#African

Elizabeth Warren

ewarren

Nearly 100 years ago, mobs of white residents descended on Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, ransacking Black businesses and murdering hundreds of African Americans. The Tulsa Race Massacre was

GullahMuseumSC

GullahSc

In 1931, Dr. Lorenzo Dow Turner recorded a 5-line song by a Gullah Geechee woman named Amelia Dawley of Harris Neck, GA. It was one of many recordings he made

Great House

xspotsdamark

Between 869 AD & 883 AD, enslaved Africans in Southern Iraq, carried out the most violent & bloodiest slave insurrection in history, by African People against their Enslavers. A thread

Crolang09

off9bus

Hey #theatrepeople A part of becoming a better community in this time of change and racial justice is to CANCEL, yes cancel, the @BookofMormon musical. #WeSeeYou #WeSeeYouwat #Broadway No this

Tegan Wendland

TeganWendland

new data: 70 percent of COVID 19 deaths in Louisiana are of African Americans Louisiana's population is 32 percent black - this is wildly disproportionate that's more than 358 black

Smithsonian NMAAHC

NMAAHC

On August 28th, key events would occur throughout history that shaped the lives of African Americans from then to present-day. #APeoplesJourney #ANationsStory #OTD in 1833, slavery was abolished in the

RedPop86

redpop86

BREAKING: Mass vaccination for COVID-19 in Senegal (West Africa) was started yesterday (4/8) and the first 7 children who received it died on the spot. @jamelholley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_wYd9IAM3A&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1R--7sVe

KingJayZim🇿🇼

KingJayZim

1.Diaspora Diaries Pt 2. During my 16 year stay in e Queen's country I've witnessed many marriage breakdowns,especially among e African diaspora. You see,women r usually e first to emigrate

aasiya 🌒 ᵇˡᵐ

celiasvelyn

hi booktwt! i think in these times it’s more important than ever to educate yourself on racism, so i’ve put together a thread of books you should read. half of

woke or whateva

wokeorwhateva

There is something incredibly violent and exploitative about white people going on missionary/humanitarian trips and loading their social media platforms with pictures of the “poor and desperate” people they are

Lyon Ch!njong

francislyon6686

One of the biggest challenges we face as we try to #EndAnglophoneCrisis is the fact that while we expect good governance from our leaders, they have no interest in governing

Aditya Srinath

adi_fatalis

Gonna use #WorldLionDay to illustrate that a lion the size of your average horse used to stalk the wild lands of North America; enter Panthera atrox, otherwise known as the

Smithsonian NMAAHC

NMAAHC

The first black superhero in mainstream American comics, the Black Panther is king of a fictional African nation called Wakanda, one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world.

Star System | BLM ✊🏽

StarSystem9

TW // police brutality, racism, classism, homophobia, sexism, murder, genocide...Thread on racism in America as seen by a young, queer, black person:1. Discrimination is interconnected. Racism, classism, homophobia, etc. you

Iyu, says occupy Ba Sing Se🌈

SojournerMagere

Thread of East African references in Black is King (please don’t take me seriously except for when I am) “Mabavu katika mawingu” is Kiswahili so there’s that “Milimaniiiiii” is

Paul M. Cobb

cobbpasha

1. TIL a strange tale of #medievalism and #racism in American toponymy. Not my period but I’ll try to be accurate.Once upon a time, I drove from northern Indiana to