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which haitian historian will give us a biography on alexandre petion next?

16th-century painting showing an African knight of the order of Saint James of the Sword. Chafariz d’el Rey (The King’s Fountain) painting in the Alfama District, ca. 1560-1580, Lisbon.

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what did norma jean wright say? sometimes it seems like i'm never sleeping, ooh the hours im keepin

behind so many readings. to say august has been hectic would be an understatement.

Virginia by Clipse on Apple Music Song · 2002 · Duration 3:57

“in virginia, we smirked at the simpson trial
yeah i guess the chase was wild, but what’s the fuss about?”

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been lackadaisical when it comes black spartacus but so many people have raved about it

quite literally what july and august will look for me.

Desperately need BlueSky to have a bookmarks feature

YouTube video by clipseVEVO Clipse - So Be It (Official Music Video)

circling back around with a more recent example haha — sample is Maza Akoulou by Talal Madah.

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I Have Avenged America A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti’s fight for independence from French colonial rule  ...

PUBLICATION DAY!

_I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom_ is now available from @yalepress.bsky.social

To celebrate, I am going to post some of the most extraordinary Dessalines quotations below!
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Rain stopped me from the Schomburg Centennial. If I only knew what I was missing out on..🙃

This is art

Can’t wait to pick this up

Author copies have arrived!!!! It's real!!!

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some favorites.

‘Sinners’ Is Set in Clarksdale, Where There’s No Theater. Locals Are Asking for a Screening. The Mississippi Delta town launched a petition in hopes of bringing director Ryan Coogler and his team to the community that helped inspire the hit film.

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Wow wow, I never knew that

the song is such an interesting nugget! given busta rhymes is muslim and how the remix of the song removes the gibberish arabic chorus and replaces it with surah al-fatiha.

Does Arab Money by Busta Rhymes get included?

Sudan is enduring the world’s largest humanitarian and child displacement crises. Half of the more than 30 million people in need of humanitarian assistance this year are children. The conflict has displaced nearly 15 million people within Sudan and across borders

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I am thrilled to share the cover of my forthcoming book, I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom (June 2025 @yalepress.bsky.social)

The stunning painting is by Haitian-American artist Ulrick Jean-Pierre (ulrickjeanpierre.com)

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Interesting tidbit of history.

Americans in the Nineteenth Century Egyptian Army: A Selected Bibliography muse.jhu.edu/article/191933

Africa, the new playground for drone exporters 'Drones, the new weapon in African warfare' (2/3). China, Israel and Turkey are taking advantage of a growing appetite from the continent's militaries to sell their aircraft.

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THE HEART OF THE MATTER: INTERPRETING BLOODSUCKING ACCUSATIONS IN MAURITANIA on JSTOR Erin Pettigrew, THE HEART OF THE MATTER: INTERPRETING BLOODSUCKING ACCUSATIONS IN MAURITANIA, The Journal of African History, Vol. 57, No. 3 (2016), pp. 417-435

www.jstor.org/stable/44509...

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new york city in november.

the bronx they don’t want you to see

Try a Little Tenderness by Otis Redding on Apple Music Song · 1966 · Duration 3:49

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