LaTrica

“Zangi was now sixty-two and still in remarkably rude health.”
― Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

“What we do know for sure is that both African and Native American populations had one thing in common: resistance.”
― Michael Harriot, Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

“Minthe.
Her name is a weighted feeling in my chest.
I’ve been jealous before.
Not like this.
There is venom behind it.
I wonder how long they’ve known each other. How did they meet?
Do they go on dates?
Does she own a hair comb identical to the one he gave me?
I want to know, even though each answer would come with a sting.
I could tell him the truth.
Get her trouble.
Maybe she would even get fired.
…Would they break up?
I don’t like feeling this way.”
― Rachel Smythe

“The indigenous people were dying anyway. The natives had no natural immunity to European illnesses, so entire Caribbean populations died from diseases. Hispaniola’s native Taíno population went from half a million to two hundred in less than fifty years because they were literally allergic to white people. It took forty years for 90 percent of Cuba’s population to disappear. Puerto Rico took thirty years.7”
― Michael Harriot, Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America