K.B., Black high school student & cousin to #DeAndreArnold, the right to attend classes regularly as opposed to being held

Sean

poetsoup

I’ve seen a few tweets today where “Irish Slavery” is once again having to be debunked.https://twitter.com/nicolacoughlan/status/1270223505213267969 People are trying use the myth of Irish slaves to dilute the African American

Joe Bassey

Joe__Bassey

Menmaatre Seti (I) was the Pharoah who returned Egypt to its lost glory of the 18th dynasty. He led military campaigns into Syria and Libya and expanded the Egyptian empire.

Jay Hinton

jay_salsa

1/12Evolution does not only change virusesHere's the evolutionary trajectory of variants of Salmonella Typhimurium that cause bloodstream infection in AfricaPublished in @NatureMicrobiolhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-00836-1

Chisomo Kalinga, PhD

MissChisomo

Alright here’s my thread on racism in U.K. academia... David Starkey edition. Last year, @AfricaJacs approached me to take part in this fabulous collection about “ethics in collaboration”. Almost every

Regina N. Bradley, Ph.D.

redclayscholar

Former student I adore hit me up about grad school. I wanted to share my stats cause I tried to emphasize how grad school is its own monster that is

Shavonne

shavonnemateen

Upopular Opinions//Black Church Edition: 1. The African American Church composed of enslaved black people and freemen was and should be considered as the persecuted church in the 18th-early 20th century.

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