Something new-ish by me about antebellum uses of “tar heel” and how the epithet may have become linked to North Carolinians by ca. 1860.
In short, "tar heel" was used for the marginalized poor across the South before the Civil War.
https://t.co/yyDISRuDmH #TarHeels#GDTBATH
June or not, North Carolinians should be proud of who they are.
Our neighbors — no matter who they love — deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Happy Pride!
If anyone is in Austin, Texas and would like to do me a favor, go to the Texas State Library and read Henry Clay Gray's THE MEDDLER newspaper (1916-1918; about 100 pages). I believe that he either coined #Juneteenth, or knows who did. 1/
https://t.co/4jUXDYm66w
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
“Be kind to people. Not because they’re nice, but because you are” (@chaaaarmaineder, 2012). Credited to Stephen Colbert this week, but it's not his. A thread. #quotes#misquotes 1/
https://t.co/RKP3Bpn7Xm
ALERT: NAACP adds a *federal* civil lawsuit to its challenge of new Tennessee redistricting
Group seeks court injunction to halt new map, arguing new district lines are "enacted w/ an impermissible discriminatory purpose on the basis of race in violation of the 14th Amendment"
@GAofNYC I have told the GANYC president and others about the new research on the term "86," and that it definitely DOES NOT come from Chumley's. Many GANYC guides have this wrong. Your Education Committee blocked me as spam! 1/
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