#Blackness

DC History Conference

dchistcon

http://mappingSegregationDC.org documents the historic impact of racial deed covenants on the nation’s capital. But covenants weren’t the only tool for shaping the city’s racial landscape. Schools, parks, playgrounds, and public

#ENDSWAT

OyinTravels

Do y’all have any idea why darker Black folks started asserting that paler dark folks were “less black” in an antagonistic way? Did they always say this? Or is this

Héctor E. Alcalá

Hector_E_Alcala

Much has been said about the gains Trump has made about the gains Trump made among Latinx voters. I find much of the analysis lazy & superficial as it attempts

Dr. Annette Yoshiko Reed

AnnetteYReed

Powerful to re-read now Sylvia Wynter's "No Humans Involved" (written in 1992 in the wake of Rodney King), not just to ponder what has & has not changed, but also

gee⁷, who is openly Black (they/them)

burnonblackhome

Remember that time I said I was gonna tell y'all about DCU and the grand opening, grand closing of it all? Preface: this is not to start shit or stir

Chinonyerem Odimba

Chino100percent

Feeling a lot today...I'm just not able to understand some things. Mostly stuff to do with being a dark skinned Black woman in this country and industry. Sick of having

A Black Woman 🇿🇦 🇿🇦

SneKhumaloSA

A Thread.Speaking of Kanye West, it reminded me of the hypocrisy of many Black men.Black men when videos of Black girls having sex: "And then they expect us to marry

Achmat X

AchmatX

Thread: Last night I was invited to dinner in the Hamptons. I have never been more humiliated, disrespected and dehumanized in my life. During this catered dinner politics and the

🌸 rosie

eurosievision

okay, we’re getting on the racism discourse. as a lot of you probably know, i teach uni-level sociology in one of my day jobs, so i would like to hope

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/In woke land a man can become a woman, but a white person could never turn into a black person.Ever wonder why?Identity politics are HUGE for the woke, so understanding

Da’Shaun | they/them

DaShaunLH

thin people hate being told they don’t have moral superiority over fat people; that their bodies—& the food associated with their bodies—are not “better”; that fat people are not inept,

MJ Tiako

MaxJordan_N

Quote tweeting this into a mini thread because it’s worth sharing with the TL. You shouldn’t fear critiquing a study publicly. It’s part of scientific discourse. How u do it

Dr Addy Adelaine

AddyAdelaine

1/9) @UKRI states - we "know that racism takes many forms – including far more subtle forms that keep Black people out of the room and silence their voices. There

ScoonTV

ScoonTv

What does it mean to be Black?In America and the diaspora, black is the designation given to the descendants of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Although, in the United States they're

Jas: A Proud Member of the Working Class 🇵🇷

jasdye

Christian *singer* Carman was a big proponent of the Moral Majority myth that the US was internally worse off after public Christian prayers were ruled unconstitutional than it was under

Maya Contreras

mayatcontreras

1/The way this article talks about Rep. Karen Bass and Senator Kamala Harris is incredibly problematic. The press and @JoeBiden's team are falling back on old stereotypes of Black women.

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