#Negro

Stephen West

Stephen_A_West

1. George Washington Williams, who died #otd in 1891, was a trail-blazing historian.He wrote a 2-volume History of the Negro Race in America (1882-3) & The History of the Negro

Clint Smith

ClintSmithIII

217 years ago today, on January 1, 1804, Haiti became became the first independent Black republic in the world following a 12 year revolution. It changed the trajectory of world

More Than A 💊 Counter 🇬🇭

GhanaboyPharmd

The Drug War here in the U.S and abroad has always been intricately linked with racism and racial tropes against blacks and other minorities as well... 1. In 1914 Dr.

Tony Reali

TonyReali

You cannot tell the story of baseball or civil rights without Henry Aaron.It’s shockingly possible to this day his story is not told enough, what he went through passing Ruth

Sicca WS Rederic

Road25th

“Even semantics have conspired to make that which is black seem ugly and degrading. In Roget's Thesaurus there are some 120 synonyms for blackness and at least sixty of them

Brigid O'Keeffe

BrigidinBK

This morning's accidental stumble on a fascinating history: I was searching Getty images for something else, but within the results I found an image whose descriptor in the database is

Rodeferous

Rodeferous

In honor of Black History Month I'm putting together a thread of all my other threads about The Secret Relationship of the Blacks and Jews Volume 2 as well as

JazzieeB

Bdwal359

THREAD:#OTD Sept 9, 1739: The Stono Rebellion: Led by a slave named Cato, it was the largest slave revolt in colonial America. In response, South Carolina's legislature passed the Negro

Mr. Spock 🖖 (Commentary)

SpockResists

I want to remind everyone of a letter I once received "I know that you are half Vulcan and half human and you have suffered because of this. My mother

Emanuel Roşu

Emishor

I've spent the past 3 hours listening to a clean feed from the 15 minutes of madness in the game between PSG and Basaksehir on Tuesday. And here's what I

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

RevDrBarber

Representation in any administration matters. We need to see female, Black, Asian, Latino, Native & LGBTQ ppl in leadership. But we need more than faces in high places. Justice is

Bijan C. Bayne

bijancbayne

Super Bowl I was televised on both NBC & CBS, & crews shared some equipment. There were 30,000 empty seats in the L.A. Coliseum. The Packers had eight Negro players,

Andrea Williams

AndreaWillWrite

Re today's announcement from @MLB, I wanna add that while it's great they're *finally* recognizing the Negro Leagues with Major League status, adding Negro League players to official Major League

Jake Query

jakequery

So- There’s been a lot of recent mentions of the Indianapolis ABCs and Indianapolis Clowns. Both hold significant places in the history of Indianapolis. But there histories are not necessarily

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

ReichlinMelnick

In today's oral argument, 7 of 9 Supreme Court justices used the phrase "illegal alien" to describe individuals currently lacking a lawful immigration status in the US.A brief thread on

Hey Aren't You That Beta

Best_Beta4lyfe

What's your favorite photo of citizen resistance? I have a few, but this one just moves me.Look at the power she has. Folx, introducing Negro Matapacos (Black Dog Cop-Killer)

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