-Dr. Sanjay Adusumilli: “I don’t think there was a day that went by that I didn’t see children dying.”
— Nour Naim| نُور (@NourNaim88) June 6, 2024
-Dr. Scarlett Wong: “The first trauma is they’re under bombardment and being killed… The second trauma is that nobody’s doing anything about it.” pic.twitter.com/CdI3P8nDO4
initially buried in an unmarked grave.
— Matana Roberts (@MatanaRoberts) June 6, 2024
That little detail always gets me https://t.co/Iycbj1Zsoi
Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable was born in Saint-Domingue, Haiti (French colony at the time) during the Haitian Revolution. At some point he settled in the part of North America that is now known as the city of Chicago and was described in historical documents as "a handsome negro" pic.twitter.com/qVQ6y9nCkU
— AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY (@AfricanArchives) June 6, 2024
In the early 1780s he worked for the British lieutenant-governor of Michilimackinac on an estate at what is now the city of St. Clair, Michigan north of Detroit.
— AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY (@AfricanArchives) June 6, 2024
He was first recorded as living at the mouth of the Chicago River in a trader's journal of early 1790. By then he had established the extensive and prosperous trading settlement.
— AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY (@AfricanArchives) June 6, 2024
Many people, however, believe that John Kinzie (a white trader) and his family were the first to settle in the area that is now known as Chicago, and it is true that the Kinzie family were Chicago's first "permanent" European settlers. pic.twitter.com/e8MgvyCXPk
— AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY (@AfricanArchives) June 6, 2024
He died in August 1818, and because he was a Black man, many people tried to white wash the story of Chicago's founding. But in 1912, after the Great Migration, a plaque commemorating Jean-Baptiste appeared in downtown Chicago on the site of his former home. pic.twitter.com/1VPJoWPyhA
— AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY (@AfricanArchives) June 6, 2024
The NYT reaches a new level of depravity in its campaign of genocide manufacturing - “ex-school”. pic.twitter.com/M3Zt9txnxf
— Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed) June 6, 2024
That the world sees this unfolding in slow motion has broken something for millions of us. We won’t forget it. pic.twitter.com/eBinTzcf9v
— fatima bhutto (@fbhutto) June 6, 2024
— M1kecito (@Mikejab12) June 6, 2024
🇷🇺 Russia to begin military exercises in the Caribbean
— BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) June 6, 2024
Russian warships and aircraft are expected to arrive in the Caribbean in the coming weeks for a military exercise. The exercise will involve a "handful" of Russian ships and support vessels.
The exercise is part of Russia's…
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