#Emancipation

Women's Voices

WomenReadWomen

Facts about sex-based oppression:- Worldwide, up to 50 percent of sexual assaults are committed against girls under 16.- In 2012, 70 million women aged 20-24 around the world had been

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

America's history has been intentionally and maliciously scrubbed clean of ugly, necessary truths.Let's talk about the Civil War, the Confederacy, Lincoln, and why certain truths have been hidden.Here's what I

Carrie is ready for King Cake 💜💛💚📿

CarrieeeeC

OH HELL YES. I love it when traitors are trending on the TL bc I can pull out my "RENAME ARMY POSTS" spiel. The following Army bases MUST be renamed:

Resist the Hologram - Stu Cvrk

STUinSD

Thread - Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Confirms That Violent Mob Movement is Run by “Trained Marxists”1. From time to time, I like to promote the Combat Veterans for Congress Political

Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen

ChoctawFreedmen

Just in case anyone was unaware: the Choctaw Nation chose to legalize chattel slavery within the tribe. Tribal members owned slaves of African descent and many enslaved people walked the

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

“The British slave system was not in decline when the slave trade was abolished. On the contrary, all the evidence suggests that the slave trade was booming after 1783 –

Andy Obuoforibo

andyRoidO

The rift between the Globalist & Nativist wings of the Republican Party is interesting to watch. "A party is a political organ of a class" -Marx. Now the 2 classes

National Geographic

NatGeo

Every Monday throughout #BlackHistoryMonth , we'll be passing the mic to someone from the @NatGeo family who will be highlighting an aspect of history or their work. Today we'll be

El

elshadai_g

Happy birthday to Emperor Haile Selassie, one of the most iconic and brilliant monarchs in history. The following thread describes some of Haile Selassie's greatest achievements & the many reforms

ethan

okcfanethan

This is a thread of American black history, from the first slave trade all the way to the present. I really hope you guys learn something new from this because

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rebeca6169

Heinrich Heine ( 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which

an arch on

anarchonbury

So the answer, as I understand it, is that it's complicated. The victories of the Civil Rights act were meaningful, they did make an important difference at the time, and

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rebeca6169

"If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it." "It is a sin to

Trevon D Logan

TrevonDLogan

Today @nhannahjones has a beautiful article on Reparations ('It Is Time for Reparations’) in @NYTmag @nytimes. I want to highlight an important part of the historical Reparations story that is

Shaun Lawson

shaunjlawson

There is another factor which played a part in Rebecca Long-Bailey's downfall. Which I noted during the leadership campaign and hugely concerned me. It was certainly the number one reason

Florence Dellerie

FlorenceDell

"La #philosophie nous enseigne à douter de ce qui nous paraît évident. La #propagande, au contraire, nous enseigne à accepter pour évident ce dont il serait raisonnable de douter." A.

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