#Negro

Ida Bae Wells

nhannahjones

I wish this totally sincere belief that you shouldn’t punish people who commit crimes because it will only make them commit worse crimes applied to the members of my family

defund the police

not_carlisle

Martin Luther King Jr. is not Black Buddha or Black Gandhi. Nonviolence was a tactic adopted in response to the poisoned conscience of white America. He knew that to lessen

Andrea Williams

AndreaWillWrite

Why, yes, the announcement of MLB's first female GM *is* the perfect opportunity to promote my book, BASEBALL'S LEADING LADY, dropping Jan 5.@britnidlc was SO dope to include the book

Chicago White Sox

whitesox

In honor of the Negro National League’s 101st anniversary, the White Sox celebrated its flagship ballclub, the Chicago American Giants, and the team’s profound impact on baseball, society and the

Ted Genoways

TedGenoways

.@MikeLupica on @CNN this morning told @craigmelvin that Hank Aaron hoped that baseball historians could find at least 8 home runs from his year with the Indianapolis Clowns, now that

Black as in Revolution.

annie_etc_

For the birthday of one of my heroes, Frantz Fanon, I thought I would do a thread on the appropriation of the category 'lived experience' in contemporary political discourse. Tl;dr

The New Yorker Lies About MLK Assassination

DoItForMaMa

"And as the noted historian, C. Vann Woodward, in his book, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, clearly points out, the segregation of the races was really a political stratagem

📚pedagogy in black✊🏾

RenyTay

Until the 1970’s, when integration became the assumptive logic in what Blacks should strive towards, there was not a theory which suggested BM were primal rapist or violent that didn’t

Erin You Ain't Pro Life Without A Mask

chargrille

Nixon’s GOP strategist, in 1970: "From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10-20% of the Negro vote...The more Negroes who register as Democrats...the sooner the

Aniyia (🗣 Anita without the T) ❤️

operaqueenie

In honor of #MLKDay , I want to share some important excerpts from the final chapter of his book "Why We Can't Wait." Too many of his words feel especially

The Conscious Kid

consciouskidlib

Carter G. Woodson, the "Father of Black History Month", observed that in spite of Black Americans being central to the story of America, their accomplishments were largely neglected in the

Shane Vander Hart

shanevanderhart

Ulysses S. Grant who won the Civil War without which Confederate states would have continued slavery for who knows how long. Yes, he owned one slave for not quite a

Andrea Williams

AndreaWillWrite

Y'ALL! I have a cover! And a preorder link!https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250623720ALSO! A thread about Effa and this book and why this book is so important.https://twitter.com/MacKidsBooks/status/1275549575349239809 I majored in sp

Jon Aragón

jondoulos

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

Carl

HistoryBoomer

If the goal is to make the n-word so taboo that any discussion or even *hint* of it is toxic, it is succeeding. So goodbye to discussing all of MLK,

FREESOIL 🇮🇱

Freesoilyeah

1/ What if "slavery" was just called something else? Blacks worked fewer hours per year than free white farmers, had better nutrition as inferred from height (blacks are actually slightly

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