Mound Bayou, a self-sufficient Black town in Mississippi founded by formerly enslaved people that thrived for decades. Mamie Till was famously protected there as she sought justice for her son. Today, White South Africans are displacing those descendants www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2...

It's in my name. 86 means kick out and prevent from returning, you cowardly wankers.

Yo, the Great Recession really screwed us millennials. The elder millennials were in their mid twenties and the younger millennials were coming of age. This is around the time people start thinking of having families. Black people lost more wealth than any other time in American history

Over 50% of American adults can't read above a 6th grade reading level, and this is an absolutely catastrophic civil rights crisis with implications for every facet of individual and collective life, including processing political statements by politicians, doctors, and so on

thinking about the gould quote again

Educational as usual. Thank you @dytsras.bsky.social.

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

@msrachelforlittles.bsky.social the original poster has a point. 🙃

If a political party can name all the black women it has elected or actively promoted on both hands it probably shouldn't act as smug as it does. On the left or right , we are being ignored and failed

Just when I think I have a handle on how bad it is, I don't.

I love purple asparagus. That's a tablespoon, not a teaspoon. I like the green ones too, but not raw.

Born in fire, battered by the wreckage of colliding worlds, covered for eons in magma, wracked by volcanoes, frozen and thawed again and again, and after everything went just wrong and right enough, here it is: our home. The rarest gift in the known universe. Happy Earth Day.

Keep your heads up @splcunion.bsky.social. Thank you for your important work.

At least 17 people have already died in ICE custody this year—outpacing every other past Administration. ICE has a shameful & egregious record of violating people's rights, traumatizing children, & killing our neighbors.

yes he would manage to shittalk both the foundation of multiracial democracy in the United States and the first Black woman Supreme Court Justice in the same post wouldn't he

Boom.

This is your reminder that it's been ten months since the assassination of Melissa Hortman, her husband and her dog, and there hasn't been even a hint of justice for her family, friends or colleagues.

That tracks.

Not a dime of taxpayer money or govt contracts should go to Palantir.

anyway I think the lesson everyone should be learning here is that DEI was probably really fucking good for the armed forces because it meant you were hearing opinions like "hey so supply chains matter" and "yo maybe the troops should eat a food"

i swear i've seen this before. where have i seen a white, male politician's documented racism, hostility, and disregard of communities of colour be blithely excused, until that antipathy is directed at the white liberals who "got him where is?"

These murals are a political project rooted in eugenics, using a dead women's body to advance gutter racism under the guise of "memory."

This is lunacy.

While Jackie Robinson isn't here to be acknowledged on the day named after him, do you know who is? Mrs. Rachel Robinson herself. Who will be turning 104 in July. And she still serves on the board of the Jackie Robinson Foundation

Physician May Chinn was born 130 years ago today. In 1926 she was the 1st Black woman to graduate from Bellevue, but then spent 14 years looking for a hospital that would allow her full practicing privileges on account of her race, practicing privately until she found a cancer research position. ⚕️

Remember Planthony? Well, we could use him again so here he is bringing us much needed levity in this growing dire times. And once again, if you’re in Seattle please visit his store

Here's preview of the end of the current US administration

That tracks.

Another classic Newsom move, cutting mobile crisis response teams to make up budget shortfalls. While running these through cop shops isn't ideal, they ARE designed to take crisis response out of police hands and into people actually trained in helpful responses. Crisis teams save lives.

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

You mean it's not true?????

It's April 9th, so you know what that means? That's right....you guessed it. It's Paul Robeson Day. If ever there was any person whose image & legacy deserves an immediate resurrection, it's Robeson. Born 128 years ago today, his name should be as (or more) recognizable as 'Elvis.'

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

Different location-not in the jungle of Vietnam-still potentially another forever war. I warned young men about voting for the hate man-a war is started and they may be drafted. Many ignored the warning. I hope that we don't replace agent orange health damage with burning oil field lung damage.

Do you know how EXTREMELY FUCKED UP SHIT HAS TO BE for me to be reposting Tucker Carlson positively???

Time to see how corrupt Congress is, I guess. Anyone who does not come forward to get that monster out of office is a monster as well.

In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.

The only way to end the sexual abuse of children who are detained and incarcerated is to stop detaining and incarcerating children. There are no "reforms" that end sexual abuse inside.

Why did this make me laugh out loud?

Now tell me race wasn't a factor.

MLK day is for the "safe" MLK. I encourage you to read this thread.

If you ever wondered how the systematic purge of Black elected officials and those in a position of power happened at the end of Reconstruction, you're witnessing it

How ICE Is Assisting TSA https://theonion.com/how-ice-is-assisting-tsa/

On the left -- books worth reading. On the right -- what the actual fuck.

They fired her for doing her job. Donate if you can.

maternal mortality rates? increasing in states that ban abortion infant mortality rates? increasing in states that ban abortion pre-term birth rates? increasing in states that ban abortion food aid rates? increasing in states that ban abortion Dobbs did this ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

A drunk former fox news host refused to promote two Black and two female officers because a convicted felon and 5x draft dodger does not want to stand next to a Black woman at military events. Think about that for a second.