TIL Dr. Henry Kissinger was the first honourary member of the Harlem Globetrotters en.wikipedia.org Submitted by Greene_Mr t3_11u13mv on March 17, 2023 at 7:28 PM in todayilearned 24 comments 56
TIL about the "Book of Negroes", an official record of 3,000 Black Loyalists, mostly former slaves, evacuated to Nova Scotia (and freedom) after the American Revolutionary War en.wikipedia.org Submitted by Greene_Mr t3_101qucu on January 2, 2023 at 11:09 PM in todayilearned 40 comments 237
TIL about William English Walling, wealthy grandson of the 1880 Democratic vice presidential candidate who became a trade union socialist and co-founded the NAACP with W.E.B. Du Bois en.wikipedia.org Submitted by Greene_Mr t3_10js75h on January 24, 2023 at 12:22 AM in todayilearned 7 comments 87