Emma Jordan-Simpson

The Hidden History of Native American Enslavement Indigenous slavery, which lasted for centuries, has gone by many names. A new public history project wants us to see it for what it was.

“Rosario’s story is one small piece of the history of Indigenous slavery.”

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Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

What does a nation owe its children?
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TWEET OF THE DAY 🏆

When they tell you Black History Month ended Feb. 28 and it’s March 1st

I want Black people to always present the awards for Black people 🥹

This is a hugely important story: everyone concerned with learning and truth should read it. Presented with prompts about a lesser-known turn-of-the-last-century composer, an LLM produces a nice, clear readable evaluation of her Symphony No. 1 - which DOESN'T EXIST. Everything is made up. 😵‍💫

I laughed for a week at the original video because how many of us thought we were doing something and it turned out…..NOT!!! So glad she got that authentic TT hairdo treatment! ♥️

Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees.

"This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law."
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Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Black people were hunted so thoroughly, that one had to craft a "masterwork of deliberate concealment" to protect them.

Generations before Anne Frank

My first question was wondering how close this was to Broadway and my second was how close this was to the African Burial Grounds...

Looks like literally one block away and then a 30 min walk down (i.e. close)

We will never know the depths of the devastation Black people endured here
#Reparations

“Wells performed a moral audit of the United States at a time when the nation was eager to declare itself healed after the Civil War.”

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“Historical knowledge is a shared civic resource and a bedrock of accountability. Government suppression of the facts of history for political and ideological ends is a practice of authoritarianism.”

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Kentucky church foregoes FEMA aid because of demands made – Baptist News Global The award mandated cooperation with immigration enforcement efforts and elimination of diversity, equity and inclusion policies.

They were told by FEMA they had to “provide surveillance of immigrants, to eliminate DEI practices and to end support for Palestinian rights.”

The church said, keep your $200,000. We’re not doing that.

Kentucky church foregoes FEMA aid because of demands made baptistnews.com/article/kent...

The Midnight That Never Ended - KOLUMN Magazine From stolen gatherings in cane breaks to Freedom’s Eve services that count down to liberation, the Black church’s oldest ritual may be its most contemporary one.

“Watch Night taught a people how to gather on a date—how to turn history into an annual appointment, how to rehearse emancipation even when the nation refuses to finish the job.”

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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”

Graphic with a blue background and large white text reading “DEAR AMERICAN FRIENDS.” Below is a screenshot of a post explaining that Canada does not have CBS, that a “60 Minutes” episode aired normally in Canada, and stating that Canadian networks are not subject to U.S. government interference. The post ends with “We’re not under a dictatorship. You are.”

This message hits hard.

I love how we keep asking Mary, “Girl, did you know?” Meanwhile….

The Bible Prepared Me for Epstein Shock.

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Nov. 28, 1898: First National Convention of the Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association The Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association was founded with a dual mission to organize mutual aid for its members and to pass federal pension legislation that would compensate every f...

"If the Government had the right to free us, she had a right to make some provision for us and since she did not make it soon after Emancipation she ought to make it now." -- Callie House, call for reparations, #tdih #otd 1898 #TeachTruth 🧵

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I love the @metmuseum.org. It enriches the lives of NY’ers and visitors from across the world.

That’s made possible by the people who make the Met run — the curators, educators and museum workers seeking to join @uaw.org

Congrats to Met Museum workers on filing for this historic union election!

@jadeabliss.bsky.social did some more digging. Found what I needed from a partner along with good resources to share in my community to support the action long term.