#Slavery

Death and the Emperor

OrionDBlack

Ya know, a lot of Black creators get side eye for playing D&D or making D&D content while at the same time getting no support for doing almost anything else.

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

“We’ve had racists, and they’ve existed, they’ve tried to get elected president. He’s the first one that has.”https://twitter.com/postpolitics/status/1286027909908570112 This is what worries me about @JoeBiden. If your definitio

Kim A. Wagner

KimAtiWagner

My initial reaction to @SimonClarkeMP's inane take on British history was despondency, but my students convinced me it's worth engaging - so here is a thread, since this really is

Marc Caputo

MarcACaputo

Lost Cause meet Crazy Cause: using Juneteenth to tear down of the San Fran. statue of Ulysses S. Grant —who won the Civil War that led to emancipation, long before

Errick Nunnally

erricknunnally

I'm not sure what, in particular, dragged this thought across my mind this morning. I suspect it's the low boil of disgust at the "bootstrap" mentality--especially when it's targeted at

Emily Kenway

emilykenway

Thread: This Sunday in #Florida, it's the #SuperBowl , the biggest sports event in the US. And, as I explain in Chapter 3 of my book on '#sextrafficking', it's also

Phil Varner

philvarner

Thread: About why removing the Confederate statues in Charlottesville seems to be on hold right now. Even though the new VA state law went into effect today, we can't actually

Emma-Jo Morris

EmmaJoNYC

Americans’ rights are not protected on the internet. There is not a single lawmaker who understands this, let alone one making a serious effort to fix it beyond theatrical flexing

Ida Bae Wells

nhannahjones

The rightwing "outrage" over the Don McNeil incident & who gets to *say* the N-word in the journalistic context has been, of course, expected.But it is disappointing the way journos

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sharanvkaur

Minister Shanmugam's comments makes me realise that we're so used to glossing over a lot of Singapore's racial history. People seem to ignore anything that isn't explicitly talked about in

Scott Weinberg

scottEmovienerd

Am I surprised that Trent Reznor has become a world -class composer? No. I knew it the second I heard this song. In 1989.https://youtu.be/Xbp0qm-x1v8 i was obsessed with early NIИ

HomeCare FightFor15

FF15HomeCare

Did you know 30% of direct care workers are Black women? This is no accident. The history of Black women’s overrepresentation in undervalued work dates back to slavery, where Black

Gareth Dennis

GarethDennis

In last night's #RailNatter, we talked about #BlackLivesMatter and how it is crucial to keep up the pressure and for all of us to learn about our colonial past.Here's

3M-TripleM✍️

SwissTriple_M

Jim Golden: If you are confused as to why so many Americans are defending the confederate flag, monuments, and statues right now, I put together a quick Q&A, with questions

mia 𓌵

phendetta

Stop calling everything fascism. Elon Musk contributing to the coups d’etat in Bolivia is not fascism. Through & through it is liberal (capitalist) democracy. The overuse of the phrase fascism

Jason Stanley

jasonintrator

#1776report tells us that we had a glorious past, and leftists are destroying that legacy by claiming it was rooted in sins #1776report is telling us that the real authoritarianism

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