Debbie Allen and Norm Nixon met in 1979 while filming The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh. They become friends even after filming and now they’re 42 years married ❤️
In 1526, the king of Kongo wrote to the king of Portugal and begged him to stop the slave trade.
The letters still exist. You can read them.
King Afonso I — Nzinga Mbemba.
He was not a victim of ignorance about Europe. He was literate in Portuguese, Catholic, and had welcomed Portuguese traders as partners. Then he watched what the trade actually did.
He writes that merchants are seizing people every day — nobles, family members, free subjects — and that his country is being emptied. He asks for teachers and doctors instead of ships. He asks, plainly, for it to stop.
Portugal's king replied with a letter pointing out how profitable Kongo's trade was and how little else it had to offer.
The trade continued for another three hundred years and helped destroy the kingdom.
An African head of state put his objection in writing in 1526, in the language of the people doing it, and was told the arithmetic did not work in his favour.
"They didn't know" has never been available as an excuse. The correspondence is in the archives.
Coaches that have made millions of dollars, hop scotch from one contract to another, recruit kids to their program only to bolt when they get a bigger, better more lucrative offer from another school pleading we need to “Save College Sports” is the epitome of hypocrisy
Jes Staley's email to Jeffrey Epstein from Feb 3, 2014, explaining that Jay-Z is keeping the masses from revolting against the corruption of the Epstein Class: