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Congrats to #Howard's swim team for winning the 2025 Northeast Conference Championship...again. #HU #YouKnow

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Went to the Pérez Art Museum while I was in Miami and the security guard 1. told me that I needed to see this piece and 2. made me pull out my phone and google the artist (Calida Rawles)

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Y'all know what Kendrick said two weeks ago, they can rig the game but they can't fake influence.

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Emmanuel “Manno” Bernoon, a former slave, opened one of the first restaurants in Rhode Island with his wife in the 1700s — and America may owe its love for oysters to their efforts

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Remembered that I wrote about how awful Woodrow Wilson's historic segregationist purge of Black workers from federal government jobs was last year.... www.thedailybeast.com/woodrow-wils...

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“We fired all the guards at the bank so they’re not roadblocks to anything that happens.”

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“The pushback in recent days has come not only in highly competitive districts but also in deeply Republican ones, suggesting a broader problem for the party.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

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"In a world where representation is often weaponized simply to get eyes on screens, A THOUSAND BLOWS stands out as a thrilling and heartfelt examination of race and class in 19th-century London." Read Kaiya Shunyata review of the new Hulu series:

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In America, especially the Deep South, we work very very hard to keep people in poverty because it makes fast food owners and waffle house proprietors money. And they get local lords of huge swaths of desperate people. The 3% enrollment is the point. www.propublica.org/article/geor...

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I think I need these

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Warren “was a vocal opponent of the Republican president during his first term … On Saturday, the more than 1,000 people who packed into Nevins Hall in the Framingham Memorial Building in Framingham had just one message for the Cambridge lawmaker: Keep it up.” www.masslive.com/politics/202...

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1998. "I have a horror of... men & women who are consumed by hate & distrust, who cloak their bigotry & intolerance in high-sounding moral & religious principles. Such are the rabid Republicans.... We must be galvanized by this desperate charge of the fascist right." books.google.com/books?id=VFk...

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I hope one went to the judge in the case where he’s pretending he has no actual power

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Folks, whatever we think Diddy did… it’s worse than that. https://nypost.com/2025/02/21/us-news/sean-diddy-combs-lawyer-quits-sex-trafficking-case-under-no-circumstances-can-i-continue/

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“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

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Yes @adamserwer.bsky.social gets it right. But for all these reasons, it is necessarily an attack on the 14th Amendment. We have to start talking about it in constitutional terms. Because that is what they are resisting.

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Do yourself a favor and read this entire NYT interview with Ed Yong. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

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"Vivimos actualmente la ruptura más profunda en la historia desde la de 1989 a 1991". El intelectual alemán Heinrich August Winkler, que ha recorrido en su obra el pasado y presente de su país, dice que AfD es el adversario más peligroso para la democracia

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Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us? A thread/

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I finally got through to my 22 year old cousin yesterday. He lives in Philly and was almost going to vote for Tr*mp when I convinced him not to vote at all rather than affirmatively giving him his vote. We talked yesterday and I said: "you were being lied to by rich white men." And he got it.

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Frankétienne, legendary Haitian writer and artist, dies at 88 The pioneering author, playwright, and painter, known as the “father of Haitian letters,” leaves behind a towering literary and artistic legacy. haitiantimes.com/2025/02/21/f...

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The French film "Zombi Child" is set in present day France where a Haitian teen attends an elite boarding school AND 1960's Haiti where her grandfather (real life Clairvius Narcisse) is turned into a zombie to work cane fields. Links French slavery and colonialism in Haiti to l'hexagon via zombie.

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Attorney & Army veteran Dovey Roundtree (below) won a landmark 1955 desegregation case representing Sarah Keys, a US Army private who’d been forced by a bus driver to relinquish her seat to a white Marine in NC. Roundtree, an officer in WWII, had experienced a similar situation in 1943 in Miami.

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This will warm your heart and make you smile

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Google removed this fron search results and who knows what else. 🤔 Free link: archive.ph/2024.12.23-0... Another reason, among many, why it's time to leave Google and all its permutations, especially it's Search product. Add in the AI stuff and Google Search is fully FUBAR at this point.

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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WaPo Page One: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said .. “But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Durante la Revolución de Haití, España participó en el conflicto (1793-95). Francia había abolido la esclavitud, pero las tropas españolas capturaron prisioneros de guerra y los re-esclavizaron, siendo vendidos en diferentes puertos españoles como forma de financiar la guerra.

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Los pasajeros a América llevaban consigo, con frecuencia, esclavos de servicio. Debían pagar impuestos por su introducción. En ocasiones se les eximía del pago, como en la imagen, donde se da licencia a Hernán Cortes y a su mujer Juana de Zúñiga y Ramírez de Arellano para introducirlos sin tributar

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En 1796 las autoridades cubanas decretaron un Reglamento para la Persecución de Cimarrones. La revolución en Saint Domingue coincidió con la entrada de miles de esclavos. Los propietarios se movieron entre "el temor y la necesidad" articulando nuevos mecanismos de represión

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If you are as outraged as I am about the unilateral suspension of admissions at York U. Please write the president and dean. An abdication of the mission of a university. www.thestar.com/news/gta/yor...

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When people want to talk to me about the backlash against US higher ed but don't want to mention racism, this is one of the key reasons I become very annoyed (Also the data used to create this post had its contract canceled this month so are won't be able to track things like this in the future)

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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So many wolves in so many hen houses

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Of course the person who was promoted because of their race in this exchange is actually Hegseth, whose only qualification beyond being a white male is bootlicking sycophancy.

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The poster child for white male mediocrity, Pete Hegseth, is firing qualified Black men and women from the military.

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This is paying back the Oiligarchy, whose deadly product is threatened by EVs. Trump’s war on a livable earth. #climate #climatecrisis

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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