#Confederate

Tsogo.

Tsogo_k

I privately joke that Schuster is the closest thing SA has to an auteur filmmaker. There are few artists, let alone filmmakers, whose work is so idiosyncratic to post-Apartheid SA

Chuck McShane

chuckmcshane

The Confederate monument building campagins of the 1890s were about erasing the history of multiracial gains of Reconstruction. While renaming streets, Charlotte could focus on Reconstruction leaders disappeared from the

Jay Van Bavel

jayvanbavel

I see a lot of fantastic discussions, papers, threads, and op-eds about the insurrection from experts from various fields.As a social scientist, I want to add that it's important to

Hammy ✈

e2pilot

How Richmond Mayor Stoney bypassed the laws of Virginia and took down Statues...A Thread:1904 laws, updated in the 1990's, allowed war memorials for any war to be erected and forbid

Stephen T Casper

TheNeuroTimes

Secondly, it is abysmal that the medical humanities and medical historians have (a) not had their expertise used more concretely as part of our strategy and (b) that STEM leaders

Brian Beutler

brianbeutler

For my sins, I'm going to do a @HeerJeet-like thread on the topic of Aunt Jemima, racist tropes, and the shifting bounds of acceptable mainstream discourse.https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1273271985863307266 The fact that Aunt

Yvonne Aburrow

vogelbeere

Anti-racism 101. A thread. #1. If a BIPOC person criticizes whiteness or white people, they’re talking about the construct of whiteness, white supremacy, white supremacist behaviour & institutions. If you

DJ Ayres, Y’all

djayres

My public high school in Natchez, Mississippi had an official prom, which all the kids called "Black prom," and an unofficial "White Prom" in a hotel downtown. I graduated in

Austin

realUnnameable

Lincoln thread: Why do some people suggest that Lincoln might be related to DJT? Some suspect it might be through Mary Todd Lincoln. Has anyone ever found anything to substantiate

Thom Hartmann

Thom_Hartmann

1/ The GOP is no longer a legitimate political party: it’s a cult. It’s becoming increasingly clear to Americans that the Republican Party only stands for one thing: the privilege

Lindsey Simmons

LynzforCongress

Meanwhile, in Missouri a bill criminalizing our First Amendment right to peaceably assemble will receive a hearing on Monday, January 25th.Thread on SB66 + Action Items SB 66 is full

Reuters Pictures

reuterspictures

Outgoing President Trump addressed thousands of supporters, including members of far-right groups, at a rally in Washington protesting today's meeting of Congress to confirm Joe Biden's victory in the presidential

Dr Robert Bohan Artist

RobertBohan

Thread: A painful day for humanity, John Lewis (1940-2020) has gone to the angels. He was a giant of human rights, a man of God, of honour & righteousness. He

Max Hoffman

MaxHoffmanDC

A thread on #Turkey and the #NDAA, specifically the #CAATSA sanctions for the purchase of Russian S-400s. Bear with me, it’s not that simple. The NDAA is considered must-pass legislation,

Mayor Svante Myrick

SvanteMyrick

Growing up I always felt lucky to be alive *now* and not *then.**Then* was a terrible time. Black Americans had shorter lives because they lived in terrible conditions, and any

Nafees Ur Rehman Durrani

NafeesRehmanDr

Did you know?It was because of the British that the original color of the uniform of Khudai Khidmatgar (Servants of God) movement became red from its original dark brown/chocolate color.

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