Beyond moving: Jewish Holocaust victims' instruments being played by German musicians in Dresden.

Wondering why #Berlin's legendary #Litfaßsäulen (ad columns introduced by Ernst #Litfaß 1855) look as bleak these days as its surroundings? It's because the species is about to become extinct: some 2.5k of them are being dismantled & destroyed as we speak. Digital screens ahoi!

African moors, who conquered Spain and ruled it for 700 years, were responsible for bringing Europe out of the dark ages and into the Renaissance. While Christian Europe had a 99% illiteracy rate and with only 2 universities, the Moors had 7. They introduced education to Europe.

100 years ago today, during #ElectionDay in 1920, the single bloodiest day in modern America political history happened, The Ocoee Massacre. A black man attempted to vote & the Ku Klux Klan responded with rampage that led to the exile/death of every black person that lived there

23rd Dec 1867 — Sarah Breedlove known as Madam C.J Walker, was born. She was the first black woman to become a self-made millionaire. She developed a successful line of beauty & hair products for black women. “I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it!”

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook and Instagram are blocking President Trump from using their services indefinitely.

This release from the BBC #OralHistory Collection sheds new light on how the BBC shaped the understanding of war, and how war changed the BBC: buff.ly/2PpS6mx #worldwarII #WW2