#ENSLAVEMENT

Jamaican Celt 🇯🇲

JohnHig39262633

Penal transportation was also used as a method of colonisation.The earliest days of English colonial schemes, new settlements beyond the seas were seen as a way to alleviate from criminals

Ancient Kemite

ancientkemite

When the Europeans said we Blacks were the most ignorant race, we got offended and thought they were referring to education. Thus, for several decades we have had the fastest

Daniella Greenbaum Davis

DGreenbaum

Tonight’s going to be an emotional night for millions of Jews around the world. A thread on a very unique Passover: During the seder, we sing “let all who are

Kamau Rashid

KamauRashid

Would Malcolm have become the man that we know and admire absent his practice of Islam? Was Islam not a moralizing force in his life? Did it not give him

👑 Obong Ekpe 🐯🤴🐅

Ody_johnson

I went into a religious argument with a friend the other day, and I ended my points with "Don't forget that the boats/ship's that brought the bible to Africa also

Blaine Bowden

blainebowden

If you make a sweeping negative assumption about a person based solely on the color of their skin... call it plain prejudice, punching up, intersectionality, whatev.. Idc how you try

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

TheRaDR

Let's talk about trauma, terror and the Golden Calf for a moment, shall we?1/x THREAD This is based off of the jamming and teaching that @SlaterTheDoctor and I did on

Abigail Disney

abigaildisney

In complete sincerity I reach out to you, Jonathan VanBoskerck just to say I am sorry that everything feels like it is leaving you behind. I feel the same way

Norma Costello

normcos

Four years ago I spent two weeks with Yazidis in a camp outside Duhok Northern Iraq. The family I stayed with had lost two daughters to ISIS and every other

Old Weird Scotland

WeirdScotland

Many Scots, while owning Scotland's role in slavery, still take the stance that "normal" or "working class" Scots got no advantages from the fortunes made with enslaved labour, or any

Wendy

Wendy4SD

There is a narrative that has been recently gaining traction among some folks that “#GVP hurts POC.” Here’s why that can be true and also not true. + Guns and

dr. georgeaumoithe ryt-200 (ジョージ) 🇭🇹

GeorgeAumoithe

Starting #ExterminateAllTheBrutes... had no idea the UN hired Haitian nationals to help manage the transition from Belgian rule of the Congo. All the family footage Raoul Peck has is

Blaire Bohlen

blaire_bohlen

This thread smartly fleshes out why Kendi’s definition of racism and anti-racism doesn’t work. Kendi fails to account for historic identity-based power inequalities that are reproduced and reinforced every day

Nigeria Stories

NigeriaStories

All you need to know about The "Igbo Landing" story of 1803Retweet to educate someone p In May 1803, around 75 Igbo slaves who were being transported by sea revolted

OrderoftheGoodDeath

OrderGoodDeath

1. For our ongoing teach-in series we’re taking a look at how white supremacy impacts the way marginalized communities experience death and access death care. 2. Inspired by the Teach-in

Joyelle McSweeney

JoyelleMcS

Good news arrives in the middle of catastrophe--https://twitter.com/nightboatbooks/status/1247576533784498176 I am so grateful to the editors and staff @nightboatbooks for all the efforts they have made to envision this double-bodied book