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Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

America was founded on both the concept of the government deriving sovereignty from its people and legalized white supremacy.Now, with Trump threatening to mass murder black Americans, we're watching a

Czarina Harris

CzarinaHarris

The @BlackAmCaucus is putting on an excellent twitter townhall using #unbanked and addressing the direct impact #COVID19 is having on black lives. I’ll be sharing some of the housing topics

Michael Bueckert

mbueckert

When Peter Worthington died in 2013, there were many glowing obituaries like this one in the Globe & Mail, saying he "fought for the little guy".Worthington was surely Canada's most

Lucy Worsley

Lucy_Worsley

So here we are yet again, history-lovers. Can you truly credit that this was the week in the year 2020 that a certain national newspaper yet again published a list

L.r. 🔆

RevUntelevised

Zócalo asks, "Can we build a better Summer Olympics?"Welcome to the mega-thread of *reasons why the Olympics should immediately fuck off forever*https://twitter.com/ThePublicSquare/status/1271587145220669440 "The six Summer

Rev. Dr. Glenn Packiam

gpackiam

So, I’ve been thinking a lot about favoritism because I’m preaching on James 2 this week. I used to think the opposite of favoritism is neutrality or evenness. But that’s

Bongiwe I Zulu🦄

bongy_love

If South African celebs were in high school • He’s in grade 8, but all the grade 12 girls are crushing on him • No ones heard him speak vernac•

Kurt Michaels

DatOtherMichael

My worst date ever. I was chatting with an attractive African American lady from a city an hour and a half away. She seemed smart and sweet. I asked her

Eliot Fishman

FishmanEliot

There is renewed discussion today about a potential "piecemeal" stimulus focused on specific industries and some income support to households. But any stimulus that does not address the millions of

Zikhona Valela

valavoosh

A random thread on South African anti apartheid stalwarts who had the same names. I'll start with the birthday girl Ma Sisulu.The Ntsiki's The Winnies The Lilian's The Florence's The

Elaine

ElaineEssien

The average woman spends $1,200 on strip lashes yearly. How did I get this number? 1 pair of lashes goes for about $25-30. On average that lash can only be

David Afolayan

aforisms_

Hello friends,Welcome to today's daily tech news roundup. I will share so much that you need to know from the African and global tech space.Please remember to retweet this first

Chad Ford

chadfordinsider

My #GeorgeFloyd thread ...“I can’t breathe”“Please, man”“Momma, I’m through”How do words adequately express the level of pain, frustration and hopelessness that comes from 400 years of the most massive failure

Zaid Jilani

ZaidJilani

I was reading the Tim Scott/Washington Post think and it reminded me that the news media hasn't done anything to try to understand conservatives who are minorities, even after the

Aliza “revolution, after this nap” Pearl (she/her)

AlizaPearl

So like pretty much all Black people, I knew what anti-blackness was from a young age. I can’t remember a “first” realization, because it was kinda always there. And it

rafael shimunov

rafaelshimunov

Core issue with Yang is one we find across bro culture world that lives adjacent to suffering, and often in service of those causing it, and that is an inability