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Kaitlyn Wells
@kaitwells.bsky.social
Author of
A FAMILY LOOKS LIKE LOVE🐶 – a Children’s Book Council pick
UNDER THE CLAM MOON🌕
NATGEO ENCYC of AAHC✊🏿


Senior Staff Writer at Wirecutter, covering home office tech


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Like all history, there is the good, there is the bad, there is the horrific. We can't learn to do better if we don't know when and how we went wrong. Let's never return to a time where this 1863 photo of Peter Gordon was the norm. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... #blackhistory #trump
National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”
www.washingtonpost.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
As of 2024, about 5% of its citizens (or about 250,000 people) are descendants of these colonists, per the U.S. Office of the Historian. 🧵 #liberia
July 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
They created Liberia (“the free land”) on the West African coast (displacing nearby tribes). In 1824, they renamed the capital Monrovia after then U.S. President James Monroe.

Liberia declared independence in 1847. Joseph Jenkins Roberts became the country’s first president in 1848. 🧵 #liberia
July 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
They didn’t want Black people to have a voice.

The answer: Send them away.

Still, Black people took the opportunity (and $$ from a white-run org) to return to their ancestral home and start anew.

~16,000 Black people emigrated from the U.S. for the African continent.🧵#liberia
July 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I hate driving large trucks or SUVs. I'm 5'3" and can't even see the road in front of me. Heck, I can't even see the entire bonnet/hood of the car.
June 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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