When Luke Perry died, Shannen Doherty came on his show to recite the Lord's Prayer. She wasn't a character there before this. It would be the last scene she did for a TV show
Rare for TV characters to respond to a death with prayer, compared with how often people do in real life
Yasuke, a tall African man, arrived in Japan in 1579 and made history as the first foreign-born man to become a samurai warrior. Yasuke was originally from today Mozambique and was brought to Japan by Portuguese traders.
The powerful Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga was fascinated by Yasuke's tall stature and dark skin, and upon seeing him, ordered his servants to try and rub the "black ink" off his skin.
Despite this strange encounter, Nobunaga took Yasuke into his service, granting him a sum of money, a house, and a katana. From then on, Yasuke loyally served Nobunaga as a honored samurai, fighting alongside him in fierce battles. He went on to be a member of the Japanese elite.
Over the past month, someone has made several attempts to log into my FB account. I'm pretty sure it's my former boss as she's been the only mentally unstable person I've had the misfortune of dealing with over the past decade & she's mad that I reported her bizarre behavior 2 HR
Hind Rajab, the 6-year-old whose harrowing call with emergency dispatchers was heard around the world as the terrified child begged for someone to come get her, was found dead on Saturday. Rescue workers appear to have been killed by Israeli fire just yards away from her vehicle.
Al Jazeera reports on John Kirby's role in whitewashing Israel's genocidal war on Gaza for an American audience. He is now getting a promotion to more effectively control the narrative, featuring @NicholsUprising & @prem_thakker
I've always admired Madiba's fearless stance to do the right thing. When he was in prison as a kid I believed everyone wanted him free. I found out as an adult the popular narrative outside of Africa was that he was a terrorist which has fed into my distrust of mainstream media.
Nelson Mandela on his support for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian struggle for self-determination.
All liberation icons in the world, from Mandela to Che Guevara, supported Palestine, and all liberation movements call for the liberation of Palestine from the terrorist Zionist occupier.
#fellas #NAFO #FreePalestine #Gaza_Genocide #Hamas #IsraeliNewNazism
It's always hard to do the right thing. It takes a lot of courage to stand against the popular narrative to protect the vulnerable and disenfranchised.
“I told my mother that if I lived, I would never, ever be quiet and I would become a peacemaker,” says 87-year old Holocaust survivor Marione Ingram, who has been protesting outside the White House calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. “I have kept that promise.”