#Grandfather

WenGuangLie 🇺🇸

guang_lie

Malcolm X’s parents moved to Omaha, Nebraska in 1921 -the year the KKK was reborn in that state. Because his parents were outspoken against racial injustices, they often faced threats

Ike Anya

ikeanya

Doing research for book idea & interviewing relatives on zoom. About a great grandmother, I'm told she lived in x village in Abiriba. Later I'm told her husband lived in

Queen ֍ #FreeMaral

Queen_Pavagane

As promised, I will be sharing my own family history. 1/ My maternal great-grandmother (she was 14 years old at the time) escaped with her brother by train. She had

Kavi

blurt2kc

Here's a fun fact : The Turing's lived in India since the 1700s. His father Julius Turing was Indian civil service ( ICS/IAS) officer under madras presidency . He was

STOPHeatherTime 🏳️‍🌈, Total Landscaping

STOPHEATHERTIME

My husband’s grandfather passed away this morning, of covid-19. He was a Cuban immigrant who came here “the right way,” in which he first was punished with prison labor in

Siyabonga Mkhize

siyamkhize

I always here some people say they don’t believe in ancestors and African medicine & healing. It’s funny that we think it’s a belief thing when it’s not.You cannot undo

Laura Robinson

LauraRbnsn

There is something unhelpful about the “power corrupts, we are all capable of horrible acts, everyone would be tempted” discourse that emerges every time a powerful Christian leader does something

Giovanni B. Ponzetto

gbponz

THREAD: it was the first job I got paid for, and I paid a family debt.(/) http://on.wsj.com/2KJeTbj @nglinsman @amlivemon @chigrl @RobertMCutler @DukeMarcude @eshow1969 In Italy, there is a famous branch of

Sarah Ping

sarahping_

#ESEANews – Happy New Year everyone! A new year and a new thread with brand new content on all the things I’ve heard/read/seen about or by the #ESEA community!

Shubhendu

BBTheorist

The JK Organization (estd. 1918) is an Indian industrial conglomerate, run by the Singhania family, which rose to prominence in Kanpur, India, under Lala Kamlapat Singhania. This #Marwari family is

Tim Grey

GreyTim

It's 35 years since the release of A View to a Kill & having recently re-watched it, I thought I'd reappraise Tanya Roberts' character Stacy Sutton, usually & unfairly ranked

Atri Banerjee

atri_rohan

THREAD: Woke up feeling conflicted about BBC’s #ASuitableBoy so here are seem of my stream-of-consciousness thoughts for anyone interested (1/13) I love the book: the world & cultural set it

ruaana

ruaanagwarada

a thread of where woman in south africa are safe: • not in school transport - 15 year old girl, raped by her transport driver • not walking back from

𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝

default_friend

The POC thing is an interesting phenomena too. What happened here was two-fold. On the one hand, you had people who really were of a diaspora, or really had been

Lev Taylor

levvity

British people love to talk about saving Jews from the Nazis. Do you imagine they were flown in by benevolent aircrafts? They came in the bowels of boats, on crowded

S K Ditta ((( Sunny )))

SKDitta

#memory For a couple of days, I have been thinking of my grandfather. My grandpa had darker skin and bluish eyes. He arrived in India around 1947, when, India became

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