Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University
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The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
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Increase the minimum wage, revise fair housing practices, get a handle on private equity firms, tax the ultra-wealthy, continue to focus on the social media conglomerates. Is that too much for 30 days?
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He released the JFK files under the guise of transparency, but he refused to release the Epstein files.
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Hi to all of my Fb friends who've joined me here (or whom I've joined here). As with Fb, I don't know how much I'll post, but I love hearing from you!! Also, is there a birthday setting on this thing?
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