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A vital record of Black life on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is now online.
Hancock County Library System, with help from Community Webs & @InternetArchive, has digitized the Mississippi Star.
Learn more ⤵️
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Hancock County Library System, with help from Community Webs & @InternetArchive, has digitized the Mississippi Star.
Learn more ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/09/03/l...
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September 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A vital record of Black life on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is now online.
Hancock County Library System, with help from Community Webs & @InternetArchive, has digitized the Mississippi Star.
Learn more ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/09/03/l...
🧵
Hancock County Library System, with help from Community Webs & @InternetArchive, has digitized the Mississippi Star.
Learn more ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/09/03/l...
🧵
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August 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
We ❤️ manuals: archive.org/details/manu...
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FEMA has suspended over 20 workers who criticized the agency's new direction under Trump.
These staff signed an open letter calling out Trump officials and funding cuts.
In their letter they warned that another "national catastrophe" like Hurricane Katrina is possible.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
These staff signed an open letter calling out Trump officials and funding cuts.
In their letter they warned that another "national catastrophe" like Hurricane Katrina is possible.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Fema suspends workers who criticised Trump cuts, US media reports say
The Fema staff are said to have been among those who recently lent their names to an open letter.
www.bbc.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
FEMA has suspended over 20 workers who criticized the agency's new direction under Trump.
These staff signed an open letter calling out Trump officials and funding cuts.
In their letter they warned that another "national catastrophe" like Hurricane Katrina is possible.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
These staff signed an open letter calling out Trump officials and funding cuts.
In their letter they warned that another "national catastrophe" like Hurricane Katrina is possible.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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#OtD 27 Aug 1974 Black inmate Joan Little killed a white prison guard in self-defence from sexually assault and escaped from the Beaufort County jail in South Carolina, US. She faced the death penalty, but with widespread support was acquitted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9885...
August 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
#OtD 27 Aug 1974 Black inmate Joan Little killed a white prison guard in self-defence from sexually assault and escaped from the Beaufort County jail in South Carolina, US. She faced the death penalty, but with widespread support was acquitted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9885...
The art of Andrey Avinoff
August 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The art of Andrey Avinoff
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“Horses were a part of the daily fabric of life for many enslaved Black people.” On the importance of the horse in escaping slavery.
Riding to Freedom: On the Importance of the Horse in Escaping Slavery
The first time I met the horses and the fugitives, I wanted to speak with them directly. I wanted to know them better, to hear how they planned their escapes, what the moon looked like on the night…
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August 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“Horses were a part of the daily fabric of life for many enslaved Black people.” On the importance of the horse in escaping slavery.
Padlocked inside for months to work online scams, young men are forbidden to touch women as part of a cleansing ritual. In the silence of that isolation, they reach for each other—and sometimes for trans women—exploiting a loophole that stays behind closed doors.
minorityafrica.org/we-touch-bro...
minorityafrica.org/we-touch-bro...
“We touch bros but we no gay”: The hidden intimacies of Ghana’s fraud boys - Minority Africa
Image Description: A collage of grainy pink and purple halftone portraits of young men whose faces are partially obscured with cutouts of other people. Layered behind them are fragments of online mess...
minorityafrica.org
August 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Padlocked inside for months to work online scams, young men are forbidden to touch women as part of a cleansing ritual. In the silence of that isolation, they reach for each other—and sometimes for trans women—exploiting a loophole that stays behind closed doors.
minorityafrica.org/we-touch-bro...
minorityafrica.org/we-touch-bro...
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#OtD 4 Aug 2016 Dwayne Stafford attacked an accused white supremacist church-mass murderer at the Charleston County jail, telling an NBC reporter, “I beat Dylann Roof’s ass.” After the attack, donors helped raise money to pay his bail and get out.
August 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
#OtD 4 Aug 2016 Dwayne Stafford attacked an accused white supremacist church-mass murderer at the Charleston County jail, telling an NBC reporter, “I beat Dylann Roof’s ass.” After the attack, donors helped raise money to pay his bail and get out.
Uninterrupted leisure.
August 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Uninterrupted leisure.
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#OtD 1 Aug 1993 Joy Gardner, a 40-year-old Jamaican woman, died in north London, a few days after police tried to deport her. They held her down and wrapped 13ft of surgical tape round her head, suffocating her stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8055...
August 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
#OtD 1 Aug 1993 Joy Gardner, a 40-year-old Jamaican woman, died in north London, a few days after police tried to deport her. They held her down and wrapped 13ft of surgical tape round her head, suffocating her stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8055...
My favorite place 🛌
July 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
My favorite place 🛌
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How Edna Lewis became a queer icon of Southern cooking.
lithub.com/how-edna-lew...
lithub.com/how-edna-lew...
How Edna Lewis Exemplified the Ethos of Queerness Throughout Her Life
I claim no knowledge of Edna Lewis’s romantic leanings, no insight into her desires. I cannot name the people she shared a bed with or compile a list of those she lusted after or loved. Edna’s inti…
lithub.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
How Edna Lewis became a queer icon of Southern cooking.
lithub.com/how-edna-lew...
lithub.com/how-edna-lew...
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#OtD 15 Jun 1990 LA police attacked ~500 striking janitors and their supporters at a peaceful @SEIU protest against cleaning contractor ISS. The workers later won health benefits, better pay & union recognition stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8695...
June 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
#OtD 15 Jun 1990 LA police attacked ~500 striking janitors and their supporters at a peaceful @SEIU protest against cleaning contractor ISS. The workers later won health benefits, better pay & union recognition stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8695...
The lover in me is fully integrated.
May 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The lover in me is fully integrated.
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Don’t forget Short Story Month! Today, we recommend reading P. Djeli Clark’s “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington.”
One great short story to read today: “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington”
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the third year in a row, the Literary Hub staf…
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May 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Don’t forget Short Story Month! Today, we recommend reading P. Djeli Clark’s “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington.”
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Inside the “new kind of distinctly Black creative self-making” born from the editorial relationship between Toni Morrison and Muhammad Ali.
“Writing is Fighting:” Inside Toni Morrison’s Literary Collaboration With Muhammad Ali
Sometimes editors want a sign their writers are still out there. The deadline might have been a few months—or even years—ago, and they aren’t expecting a completed manuscript, maybe not even pages …
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May 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Inside the “new kind of distinctly Black creative self-making” born from the editorial relationship between Toni Morrison and Muhammad Ali.
Thinking about sex as an alchemical process, deeper alignment/awakening , a “great work”
May 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Thinking about sex as an alchemical process, deeper alignment/awakening , a “great work”