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Alexander Skarsgård With Abs So Rigid You Could Grate Cheddar On Them
CELEBRITIES

Alexander Skarsgård With Abs So Rigid You Could Grate Cheddar On Them

While he had been in multiple movies including Zoolander (2001) and HBO’s Generation Kill (2008), it wasn’t until his breakout role as Viking vampire Eric Northman on True Blood that Alexander Skarsgård finally dropped his pants. In a show filled with hot guys and saturated with male nudity, Alexander shows off his amazing, fit body, and exposes gorgeous glutes so tight you could bounce Thor’s hammer off of them. Skarsgård once told GQ: “Nudity is great. If it makes sense in the script, I really don’t care.” That’s the spirit! Alexander’s nudity resume is a mile long! You can see Alex show some skin in War on Everyone (2016), The Legend of Tarzan (2016), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015), and at the 2016 MTV Movie Awards! We get a great look at Alexander’s chiseled chest and tight tush i...
The Need For Reparations Today – What Alexander Hamilton’s Deep Connections To Slavery Reveal
CULTURE

The Need For Reparations Today – What Alexander Hamilton’s Deep Connections To Slavery Reveal

Alexander Hamilton has received a resurgence of interest in recent years on the back of the smash Broadway musical bearing his name. But alongside tales of his role in the Revolutionary War and in forging the early United States, the spotlight has also fallen on a less savory aspect of his life: his apparent complicity in the institution of slavery. Despite being a founding member of the New York Manumission Society, which sought gradual emancipation of New York’s enslaved population, Hamilton benefited from slavery – both personally and by association. As a historian of early America and Northern slavery, I study how Colonial-era figures like Hamilton fit into America’s long history of enslavement, and how slavery fueled networks of power that have lasted through the ages. A life entwin...