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There is nothing inexplicable about why some histories are not widely known.
December 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Not that new a phenomenon
Meet the Violent Buddhists Starting Riots in Sri Lanka share.google/nzx13dc3KPpr...
Meet the Violent Buddhists Starting Riots in Sri Lanka
A group of Buddhist monks and their followers feel that their identity is being threatened by multiculturalism and liberalism.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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One of many stories in the long and ongoing struggle for voting rights that is not in textbooks.

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Donate to ZEP (zinnedproject.org/donate/) so we can continue to provide free people's history lessons & classes to #TeachOutsideTextbook

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What Our Students Should Know About the Struggle for the Ballot — but Won’t Learn from Their Textbooks
By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca From voter ID laws to voter-roll purges, gerrymandering to poll closures to the deadly in-person voting conditions during a pandemic, the right to vote is under attack and the st...
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December 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Picture book by Alice F. Duncan @alicefayeduncan.bsky.social , illus. by Charly Palmer: "Evicted!" about rural, grassroots Tent City Movement for right to vote.

No fairytale ending. They oganized with voting rights victory, but many lost jobs, forced to move. ⬇️
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Evicted!: The Struggle for the Right to Vote
Picture book. By Alice Faye Duncan and illustrated by Charly Palmer. 2022. 64 pages. This critical civil rights book for middle-graders examines the little-known Tennessee's Fayette County Tent City M...
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December 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Two of the few Black farmers who owned land provided space for the homeless Tennessee sharecroppers to live in tents while they organized to defend right to vote.

Black land ownership was also key in organizing for vote in Mississippi.

See Dirt & Deeds doc ⬇️
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Dirt and Deeds in Mississippi
Film. Produced and directed by David Shulman. Narrated by Danny Glover. 2015. 82 minutes. Documentary about the pivotal role played by Black landowning families during the Civil Rights Movement in Mis...
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December 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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#tdih 1960. W. Tenn. Black sharecroppers registered to vote (to break all-white juries which denied fair trial).

White landowners evicted them in cold of winter, “barred them from buying groceries or gas, & from receiving bank loans and medical services.” 💔 ⬇️ 🧵
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Dec. 28, 1960: Black Farmers in Tennessee Evicted for Registering to Vote
Black sharecroppers were evicted by white landowners simply for exercising their right to register to vote.
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December 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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In a time when outdated ideas and a lack of empathy threaten our understanding of history, this original script offers a refreshing perspective. As trade and civil liberties face challenges, art promotes important dialogue.

Bravo to Ryan Coogler and team for this exceptional work.
Opinion | Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ Deal Made Hollywood Lose Its Mind
The obsession with a Black director’s ownership package reflects the themes of his film.
www.nytimes.com
May 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Where do Black people and Indigenous people fit into the conversation about a "nation of immigrants????"
DEI

Diversity because we're a nation of immigrants.

Equity because all men and women are created equal.

Inclusion because together we're stronger as a unit.

What's the problem again with DEI?
April 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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By "realistic," I mean acknowledging the anxieties ppl feel about immigration that is rooted in a fear of scarcity, cultural displacement, of a chaotic world pushing at the borders, etc. If libs/progressives think all these are unfounded, what's the realistic story we're telling that counters them?
April 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Immigration is THE issue animating the rise of the Far Right globally for the last 15 years. Until liberals/progressives have a realistic story to tell about it that counters the visceral dislike ppl have for mass migration, it will keep being an animating issue for the Right.
April 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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That old "nation of immigrants" story was very powerful & worked until other factors (neoliberal free market capitalism, primarily) began to erode the sense of social mobility that was promised throughout the 20th c. Now, I'm not sure you can sell that story to ppl feeling deep economic anxieties.
April 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Black Americans were brought here, and many have native American ancestry because some natives owned slaves. Black Americans are not immigrants.
May 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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I get what you mean, but we didn't come here at all. We were brought here. Immigrants have a second place to call home, Black Americans do not. I see a lot of people saying this is a nation of immigrants, but that's very inaccurate. It ignores colonialism and slavery. I'm just saying.
May 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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By @colinwoodard.bsky.social: The Geographic Roots of Our Immigration Divide

How ideas like “heritage Americans” and “nation of immigrants” wound up in conflict.
The Geographic Roots of Our Immigration Divide
How ideas like “heritage Americans” and “nation of immigrants” wound up in conflict.
www.politico.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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In case you missed it: #TheWrapMagazine traced how Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan forged their path to #Sinners, while its supporting cast plunged headfirst into the film’s Southern Gothic spell.

Read the full interview: https://bit.ly/3MxkAZx

Photographer: Yudo Kurita
December 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
The long read: Still largely viewed as a peaceful philosophy, across much of south-east Asia, the religion has been weaponised to serve nationalist goals
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November 25, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Ryan Coogler's script for #Sinners and more 2025 screenplays are now available to download for free.

thefilmstage.com/download-the...
December 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Perhaps most importantly, Sinners has challenged what’s become conventional wisdom in show business: the idea that audiences won’t respond to original stories.
'Sinners' Proves Audiences Crave Sex, Vampires—and Fresh Ideas
Ryan Coogler’s horror movie has shattered box office records—and the myth that audiences don’t care about original stories.
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May 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Francis Ford Coppola gives an enthusiastic shout out to Sinners
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Coppola Sinners-posting
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Some of you all seem to be under the impression that a vast majority of a movie's viewers catch it in a theater. That hasn't been true since I was a kid, and I'm coming up on my mid-forties.
December 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Simu Liu Questions Rolling Stone After Sinners Snub Sparks Debate

Rolling Stone released its list of the 20 Best Movies of 2025, and the reaction came fast. The omission of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners became the immediate focus, and even Simu Liu highlighted the absence in a direct post on X. His…
Simu Liu Questions Rolling Stone After Sinners Snub Sparks Debate
Rolling Stone released its list of the 20 Best Movies of 2025, and the reaction came fast. The omission of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners became the immediate focus, and even Simu Liu highlighted the absence in a direct post on X. His comment captured a frustration that had been building around the film’s position within this year’s awards conversation. The list placed its attention on smaller auteur projects, yet it left out one of the year’s most visible releases.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Don’t know the reason/the reason
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Skin cancer cluster found in 15 Pennsylvania counties with or near farmland.
More research is needed to better understand how farming practices affect public health; researchers point to similar patterns emerging in agricultural regions of Utah, Poland & Italy.

#PublicHealth #cancer #health
Skin cancer cluster found in 15 Pennsylvania counties with or near farmland | Penn State University
Counties in Pennsylvania that contained or were near cultivated cropland had significantly higher melanoma rates compared to other regions, according to a new study led by scientists at Penn State.
www.psu.edu
November 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM