NYT Bestselling Author, Public Historian
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Today is the 160th anniversary of the largest mass execution in u.s. history, carried out on the orders of The Great Emancipator, abraham lincoln.
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If you go to UK museum. It's full of Africa history. If you go to Belgium museum it's full of Africa history. If you go to US museum it's full of Africa history. If you go to France. It's full of Africa history. African history is too old to think you didn't come from greatness.
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Today marks the end of what is surely one of the worst terms in #SCOTUS history. Guns and prayer and abortion got most of the attention. But that's not all the Court did. Here are just some of the Court's bad decisions:
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Winged Scarab Pendant of Tutankhamun; from Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), Valley of the Kings, West Thebes, Egypt.
Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 61884
#archaeohistories
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This is shocking. Unsealed documents show Johnson & Johnson helped fund a study 50 years ago that involved injecting asbestos into mostly Black inmates bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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When kids cheat on assignments it is because they have been taught that grades outweigh the importance of knowing things. We need to fix this.
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"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots." —Marcus Garvey
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Happy Native American Heritage Month this is a reminder that blood quantum has only ever been used on dogs, horses, and Native people. No other group of people experienced having to prove their percentage of blood ever
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People who are indifferent as to whether huge swathes of the planet become uninhabitable probably shouldn't be called moderates
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"Emancipation was just the first freedom."
@jermainedfowler explains the complex history of Juneteenth that schools didn't teach you.
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Thanks so much @jermainedfowler for this fantastic write up of @StrangeFruitPod !!! We’re on a seasonal hiatus at the moment, but in the meantime check out our #391Episodes, if you haven’t already: npr.org/podcasts/440577316/s…
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Last week I finally (thanks COVID) got the chance to visit the NS-Dokumentationszentrum. The museum focuses on Nazism in Munich ("the capital of the movement" >> ns-dokuzentrum-muenchen.de/e…
I toured with an eye towards: what would a similar museum or space look like in Richmond? 🧵
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We asked @jermainedfowler to pick a story from Kentucky history that could bring important context to current events, and he chose the story of Henry Bibb--a Kentucky man who escaped slavery, and then fought to free others. #KentuckianaCuriosity youtube.com/watch?v=cq2HE2mJ…
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This Saturday on Kentuckiana Curiosity, we're looking into why history can be so powerful in understanding where we're headed in the future. And we have a really awesome expert, @jermainedfowler to help with that. Join us at 9:30 a.m. Saturday! @robharristv #WakeUp11
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Argentina, South Africa, Brazil, and Turkey — all countries that hosted vaccine trials — will have to be satisfied with Pfizer’s gratitude, because (like most countries in the world) they won’t be receiving enough of the vaccine to inoculate their populations anytime soon.
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We're checking out these 5 podcasts this week:
@BritishPodcast
@jermainedfowler's Humanity Archive
@dirtpodcast
@NobleBloodTales
@EarnshawAJD's Old Bones
