#History

the appropriation of AAVE (a thread) AAVE stands for African American Vernacular English.It is typically incorrectly perceived as “bad English”, “ghetto language”, and/ or as labeled as “blaccent”. yet, AAVE
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NEW: Black policy leaders will play a pivotal role in President-elect @JoeBiden's transition, marking one of the most diverse agency review teams in history. My latest for @AP:https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-politics-race-and-ethni
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Watching Thatcher: A Very British Revolution. New insight gained. But I thought: Decades later will 45 be seen in a less harsh light by me? I doubt it. Everyone shout
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Did you know:—in old-timey-times women got abortions w no constraints?—ads for abortion were so common in the 1800s they were blasé?—native women controlled their fertility & men had no say?Today's
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Politicians at every level sit in meetings with public health officials and try to micromanage every aspect of our lives; right down to telling us that outside of work we
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Finished "Top Secret War" today, its the official history of Rhodesia's Selous Scouts as written by their commander. I'll be doing an ongoing thread on my thoughts about the book
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history of braids and it’s cultural significance of certain styles — a thread So before I begin, a lot of the information I’ll provide is stuff I’ve learned and
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No one explains away the the post colonial mental condition called "Macaulayism" better than late Shri Sitaram Goel. He always had a special way with words while describing the ills
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1. Today is the beginning of LGBT+ History Month.We will be sharing some information throughout the month and, of course, please feel free to share further historical LGBT+ related knowledge.
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One of the neat things about Holy Mother Church is that while She teaches absolute rules, She also understands that our understanding of fact improves over time, and so the
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I want shorter, more focused games where there's a clear artistic intent and nobody is abused to make it. Like, can we at least get to the standard of normal
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Now, you may or may not agree with the point the article and tweets make about gardening; you may be unable to get past their language. But it’s not really
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Chilling thread. My fear is Trump will, if he senses he can get away with it, use the federal police-turned-invading army for blunt voter suppression.https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1284337917981274115 Cuccinelli's comments just conf
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they actually did do thishttps://twitter.com/IJasonAlexander/status/1283517765156921345 In the build up to the Blitz there was a considerable amount of public whinging and moaning about government overreach. More relevant was the utter
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We tend to associate the Bengal renaissance of the 19th century with liberal thinkers largelyE.g. Ram mohun Roy, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Rajnarayan Basu, Keshub Chandra SenBut there were many conservative,
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People outside California don’t really understand why these fires are so bad. Thread time... We had an abnormally dry winter. Like half the snow and rain. So there’s climate change
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