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It’s suffragette white, not Hillary Clinton white. History did not start in 2016.https://twitter.com/joycewhitevance/status/1325248832637198336 Just thinking how prescient it was that Shirley Chisholm and Geraldine Ferraro wore “Hillary

Rural Mississippi in 1925 was not a great time and place to have been born with brown skin.But sometimes a man comes along at the wrong place at the wrong

Time for some forgotten history.*Twenty two* African Americans served in Congress during the 1800s after the Civil War. Right before Southern racists took voting rights away from black people again.Since

"They all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round"Nah, they laughed because they already knew the world was round–and his math about earth's size was incorrect.This

This is the person Trump will likely try to appoint to RBG’s seat.Amy Coney Barrett wants to destroy RBG’s legacy. A disciple of Scalia, she wants to erase marriage equality,

Okay listen up, here is the plan for how we are going to win. Ready?1. Republicans have 53 seats in the Senate. Since VP Pence breaks a tie, we need

We have not reckoned with our failures in the early days of the AIDS crisis. So many COVID parallels:- Fear & bigotry (gays/Asians)- Huge health messaging failures, but easy to

I was drawn to Obama. His politics. But there was more.I have lived my whole life with a complex hyphenated identity (Iranian-American). For the first time in my life I

Media: If you’re reporting about the Chicago unrest that began when police exchanged gunfire with a man in Englewood which led to looting in Streeterville—you must mention there is a

It is time to tell a very difficult story.A story that happened exactly 101 years ago today.This is the story behind an image that has been called the world's first

After Pearl Harbor, 80% of Americans listened to FDR's "infamy speech" by radio.But people at home did not know that he was gripping the podium to avoid falling down.Today we

After a racist man assassinated Dr King in 1968, there was an immediate push to designate a holiday for the civil rights leader.It failed. Again and again.This is a story