https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-66045635
12 hours ago
World War Two
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Major Charity Adams inspecting the first arrivals to the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
By Oprah Flash & Amy Johnston
BBC News, West Midlands
The story of a...
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...
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. (...
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...
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...
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...
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