Christopher Tounsel

Please join us for "Female Genital Cutting and Marriage in Egypt" feat. Prof. Suzanna Khalifa!

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🗓 Dec 4, 2025
🕗 8:00–9:00 AM PST
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

Effective Dec. 15, the U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika as a hate symbol and instead classify it--along with nooses and the Confederate flag--as “potentially divisive”, according to documents reviewed by @washingtonpost.com.

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Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Leo Tolstoy
Died November 20, 1910

God is within you, and you are within God.

Howard Thurman
Born November 18, 1899

Commitment is spelled M-O-N-E-Y.

John Richard Wimber
Died November 17, 1997

Please join us for "Pan-Africanism in Paris: Haiti & the Black Atlantic at the 1900 World's Fair" feat. Prof. Matthew Alexander Randolph!

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🗓 Nov 20, 2025
🕗 8:00–9:00 AM PST
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#GlobalAfrica #PanAfricanism #BlackAtlantic #AfricanStudies

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian I
Died November 14, 565

Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich Schiller
Born November 10, 1759

The childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day.

John Milton
Died November 8, 1674

Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he’s the One.

Ernest J. Gaines
Died November 5, 2019

A pretty good test of a man’s religion is how it affects his pocketbook.

Francis J. Grimké
Born November 4, 1852

Many thanks to @aljazeera.com for hosting me today to discuss the announcement of famine in El-Fasher and Kadugli, Sudan.

The war is devolving into an increasingly harrowing situation, and shout-out to those media outlets that are doing their part to #KeepEyesOnSudan 🙏🏾

Richard Nixon inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

James Reston
Born November 3, 1909

Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again.

Grantland Rice
Born November 1, 1880

Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

Ethel Waters
Born October 31, 1896

You play to win the game.

Herman Edwards
October 30, 2002

Just go on…and faith will soon return.

Jean le Rond d’Alembert
Died October 29, 1783

Grateful to @pbsnews.org for the chance to speak on last night's segment "Sudan's cultural heritage becomes a casualty in its civil war."

As I shared with Jeffrey Brown, I fear that Sudanese may lose access to material history that connects them to their ancient and resilient past.

The Negro is the bone and sinew of your country and you cannot do without him.

Robert Smalls
Speech on October 27, 1895

I’m grateful for all the breaks and honors and opportunities I’ve had, but I always believe I won’t have it made until the humblest black kid in the most remote backwoods of America has it made.

Jackie Robinson
Died October 24, 1972

Say off the gobbledygook language…For the Lord’s sake, be short and say what you’re talking about.

Maury Maverick
Born October 23, 1895

The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes,
And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave
To the dark and empty skies.

Ewan MacColl
Died October 22, 1989

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

Whitey Ford
Born October 21, 1928

The spirit of his father was in him, and the Friend to whom his father had left him did not neglect the trust.

Thomas Hughes
Born October 20, 1822

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Logan Pearsall Smith
Born October 18, 1865

Shout out to @mariners.com starting pitcher Bryce Miller, who's rocking a ballcap inscribed with "Isaiah 6:8" for today's pivotal Game 5.

"Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me."

As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free.

Julia Ward Howe
Died October 17, 1910

I love looking at the Steller's Jays that fly around our yard 🐦‍⬛

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde
Born October 16, 1854

I cannot bear a mother’s tears.

Virgil
Born October 15, 70 BC