#History

i’ve been seeing a lot of criticism towards blm protesters on my timeline specifically denouncing the violence. so i have some questions to ask non-black folks: what would you do
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There's a common misconception that Vancouver doesn't have a Black community or history. That's just not true.Hogan's Alley was a vibrant Black neighbourhood razed by the City in the '50s
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Today, because I woke up rather sad, after sleeping badly, & missing our kids after months apart, my husband took us off to see an unbelievably beautiful, ancient, mesmerizing tree,
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I am now obsessed with underwater civilisation. We must build the marine tech that will enable us to unearth the 1000 cities under the seas. Humanity's 100,000 year civilisational history
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Y'all, I have a million other things that are more important to do than sit down and read Kanye West's contract, which he signed as an informed millionaire who could
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The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square is a permanent reminder of his achievement in saving this country – and the whole of Europe – from a fascist and
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Feel like tweeting about movie scenes that gave me chills. This one from Wonder Woman, because it encapsulates why the movie works. We’re force-fed so many morose “reluctant” superheroes, but
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Was waiting until things calmed down. Now that they have it's time I say something. This person started to call me racist for telling them that the person who said
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Women who call out misogyny & sexism aren’t inherently against all men. Black people who call out systemic racism aren’t inherently against all white folks/interracial marriages. Nobody is taking your
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Today in 1979, a US Vela nuclear-test-monitoring satellite detected the distinctive double-flash signature of a nuclear explosion over the South Atlantic. Although a White House scientific panel later dismissed the
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Brock Nelson on @ForePlayPod talking #Isles: “This year was crazy. The run was crazy. Obviously a super weird year with how everything went out.” Brock Nelson on @ForePlayPod on the
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The virus is the first interesting post-historical supervillain If we can beat it, history will restartIf not it’s end-of-history reruns for the rest of time It’s kinda funny how people
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There is a big lacuna in his treatment of Marx--but that's a hole opened by Marx's analysis. I don't believe for a second Marx abandoned the idea that history has
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Before the pandemic, I traveled to one of the largest Confederate cemeteries in the country & spent the day with the Sons of Confederate Veterans to understand how the Lost
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Can’t believe all these working parents (and in particular women) aren’t taking parenting advice from a childless young man with a history of telling them why they’re all wrong PS.
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Robert E. Lee is objectively one of the most overrated figures in American history — a reputation built on soothing white fragility and pining for what never existed in the
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