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It's time for Horror Noire Week Part Two. Horror Noire Week will take place June 19th to June 25th! Let's show our love for Black Horror. This event will be open to all gifmakers, and creations can be based on any tv show or film. If you are participating, please tag your edits with #hnweek26! Themes are under the cut:

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😡 How can we live in a world that kills children and leaves families helpless? We are powerless financially, physically, and emotionally and we cannot flee to the south in search of safety.

⏳ Every day without safety threatens our lives and Swar’s life.

🙏 We need you now… any donation, no matter how small, or sharing this update, could be the difference between life and death for us and my daughter.

⚡ We do not give up, but your support is our only hope.

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Please talk about DR Congo! Boycott tech companies and Rwanda, donate to fundraisers and grassroots organizations and protest in the streets! Please consider giving the price of a small coffee to Barnabé! The funds raised will help with his dialysis treatments and transplant. €4,161 out of €4,500 has been raised. There is €339 left to go! I have given €10, but you're more than welcome to contribute any amount!

His fundraiser is legitimate! It has been set up by Agissons Ensemble, a grassroots organization in Goma, DR Congo. They provide aid and support to displaced families on the ground. Check out their link.tree!

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So first, let's clear a common misconception: no, President Abraham Lincoln did not love Black people nor see them as human equals. At best he was centrist about it (though, even his implication that 'exceptional' Black men ought to vote got him assassinated).

"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do, it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union...I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free."

The "freeing of slaves" after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 was meant to kneecap the economic and military powers of the seceded South. Lettuce stop making a white savior figure out of Lincoln, or thinking that my people's shackles were unchained via anything other than desperate war strategy and extreme violence. Think on that, for a moment.

That being said!

But not everyone in Confederate territory would immediately be free. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863, it could not be implemented in places still under Confederate control. As a result, in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas, enslaved people would not be free until much later. Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as "Juneteenth," by the newly freed people in Texas.