#Brazil

The Story of Zumbi Dos Palermos, my header:The Afro-Brazilian king and symbol of resistance in Brazil was a Brazilian of Kongo origin and a quilombola leader, being one of the
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Well then maybe @Facebook should do something about all those scary private groups it’s funneling all the violent white supremacists into with names like “Patriots Taking Back the USA” where
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While today religious leaders grumble about protests and #BlackLivesMatter , historically Black Muslim leaders were at the heart of uprisings against slaveryIn honor of Juneteenth, a quick thread on
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One day after this election is over I am going to write a piece about how Latino is a contrived ethnic category that artificially lumps white Cubans with Black Puerto
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STRONG OPINION: There are very very few cases where log scales should be used in communicating data to the general public.This is not one of them.https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1332274550617288704 On a log scale,
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Oh shit—British traveler visits Japan and violates quarantine upon arrival—decides to go out to restaurants instead. Infects 2 other people with #COVID19 while going out. And guess which
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Hello! Here's my daily thread on coronavirus stats globally.Today:The US: VP Pence denies there is a "2nd wave". The stats show that's a highly misleading way to think about what
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TROUBLESOME—The new variants that each have the tricky antibody-evading E484k mutation are what worries me.This Science piece summarizes what I’ve been warning last 2 weeks w/ the new South Africa
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3 facts about WikiLeaks which those who want Assange to rot in jail have buried:1) WL redacted documents when publishing Iraq & Afghanistan War Logs & diplomatic cables to protect
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The business of photography can be a whole situation. Yup, photographers sometimes invest their own $$$ into production of a magazine cover if it goes beyond editorial budget. I've seen
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Really not a good thing we’re reaching Prohibition style levels of crusading against porn and sex work, and conflating them both with trafficking and abuse. Even worse when there’s an
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A Brazilian hacker, codenamed "mysterious peacock" has just exposed confidential documents on Twitter claiming to have traced Bitcoin deposits on the sum of 300k USD paid from The Intercept to
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Afro-Latinx People exist. As an Afro-Colombiano, this is personal for me. A THREAD.Imagine what it's like being part of a rich Latinx culture while at the same time not being
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In 1974 I was studying biology at McGill University in Montreal, recently arrived from Brazil. I was 20, eager to learn more about science, experiencing a new culture while discovering
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Let me re-iterate something ive said repeatedly, in other words, but maybe not this blatant. The coronavirus pandemic is SO awful and SO tragic....because of White people. Yes thats gonna
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In order to pay tribute to the Renault name, which is gonna disappear this year as they rebrand to Alpine, why not we make a thread of Renault F1 cars
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