#CONTEMPORARY

🕯 Mitchell Mhlanga 🇱🇸

MimiReeds

Southern African History Queen Mantatisi (1781–1836):She was the daughter of Chief Mothaba of the Basia people in what later became the Harrismith district of the Free State province of South

Polla Garmiany ☀️

PollaGarmiany

This is a thread of people from Kurdistan you should know. Including men & women of different ethnic/religious backgrounds. I'd like to start with Ibrahim Pasha Baban who found Kurdistan's

Anarchism Research Group

arglboro

If you've heard about #AntifaDomesticTerrorists #AntifaTerrorists & you want to learn about what anarchism & related movements like antifa really mean & what anarchists do, here’s a thread just for

Zarah Sultana MP

zarahsultana

In the Holocaust Memorial Day debate in Parliament, I spoke about contemporary antisemitic threats, including Hungary's Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán.I've now received an angry letter from the Hungarian ambassador, asking

ally, just a baymax slightly ia

tchaicoffeesky

Women in classical music; a simple thread to introduce you to the women of classical Please, qrt if you wanna comment on something! Let's start with famous: 1. Clara Schuman,

Stephen Komarnyckyj

komarnyckyj

1/24 On 25 January, Russian Defense Minister visited #Myanmar and on 1 February his colleague led a military #coup. As @GiorgiBadridze noted this might be a coincidence but it is

Hindu History

HindutvaItihas

(1) #Thread on Lachit Barphukan - the great #HinduHero of AssamHe fought multiple battles against #Mughals between 1662-71, of which the Battle of Saraighat (1671) is more well-known. (2)1622, Nov

Connolly Books

ConnollyBooks

The History of Connolly BooksThe culture of 1930s Ireland were not receptive to socialist ideas. From the first Coercion Act (1930) under the Free State government of William Cosgrave's Cumann

Books and ‘BYE PUMPKIN!’

AmbreLynae

Woke up today thinking about the incomparable Rance Allen and realized that I owe y'all a thread! So hold tight, we're goin to church for a bit (and I ain't

zev handel

ZevHandel

I like thinking about familiar things that turn out to have surprising back stories. The modern Chinese second-person singular pronoun 你 (Mandarin nǐ, Cantonese nei5 or lei5) is one of

Tiffany Green

Tiffany_L_Green

I don't know how I missed this excellent commentary from @RRHDr and @BeahboutIT on examining racism in health services research (HSR), but now I've seen it and every HSR needs

Z.kh 🚩🇮🇷

Zkh27

#LiveLikeAli•Ghadir, source of unity for Umma•Imam #Khamenei:I call all Muslims throughout the world 2 reflect on these realities. We don't at all insist that in a unified Islamic Ummah certain

tamara k. nopper

tamaranopper

Relevant to the horrific killings in Atlanta, I think more discussions of the yellow peril myth (the racist idea that East Asians are taking over the U.S. and endangering “Americans”)

Sam Coates Sky

SamCoatesSky

Westminster somersaulted overnight at the scoop by @elliottimes that Lee Cain, currently Director of Communications is “poised” to be made Boris Johnson’s chief of staff. Congratulations to Times political editor

James Martin, SJ

JamesMartinSJ

White Jesus thread: Many have asked me in the last few days what I think about the (legitimate) critiques of the ubiquity of White Jesus representations, like the famous painting,

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

Senator Mark Hatfield was a moderate Republican from Oregon. In the preface to this 1968 book on the far right, he warned of the danger such groups posed to his

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