Promised

This is where I will keep my list of posts I have promised to do. I need them all in one place where I cannot lose them or spill tea on them, where they can remain top-of-mind.

If I promised you a post and it does not appear on the list, then please gently remind me of that fact in the comments below.

Feel free to suggest new topics or second a topic. (I do have a Suggestions page, but it is way out-of-date and too big for its own good.)

If you want to see if I have already done a topic, then use this page’s search box. You can also use Google: just add “abagond” to the search words.

Promised (in alphabetical order):

1619
1898 Wilimington Riot
2016 US prison strike
Abagond on “The Bell Curve”
accommodation without assimilation
Ali Alexander
African Christianity (by February 2016!!!!!!)
Amy Tan
Anita Hill
apartheid
Ashanti Empire
Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider
Audrey and Brian D. Smedley: Race in North America
Ayana Mathis: The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Ben Shapiro
birthright citizenship
Black American music
Black/Asian American race relations
black-ish
Black women, Asian men
Blacks in Israel
Breitbart News
burkini
Chancellor Williams: The Destruction of Black Civilization
Chris Cleave: Little Bee
Cleon
climate change
C.L.R. James: The Black Jacobins
common logical fallacies
Darcus Howe
Darlene Clark Hine
Deir el-Medina
Dick Gregory (for September 2017!!!!)
Detroit
dissemblance
Dum diversas
Eddie S. Glaude Jr: Democracy in Black
Edwidge Danticat: Krik? Krak!
Frantz Fanon: Wretched of the Earth
extrajudicial killings
gentrification of Harlem
George Wallace
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Gloria Naylor: 1996
Groveland Four
Harry J. Anslingers
Harvey Weinstein
heroin
H&M
Honduras
intersectionality
Jill Lepore: New York Burning
Kimberle Crenshaw
Kola Boof: Diary of a Lost Girl
Korematsu v USA
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little Town on the Prairie
Lennon Lacy
Libyan slave trade
Lillian Smith: Killers of the Dream
Linh Dinh
Living like it’s 1979
Louis DeCaro Jr.: On the Side of My People: A Religious Life of Malcolm X
Mary Seacole
Melissa V. Harris-Perry: Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Miley Cyrus
Moors
Neely Fuller
Nicholas Wade: A Troublesome Inheritance
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
obeah
Octavia Butler: Parable of the Sower
Otis Byrd
Percival Everett: Erasure
Poll: The most gorgeous White men in the world
Quawan Charles
Race and Puerto Rico
Rahm Emanuel
Rama Yade
Richard Collins III (murdered at UMD)
Robert Mercer
Roger Stone
Shonda Rhimes
Sophia Stewart (and The Matrix lawsuit against the Wachowski Brothers)
South Africa
South China Sea dispute
Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The caravan
The Intruder (film)
The Root
Tigray
transracial adoption
Trump’s Secretary of Defence
Trump’s Secretary of State – Mike Pompeo
Trump’s Treasury Secretary – Steve Mnuchin
Trump voters of colour
UBI: universal basic income
UNESCO: History of Africa, volume II
voter suppression
Wolof Empire
West Papua
White Jesus
Zimbabwe
Zionism

Completed:

July 2019:
- “very fine people”
March 2019:
- Candace Owens
February 2019:
January 2019:
- Covington Catholic High School
- Black Israelites
- James Baldwin: Nobody Knows My Name
December 2018:
November 2018:
October 2018:
- Bolsonaro
September 2018:
August 2018:
- Yemen
July 2018:
June 2018:
- Michael Eric Dyson: What Truth Sounds Like
- William Barber
May 2018:
- net neutrality
April 2018:
March 2018:
- Mark Conditt
February 2018:
- Bantu Expansion
- Am I still homophobic?
January 2018:
- Janet Mock: Redefining Realness
- Irish slave myth
December 2017:
- Michael Slager
- Michael Flynn
November 2017:
- Meghan Markle
- Roy Moore
October 2017:
- Niger
- gerrymandering
September 2017:
- DACA
August 2017:
- The Souls of Black Folk
July 2017:
- East St Louis riots
- Tommy Le
June 2017:
- African Diaspora
- contrarian trolls
May 2017:
- Unarmed Black Americans killed by police in 2017
- RT
- Marine Le Pen
April 2017:
- Henrietta Lacks
- deep state
March 2017:
February 2017:
- Tulsa race riot
- Fulani jihads
January 2017:
- Obama retrospective
- Books I wish I had read sooner
- Eastern Orthodox Christmas
December 2016:
- electoral college
November 2016:
- Jeff Sessions
October 2016:
- William Walker
- Zoot Suit Riots
- Deborah Danner
- UN on Black reparations
September 2016:
- Trevor Noah
August 2016:
- Jill Stein
- Gary Johnson
- Simone Biles
- The New Jim Crow
July 2016:
- Tim Kaine
June 2016:
- The Massie Affair
May 2016:
- yellowface
- Asian brain drain
April 2016:
- Nina Simone
- Ted Cruz
- Ben Carson
- Sarah Rector
March 2016:
- Maria W. Stewart
- Lupita Nyong’o
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Nichelle Nichols
February 2016
- Hillary Clinton 2016
January 2016:
- eugenics
- Afro-Asiatic languages
- Flint Water Crisis
- All-White Oscars
December 2015
- Walter Plecker
- Sarah Furay
- Christian extremists
November 2015
- Chris Few case
October 2015
- Iggy Azalea
- Filipino Americans
- The future of race in the US
September 2015:
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me
- Ahmed Mohamed
- Michael Wood
August 2015:
- slaveries compared
- Issa Rae
- White Liberal’s Guide to Black People
July 2015:
- cultural appropriation
- What should Blacks do?
- Haitian Dominicans
June 2015:
- Amy Chua,
- Jerry Hough,
- What to do if you are stopped by the police
- Magna Carta
May 2015:
- Baltimore power structure,
- Princess of North Sudan,
- The Watsonville Riot,
- Asian Americans and university admissions
April 2015:
- Take Japan, for instance,
- Empire,
- Freddie Gray
March 2015:
- Lee Daniels
February 2015:
- Chapel Hill Shooting
January 2015:
- The Isis Papers,
- The Book of Negroes,
- Charlie Hebdo,
- Cahokia
December 2014:
November 2014:
- Ebola
October 2014:
September 2014:
- Kindred

– Abagond, 2014, 2016.

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on Thu Aug 21st 2014 at 07:01:54 leigh204

I’m reading through this list and it’s a good one at that.

I look forward to commenting in a lot of them. 😎

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on Mon Sep 1st 2014 at 16:33:06 jefe

More

– Yellow Peril
– The Great Migrations (esp. 1940-1970)
– W E.B. DuBois
– NAACP
– Thurgood Marshall

Anything from the “What I was not taught about American history” list.

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on Tue Sep 2nd 2014 at 16:25:32 Bulanik

@ Abagond, your historical posts are some of the most interesting and revealing, especially the way you tie the past into current day events.

What about a post dedicated to:

— Pocahontas

I remembered being shocked by the other story about Pocahontas, the one told by the Powhatan. It was very different to what is generally told.

And, what about:

— Malinche, Hernán Cortés’ slave?

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on Thu Sep 4th 2014 at 16:08:37 jefe

I remember Abagond said he was going to do National Hispanic American Heritage Month.

It is Sept 15 to Oct 15. I didn’t see any call for post topics.

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on Sun Sep 21st 2014 at 03:12:22 Mira

I don’t remember you ever promised per se, but there was some talk (a whiiile ago) about black (or POC in general) rock musicians. Is that still something you are interested in writing/featuring on your blog?

PS-I can see there’s a post on Jimi Hendrix. I am sorry I missed that one!

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on Mon Oct 20th 2014 at 12:03:25 Michelle

please do a post on my video of vintage African people http://youtu.be/oQsetBu1mCQ?list=UURlHlltRjWFtkuwOhcy2UVw

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on Wed Oct 22nd 2014 at 00:02:08 leigh204

Reading through the list of future topics once again, I realize I haven’t heard of some of them. I can’t wait until they come out.

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on Tue Nov 4th 2014 at 05:06:50 jefe

Hey, is Native American Heritage Month coming? It is several days into November already.

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on Thu Dec 4th 2014 at 17:47:52 Symphonic Zambophones

Abagond, how about an article on Charles Barkley and his comments regarding Michael Brown?

I’m curious about this “brain drain” and university admissions ones. And Detroit and Moors. Also I think you might like Amy Tan’s novels.

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on Thu Dec 18th 2014 at 18:05:19 abagond

@ George

Thanks for the Cahokia links!

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on Wed Jan 7th 2015 at 01:52:19 Mbeti

With Some of your post you appear to show a great desire for complete honesty – would you be interested in doing a post on how you came to be and why you still are a catholic Christian as opposed to protestant or some other denomination?

Also would you have any interest in doing a post on atheism?

And around next holiday season maybe a post on Kwanzaa?

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on Sat Feb 21st 2015 at 00:52:33 stephaniegirl

Abagond,

I haven’t been on your blog for so long. I want to make a suggestion to you. Could you do a post on the hate crime against a Muslim family in NC and how that incident is connected to Islamophobia and racism in America? Hate crimes against Muslims are at an all-time high, thanks to mainstream media, right-wing Republican and Democratic politicians, white supremacists and rightist groups, as well as the movie, American Sniper, which fanned the flames of hatred toward people of Middle Eastern descent.

I promise to come to your site more often and comment. Thanks.

Sincerely,

Stephanie B. a.k.a. La Reyna and Stephaniegirl

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on Sat Feb 21st 2015 at 06:45:45 abagond

@ Stephanie

Good suggestion. I will do a post on it by Monday.

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on Sun Apr 5th 2015 at 23:59:13 stephaniegirl

Paula Giddings
Shonda Rhimes
Thom Tillis
Patricia Hill Collins
Kimberle Crenshaw and Intersectionality
Kristen Maye’s essay “Why I don’t date White Men”
Darlene Clark Hine

Stephanie B./La Reyna

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on Wed Apr 8th 2015 at 15:07:52 stephaniegirl

Also do two posts on Disco and the racially motivated Disco Sucks movement.

SB

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on Tue Apr 14th 2015 at 17:00:08 abagond

@ stephanie

Good suggestions. FYI, I did a disco-related post:

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/rb-a-brief-history-1975-1979/

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on Wed Apr 15th 2015 at 20:13:52 stephaniegirl

@Abagond,

Thanks. I’ll leave you this analysis of the Disco Sucks movement by MrSuperboy:

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM7Pne3vHeQ)

SB

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on Wed Apr 15th 2015 at 22:37:20 abagond

@ stephanie

Shonda Rhimes certainly needs a post. I just added her to the list. Thanks.

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on Sat May 30th 2015 at 22:44:29 stephaniegirl

Abagond,

Also do a post on Duke professor Jerry Hough and his racist views towards Blacks and Asians. Thanks.

S.B.

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on Mon Jun 1st 2015 at 16:49:47 abagond

@ stephaniegirl

“Also do a post on Duke professor Jerry Hough and his racist views towards Blacks and Asians. Thanks.”

Added to the list. I will try to do him sooner rather than later since he is in the news, but first I must get Amy Chua out of my system.

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on Fri Jun 5th 2015 at 11:42:55 abagond

Added: What to do if you are stopped by the police

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on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 05:33:23 leaarong

I would like to see some posts on the following books:” The Psychopathic Racial Personality”[ Bobby D. Wright], and the book “The Destruction Of The Black Civilization” [Chancellor Williams]. These are the types of books that i also take to other African and Asian countries, as well as those Europeans ready for the “rude” awakenings!

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on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 06:08:19 abagond

@ leaarong

Thanks for the recommendations!

I already did a post on Wright:

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/psychopathic-racial-personality/

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on Wed Jun 24th 2015 at 07:26:57 leaarong

Ahh i see and i shall read this….thanks Abagond! There is one more if i may suggest to you(if you have not covered the book/topic yet!). The name of this book is from authoress Abby L. Ferber, called “The White Man Falling”, Race ,Gender,and White Supremacy. One of the most hated books i have seen commented on…even on Amazon.com.

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on Wed Jun 24th 2015 at 07:37:08 leaarong

Another book that is my favorite is from Amos N. Wilson named “Black-on-Black Violence – The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation In Service OF White Domination”. I will check your site, and see if you have written to this great Author!

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on Tue Jul 7th 2015 at 06:34:19 Zena

I’ve seen a few (white) adoptees compare adoption to slavery. While I don’t necessarily agree with them, it is an interesting comparison. Babies are stripped from their mothers and heritage and sold by adoption agencies. I wonder if transracial adoptees feel the same.

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on Sun Jul 19th 2015 at 21:40:01 P. Bouie

It would be good to do a post on writer Sophia Stewart and The Matrix lawsuit against the Wachowski Brothers.

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on Sun Jul 19th 2015 at 22:16:45 abagond

@ P. Bouie

Excellent suggestion. Thanks.

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on Mon Aug 10th 2015 at 01:46:23 leaarong

Abagond….

Here is one subject that i cannot recall being on your site and i think is a important one to post. Renowned, and well known racist and racial genocidist William Pierce [A.K.A “Andrew MacDonald”] who was the leader of National Alliance, and a member of the Nazi party, and writers to infamous novels “Hunter” and “The Turner Diaries”, which dealt with elimination, and expunging of all “non-whites” [European based peoples ONLY are included in staying!] and miscegenation and killing of interracial couples, and a vehment hatred of mainly Blacks and Asians. and of course Jews, that had one “hero” he based on the now executed murder ” Joseph Paul Franklin” [executed November 20th, 2013].

Though National Alliance is on the dowside [virtually gone and bankrupt], there are still others that [want]carry on the mantle to this most depraved dead man. I think others should know about this, and “lone wolves” he most certainly pushed to follow in Franklin’s footsteps.

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on Sat Sep 5th 2015 at 22:54:27 King

A subject that I think would be fascinating: Where would U.S. sports be without Blacks people.

Were would the U.S. stand in the Olympic competitions?
Where would we stand if you took away ll Black world records?
How would it effect the economy of sports dollars spent?

Would the U.S only be about as significant a sports power around the world as Belgium if it weren’t for Black American athletes?

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on Wed Sep 16th 2015 at 14:08:26 stephaniegirl

Please also do a post on Sureshbhai Patel as well.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/09/hung_jury_favored_officer_on_t.html#incart_2box

SB

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on Fri Sep 18th 2015 at 15:57:40 stephaniegirl

Ahmed Mohamed’s story needs to be told as well:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/17/why-some-muslims-dont-want-ahmed-mohameds-blackness-to-be-ignored/?postshare=501442533901660

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on Fri Sep 18th 2015 at 16:14:21 abagond

@ stephaniegirl

Thanks for the link. I will have a post on Ahmed Mohamed up, hopefully later today.

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on Sat Sep 19th 2015 at 00:09:52 abagond

@ stephaniegirl

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2015/09/19/ahmed-mohamed/

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on Sat Oct 17th 2015 at 00:52:24 stephaniegirl

Here’s my entry on Kimberle Crenshaw, the founder of intersectionality:

A Brief Bio on Kimberle Crenshaw:

According to Wikipedia, Ms. Crenshaw was born in Canton, Ohio in 1959. She received a B.A. from Cornell in 1981, a J.D. from Harvard Law in 1984, an LL.M. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1985, and has been a part of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law faculty since 1986.

She has published works on civil rights, black feminist legal theory, and race, racism, and the law. She spearheaded the intellectual movement called the Critical Race Theory Workshop. She is a law professor at both UCLA and Columbia Law School and teaches Civil Rights and other courses in critical race studies and constitutional law.

Crenshaw’s publications include Words that Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech and the First Amendment. She also coined the term, intersectionality. Intesectionality is the study of intersections between forms or systems of oppression, domination or discrimination. An example is black feminism, which argues that the experience of being a black woman cannot be understood in terms of being black, and of being a woman, considered independently, but must include the interactions, which frequently reinforce each other.

In recent times, she was very critical of the Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative in 2013, saying that Black girls/Girls of Color were neglected in the initiative. While she neither discount nor criticize the plight of Black boys/Boys of Color, she also sees Black Girls/Girls of Color were victimized as well in American society.

Here’s some of her reasons why she feel that Black girls/women are neglected in American society at Why Intersectionality Can’t Wait:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2015/09/24/why-intersectionality-cant-wait/

SB/Stephaniegirl

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on Mon Oct 19th 2015 at 20:01:34 abagond

@ Pumpkin

Was it just bombed? Or do you mean this:

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/the-move-bombing/

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on Sat Oct 31st 2015 at 23:39:32 stephaniegirl

Abagond, please do a post on racist fraternities and sororities.
Here’s the materials to do a good post:

http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2015/10/anonymous-post-directed-to-black-women-pledging-white-sororities-at-southern-methodist-university-goes-viral/#comments

http://mic.com/articles/112240/12-incidents-that-prove-fraternity-and-sorority-racism-isn-t-just-an-oklahoma-problem

http://college.usatoday.com/2015/03/15/timeline-list-of-recent-sorority-and-fraternity-racist-incidents/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/university-of-alabama-racism/

http://college.usatoday.com/2015/10/30/southern-methodist-university-racist-greekrank-sorority-post/

http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/14525/sae-racist-chant-diversity/

http://educationblog.dallasnews.com/2015/10/smu-says-its-looking-into-racially-offensive-fraternity-party-that-was-planned.html/

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/news/a47441/ucla-sorority-under-fire-for-racist-kanye-western-theme-party/

SB

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on Thu Nov 19th 2015 at 15:50:12 Open Minded Observer

Based on the comments in the “The Irish Had It Hard Too” thread, I’d say a post on what lead to the American Civil War might be worthwhile.

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on Thu Nov 19th 2015 at 16:42:31 stephaniegirl

Here’s another one:

http://httpjournalsaolcomjenjer6steph.blogspot.com/2015/11/peoples-sexist-white-man-alive.html

Stephaniegirl

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on Fri Nov 20th 2015 at 11:36:51 abagond

@ stephaniegirl

You mean “sexiest”, not “sexist”, right?

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on Sat Nov 21st 2015 at 01:27:50 stephaniegirl

Abagond, that’s absolutely right. It’s sexiest, not sexist. Thanks for the correction.

SB

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on Sat Nov 28th 2015 at 18:12:44 abagond

Added Rahm Emmanuel.

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on Sat Dec 5th 2015 at 07:05:09 Monika

Meiji Restoration
White Tears
Race Play
Labor Camp: Modern Day Child Slavery
Prison industrial complex
Standard of Beauty of All Race
Christmas Banned in United States
The New 2 Child Policy
New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition: Babydoll
Sappho & Lesbo Island

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on Sat Dec 5th 2015 at 07:06:53 Monika

Two More:
Endangered language
Blood quantum laws

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on Fri Dec 11th 2015 at 15:26:08 King

Abagond, are you planning on doing an article on Daniel Holtzclaw, the cop in Oklahoma who just got convicted of raping 13 Black women while on duty?

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on Fri Dec 11th 2015 at 15:33:27 King

^NEVER MIND… found it!

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on Tue Dec 22nd 2015 at 20:50:09 abagond

@ Monika

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/white-womens-tears/

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on Tue Dec 22nd 2015 at 20:50:48 abagond

Added Maria W. Stewart
Added heroin

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on Sun Jan 3rd 2016 at 04:40:51 abagond

Added eugenics.

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on Fri Jan 15th 2016 at 17:16:27 King

@ Abagond

Suggestion:The All White Oscars (again). Particularly in a year where Sylvester Stallone was nominated for playing his old Rocky roll over Idris Elba’s groundbreaking performance Beasts of No Nation. And the ensemble performance from Straight Out of Compton.

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on Sun Jan 17th 2016 at 09:55:24 abagond

@ King

Yes, definitely.

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on Sun Jan 17th 2016 at 09:56:03 abagond

Added Orthodox Christmas.
Added All-White Oscars.

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on Mon Jan 18th 2016 at 18:28:44 abagond

Added: African Christianity (by February 2016)

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on Tue Jan 19th 2016 at 01:16:51 abagond

Added: Flint Water Crisis.

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on Sat Jan 23rd 2016 at 20:38:43 abagond

Added: Sarah Rector (for February 2016)

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on Tue Feb 2nd 2016 at 12:33:22 Marissa

Hello Abagond, I came across a YouTube clip on “The Devil’s Punchbowl” in Natchez, Mississippi and I would really appreciate a post on “contraband camps” that thousands of black people were essentially murdered in during the Civil War.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgUG1K4ueSs)

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on Thu Feb 18th 2016 at 21:11:37 abagond

Added: Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton 2016.

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on Tue Mar 8th 2016 at 01:00:34 abagond

Completed: Hillary Clinton 2016, Nichelle Nichols

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/02/27/hillary-clinton-2016/

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/03/08/nichelle-nichols/

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on Sun Mar 13th 2016 at 08:40:25 abagond

Completed: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/03/11/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/

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on Wed Mar 16th 2016 at 13:23:21 abagond

Completed: Lupita Nyong’o

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/03/16/lupita-nyongo/

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on Fri Mar 18th 2016 at 15:16:17 King

Suggestion: A post on “Buffalo Soldiers.”

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on Thu Mar 24th 2016 at 15:32:03 jefe

Left a comment in Suggestions re: Seneca Village in New York City, New York’s first black community which was razed to make room for Central Park.

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on Sun Apr 3rd 2016 at 01:43:01 stephaniegirl

Abagond,

Please do a post on Kimberle Crenshaw and intersectionality. Thanks.

SB

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on Fri Apr 8th 2016 at 15:49:41 leigh204

Black/Asian American race relations

Yes, please! Reading through the Peter Liang post makes me think how divided Black and Asian American people are. Imo, I want to state, as an Asian CANADIAN, I feel Peter Liang is responsible for Akai Gurley’s death. Mr. Liang’s indictment is just and I don’t understand the reasoning behind some people supporting him.

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on Sun Apr 10th 2016 at 21:56:25 abagond

Completed Maria W. Stewart, Sarah Rector and Ben Carson:

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/maria-w-stewart/

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/04/04/sarah-rector/

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/ben-carson/

Added: Kimberle Crenshaw
Added intersectionality.

Thanks Stephanie!

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on Wed Apr 20th 2016 at 11:39:56 abagond

Completed Ted Cruz:

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/ted-cruz/

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on Sat Apr 30th 2016 at 03:01:08 abagond

Completed Nina Simone:

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/04/30/nina-simone/

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on Mon May 23rd 2016 at 18:33:56 stephaniegirl

Abagond,

Please do a post on Purvi Patel and Bei Bei Shuai. Thanks.

SB

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on Fri May 27th 2016 at 00:47:30 abagond

Completed: Asian brain drain and yellowface:

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/05/25/asian-brain-drain/

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/05/26/yellowface/

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on Fri May 27th 2016 at 00:49:10 abagond

@ stephaniegirl

Wow. I didn’t even know fetal homicide was a thing in places that allow abortion.

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on Wed Jun 29th 2016 at 10:17:27 leaarong

Abagond….

have you done post about the book from Umoja [formally “Anon”] titled ” Black Love IS A Revolutionary Act”? I find this a very fascinationg and vital bok on the topic..

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on Fri Jul 1st 2016 at 09:43:19 cleonette

Recently I read an article critical of President Obama for replacing Winston Churchill’s bust with that of MLK Jr. People don’t know the real history of Churchill and how he and the British were involved in the genocide of Indians, Aboriginals, and Africans. Post suggestion?

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on Fri Jul 1st 2016 at 09:47:11 cleonette

Also, I urge you to watch season 31 of Real World. Its an excellent gaze at white racism in America, white denial, how racist white women fetish black men and how some men ignore racism in white women, etc. It was very powerful.

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on Tue Jul 5th 2016 at 17:15:18 abagond

Added Mary Seacole

Completed the Massie Affair:

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/joseph-kahahawai/

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on Tue Jul 26th 2016 at 22:12:12 abagond

Added Tim Kaine

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on Thu Aug 18th 2016 at 12:57:32 abagond

Completed Tim Kaine:

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/07/28/tim-kaine/

Added Gary Johnson.
Added Jill Stein.
Added Simone Biles.

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on Thu Aug 18th 2016 at 13:09:58 abagond

Added Cleon.

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on Sun Sep 4th 2016 at 18:26:18 Zoe Jordan

Do you only blog on concerns of America? I’d be really interested to see something about the ban on Muslim women wearing Jihad and burqa in France, In particular The treatment, this summer, of women in ‘burkinis’ on beaches in the South of France.

An article from last month;
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/burkini-ban-second-french-riviera-resort-follows-cannes-rules-as-mayor-says-muslim-beachwear-a7189151.html

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on Tue Sep 13th 2016 at 16:48:26 abagond

Completed: The New Jim Crow, Simone Biles, Gary Johnson, Jill Stein:

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/the-new-jim-crow/
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/08/20/simone-biles/
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/gary-johnson/
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/08/31/jill-stein/

Added:

apatheid
South Africa
Trevor Noah

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on Tue Sep 13th 2016 at 16:59:58 abagond

@ Zoe Jordan

Added burkini.

Thanks for the suggestion and thanks for the link.

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on Thu Oct 6th 2016 at 23:42:02 abagond

Completed Trevor Noah:

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/trevor-noah/

Added

UN on Black reparations

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on Thu Oct 20th 2016 at 17:11:49 abagond

Added William Walker

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on Fri Oct 21st 2016 at 15:19:09 abagond

Added: 2016 US prison strike

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on Sat Oct 22nd 2016 at 18:55:45 abagond

Completed: UN on Black reparations

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/10/22/un-report-on-black-american-reparations/

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on Mon Oct 24th 2016 at 13:04:39 abagond

Added: Deborah Danner

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on Tue Oct 25th 2016 at 15:39:02 stephaniegirl

White slavery, Zoot Suit Riots, The Mann Act.

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on Wed Oct 26th 2016 at 11:33:37 abagond

Added: Zoot Suit Riots

Completed: Deborah Danner

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/10/24/deborah-danner/

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on Fri Nov 18th 2016 at 17:16:32 abagond

Added Jeff Sessions
Added Michael Flynn
Added Trump’s Secretary of State (TBA)
Added Trump’s Treasury Secretary (TBA)
Added George Wallace

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on Mon Nov 21st 2016 at 15:20:57 Herneith

How about some more comedy? Oh, my mistake I didn’t read the above post listing a bunch of clowns!

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on Wed Nov 30th 2016 at 23:23:30 stephaniegirl

Please do a bio of the Reverend William Barber, Abagond. Thanks.

SB

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on Wed Dec 7th 2016 at 20:17:58 abagond

Added: Reverend William Barber.
Added: Electoral College.

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on Tue Dec 13th 2016 at 16:06:14 stephaniegirl

The 1898 Wilimington Riot.

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on Tue Jan 3rd 2017 at 13:06:24 abagond

Completed: Jeff Sessions

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/11/19/jeff-sessions/

Completed: electoral college

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/12/14/electoral-college/

Added: 1898 Wilimington Riot
Added: Books I wish I had read sooner
Added: gerrymandering
Added: voter suppression

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on Sun Jan 8th 2017 at 00:46:28 abagond

Completed: Eastern Orthodox Christmas

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/01/07/eastern-orthodox-christmas/

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on Tue Jan 10th 2017 at 18:01:25 abagond

Completed: Books I wish I had read sooner

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/books-i-wish-i-had-read-sooner/

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on Wed Jan 25th 2017 at 05:02:11 abagond

Added: Obama retrospective
Added: South China Sea dispute

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on Sun Feb 5th 2017 at 21:03:35 abagond

Completed: Obama retrospective

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/01/26/obama-retrospective/

Added: Breitbart News
Added: W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk

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on Sun Feb 5th 2017 at 21:04:13 abagond

@ Scribh:

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/01/31/trumps-muslim-ban/

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on Sat Feb 18th 2017 at 19:17:09 abagond

Added: Trump voters of colour
Added: deep state

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on Thu Feb 23rd 2017 at 17:24:50 abagond

Added: Eddie S. Glaude Jr: Democracy in Black

I thought I had already added this.

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on Thu Feb 23rd 2017 at 17:43:41 abagond

Added: RT

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on Wed Mar 22nd 2017 at 17:06:01 abagond

Completed: Fulani jihad

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/02/25/fulani-jihads/

Completed: Tulsa Riot

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/02/28/tulsa-race-riot/

Added: The Intruder

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on Fri Mar 31st 2017 at 19:17:42 abagond

Added: Robert Mercer

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on Sat Apr 1st 2017 at 01:04:41 Stephanie Baldwin

Anita Hill

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on Sat Apr 29th 2017 at 12:29:40 Omnipresent

Copied from Open Thread

Abagond – I am not sure if this is the place to ask but can you do a post on Darcus Howe – I think it is important to spread awareness of what this man did as an activist for the rights of PoC and a spokesperson for the West Indian Community in the UK. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/03/darcus-howe-obituary).

Also it would be interesting to follow up on Rachel Dolezal who remains unrepentant about deceiving people (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/25/rachel-dolezal-not-going-stoop-apologise-grovel)

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on Wed May 3rd 2017 at 03:56:36 abagond

Completed: deep state

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/deep-state/

Completed: Henrietta Lacks

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/04/21/henrietta-lacks/

Added: Anita Hill
Added: Darcus Howe
Added: Marine Le Pen

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on Wed May 3rd 2017 at 09:52:40 Omnipresent

Abagond: Added: Darcus Howe

Thumbs up!

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on Sat May 13th 2017 at 16:10:52 abagond

Completed: Marine Le Pen

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/05/06/marine-le-pen/

Added: Unarmed Black Americans killed by police in 2017
Added: Roger Stone

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on Tue May 16th 2017 at 16:46:04 abagond

Completed: RT

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/05/15/rt/

Completed: Unarmed Black Americans killed by police in 2017

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/05/16/unarmed-black-americans-killed-by-police-in-2017/

Added: Ben Shapiro

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on Thu Jun 1st 2017 at 16:45:08 abagond

Added: Richard Collins III (murdered at UMD)

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on Sat Jun 10th 2017 at 21:42:52 abagond

Added: Black American music

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on Thu Jun 22nd 2017 at 13:58:23 Herneith

You should do a post on mental illness online.

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on Wed Jun 28th 2017 at 18:16:21 abagond

Added: contrarian trolls

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on Sat Jul 1st 2017 at 15:29:02 abagond

Completed: contrarian trolls

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/06/28/contrarian-troll/

Completed: African Diaspora

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/african-diaspora/

Added: Tommy Le
Added: Trump’s Secretary of Defence – James Mattis

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on Sat Jul 8th 2017 at 18:41:13 abagond

Completed: Tommy Le

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/07/01/tommy-le/

Added: East St Louis Riot

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on Wed Aug 23rd 2017 at 00:10:41 abagond

Completed: East St Louis riots

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/07/11/east-st-louis-riots/

Completed: Souls of Black Folk

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/08/15/the-souls-of-black-folk/

Added: Dick Gregory

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on Fri Sep 1st 2017 at 00:07:12 abagond

Added: Groveland Four

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on Mon Sep 11th 2017 at 16:19:05 abagond

Added: DACA
Added: climate change

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on Thu Sep 21st 2017 at 12:44:45 abagond

Added: West Papua.

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on Fri Oct 6th 2017 at 17:03:14 abagond

Completed: DACA

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/09/21/daca/

Completed: gerrymandering

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/10/04/gerrymandering/

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on Sat Oct 21st 2017 at 02:40:30 abagond

Added: Roy Moore
Added: Harvey Weinstein
Added: Race and Puerto Rico
Added: Niger
Added: Yemen

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on Mon Oct 30th 2017 at 04:13:41 Solitaire

@ Abagond

Could you add this to the Promised list?

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/voluntary-and-involuntary-minorities/#comment-368249

I know it is from several months ago, but I think it would still be pertinent whenever you might get around to it.

I’d already been thinking that the current discussion on the Cesaria Evora: Sodade thread was evocative of the voluntary/involuntary minority thread, and now there’s actually been a direct tie-in to the work of Dr. Ogbu. This suggests to me that perhaps his work has had more impact than I initially thought and would be worth further examination and/or deconstruction.

What Open Minded Observer just uncovered over on the CE:S thread points to the likelihood that Dr. Ogbu was one of the originators and promulgators of the idea that black students in the U.S. do badly in school because they don’t want to be accused of “acting white,” which to some degree has taken hold as a truism in mainstream white thought.

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on Wed Nov 1st 2017 at 11:48:27 abagond

@ Solitaire

Added: accommodation without assimilation

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on Wed Nov 1st 2017 at 12:49:45 Solitaire

@ Abagond

Thanks!

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on Sat Nov 4th 2017 at 16:30:49 Herneith

How about a post on polyandry?

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on Wed Nov 29th 2017 at 18:18:23 abagond

Completed: Niger

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/10/31/niger/

Completed: Roy Moore

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/11/11/roy-moore/

Added: Meghan Markle

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on Mon Dec 4th 2017 at 17:40:38 abagond

Completed: Meghan Markle

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/11/30/meghan-markle/

Added: Michael Slager

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on Fri Dec 15th 2017 at 02:49:11 abagond

Completed: Michael Flynn

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/12/04/michael-flynn/

Completed: Michael Slager

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/12/09/michael-slager/

Added: net neutrality

77 pending

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on Wed Jan 24th 2018 at 06:30:33 abagond

Added: Libyan slave trade
Added: H&M
Added: Deir el-Medina

From https://abagond.wordpress.com/2018/01/05/my-2018-book-list/ :

Added: UNESCO: History of Africa, volume II
Added: Chancellor Williams: The Destruction of Black Civilization
Added: Audrey and Brian D. Smedley: Race in North America
Added: C.L.R. James: The Black Jacobins
Added: Frantz Fanon: Wretched of the Earth
Added: James Baldwin: Nobody Knows My Name
Added: Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider
Added: Kola Boof: Diary of a Lost Girl
Added: Edwidge Danticat: Krik? Krak!
Added: Janet Mock: Redefining Realness
Added: Octavia Butler: Parable of the Sower

91 pending

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on Thu Feb 22nd 2018 at 18:11:08 abagond

Completed: Irish slaves

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2018/01/30/irish-slave-myth/

Added: Am I still homophobic?

91 pending

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on Thu Mar 22nd 2018 at 05:10:10 abagond

Completed: Janet Mock: Redefining Realness

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2018/01/27/janet-mock-redefining-realness/

Completed: Am I still homophobic?

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2018/02/22/am-i-still-homophobic/

Completed: Bantu Expansion

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2018/02/27/bantu-expansion/

Added: Mark Conditt

89 pending

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on Sun May 6th 2018 at 17:34:00 vindicator

Suggestions:
African pre-colonial monarchical polities: Kanem-Bornu Empire, Wolof Empire & Kingdom, Oyo Kingdom, Dahomey Kingdom, Ashanti/Asante Empire, Kongo Kingdom, Nubian polities etc.

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on Wed Jun 6th 2018 at 23:07:53 vindicator

Suggestion
Do a post about the recent trend of #TheRootArticles

Finally these awful sites like the root, Lipstick Alley, Essence, Madame Noire etc are being called out for their vile misandry.

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on Tue Jun 26th 2018 at 17:06:30 abagond

Completed: net neutrality

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2018/05/15/net-neutrality/

Completed: Rev. William Barber

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2018/06/01/william-barber/

Added: Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little Town on the Prairie

Added: Michael Eric Dyson: What Truth Sounds Like

89 pending

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on Tue Jun 26th 2018 at 17:09:45 abagond

Added: The Root

90 pending

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on Tue Jun 26th 2018 at 17:11:04 abagond

@ vindicator

I did do a post on Essence, but not its vile misandry:

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2018/02/12/essence-magazine/

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on Wed Jun 27th 2018 at 17:01:17 abagond

Added Ashanti Empire
Added Wolof Empire
Added Korematsu v USA

93 pending.

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on Fri Nov 9th 2018 at 22:47:55 Afrofem

@ Abagond

Would you consider writing a post on the 14th Amendment and the issue of birthright citizenship?

Thanks!

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on Mon Mar 18th 2019 at 16:42:49 abagond

Added: 1619
Added: Bolsonaro
Added: Black Israelites
Added: birthright citizenship
Added: Candace Owens
Added: Covington Catholic
Added: Honduras
Added: The caravan

101 pending

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on Mon Mar 18th 2019 at 16:56:20 abagond

Completed: Black Israelites
Completed: Bolsonaro
Completed: Covington Catholic
Completed: James Baldwin: Nobody Knows My Name
Completed: Mark Conditt
Completed: Michael Eric Dyson: What Truth Sounds Like
Completed: Yemen

94 pending

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on Sat Jun 29th 2019 at 09:17:26 abagond

Added: UBI: universal basic income
Added: “very fine people”

96 pending

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on Mon Apr 20th 2020 at 18:31:52 reynagirl14

Please add Darlene Clark HIne and the term dissemblance. Thanks.

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on Sun Jan 17th 2021 at 03:46:52 abagond

Completed: Candace Owens
Completed: “very fine people”

Added: Ali Alexander
Added: Darlene Clark Hine
Added: dissemblance
Added: Linh Dinh
Added: Living like it’s 1979
Added: Quawan Charles
Added: Tigray

101 pending

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on Thu Feb 18th 2021 at 04:18:36 abagond

Added: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

102 pending

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on Sat Feb 20th 2021 at 03:27:29 abagond

Added: Gina Prince-Bythewood

103 pending.

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on Tue Mar 15th 2022 at 18:44:22 reynagirl14

Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste

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on Thu Mar 17th 2022 at 00:57:58 abagond

@ reynagirl4

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2020/12/21/isabel-wilkerson-caste/

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