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  1. B

    The Black history you didn’t learn in school is being taught on TikTok

    https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2021-02-27/black-history-month-tiktok[/U] Across the TikTok app, Black creators are posting videos that confront America’s racist past. (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times; Getty Images) BY ARIT JOHNSTAFF WRITER FEB. 27, 2021 7:55 AM PT Put away your...
  2. Spiritual Stratocaster

    TIME MACHINE: IF you could go back in time to CHANGE HISTORY....

    How would you change history. - You can only take 3 things with you that is not part of your outfit you're wearing. - You also get to have the ability to speak 1 language other than your regular speaking language. Example . The formula for gunpowder, the formula to create the smallpox...
  3. Spiritual Stratocaster

    Earliest Music memories?

    mine were -Watching music video marathon countdowns and MJ basically being the top 15. - That Aaron hall song where his wife dies and he's left alone :mjcry: -The Remember the time music video :myman: - Being a big BIGGIE fan with my cousins...we both thought Diddy was the coolest. (...
  4. President Sakora

    In the interest of dialogue: one of the holocausts

    oh nah not that one brehs the many that occurred on The Continent. thoughts? discuss, learn, enjoi.
  5. JadeB

    Karen Bass, a Black woman, will be Los Angeles' next mayor

  6. JadeB

    Bill and charge interest on your own son for raising him just for him to disown you brehs

  7. ISO

    Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They’re Anti-White by James Baldwin (discussion)

    In the light of Kanye and Kyrie controversies it’s worth a read or re-read for some of this famous article… What y’all think? https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-antisem.html?source=post_page---------------------------
  8. TreySav

    Post Civil War Love Letters Between Black Americans

    This story is old but it’s still pretty interesting The letters exchanged by James Hughes and Mary Rebecca Lee were discovered by their great granddaughter Laura Murphy They were courting in the middle of Reconstruction — a period chronicled in the Smithsonian’s new National Museum...
  9. TreySav

    Famous People Who Would Get Banned/Bushed If They Posted on TheColi

    Name any well known person alive or dead who would get banned/bushed if the posted on thecoli. It could be a athlete, a actor, a journalist world leader, anyone. You gotta tell us the reason why though I’ll start it off.. Person: Chris Rock Reason for ban/bush: Giving out N word passes...
  10. TreySav

    Is the GOP trolling or do they really believe stuff like this?

    You can always count on Majorie Taylor Greene to say all the reich things
  11. Seoul Gleou

    Should Trans-Atlantic Slavery be treated the same way as the Holocaust?

    In contemporary discussions, the two are often not compared with each other because of the distance in time between the two. I think this is probably due to recency bias. But should Trans Atlantic Slavery, the largest forced migration of humans ever, be treated the same way, in contemporary...
  12. JadeB

    How Europe Stole The World

    Explains in depth how a continent of miserable farmers took over the rest of the world in four centuries. Pretty wild watch.
  13. JadeB

    Will there be a period of mass emigration from the US in the coming decades?

    Based off this reddit comment that I saw on the Mexico City expat article that went viral: I'm in the USA but quite close to Mexico culturally and geographically. I'm not defending one side or the other. I do think it's revealing, though, to consider why many people are moving from the...
  14. JadeB

    Ever heard of the Poison Squad?

    The Poison Squad: The US Government Experiment That Saw Volunteers Deliberately Eat Poisons The Poison Squad in the room where they ate their delicious poison. Image credit: Public Domain via U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In 1902, in the basement of the Agriculture Department's Bureau of...
  15. Afro

    Revolutionary Routes: Ireland & the Black Atlantic

    Found this whole exhibit kinda fascinating. https://dublin.epicchq.com/revolutionary-routes
  16. JadeB

    Y'all think the energy crisis is awful now? The 70s was just as bad

    Motorists jockey for position at an L.A. gas station in February 1974. (Cal Montney / Los Angeles Times / UCLA Library) I love you. Just do it. Fill ’er up. All of them, actually, but that last one — depending on your choice of ride, a full tank of gas can now cost you within fumes-sniffing...
  17. JadeB

    Serious Question: Should Black Americans seek reparations from the United Kingdom and other European countries, too?

    Many if not the majority of the African slaves were brought here during the British colonial period. It was the UK that set up the slavery system and the United States simply inherited that. Much of the US were also under French, Spanish, and Dutch rule at one point and all three powers...
  18. JadeB

    Ghandi was a huge creep

    It is a fact. Gandhi had young women in his ashram, some of them still teenagers, one of them his own grand-niece (Manu Gandhi), sleep naked with him in his bed at night. This was an aspect of Gandhi that I had not read about before, and it surprised me at first. I was researching for my book...
  19. JadeB

    The 70s was one of the WOAT decades outside of pop culture

    All that fukkery in one decade The pinned comment broke it down amazingly
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