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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

‘A narrative of triumph’: a powerful 17-acre site in Alabama remembers enslavement – Stigmatis

‘We’ve avoided confronting the weight of our history in ways that have undermined our ability to achieve the sort of progress and justice that many of us want’ … an image of the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park. Photograph: Equal Justice Initiative

The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park is an expansive new experience that aims to pay an honest tribute to courage and resilience as an American equivalent to a Holocaust memorial…The morning after our whipping, we all had to go to work, as if nothing had happened. I was so sore I could hardly do anything,” recalled James Matthews, who, like many enslaved people after a severe whipping, ran away into the woods. “I have known a great many who never came back; they were whipped so bad they never got well, but died in the woods, and their bodies have been found by people hunting. White men come in sometimes with collars and chains and bells, which they had taken from dead slaves. They just take off their irons and then leave them, and think no more about them…”

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La industria tecnológica del mundo depende prácticamente de una sola carretera: la que conduce a la mina de Spruce Prine

Alejandro Alcolea Uno de los materiales clave de nuestro planeta, aunque no lo parezca, es la arena. Está compuesta por multitud de minerales y …

La industria tecnológica del mundo depende prácticamente de una sola carretera: la que conduce a la mina de Spruce Prine