The Imminent Past
The Past is still with us; it's not even past. Relevant lessons from history.
Collection by Rick Powell
The Atlantic
The Confederacy Was an Antidemocratic, Centralized State
6 min · · The actual Confederate States of America was a repressive state devoted to white supremacy. · Shared by 95, including @augieray@mastodon.social, LoriBeth, Stephen C Sanders, David Austin Walsh, Rick Powell
Ars Technica
An ancient Roman city has been fully mapped using ground-penetrating radar
4 min · · Archaeologists have found a monument, market, temple, bath complex, and water pipes · Shared by 87, including Jennifer Ouellette, Nicolas Babin, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Esther Schindler, Rick Powell, Chris Isak, Bob Violino
CBS News
Greenwood, 1921: One of the worst race massacres in American history
7 min · · In 1921, a thriving black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, burned, leaving hundreds dead. · Shared by 64, including Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦, Mkay, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Rick Powell, LoriBeth, Michael Hyatt
filmsforaction.org
The White Man in That Photo
· Sometimes photographs deceive. Take this one, for example. It represents John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s rebellious gesture the day they won medals for the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics... · Shared by 88, including Kate Nasser, Noely ⚡️🏐, Jennifer Ouellette, Felix M, Peter McCormack🏴☠️, Caroline Jarrett, Rick Powell, Mark Suster
nature
Galileo’s story is always relevant
4 min · · With science denialism stronger than ever, who better to revisit? By Alison Abbott · Shared by 93, including Rick Powell, Christian Surchi, Marius Bleuer
Aeon+Psyche
May we all be so brave as 19th-century female husbands
12+ min · · Far from being a recent or 21st-century phenomenon, people have chosen, courageously, to trans gender throughout history · Shared by 104, including @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Chris Isak, Rick Powell, Anita Leirfall, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire
Boston Review
An End to Totalitarianism
12+ min · · Fixating on whether Trump’s response to COVID-19 is totalitarian makes it difficult to have a nuanced discussion about the role government should play in times of crisis. · Shared by 10, including Jason Stanley, Rick Powell
newdiscourses.com
The Disneyfication of Critique
19+ min · · Let’s begin with the image of Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon and Judith Butler as Disney princesses. · Shared by 7, including Rick Powell
Chicago magazine
They Were Warriors
20+ min · · Thirty years ago this month, activists — many fighting for their lives — took to downtown in one of the biggest AIDS demonstrations in history. Here’s how that pivotal protest played out, in the words… · Shared by 7, including Rick Powell
Boston Review
The Hidden Stakes of the 1619 Controversy
16+ min · · Seeking to discredit those who wish to explain the persistence of racism, critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project insist the facts don’t support its proslavery reading of the American Revolution.… · Shared by 37, including Mathew Ingram, Robin Sloan, Rick Powell, Jason Stanley, Ida Bae Wells
Live Science
'Ghost' population of humans discovered in ancient Africa
4 min · · This is the first time researchers have done an in-depth analysis of ancient DNA from western Central Africa. · Shared by 8, including Rick Powell
Engadget
Qualcomm's new mobile chipsets pack more features for the non-5G crowd
2 min · · In other words, they're meant for most of the world. · Shared by 38, including Rick Powell, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
nature
The huge scientific effort to study Notre-Dame’s ashes
6 min · · Last year’s fire at Paris’s beloved cathedral shocked the world. Now, researchers are making use of the unprecedented opportunity to study its innards. · Shared by 36, including Rick Powell, Roger Highfield
thenational.ae
Flying blind: US foreign policy's lack of expertise
9 min · · American spy technologies gather intelligence in vast quantities, yet US foreign policy is rife with unqualified pseudo-experts. To know or not to know? This is the great conundrum of empire. · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
Aeon+Psyche
Muslims lived in America before Protestantism even existed
16+ min · · Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten? · Shared by 34, including Rick Powell, anildash.com, Liv 😷
The Atlantic
The 2020 Election Will Break History
4 min · · This year, Americans will almost certainly elect the oldest president, the youngest president, or the only president to ever win reelection following impeachment. · Shared by 7, including Rick Powell