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It’s comprehensive and very good. From a UK perspective but dealing with the entire history of Trans Atlantic slavery. Including America, Africa and other places. It’s good to watch to answer racists who complain about slavery. I watch a lot of these but this is the first one I’m posting. Cacs...

I remember reading this book years ago but I picked it up again: The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius. It was written by Suetonius who was the secretary to the Roman Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century. I recommend it since it is a fascinating historical book and is one of my more favorite ancient...

:ohhh: But really this image that Black men need to be violent to achieve their goals is ridiculous to say the least. Salim Suwari showed how peace can be achieved if smart people banded together to fight issues with love.

Threads about then-current Rodney King's riots https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=soc.culture.usa&mid=PDE5OTJBcHIzMC4xMTQ5MDEuMTcwNjVAbGNsYXJrLmVkdT4 https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=soc.culture.usa&mid=YjE1SjNXOVZob00 Thread on Kurt Cobain after his death...

If they taught about US intervention throughout the world from the early 20th century to today.....

https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2021-02-27/black-history-month-tiktok[/U] Across the TikTok app, Black creators are posting videos that confront America’s racist past. (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times; Getty Images) BY ARIT JOHNSTAFF WRITER FEB. 27, 2021 7:55 AM PT Put away your...

How would you change history. - You can only take 3 things with you that is not part of your outfit you're wearing. - You also get to have the ability to speak 1 language other than your regular speaking language. Example . The formula for gunpowder, the formula to create the smallpox...

mine were -Watching music video marathon countdowns and MJ basically being the top 15. - That Aaron hall song where his wife dies and he's left alone :mjcry: -The Remember the time music video :myman: - Being a big BIGGIE fan with my cousins...we both thought Diddy was the coolest. (...

oh nah not that one brehs the many that occurred on The Continent. thoughts? discuss, learn, enjoi.

In the light of Kanye and Kyrie controversies it’s worth a read or re-read for some of this famous article… What y’all think? https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-antisem.html?source=post_page---------------------------

This story is old but it’s still pretty interesting The letters exchanged by James Hughes and Mary Rebecca Lee were discovered by their great granddaughter Laura Murphy They were courting in the middle of Reconstruction — a period chronicled in the Smithsonian’s new National Museum...

Name any well known person alive or dead who would get banned/bushed if the posted on thecoli. It could be a athlete, a actor, a journalist world leader, anyone. You gotta tell us the reason why though I’ll start it off.. Person: Chris Rock Reason for ban/bush: Giving out N word passes...

You can always count on Majorie Taylor Greene to say all the reich things

In contemporary discussions, the two are often not compared with each other because of the distance in time between the two. I think this is probably due to recency bias. But should Trans Atlantic Slavery, the largest forced migration of humans ever, be treated the same way, in contemporary...

Explains in depth how a continent of miserable farmers took over the rest of the world in four centuries. Pretty wild watch.

Based off this reddit comment that I saw on the Mexico City expat article that went viral: I'm in the USA but quite close to Mexico culturally and geographically. I'm not defending one side or the other. I do think it's revealing, though, to consider why many people are moving from the...

The Poison Squad: The US Government Experiment That Saw Volunteers Deliberately Eat Poisons The Poison Squad in the room where they ate their delicious poison. Image credit: Public Domain via U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In 1902, in the basement of the Agriculture Department's Bureau of...