#Slavery

Jordan Sumbu

JordanSumbu

Also let’s kill the idea that black Americans are also ‘mixed’ as the reason why biracial & racially ambiguous folks can solely identify as black. Admixture from slavery is in

Iraq Tweets 🇮🇶🛺

Iraq_Tweets

Today marks the 6th anniversary of the Islamic State’s Sinjar Massacre of Yezidis. Despite the groups defeat 3 years ago, the community is still suffering from the effects of the

Kay Warren

KayWarren1

1) Pondering Jer.22:13 NLT(1996): And the Lord says, “Destruction is certain forJehoiakim, who builds his palace with forced labor. By not paying wages, he builds injustice into its walls and

Minnie Rahman

minnierahman

Today's EHRC report is important but it isn't new. Every investigation into the Hostile Environment finds that it breaks laws, creates racial discrimination and pushes people into exploitation and poverty.

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

The debate on voluntary infection-and-quarantine coming up again. Estimates of COVID CFR for 20—40 y.o.s is around 0.1%. (Selecting on those without underlying conditions would likely make this significantly lower.)https://www.thelancet.com/journals/

Pao: astrologer 🌙☀️

paostrology

For those in the U.S.: unless you’re indigenous, your ancestors arrived in present-day U.S. sometime after 1492.When was that?What were the immigration & citizenship laws at that time? Were your

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

RevDrBarber

What Trump did at the WH was the worst example of racist revisionist history since Woodrow Wilson played Birth Of A Nation at the WH. It may be worse b/c

Grace 🔎

reallygraceful

Sobering numbers for Labor Day, a day dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers: -As of August 2020, the total national debt is $26.70 trillion-52% of millennials

Brittney Cooper

ProfessorCrunk

I’m reminded that in the 19th century Black women used sex strikes to make sure that brothers didn’t vote against Black interests. Which is to say, there has always been

a Black-passing Latina.

aliciasanchez

I have so much to say about the news coming out that ICE has been performing forced sterilizations on detainees. 1. Activists have been begging us, especially our anti-violence movements,

D.A. Bullock

BullyCreative

In 2003, Rep. John Conyers introduced the Expanded and Improved Medicare For All Act, a bill that would create a universal single-payer health care system. Conyers introduced the bill in

유 🍓🇰🇷

sarah_toe_nin

Hey, the name 100% comes from racist origins. And I think that maybe, coming from the UK (the master of imperialism, colonialism, and slavery based on skin color), MAYBE this

Bianca

BiancaTylek

Incarcerated workers are now digging mass graves on Hart Island in NYC for people who succumb to #COVID19. The need, and the trauma it will impose on those workers, are

Natalie Morales

nataliemorales

Comebacks I came up with in the shower that the Biden campaign is free to use: 1. "My son was a war hero, unlike you, Dodger Don. How are those

Ryan Knight 🌹

ProudSocialist

It’s not “divisive” to demand #MedicareForAll when millions are losing their insurance in a pandemic.It’s not “divisive” to demand a #GreenNewDeal when it hit 100° in the Arctic for the

varsha® is abd

varsha_venkat_

1: Miller's New England Mind — puritans in new england are very uptight, and then in the late 1600s, new england starts developing, puritan leaders freak out, the half way