#Abolitionists

I've been sitting with the awful comments that Kanye has been saying about abortion and honestly I'm so tired of his hotepery and misogynoir. White supremacists and Trump have been
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We’ll be live tweeting @FMO_NU’s State of the Black Union ft. Angela Davis starting in 15 minutes!!! Follow this thread so we definitely got a little overeager it’s actually starting
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I'm surprised but pleased that the Schuyler statue is coming down--never thought that wd even be on the table. Besides being one of Albany's major slaveowners, Schuyler was also one
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Today my parish, St. Philip's, Harlem, celebrates the (unofficial*) feast of Peter Williams, the second black man ordained in TEC. I am delighted to have had the honor of creating
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Making up some slides for @TanagraGGNOC and I's session on Horror, Race and Romance on Sunday.We're talking black history and representation in horror and romance on Sunday. Looking at love
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As faith in institutions collapses + popular rebellion grows, both Trump + Biden have attacked anarchists - likening them to terrorism + chaos. But what is anarchism, a movement nearly
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Since all Caribbean & Jamaican publications only know bout Bob Marley, here are some important Jamaican figures we barely hear bout... John Brown Russworm - Born into slavery in Port
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US law enforcement has literal centuries of shameful history of infiltrating and spying on politically disfavored activist groups, from trade unionists to suffragists to abolitionists to civil rights advocates to
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#OTD 157 years ago the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the first sanctioned all Black regiment in the US Army, made its famous attack on Battery Wagner. We'll do a day long
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Tonight, @MaajidNawaz & @simondolan are among 10 signatories on an open letter to the FBI and M15: it alleges lockdown policies result from a global plot by the Chinese Communists,
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I'm proud as hell I made it through 2020, my first full year being completely freelance because I couldn't get a job, which was hard as hell. I wrote a
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This is happening now!!! With @/timnitGebru @/mer__edith @/safiyanoble @/adrienneandgo @/cmcilwain and @/alexhanna. I know this panel is gonna be so good, I'm debating if I wanna do a tweet thread
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2020 so far, please add your comments (leap year...NOOOO)1) China reports investigating respiratory illness originating in Wuhan2) Iranian baked Iraqi militia attack US embassy in Baghdad, DJT said, bad boys
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I’m going to a very basic thread on criminology & statistics, to illustrate a point about why police & prisons suck so hard. If a trait is very rare in
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It's not well known that the congregation of the First African Baptist Church in Richmond donated approximately $40 towards Irish Famine Relief in 1847. Around 2,000 members of the congregation
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Should I make a thread of historically black towns & cities that were thriving & minding their business before racism & white supremacy destroyed them via white women*, local gov’t/mob
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