#Slavery

ICE must be destroyed 🏴

Itmechr3

If your analysis of what's happening right now doesn't account for structural white supremacy and the fear that the Black insurrection put into the white (but also non-white) propertied classes

Jim Clifford

jburnford

UK MP is worried that young people are focusing too much on the terrible crimes in Britain's past instead of the good. This is silly for many reasons. Millennials are

Merlin C.

merlinc2

NYTimes article on HR depts' approach to anti-racism captured problem. Whew! Much of it treats racism as almost primordial & timeless rather than a force mediated by circumstance and history.

¡No Pasarán!

nopasa

So, one leftist after anotherwrites in to mock the #1776Commissionby claiming that George Washington seems to have drowned #puppies …/…#1619Project@nytimes#PulitzerPrize @PulitzerPrizes@nhannahjones@1776Unites@TopUnTaughts 1/ What is am

Larry Schweikart

LarrySchweikart

1) This is a good question and because I've had so many new follows, a refresher on "who" the so-called media is will be helpful. This is called "history."2) It

Keri Leigh Merritt, Ph.D.

KeriLeighMerrit

HISTORY THREAD:Despite the popular fantasy of America as a flourishing democracy, a handful of scholars have long held that the South – particularly the Deep South – was an aberration.Bernard

C4ADS

C4ADS

Yesterday, CBP declared that it will prohibit any fish caught on the fishing vessel DA WANG due to reports of forced labor on the vessel. Let's explore the vessel’s opaque

Keri Leigh Merritt, Ph.D.

KeriLeighMerrit

What you are seeing here are the vestiges of slavery & Reconstruction.The Blue belt from Augusta to Columbus is aka the Black belt, where most of the states cotton was

Natalia Rudiak

nataliarudiak

I'm wondering if a good metaphor for defunding the police is ...medicine.You wouldn't want a family physician treating breast cancer, or a proctologist delivering a baby...But we expect officers to

Emily Giurleo

EmilyGiurleo

@dhh and @rafaelfranca recently announced that the Rails core team has switched the default project branch from "master" to "main."I think this is awesome. Predictably, a bunch of white tech

Christine Whyte

ChristineHWhyte

“The stories of British slave rescues we never hear about...” featured in @DavidOlusoga ‘s BBC documentary Black and British (both episodes two and three)https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a-history-lesson-that-floats-my-boat-the-stor

Prof Kate Williams 💙

KateWilliamsme

Why was #EdwardColston put up as a statue in Bristol in the first place, in 1895, over 170 years after he died? If they wanted a white businessman/philanthropist (and we'll

Tom Malinowski

Malinowski

If one group can take down a statue of Jackson, others can topple one of Dr. King.The right way to do this is to petition your local gov't, and demonstrate

Museum Planning, Mark Walhimer

MuseumPlanning

The last 36 hours have been a confirmation of systemic racism in the United States, this is an issue #museums can help to change and a call to action for

Bodleian Libraries

bodleianlibs

Hope you enjoyed the superstar blogs we shared this morning?Here are more intriguing posts from over the years: From Tolkien's study habits, to Hans Christian Andersen's reflections on slavery, to

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

Another 4th of July, another demand from conservatives (in this case, a NeverTrump conservative) that Americans embrace a simplistic, filiopietistic understanding of the nation's history or else the sky will

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