There are so many thoughts tumbling around in my head regarding subsections of fandom and how they respond to each other, particularly certain types of slashers and certain het ships.  I’m particularly focused on slashers, specifically m/m slashers and het ships in two particular fandoms-Star Trek and Merlin because those are the two that ( Read more... )

New efforts to bring attention to racial disparities in healthCHICAGO - The American Medical Association on Thursday issued a formal apology for more than a century of discriminatory policies that excluded blacks from participating in a group long considered the voice of U.S. doctors ( Read more... )

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Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild would be a good companion to this movie.

*On this date in 1870 the 15th amendment was ratified. Republicans wanted the 15th Amendment passed to obtain the vote of the freed slaves ( Read more... )

The effects of the New England slave trade were momentous. It was one of the foundations of New England's economic structure; it created a wealthy class of slave-trading merchants, while the profits derived from this commerce stimulated cultural development and philanthropy. --Lorenzo Johnston Greene, “The Negro in Colonial New England, 1620-1776 ( Read more... )

Prior to the Civil War, no issue more sharply divided Americans than the issue of race ( Read more... )

Author of 1859 novel, drawn from her life, is honored in New Hampshire

"Frado has passed from their memories, as Joseph from the butler's, but she will never cease to track them till beyond mortal vision."-- Harriet E. Wilson, "Our Nig; or Sketches From the Life of a Free Black ( Read more... )

The Brown Man's Burden
By Henry Labouchère
Truth (London); reprinted in Literary Digest 18 (Feb. 25, 1899).

Pile on the brown man's burden
 To gratify your greed; 
Go, clear away the "niggers" 
Who progress would impede;
Be very stern, for truly 
'Tis useless to be mild 
With new-caught, sullen peoples, 
Half devil and half child.

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