A letter asking for the DC public library to be named after MLK “And yet you persist with those monuments to all the Fascists, which made our country sick, racist, violence torn place that it is”
Cure for baldness suggested by a Washington DC community newsletter cca 1939 that involves “invigorating electrical treatment followed by warm tar applications.”
Bluesky history enjoyers: who would you say are the most prominent examples of historians who were also major historical actors? The ones that jump out at me are Walter Rodney, Adolphe Theirs, and W.E.B Du Bois
“The beginning of the crucial battle against the amassed administration,” Politika in 1988 at the hight of Milosevic’s purge of untrustworthy civil servants
One of Yugoslavia’s obsessions was the possibility of a “new Yalta,” i.e., the superpowers’ agreement at the expense of small nations. Here we are, 34 years after Yugoslavia’s dissolution:
In the late 1980s Serbian communists pioneered anti-DEI policies and the purge of the Federal administration from “disloyal” cadres (the so-called “anti-bureaucratic revolution”)
