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RaineyOvalle

All jokes aside the Anti-Blackness in DR is rooted in one of the xenophobic dictatorships in the Caribbean. Trujillo worked to erase Blackness from the Dominican identity for 30 whole

Jamie L Palmer, PhD

JamieLPalmerPhD

I re-read Quisumbing-King's (2019) piece and want to share a few highlights. 1/https://twitter.com/alizaluft/status/1062206356336197632 2/Q-King starts with Du Bois's famous quote "the problem of the twentieth century is the pr

ColorOfChange

ColorOfChange

Friendly reminder: Mass incarceration disproportionately harms Black people. And as a result of systemic inequality, Black communities also disproportionately bear the psychological and economic burden of staying connected to incarcerated

Lara Logan

laralogan

Abolitionists have gained more ground in the mainstream political arena in the last few months, than the last few decades. Their view as laid out in the book below is

LL McKinney says pre-order Nubia: Real One

ElleOnWords

Kirkus has a really weird relationship with books about Black American girls in contemporary fantasy settings, and...I think we need to talk about it. If I'm gonna be frank, Kirkus

Jagmeet Singh

theJagmeetSingh

For decades the criminal justice system has taken a harmful approach to drug offensesIt has over incarcerated Black, Indigenous & racialized CanadiansIt has criminalized addictionIt has ripped families apart and

Julia E. Torres (is reading all the books)

juliaerin80

Rather than posting quotes, let us refocus our efforts during #BlackHistoryMonth to learn and teach about the following: 1) Black people in your town, city, or state who did

Lizz Adams

Lizz

Alright this 15 year old black girl in Michigan being incarcerated for not doing her homework is not sitting right with me. She technically broke her probation from an earlier

Piper Anderson

PiperAnderson1

WeWork has created a grant program for Black businesses. The grant application buries you in mile's worth of legal language but the only section you need to read is the

Franchesca Ramsey

chescaleigh

Lots of talk on the timeline about whether or not #DefundThePolice is a “good” slogan or not. Lucky for you, on #MTVDecoded we broke down what the phrase *actually* means

Spike Cohen

RealSpikeCohen

#BlackHistoryMonth In 1825, Black residents of New York City began buying over 100 plots of land north of the city. They took advantage of low property prices from subdivided farmland

Found TNG Episodes

FoundEpisodes

#DS9 #FarBeyondTheStars is a great episode ... at demonstrating how far Star Trek fandom has to go at recognizing and confronting its own racism.1/9 Fans (like me) were/are so used

Chardine Taylor Stone

ChardineTaylor

“Anti-semitism is, still, seen as a “lesser” bigotry, which is why politicians and newspapers can dabble in it.” like they are not dabbling in anything else. What scares me most

Justin C. Key

JustinKey_MD

Tuskegee. Marion Sims. Henrietta Lacks.The history of medical experimentation on black and brown communities in this country is not lost on me. In fact, as an American Descendant of Slaves

Eggymceggerson - Neera Tanden Fan Account 🐺

Eggymceggerson3

This absolutely blew my mind last night. HT to @magi_jay for putting me onto this. By looking at the exit polls (they are flawed, but still helpful), it seems the

Lei Mai Kahiki Hua 🦉

aewaiwhy

First talk by Dr. Ian Smith on white lies. #RaceB4Race Quoting Glaude & Kincaid, the lies of erasure of the treatment of Black Americans and the importance of white people,

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