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Apparently there's going to be a new Three Musketeers movie with a Black D'Artagnan, and the usual suspects are doing the usual howling about wokeness and ahistoricity and so on. So here's your regular reminder the The Three Musketeers was written by a Black man. Dumas' father was the son of an enslaved African woman and a French Marquis (not a pretty story there), and he rose to become a hero of the French Revolutionary Wars and a General-in-Chief in the French army.

1964. West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Reverend Joe Carter stands guard on his front porch, expecting a visit from Ku Klux Klan after he dared to register to vote.

#history #photography #racism #hategroups #blackhistorymonth #BlackHistory

It was not over.

Infection prevalence went from 8% of the population at the end of February 2022 to 85% of the population by the end of the year.
Many are on their second, third, or fourth infections.

⚡️Ukrenergo: No power deficit in Ukraine.

For the past two weeks, there has been no power deficit in Ukraine’s energy system, according to the country’s state-owned power grid operator Ukrenergo.