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the ability to practice religion in their own ways were markers of freedom. By the 1840s, literacy rates among free African Americans were climbing, and Staines linked her newly found literacy to her religious practice, telling another interviewer that the ability to read the Bible and participate in religious events made her “wise unto salvation.” She questioned George Washington’s religious practice, prompting her interviewer to write, “She never heard Washington pray, and does not believe that he was accustomed to.”
Never Caught
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
By the end of 2021, more than 150 million people were using Minecraft each month-more than six times as many as in 2014, when Microsoft bought the platform. Despite this, Minecraft was far from the size of the new market leader, Roblox, which had grown from fewer than 5 million to 225 million monthly users over that same period.
According to Roblox Corporation, 75% of children ages 9 to 12 in the United States regularly used the platform in Q2 2020. Combined, the two titles amassed more than 6 billion hours of monthly usage each, which spanned more than 100 million different ingame worlds and had been designed by over 15 million users.
The Metaverse
Matthew Ball
@ImBuddhish: School run, 8 yr old son happily pipes up from back
"Today I am tresbian."
A very unexpected modern parenting moment looms
"What does that mean to you?"
"It means I'm happy"
"Ah that's nice. So what exactly were you learning?"
"French, I am tresbian."
"Ok, so the 's' is silent."
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