#Blackness

Farah Stockman

fstockman

A couple of years ago, my sister, who follows black social media more closely than I do, asked me what I thought of #ADOS. “What’s that?” I asked.http://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/us/slavery-black-immigrants-ados.html “ADOS stands

Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen

ChoctawFreedmen

This official Choctaw Nation supplemental guide for teaching about the McGirt v. Oklahoma decision is full of misinterpretations of the history, omits histories of Black people and Freedmen, and erases

Kirsty McNeill

kirstyjmcneill

Have just finished #MrsAmerica. Here’s a quick thread on lessons for today’s activists, with some resources that might be interesting, including this piece on what’s wrong with the premise. What

Asa

warmjetztzeit

I grew up in the same tiny suburban Jewish community as Krug, and I've been going down a deep spiral all weekend. I've thought a lot about how this community

AfroIndigenous King

AfroN8V

Salsa music is identified as a Black music in Colombia because the first people to start making it there were Black people from the Pacific Coast. Pacific Coastal Afro-Colombians loved

Jorge J Rodríguez V

JJRodV

Important in this convo is how race and class informed the reception of Espiritismo in Puerto Rico versus Santeria: in short, historically, white, upper class folks were allowed to be

Adam Smethurst 🇪🇺

adamsmet66

A THREAD:On Friday it was my birthday. I celebrated at home with my family. I had cake. I was spoiled. I couldn't have been happier. But it was different of

Black Together Again

KProtein19

THREAD: The everpresent *affirmative* comparisons of Blackface to drag & transgender males pretending to be females are not only offensive, but reflect whites’ well-documented, callous disregard for the humanity and

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Who is this 'Abd al-Wahhāb, and why do I keep calling him "black-Arab" or "black-skinned" rather than "Afro-Arab" or some such? It turns out he's black due to a medical

Katherine Rand

kcrandphd

I've always believed that language matters a lot, that it holds power, that it is and must be fluid, and that, as such, it shapes so much of how we

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NotAgainRaj

1946: Noakhali, The genocide ofHindus in Chittagong, BengalThe killing of 5000 Hindus, rapes of women's and forced conversion of the 95% of the population to Islam out of 400,000. This

Parody

kiramelodic

2. Homophobia: It all started when fans showed disappointment at Doja after they dredged up old tweets. Doja used a homophobic slur to describe two other artists. Unfortunately, after fans

haul stimon 🍉

illbeafineline

i wanted to try and compile resources for supporting #BlackLivesMatter and finding justice for George Floyd. i'm sure similar threads are being spread as well but the more resources

𓂋𓂋𓂋

nidaaro

Did y’all know that black slaves was being legally sold in Mecca, Saudi Arabia (the holiest city in Islam) up until the 60s? Ok here’s a thread. Islam as a

Dobby Lessons

DouxDux

Once again for the people in the back:You will never get the super progressive lefty government you dream of if you don’t vote for the Dems who win in the

marxist-leninist perspectives on black liberation!

queersocialism

i just want to address one point. this is untrue. this is not even remotely what happened, or how it went down. i’m absolutely fine if anyone wants to unfollow/block