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[The New York Times @nytimes]

A violent attack by a group of white men on two Black teenagers at a pool in South Africa on Christmas Day has sparked widespread outrage.

The attack led to a charge of attempted murder and served as a stinging reminder of apartheid.
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[CBS News @CBSNews]

BREAKING: Former President Donald Trump and two of his children had a role in a tax fraud scheme, their company's ex-CFO testified. https://t.co/VAjboMnWrX

[Christopher Bouzy (spoutible.com/cbouzy) @cbouzy]

I don't usually share his posts, but this is insane.

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

"My dear Mr. Hughes: I am the author of a three act dramatic play on Negro family life. I have tentatively chosen as a title for this work a line from one of your poems. The line is: 'a raisin in the sun.'" Lorraine Hansberry to Langston Hughes & his reply, 1958 @YCAL_JWJ

[Dr. Terry Anne Scott is trying to change the world @terryannescott]

Wow! I just found out that Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas won the 2022 Ottis Lock Endowment “Best Book” Award (East Texas Historical Association)! I am thrilled! Very cool.
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#twitterstorians
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[BlackPast.org @BlackPastOnline]

#OTD in 1958, Clara Luper made history when she led a group of students in a “sit-in” protest at Katz Drugstore in Oklahoma City. It led to many other sit-ins at lunch counters, cafeterias, churches, and amusement parks to end segregation in Oklahoma. https://t.co/sBnXy63Fkb

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

By not teaching kids about racism, they can assume White people have more because they are more. Banning books on POC reinforces this assumption as it leads to kids seeing more White people in the curriculum. This isn’t protecting White kids. This is protecting racist education.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

This is a BFD.

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Thanks, Obama

[The Institute for Common Power @TheInstituteCP]

Join us for this important discussion as the approach the anniversary of Emmett Till’s lynching. #twitterstorians #history

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Diahann Carroll
Van Vechten photographs, 1955
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[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

A Florida school district placed a warning label on three of my books that insist racism is wrong. It is not hard to figure out what this school district thinks is right.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

BREAKING: 4 police officers in Louisville, Kentucky, have been charged with civil rights violations related to Breonna Taylor's death, AG Garland says. https://t.co/Wl9Ijekpb4

[The Institute for Common Power @TheInstituteCP]

There is a war on truth in Florida and other states. Politicians in those states are attempting to deny history of racism in this country. We have the power to make a difference. Register for this upcoming event to learn how
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[CNN Opinion @CNNOpinion]

Bill Russell "would remember Boston as 'a flea market of racism,' possessing an astonishing variety of ways to display contempt towards African Americans, writes @PenielJoseph.

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[Voto Latino @votolatino]

BREAKING: The House has passed an assault weapons ban by a 217-213 vote — almost every Democrat in favor and almost every Republican against.

This is the first assault weapons ban to pass the House in nearly 30 years, when Congress enacted one in 1994. The ban expired in 2004.

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Marian Anderson
Van Vechten photographs, 1940 https://t.co/cwGV1xNq0D