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Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜

The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.

Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

Increase the minimum wage, revise fair housing practices, get a handle on private equity firms, tax the ultra-wealthy, continue to focus on the social media conglomerates. Is that too much for 30 days?

He released the JFK files under the guise of transparency, but he refused to release the Epstein files.

Hi to all of my Fb friends who've joined me here (or whom I've joined here). As with Fb, I don't know how much I'll post, but I love hearing from you!! Also, is there a birthday setting on this thing?