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• “When you abolish African American history you have banned American history . . . . Period.” —… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Posted 3 days ago
• In this new radio piece, a friend and I work out some of the implied parts of a woman’s train journey to visit her… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Posted 4 days ago
• I did not witness her family fleeing the Nazis in Czechoslovakia, but I witnessed her telling of it. I did not witn… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Posted 5 days ago
• During World War II, Jack Benny and Orson Welles tried to figure out how to perform USO shows for the troops withou… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Posted 5 days ago
• Somehow, the College Board, for its updated AP course in African American Studies, has left James Baldwin, Ralph El… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Posted 6 days ago
• How relentlessly ugly and brutal was racism in the Midwest around the time of World War II? oldschool.scripting.com/KenSmith/2023/… Posted 6 days ago
• In the years around W.W. II, South Bend had strictly segregated neighborhoods, employment, and schools, plus redlin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Posted 6 days ago
• Not the cheeriest coffee mug you'll find, but it's different. https://t.co/F7fdNxpxqF Posted 6 days ago
• By normalizing public debate around the biggest parties, journalists and others instantly and effectively write hal… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Posted 1 week ago
• "In the end I decided: everyone hates a long essay; everyone loves a short book." --David Graeber, "Pirate Enlightenment," ix. Posted 1 week ago
• “Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.” – Iris Murdoch thejohnfox.com/2021/08/100-be… Posted 1 week ago