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The Underground Railroad’s Stealth Sailors

Eric Foner The New York Review of Books
The web of Atlantic trading routes and solidarity among maritime workers, many of them Black, meant fugitive slaves’ chances of reaching freedom were better below deck than over land.

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Leslie Jones on Memory-Holing Slavery. Bombshell Development in the Epstein Scandal. Pregnancy Is Insane. What Mark Zuckerberg Is Hiding About His AI Chatbots. Trump And Vance Cannot Be Happy With the New South Park.

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

Ta-Nehisi Coates Vanity Fair
"Burying the truth of the Confederacy, rewriting its aims and ideas, and ignoring its animating words allowed for the terrorization of the Black population...and the destruction of democracy."...are ignoring and sanitizing Charlie Kirk's legacy.

Colonize Then, Deport Now

Jonathan Ort Africa is a Country
Trump’s deportation regime revives a colonial blueprint first drafted by the American Colonization Society, when Black lives were exiled to Africa to safeguard a white republic.

Tidbits- Sept 4 -Readers Comments: Death of Voting Rights Act, Gerrymandering, Confederacy Worship, Gestapo Seizures, Camps; RFK Insanity; Zohran Mamdani; Martin Niemöller Real Quote; Italian Dockworkers Threaten Europe Shut Down; No Kings 2 – Oct 18

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Readers Comments: Death of Voting Rights Act, Gerrymandering, Confederacy Worship, Gestapo Seizures and Camps; RFK Insanity; Zohran Mamdani; Martin Niemöller's real quote; Italian Dockworkers Threaten to Shut Down All of Europe; No Kings 2 - Oct 18;

How Bad Slavery Was

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
Donald Trump joins a long line of apologists for America’s peculiar institution, falsifying history in the interest of whitewashing slavery.

Sounds Like the Plan: The Historical Roots of the Takeover of D.C.

Rick Massimo Forget I Said Anything
The capital has for most of its history been a largely-to-mostly-Black city run by open racists. This takeover by white federal officials is something many in the Black community have been anticipating for decades. There’s even a name for it-The Plan

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

Clint Smith The Atlantic
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

Tidbits- Aug.21 -Readers Comments: Trump-Putin Summit; Trump White-Washington Slavery; Trump’s DC Takeover; Zohran Mamdani – the “Commie Corridor”; Zoom This Sunday: Gaza & the West Bank: Views From the Israeli and Palestinian Left; Cartoons; More…

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Readers Comments: Trump-Putin Summit; Trump White-Washington Slavery; Trump's DC Takeover; Zohran Mamdani - the “Commie Corridor”; Zoom this Sunday: Gaza & the West Bank: Views from the Israeli and Palestinian left; Cartoons and more...
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