#Emancipation

Liam Hogan

Limerick1914

British slave traders forcibly shipped approximately 5.5 million enslaved Africans into their Caribbean colonies over a 180 year period yet when slavery was abolished just 800,000 enslaved people remained. (Beckles)https://twitter.com/ayoca

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suhayllo

How can you claim you are against the exploitation of workers yet here you are ordering food while it’s raining and expecting a rider who gets less that 2% of

Joe Rivano Barros

jrivanob

Nearby statue of Ulysses S. Grant is also toppled. He was a slave owner too, before the Civil War. That’s three for three this night. A few folks left against

Kari Thee Pony

karianarchy

Excerpts from 1 of my Carnival History papers:Kwame Ture on institutional racism: "the collective failure of an organisation to provide an appropriate & professional service to people because of colour,

Ms. Roboto

supastargirl

Thread of theatrical movies I watched in 2020: (THIS REVIEW FEATURES A MINOR SPOILER. PROCEED WITH CAUTION.)My ★★★★½ review of Weathering with You on Letterboxdhttps://boxd.it/WMQ8f My ★★★½ review of Sonic

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zei_squirrel

if you're one of those shitlibs tying everything joe rogan says and does to bernie and the left bc he endorsed him yet heap praise on howard stern for fawning

Richie🎥McG🍿

RichieMcGinniss

This man just walked in with his own megaphone:“Y’all don’t even know the history of this statue, but you want to tear it down!” Now the guy running the event

korsha wilson

korshawilson

Watching Juneteenth be adopted as a holiday en masse and stripped of its very specific regional history in real time is really interesting... One of the central questions I'm always

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thecoleslaws

There are still ML parties who think homosexuality is a bourgeois deviation, and where that has become unfashionable many have picked up the same rhetoric for trans people. Tankies are

National Geographic

NatGeo

Americans are celebrating #Juneteenth today, but what exactly does the day signify? 1/10 #Juneteenth is the oldest nationally-celebrated commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States.

tmc🐼

shutupbreeze

Abraham Lincoln freed 0 slaves. First he had no authority to free any slaves because the federal government didn’t regulate slavery, the states did and if they didn’t want to

anna

tpwkhollands

THE HISTORY OF JUNETEENTH: A THREAD On June 19th, 1865, Union soldiers landed in Galveston, Texas with news that the Civil War ended and the enslaved were free. These troops

Asim

iamasimbinzahid

Dear sisters in Islam. Remember, Your Hijab is your (A to Z):Your Hijab is A: Act of worship.Your Hijab is B: Beauty.Your Hijab is C: Cover of your body.Your Hijab

Kevin M. Levin

KevinLevin

The Lost Cause narrative's emphasis on the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox #OTD in 1865, at the hands of an overwhelmingly superior Union army, distorts a

Kyra's Shea Medleys Hair & Skincare

KyraSheaMedleys

A THREAD ON THE HISTORY OF JUNETEENTH Juneteenth commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States when Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Texas on June 19th, 1865

TALHA

Talhawaqas98

THREAD:SLAVERY in ISLAMMany critics of Islam point out that Islam endorses enslaving people to become slaves and allows to abuse them. This is far from reality. Islam encourages good treatment