#Slavery

WenGuangLie 🇺🇸

guang_lie

@TeraWHunter - a professor of history at Princeton University wrote this article in 2017 in response to Ben Carson referring to enslaved Africans as immigrants:https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/09/slaves-werent-immigr

Adam Davidson

adamdavidson

I spend some time every week delving into conspiracy theories. My favorite this week:The Corporation of the US. It's an older one--at least from the 1970s, but adopted by at

5th of November

crazyal4duke

1-This morning, I realized that everything is about to change. No matter how I vote, no matter what I say, lives are never going to be the same.I have been

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

The u.s. military made extensive use of Black chattel slaves before the civil war. Slaves were used to construct & staff military installations like forts. Slaves were also used as

Phil Bloomfield 🚩

PhilBloomfield3

Back in the 2000s I met a lot of au pairs through work. So though a little out of date, I have a few observations.https://twitter.com/PraxisCast/status/1358086036258230272 I've seen plenty of people

Adam L Brinklow

AdamLBrinklow

#SaveTheChildren? Well, can I ask, do you know what you're saving them from?Twitter claims about "800K kids per year" are, first of all, wildly out of date: According to the

Scott Santens 🧢🏄‍♂️

scottsantens

I think it's pretty disgusting to see people promoting a job guarantee in the middle of a pandemic where the problem isn't that jobs don't exist but that people don't

Ali Velshi

AliVelshi

1/9As the reckoning over racism continues in America, it’s time for corporations to lead the way to a more equitable future. This week alone, we have seen Quaker Oats &

Black Widow Survivor🕷

free_bird65

"This morning, I realized that everything is about to change. No matter how I vote, no matter what I say, lives are never going to be the same.I have been

Bolu Ogunyemi MD 🇨🇦

OgunyemiMD

Biomedical knowledge should always be considered in its socio-historical context, as social factors cannot be divorced from science. 1/ 10 Through much of the 19th and early 20th centuries, medical

Party for Socialism and Liberation

pslweb

On this day we remember the Battle of Lake Okeechobee in 1837, an important, anti-colonial struggle against Manifest Destiny and the genocide of African and Native peoples. Seminole fighters were

gospodin_1000_sons_rey

gospodin_rey

Central banks will keep buying up their respective domestic debt and equity marketsStonk markets will keep pumpingInflation is not happening via CPI (consumer prices), it is purely through asset price

katya

kazbek

most of you have probably heard already about the horrific event that happened in russia, where a youtube streamer killed his allegedly pregnant girlfriend by keeping her out in the

Sarah_Woolley

Sarah_Woolley

Hi @caitlinmoran, as your discussing cleaners today please consider sharing the hardship fund for domestic workers in crisis, from @thevoiceofdws They’re facing more pressure from employers under COVID-19.https://thevoiceofdomesticw.wixsi

Durham Miners' Association

DurhamMiners

The Durham Miners' Association was founded #OnThisDay in 1869.Pictured is the first generation of the union’s leaders, among them William Patterson & Thomas Ramsey who spent the following two years

Dr. William Horne

wihorne

I, a historian of racial capitalism, explained redlining to my white neighbor today, who responded "but how was that legal?" in literal disbelief.Always amazed at how little white ppl know

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