#Slavery

Dave Grogu Miller

davemiller7

I am struggling as I work thru how we as Baptists deal with the past. I am A-okay with removing monuments that celebrate evil. Seems like a no-brainer. The Confederacy

Marco Simons

Power_of_Law

(thread) Three most notable things to me about today's @Nestle/@Cargill #ChildTrafficking case at #SCOTUS:1) Trump admin's disingenuous legal jujitsu move of claiming that it would be "discriminatory" to subject US

Aya Majzoub

Aya_Majzoub

#Lebanon should #AbolishKafala - a system that traps 10000s of migrant domestic workers in potentially harmful situations by tying their legal status to their employer, enabling abusive conditions amounting at

Jessie Serfilippi

Utterly_Jessie

Last night I learned there was a record kept of burials in NYC following the 1798 Yellow Fever epidemic, during which Dick, a person enslaved by the Hamiltons, died. I

Rabbi Ruti Regan 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸

RutiRegan

Reconciliation is not always a virtue. Sometimes it’s a spiritual temptation that we need to resist. #teshuva זָכַרְנוּ אֶת-הַדָּגָה אֲשֶׁר-נֹאכַל בְּמִצְרַיִם חִנָּם אֵת הַקִּשֻ

Natalie Morales

nataliemorales

Let's talk about racism and xenophobia in latinx communities, and how- of course- it absolutely DID play a huge role in some of them voting against their own interests (and

Avraham 😷 Bronstein

AvBronstein

This is a great thread, and it reminds me of the Talmudic story (Sanhedrin 102b) of Rav Ashi, who teased his next day's lecture by saying "tomorrow we will discuss

Rebecca Pierce

aptly_engineerd

TIL that the first Jewish US senator was a pro-slavery politician from Florida whose father immigrated from Morocco. He fought to recapture former enslaved people in the Second Seminole War

🇺🇸 𝟜𝟘ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕕 🇺🇸 ⭐⭐⭐ 🇺🇸

40_head

I. Breaking News! (BANTER)American Slaves Approved To Be Freed Immediately And Receive Reparations!Per the United States and its governed areas: all persons enslaved inside the United States shall receive $40,000

Ava-Santina

AvaSantina

In this interview David Starkey said:‘Slavery was not genocide, otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn blacks in Africa or in Britain would there?’This interview was pushed on platforms and

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt

nadinebh_

1/ I understand why people of colour get annoyed when white Jews say they’re not whiteBut I also understand why white Jews may feel conflicted about being called white when

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

Thread: How the enslaved in Brazil used the u.s. civil war (1861-1865) to force Brazilian slavemasters into the crisis that led to "abolition".First, some very quick background. 1) More slaves

Sr. Theresa Aletheia ☠️

pursuedbytruth

Last weekend I drove to Quincy, IL to visit the grave of Fr. Augustine Tolton, the first publicly recognized Black priest in the United States. I often make these pilgrimages,

Ilana Horn

ilana_horn

Educators who have written about combating anti-Black racism: Please share links with me, and I will make a thread of resources to signal boost. #BlackLivesMatter I'll start with a

adara🇺🇸

AdaraCensored

1/9In most cases, we all have a part in the situations in which we find ourselves. Sometimes we must dig deep to find what our part is, but it’s there.

Mark Small

marksmall1973

Victoria Spartz successfully bought the Republican nomination for Indiana’s 5th Congressional District (INCD5) in the June 2 primary. Her positions on issues are deplorable. We should begin with her misunderstanding

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