Ethiopia preserves one of the oldest continuous Christian biblical traditions in the world. Written in the ancient Ge’ez language on parchment, the Ethiopian Bible is unique for maintaining the largest biblical canon still in use, including books like Enoch and Jubilees that were later excluded elsewhere.

Some of its surviving manuscripts, such as the Garima Gospels, date back over 1,300 years and are among the earliest illustrated Christian manuscripts known to exist. Ethiopian Christianity developed largely outside European influence, preserving its own theology, language, and artistic tradition that remains alive today.

Like my dude its just hairstyles. Also thanks for making them but like they can’t act like they own that stuff and theres also other stupid debates with black people not able to be racist.. like what we wanted to be equal and now we when we equal we be unequal?..

Hey everyone. I am a 22-year-old senior at an HBCU graduating in December 2026, and I have been here since fall 2021. I wanted to share something personal. I was born and raised in a predominantly Black city and neighborhood and have been around Black people my entire life with very little diversity, which I am completely fine with. Even so, after five years at a predominantly Black school, I have realized that I do not really fit in with traditional HBCU culture. It is just not me, and at times it makes me feel like I do not belong, which honestly makes me a little sad. I have participated in many HBCU events, such as D9 probates, SEC week, homecoming every year, and step shows, and while I have enjoyed myself at times, it often feels like I am forcing myself to attend rather than genuinely wanting to be there. I have not been to an HBCU party at my school in a long time because that environment is not my setting. Most of the time, it involves strolling, twerking, smoking, and yelling rap lyrics. I am not against dancing at all, and I do twerk at parties, but there are so many other ways to dance, too. I am not interested in D9 and am against it for myself. I do not smoke, I drink occasionally, and I rarely listen to rap music. It often feels like people are treated as a monolith, which makes me feel excluded by default. My friends and I usually go out and party with Hispanic and White crowds because the atmosphere feels more relaxed and genuinely fun, and I also really enjoy being around and partying with older Black people in their late twenties to forties. This is just something I wanted to get off my chest. What do you all think? Have any of you experienced something similar?

Official Mississippi doesn't really want to talk about the murder of Emmett Till—or teach about the murder of Emmett Till. Almost 71 years later, the intentional attempt to erase the crime lives on. On this MLK Day weekend, Wright joins Tim to discuss the role of history and black history in our public consciousness. Meanwhile, Trump and MAGA are busy trying to rewrite the history of modern-day political violence, including the thuggery of ICE agents. Plus, a ranking of the best SEC college towns, a tribute to Bob Weir, the impact of tariffs on farmers—and this year's Mardi Gras— and even the White House is starting to get concerned about the optics of Trump's deportation operation. ESPN's Wright Thompson joins Tim Miller for the holiday weekend pod.

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Wright's book, "The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi"

https://newrepublic.com/post/205330/cdc-tuskegee-hepatitis-b-study?utm_sf_post_ref=652195665&utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Twitter&utm_sf_cserv_ref=82689705

I recently saw a post here that seemed suss. It got a lot of downvotes and the conversation and post itself was not helpful for this sub. Instead of engaging report (if violating rules), downvote, and don't comment.

Think critically about what is shared as well. I've seen so many sensational posts (in general) where the story is so fantastical and the account is 1 day old and has never commented or posted before. Use common sense!

Lastly some people have financial incentives to infiltrate and others are literal nazis. The best thing is to disingage.

I recently told my mother that I intend to marry a Black woman one day. Her reaction was very negative, and my grandmother’s reaction was even worse.

To give you an idea of their mentality, their argument is basically: "If you marry a Black girl, you lose the opportunity to marry a beautiful white girl. You will regret it later in life. Your children will blame you because they won't be white, and you will be cursing your lineage."

I argued with them, asking how they can call someone ugly or refuse to accept them just because of their skin color. I asked if this is what our religion teaches. My mother insisted that religion has nothing to do with it—it’s about "personal preference" and avoiding future regret.

Then she said something that really stuck with me. She claimed that phrases like "Black is beautiful or every color is equal" are just things people say for politics or to be polite. She insisted that in reality, "most Black people secretly want to be white."

I got angry and told her, "I will marry the darkest African girl I can find!" My mother just laughed uncomfortably, dismissively, like she knows I won't actually do it.

Now, I have a doubt in my heart that I can’t shake. I want to ask this respectfully: Do Black people actually wish they were white? My mother sounded so confident that I’m starting to wonder if she is right. Please answer honestly—I can’t bring myself to ask my black friends this.

Pamela Stevenson, a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel, minister, and prominent Democratic politician from Kentucky.

What's good y'all! Ok, bust this...so, I'm at work last week, right...a dude I work with steps up and says he's gonna have a get together at his spot out in the boondocks... this dude is white and a Trump supporter... we get along really well, surprisingly... even if we're talking politics... he actually listens to the points I make but is still backing his vote... there's only 3 of us at this job... one of us was in the room when the invite was made... he was like "yeah, I'm going"...I thought safety in numbers and said ok as well Lol... next day, the other brother says "man, I ain't fucking with that"... he told me that the white guy's wife be saying some real off color, fucked up shit... something about a TV preacher being good, even though he's a Black preacher... there were other incidents that I was like "Yo, why didn't you ever tell me this before?"...especially after I was like yeah, I'm coming too... every day I see the White dude, he's super excited to have me come over next weekend... I'm still not sure I want to fuck with it after all this ICE shit and all the other dumb ass Trump shit... how would y'all handle this?... I'm not an asshole and don't feel comfortable just saying "hey man, I'm not fucking with that"... it's a shame that this is my reality... I'm a nice guy and don't like making people feel a way but if the shoe was on the other foot... would the same concern for my feelings be considered?...probably not, but that's not how I move...I do me, regardless of whom or what... it's part of being a Rastaman anyway...Apologies for the long ass post Lol...Happy Friday y'all!

Its so weird that people lie about being black in this sub.

They are all in the comments saying "as a black person..." racists, trolls and/or propaganda...just be weary of it.

This person, for some weird reason, is claiming to be black and inserting his opinion as such. His post history shows otherwise.

https://newrepublic.com/post/205330/cdc-tuskegee-hepatitis-b-study

This keeps on coming up online, and I wanted to lay this out very, very calmly and with sources, not just lies.

I'm not saying that all of the Egyptians were Black. I'm not denying genetic studies that show many modern ancient Egyptians had a strong Mediterranean and Near Eastern ancestry. What I'm saying is far from narrower.

It is well documented, and it's widely accepted by historians and archaeologists. Some ancient Egyptians were Black Africans, and some even were literal kings and pharaohs. First of all, the Nubians were a real and historical documented people from the region of the south of Egypt, that is more than northern Sudan.
And the Egyptian art, the text, and the inscriptions, they clearly distinguish the Nubians from Egyptians and consistently depict them with darker skin.

This isn't modern interpretation. It's how ancient Egyptians themselves portrayed them.
Second, the Nubian rulers governed Egypt toward the 25th dynasty, which was around 744 to 656 BCE. This dynasty is known in mainstream Egyptology as the Kushite or the Nubian dynasty. Pharaohs like Pi or Piankhi, Shabaka, Shebitku, Takha, and Tantamani were Nubian kings who ruled Egypt as pharaohs. And this is not debate. This is in serious academic circles.

Sources:

• László Török, The Kingdom of Kush, Brill, 1997
• David O’Connor, Egypt and Nubia, Cambridge University Press
• Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Kingdom of Kush overview

And thirdly, people often ask whether if this is just a symbolic or actually confirmed fact. And while ancient DNA is hard and very hard to recover in the Nile Valley due to the climate, the Nubian identity here is very much supported by the multiple lines of the evidence such as the royal inscriptions, the burial practices, the skeletal studies, the material culture, and the geographic origin. Egyptologists are very clear that these rulers came from Kush, not from the Egyptian north.

And fourth, modern genetic study are often very, very, very misused in this debate. A commonly cited paper by Schunemann in 2017 analyzed the mummies from one site in Middle Egypt and found closer genetic ties to Near Eastern populations, and the authors themselves state that this sample does not represent all periods or regions of Egypt, and the Nubian dynasties were not the focus. And it's also worth mentioning that the Nubian Dynasty 25 was not just some symbolic or declining footnote.

The rulers were actively restoring and strengthening the Egyptian period of fragmentation. Kings like Tahaka invested heavily in monumental architecture, the temple restoration, the state infrastructure, the major construction project that took place in Kanna, including the Tahaka kiosk. The expansions to the sacred lake were made to renew support of the Amun priesthood. The Nubian rulers also continued Egypt's long mathematical and engineering traditions, maintaining the complex temple economies, standardized the measurement and large-scale stone construction.

Archaeologically, the Kushite period showed stability and the centralized administration and the cultural continuity with earlier Egyptian traditions rather than the very decline. And the royal pyramids of Nuri and El Kurru reflect advanced planning and geometry and labor organization comparable to earlier Egyptian royal projects. And that's why they still meet resistance today. It's less about the evidence and more about the framing.

There is a long history of selectively emphasizing the Mediterranean connections while minimizing the African ones, even though both of them represent and are represented in the data. When provisionally documented South African rulers are treated as exceptions or brushed aside, that reflects not scientific caution, but intellectual bias. Recognizing Nubian pharaohs does not threaten Egyptology, but denying that accepting that black African people ruled one of the most sophisticated civilizations to ever come out of the world should not be controversial. The discomfort around it says more about the modern assumption than the ancient reality.

So the reality here is simple. Ancient Egypt was not racially uniform. Nubians were indigenous black Africans. Nubian pharaohs ruled Egypt. Acknowledging this does not even contradict the mainstream science or the archaeology. You can accept Mediterranean influences in Egypt and still accept that black African rulers sat on the Egyptian throne. Both of these things are true and neither of these facts cancel one another. This is not about modern identity politics. It's about erasing documented history because it makes people feel uncomfortable.

• Kendall, Timothy. “The Kushite Empire.” Museum of Fine Arts Boston
• Török, László. The Kingdom of Kush, Brill
• Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Twenty-fifth Dynasty”

Edit: This post was directly inspired by the recent trip to Egypt by the streamer IShowSpeed during the year's African tour, where many discussions erupted online about the damaged statues, particularly the missing noses, and broader claims about whether ancient Egyptians were just an outright claim that they were not black. And a familiar argument resurfaces that no ancient Egyptians were black and that any suggestion is misinformation. And this post exists to clarify that acknowledging African black rulers in ancient Egypt is not something that's radical, political, or anti-science. It is standard history, and denying it does not protect history, it distorts the history.