for brandon, forever ago

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Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I’ve heard educated white people say, ‘slavery was 400 years ago.’ No it very wasn’t. It was 140 years ago…that’s two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That’s how recently you could buy a guy.

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Sylvester Magee, the (probable) last American born into slavery died in 1971.

The last living child of former American slaves, Mississippi Winn, died in 2010.

Slavery in the territory that is now the United States lasted more than 330 years. We will be 330 years removed from slavery in the year 2195.

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think-progress:

LAST NIGHT: 100,000 Brazilians flood streets to protest World Cup spending and government corruption.

See more amazing photos here (AP)

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messrjamesprongspotter:

don’t trust people who don’t get harry potter references

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thelovenotebook:

EVERYTHING LOVE

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Live and Die- The Avett Brothers

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81 plays

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once again you get my hopes up and once again they get shattered

what else is new.

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fotojournalismus:

A summer day on a beach in Gaza

1. A Palestinian man plays with his son at the beach in the west of Gaza City, Gaza Strip on June 14, 2013. (Ali Ali/EPA)

2. Palestinian children spend time on a beach in the Deir al-Balah Palestinian refugee camp, situated along the Mediterranean coast in the central Gaza Strip, on June 14, 2013. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)

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timelightbox:

Photograph by Kerim Okten—EPA

June 11, 2013. A protestor hit by pressurized water sprayed from a riot police water cannon during clashes in Taksim Square in Istanbul.

From ceremonies marking the six-month anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre and continued unrest in Turkey to the recovery of a rare World War II German bomber from the sea and the newly renovated Nelson Mandela Center in South Africa, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

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When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.

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