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Curt Kennedy

imcurtkennedy

1/ With all the vitriol going back and forth between ideologies it can be easy to forget how we got here. I remember when everyone from Johnny Mac to Thabiti

Alex Johnson

AlexH_Johnson

Random Friday history thread.Today’s thread starts with a question: who is JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States, named after? You likely know the first person: John Pierpont

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_shalnam

asians (including desi ppl) and blm :As POC, we often believe that we are all exposed to the same type of racism in America, but we have to remember that

Omayra Issa

OmayraIssa

Dispatches from the Prairies 1/ Someone raised the concept of Black pioneers being settlers. It is an important point that I have been seriously thinking about this whole year by

Découvre Bitcoin

DecouvreBitcoin

Book of the Week The Bitcoin Standard, The decentralized alternative to central banking by @saifedean Revisit the origin of money, the importance of gold in our history and how Bitcoin

Nick Sacco

NickSacco55

I've been asked to give a few thoughts on the #GRANT documentary. I'm going to limit my comments to the interpretation of Grant's life in St. Louis, which is my

Jon Harris

worldviewconvos

If you claim to be against CRT but then you employ logic like this: “Founders Ministries is a Neo-Confederate Network” you’re actually employing some the same logic CRT activists use.

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TellYourSonThis

Many of the things women find attractive, men don't like or care about.Women like arrogant men, men don't like arrogant women (exceptions apply)Women are attracted to rich men, men don't

Karin Wulf

kawulf

Excellent column fr @michele_norris in WaPo this AM. A few thoughts on “founders” and slavery, two words that have to ride together. 1/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-and-martha-washington-enslaved-300-people-lets-start-w

Stewart Alsop III - Host of Crazy Wisdom Podcast

StewartalsopIII

This is a thread on what I'm learning about capoeira both in terms of movement as well as historical roots and how that ties in with what I studied in

Shinobi Yaka

YakaShinobi

1/6The progressives condemn a history of which they are wholly ignorant, they believe that “"Rule, Britannia!" celebrates Britain's military superiority, in this, they are only trivially correct. 2/6Context: in the

Unite Equalities

UniteEqualities

Cradley Heath in the Black Country was the centre of chainmaking in England.The work, often carried out in sheds behind the women's own homes, was hard and dangerous.A woman had

Great Women of Mathematics

GWOMaths

GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: DR. EUPHEMIA HAYNES, 1890-1980. First black woman to earn a PhD in mathematics. Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes grew up in Washington, D.C., where a large community

✾ the mean dyke nonlesbians hate ✿

sapphicraptor

8) Someone saying that the term lesbian was taken away from bisexuals and the bi lesbians were reclaiming it, the same person said that the lesbian label is biphobic if

Thaiyaan

thaiyaan

"India is the only country in the world , where people take out rallies to save the rapists!!!" @UN Yes it's the great culture of brahmanical hindu India, what would

Daniel Domingues

dandomingx

A lot has been said about 1619, but not enough about 1520, the year of the first documented voyage of a ship disembarking enslaved Africans in the Americas. #twitterstorians #africanstudies