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  1. B

    Six Triple Eight: The battalion of black women erased from history

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-66045635 12 hours ago World War Two IMAGE SOURCE,US NATIONAL ARCHIVES 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...
  2. TEH

    Answering White People’s Questions About Slavery 🙌🏾

    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...
  3. DrBanneker

    Perversions of the early Roman Emperors per Suetonius, secretary to Emperor Hadrian and imperial archivist

    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...
  4. JadeB

    Who said powerful Black men can't be pacifists?

    :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.
  5. JadeB

    I read a bunch of archived Usenet threads while bored. Here's some of them.

    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...
  6. JadeB

    Every US-led coup, mapped

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

    The Black history you didn’t learn in school is being taught on TikTok

    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...
  8. Spiritual Stratocaster

    TIME MACHINE: IF you could go back in time to CHANGE HISTORY....

    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...
  9. Spiritual Stratocaster

    Earliest Music memories?

    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. (...
  10. RedCloakBlackWraithe

    In the interest of dialogue: one of the holocausts

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

    Karen Bass, a Black woman, will be Los Angeles' next mayor

  12. JadeB

    Bill and charge interest on your own son for raising him just for him to disown you brehs

  13. ISO

    Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They’re Anti-White by James Baldwin (discussion)

    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---------------------------
  14. TreySav

    Post Civil War Love Letters Between Black Americans

    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...
  15. TreySav

    Famous People Who Would Get Banned/Bushed If They Posted on TheColi

    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...
  16. TreySav

    Is the GOP trolling or do they really believe stuff like this?

    You can always count on Majorie Taylor Greene to say all the reich things
  17. Seoul Gleou

    Should Trans-Atlantic Slavery be treated the same way as the Holocaust?

    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...
  18. JadeB

    How Europe Stole The World

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

    Will there be a period of mass emigration from the US in the coming decades?

    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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