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Jill Watts
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Historian. Professor. Author of The Black Cabinet and biographies of Hattie McDaniel, Mae West, and Father Divine. Working on a biography of Mary McLeod Bethune. https://jill-watts.com
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Happy Valentine's Day from DOGEhttps://www.doge.gov/savings
February 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Searching for quiet inspiration and assurance today. Remembering Phillis Wheatley on freedom and tyranny. Link to the full poem in comments. #BlackHistoryMonth #PhillisWheatley
Wonder from whence my love of Freedom sprung, Whence flow these wishes for the common good, By feeling hearts alone best understood, I, young in life, by seeming cruel fate Was snatch’d from Afric’s fancy’d happy seat: What pangs excruciating must molest, What sorrows labour in my parent’s breast? Steel’d was that soul and by no misery mov’d That from a father seiz’d his babe belov’d: Such, such my case. And can I then but pray Others may never feel tyrannic sway?
February 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Tonight So Cal sunset
January 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Saying hello to Cheri
November 19, 2024 at 4:32 PM