If 3 Black people took a White man on a boat expedition and didn’t return with him the president would be making a speech right now.
Rest in power Nolan Wells
this might be the first time in US history a city mayor is more popular nationally than the president 😭 Mamdani and his team are on a generational run rn
LGBTQ+ activist and icon Marsha P. Johnson died 34 years ago today.
Her body was discovered floating in the Hudson River, with her exact cause of death remaining unsolved.
Calling it “250 years of freedom” erases a painful truth: freedom was never shared equally. Enslaved people, Indigenous communities, women, and countless others were excluded from rights celebrated as universal. Honoring history means telling the whole story, not just the comforting parts. Freedom is a journey, not a slogan.
It's funny that America is named after a guy nobody really talks about. Even kindergarteners are taught about Columbus, but Amerigo Vespucci is like some kind of hidden lore.
Black people were legally defined as property, and families, including infants and children, were systematically separated, traded, and sold by white people on July 4th, 1776.