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IT’S COMING!!!! 😮😮😮 We are nearly a MONTH away from the publication of my new book IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY on @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social! I’ve never been prouder of a book I wrote.
Mary Hicks
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Author: Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery uncpress.org/book/9781469671468/cap…
![After they wrapped up their research, the authors sat down with Trump to check their facts. He drifted on to why his "love affair" with Venezuela went back to his years of owning the Miss Universe pageant, which featured many beautiful Venezuelans. What he really wanted to relate was a conversation he had had with a historian whose verdict was that Trump was "without question, the most powerful man the planet [had] ever known - by a long way." The historian had sent Trump a two-page memo from which he read. "If President Trump is the American Eagle, then William the Conqueror was merely a sparrow." Curious about the identity of the historian, Swan tracked down a golf caddie in Florida, who confessed a passion for history.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oo3kppddak7qrhuyzgvozldb/bafkreibchgnag7b7tavmaa237lgtstno4hjjlnvw3kyh6lh6eewvnxbm3m)
![In December, the Court allowed a mid-decade redistricting plan in Texas that was designed to give Republicans five more seats on Trump’s orders to go into effect despite a lower court, with the majority opinion written by a Trump appointee, finding that there was overwhelming evidence of the use of race to draw district lines and disempower people based on the color of their skin. In Callais, by contrast, the court held that race could not be a factor in drawing district lines because it violated the 14th and 15th Amendments. But they allowed Republicans in Texas to do just that just months ago.
An exasperated Sonia Sotomayor summed up the double standard during oral arguments in October. “What you’re saying to us [is]…‘You can use [race] to help yourself achieve goals that reduce particular groups’ electoral participation, but you can’t use it to remedy that situation,’” she said.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wlamchyb2ae65fgx75sfaqsq/bafkreianmb65djhi3fqhe6sdri6z2ic4snapdfkwlu2ndyc6523hprttte)
