Just hearing THEE King Gidorah in this trailer has me geeked out.

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The Smithsonian cultural anthropologist Richard Kurin describes the 15-year covert effort that resulted in what he and a team of geneticists, genealogists, historians, and anthropologists believe proves that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings—a woman he enslaved.

Radburn found a letter sent by the company’s board to its agents in Buenos Aires, instructing them to brand enslaved people with hot metal. The brand bore a crown, a symbol of the British monarchy’s role in the trade.

Dr. Sarah Elizabeth Lewis—a professor of humanities, African studies, and African American studies at Harvard—wanted to approach Till’s legacy in a new way: not as a case to be investigated, but as an example of the promise the world loses to every act of racist violence.

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In the original series, the show’s creator, Gene Roddenberry, came up with a philosophy held by the Vulcan people. He called it IDIC: infinite diversity in infinite combinations. It suggests that an ideal society is made up of many different types, all working together.

The Confederate Memorial “is the cruelest monument that I have ever seen…” the most egregious example of racism “It is a pro-slavery, anti-United States monument.”—Ty Seidule, retired U.S. Army brigadier general

Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026

My favorite is when they tell me how they really like having read my book… that hasn’t actually come out yet.

I remember watching The Muppets at night on BBC in Trinidad as a kid. Probably didn’t get half the jokes. But it was still a fave.

West Africans practiced smallpox inoculation long before Europeans had ever heard of it, and brought the knowledge with them to the Americas via the Atlantic slave trade. Historian Elise Mitchell examines how these stories were “forgotten” amid the hardening of racial ideologies in the 19th century

The UN general assembly will vote on Friday on a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.

wow. Jury convicts a man of first-degree murder for the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur

“Captured from Benin, west Africa, Cudjo Lewis was trafficked across the Atlantic Ocean and enslaved in rural Alabama, just a year before the Civil War. Earlier this year, 165 years after Cudjo left Africa, his great-great-granddaughter, Cassandra Lewis, returned to receive citizenship from Benin.”

A new study finds slavery still casts a long shadow on the country’s well-being, worsening the health outcomes for Black people in certain locations more than 150 years after abolition.

The notion of zombies trace back to when African slaves were brutally disciplined and worked to death. It was rumored that some got rendered “soul lost,” so they would toil without rest or protest. Thus within Haitian culture, zombies were victims, robbed of independent will by cruel masters.