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Black Music Sunday: Lead Belly, the virtuoso who told us to 'stay woke'
� Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 290 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope ...
Denise Oliver Velez 12/09/2025 0
Sudan The Forgotten War(s).
The history of conflict in Sudan ...
rebel ga 12/06/2025 6
Caribbean Matters: The heinous boat bombings continue
Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of ...
Denise Oliver Velez 12/06/2025 118
Campaign of terror continues—hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria
In a hauntingly familiar narrative, 315 Nigerian schoolgirls have been forcibly taken at gunpoint from their school by armed insurgents. Based on past abductions like these, authorities presume the ...
FreedomUnited 12/06/2025 7
Black Kos, Week In Review - The Inventor of the Potato Chip
By dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor As a world food, potatoes are second in human consumption only to rice. And as thin, salted, crisp chips, they are America's favorite snack food —�the ...
Black Kos 12/05/2025 172
Whiteness is a Myth
There is no such thing as “the white race.” (This is not to say white privilege isn’t real. White privilege is 100% real. White privilege is the purpose for which whiteness was invented in the 1600s in Virginia.) Right now you may be thinking: “What?”...
cai 12/05/2025 37
Renewable Friday: I Get E-Mails
I have mostly been getting Global Warming news from Bluesky lately, and I have been preoccupied with COP30. I find that I have a backlog of climate-related e-mails. So today I am giving you the best of what I have received in the last month, with links...
Mokurai 12/05/2025 9
Grand Jury Refuses To Indict Letitia James
A grand jury today refused to indict New York Attorney General Letisha James on mortgage fraud. The return of a "no true bill" is historically exceptionally rare for federal grand juries, but is becoming more common in Trump's weaponized Department of...
KeithDB 12/04/2025 148
Indians 101: Nobleman and Daughter (museum exhibition)
The Tlingit are an Alaska Native people whose aboriginal homelands stretched along the Pacific coast for more than 400 miles. The Tlingit were 18 distinct and autonomous groups. Each group felt that ...
Ojibwa 12/04/2025 1
CBC Roundup: Congressman Gabe Amo (RI-1) - "This healthcare crisis is by design."
Congressman� Gabe Amo �won the 2023 September Democratic Primary� in an upset, defeating 11 other Democratic candidates�vying to succeed� David Cicilline �in the special election to represent� ...
lpeacock 12/04/2025 55
Whiteness Wednesdays - The Enduring Myth of a Post-Racial America
Welcome to Whiteness Wednesdays. One of the constant lies White people tell ourselves is that racism is a dying legacy of the past, and that we’re just about to move past it altogether. This ...
Toro Blanco 12/03/2025 21
Black Kos: Remembering and honoring John Brown. A true ally.
“Remembering and honoring John Brown” Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver Velez While scrolling through my Bluesky feed yesterday I saw this post:
Black Kos 12/02/2025 176
Indians 201: Crow Indian migrations
When the first American explorers and fur traders began to move out onto the Northern Plains following the Corps of Discovery (i.e. Lewis and Clark) in the early nineteenth century, they encountered ...
Ojibwa 12/02/2025 4
Renewable Tuesday: A COP30 Reckoning is Coming
Far too many around the world consider that if the COP process does not immediately and totally condemn fossil fuels and order the end of their use, then the whole process is a failure. This is not ...
Mokurai 12/02/2025 23
My People Used To Be Not White
The headline is true — my mom’s people used to be considered less than fully white. �For those who know me, this is an amusing fact. �I am extremely white. �Hockey is my favorite sport. �I think ...
angryea 12/01/2025 105
AntiCapitalist MeetUp - The A.I. Bubble: peak A.I. is not like 'peak oil' or peak tulip
The Google A.I. Gemini sucked up to me as I applied it to this page. That's an insightful connection, and the web page you are viewing directly addresses both Karl Marx's concept of General ...
annieli 11/30/2025 15
Marine Toys For Tots. It's That Time. Need A Toy? Get A Toy. Or, Give A Toy.
💚The Hero's Journey - Happy Birthday Marines Nov 10th💚 Marine Toys For Tots Need Toys? Get Toys Applying For Toys - About Marine Toys For Tots Find Your Local Marine Toys for Tots Chapter To request a toy; submit your application with...
rebel ga 11/30/2025 3
Sleazy Slenderman and the post-war looting of Ukraine is more about oligarchic crony capitalism
How do oligarchies and their crony capitalists manage to dominate our lives: Five points on the current treachery First, the WSJ story highlights all of the downsides to Trump’s brand of start-up diplomacy. Both Witkoff and the Russians had little...
annieli 11/30/2025 5
Black Music Sunday: Jimmy Cliff crossed his final river at age 81
Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 290 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope you�
Denise Oliver Velez 11/30/2025 135

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