#Cultural

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akamami

“So often the commercial habits of black people are demonized.The image of a black woman,heading to church or some other event,enveloped in her fine fur,remains one of the most enduring

Movie Mango ®

Go_Movie_Mango

The Big Scandal of Indology ! Almost all you have in academic textbooks about ancient India is either a superficial, banal, half-truth or plain wrong. Why we want to try

Stuuooooooaaaarrrggghhhht Webb

InflatableDalek

New Friday night movies! With #Fridaythe13thathon.I don't know these as well as Bond or Trek (and their making of is a lot more straightforward), so you're going to be spared

Voice Of Mechanics

Music_Mechanics

A thread https://musicmechanics1blog.wordpress.com/2020/11/26/1026/ The Fear Of Success ““The alchemist gave the monk a piece of gold and said:” –““This is for you”, he said holding out the piece to the

First Time Watching

FirstWatching

The time has come for me to finally watch one of the most iconic movies of all time & one of my husband’s top 3 favourites. We’ve been together for

Sylvia de Mars

sylviademars

Some #UCUStrikesBack thoughts on workload and anxiety in HE. 1/x I have an anxiety disorder. Can't snap out of negative thought spirals about things I can't control. It manifests in

PL( 17 year old suspect*)

neguse_negest

Fela Anikulapo Kuti (15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997) was a multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre and Pan-Africanist. Most persecuted musician ever in history, arrested on 200 different occas

American Solidarity Party

AmSolidarity

For a long time American conservatives liked to say that liberals were the party of "moral relativism." The conservatives stood up for the old fashioned moral truths, while liberals believed

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clbolt

Thread on Critical Theory/Critical Race Theory/Intersectionality (CRTI) since we don't already have enough of those.Two questions:1. Is CRTI a problem?2. Is CRTI a problem in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).Let's

Mzala Tom

tlsibanda

1. HOW MFECANE TRANSFORMED THE ZIMBABWE PLATEAU A thread...Mfecane ( Difaqane or Lifaqane in Sesotho) was a period of widespread chaos and warfare among indigenous ethnic communities in southern Africa

KEPT THE FAITH, BABY! ¡SI SE PUEDE!

JamesMWilliam18

#OnThisDay 1975 WWII freedom fighter, civil rights activist, entertainer and star of the French cabaret Josephine Baker, died. She used the power of her sexuality and beauty - proudly.Who was

Maluma/J-Balvin Hate Account

InADash

There’s so many stories of Black C*b*n “heroes” being “rumored” to be Abakua or Paleros or Santeros. I’m like baby. It’s not a rumor. I believe they were all part

Charity Tax Group

CharityTaxGroup

#Coronavirus resources for #charities thread: The CTG website now has a range of resources available for charities that have been viewed thousands of times. Links are collated in a central

Kim Willsher

kimwillsher1

Jean Castex, French PM, is giving a press conference on what France has done and what it will be doing re: Covid-19. This follows a spike of 5,429 new cases

All of this, on top of a climate crisis.

bridgetmcgann

Some #FathersDay science!We tend to think of mothers as the more biologically connected parent, and the assumption is that moms are more of a “natural” at parenting whereas dads

Antwan Eady

antwan_eady

Black men write. A thread. First, we