Today marks 58 years since the Orangeburg Massacre--one of the deadliest incidents of the Civil Rights Movement Students had been protesting the continued segregation of All Star Bowling Lane when state police opened fire Today the bowling alley is being brought back to life

It’s Déjà Vu All over Again With everything going on in Minneapolis and around the country, it is stunning to note the similarities to the Orangeburg Massacre, which took place February 8, 1968.

#OtD 8 Feb 1968 the Orangeburg massacre took place in South Carolina when police opened fire on Black SC State students, killing three and wounding 27 after Black student-led protests at a segregated bowling alley shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

(gift substack) Jeffrey Epstein didn't want prostitutes. He wanted scared, vulnerable girls and young women he could control. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

Y'all, @sandydarity.bsky.social is on #bluesky! Dr. Sandy Darity is one the top experts on the racial wealth gap for Black Americans. Alongside Dr. Kristen Mullen, they find that giving every Black American a direct payment of $267,000 would help close the racial wealth gap. #blacksky

Dr. Patricia Bath & Marian Croak were the first two Black women inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2022. Bath saved the sight of millions with her Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment. Croak did pioneering work in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology. #WomenInSTEM #BHM

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963. The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

Now maybe the city and everyone involved can rethink putting the Rocky statue at the top of the PMA steps. Philly should not be elevating the statue of white man who supports an administration that tore down exhibits about the history of slavery in this city. www.inquirer.com/arts/philade...

Come with me to Congress ✈️

Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...

wapo.st/4q5tv2n - better late than never “The Navy stands on the shoulders of the geniuses that have been advancing our technology,” said retired U.S. Navy Adm. Philip S. Davidson.

This is the Black History so many don't want in history books. It's a gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/s...

The journalism community needs to come together and stand with these journalists! Release them now!

ICYMI: I'll be filling-in to host for my good friend @donlemonofficial.bsky.social for his show on YouTube in a just few minutes so join us there! www.youtube.com/@TheDonLemon...

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

(1,5) In April 2018, only months after Jaime was murdered, I was at a public rally outside the NRA Convention in Dallas with @alyssamilano.bsky.social, @benjackson.bsky.social, and others. We were confronted by men carrying AR 15's in public at a protest. I write about it all in my book

goddamn, @adamserwer.bsky.social with an incredible dispatch from minneapolis. these people are so brave www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“The French government announced that it will stop using American video conferencing platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom, and replace them with Visio, a French platform.”

Earlier today, @katiephang.bsky.social was on the ground in Minneapolis reporting on the aftermath of the murder of Alex Pretti. This is what she saw: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/on-the-ground-in-minnesota-with-katie

This is a really incredible piece. Share it widely 🎁https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/?gift=C-rzmQ8PsUHt15odxTKJDn7xrpPNxSpotkNz_P27oI0

A remarkable essay on the 2025 firing of Carla Hayden by Jack Hill. It 'reveals an ongoing rift in American life — about race, about gender, about the people we choose to trust with our national history and memory.' and: 'Whom do we trust to tell the American story? share.inquirer.com/zhAe50

ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.

JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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"As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME—indicating a dramatic surge in the death toll." time.com/7357635/more...

WELKER: Look at these images. A protester on the ground being pepper sprayed. A 5-year-old being detained. A citizen being pulled out of his home half naked, later released upon determination he was wrongly detained. Are federal agents acting humanely? BLANCHE: Yes. Our agents are acting humanely

I cannot imagine the devastation this family is experiencing today. This statement is powerful and must be read.

Remembering Paul Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976), Singer, actor, athlete, activist

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawing strict segregation in schools was a year before the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which was what allowed my father to come to the US in 1968. We benefited from the work of people we didn’t even know were helping us

Russian authorities have detained an Indigenous climate advocate, accusing her of participating in a terrorist organization in what international observers are calling “retribution” for her UN advocacy on behalf of Indigenous peoples.

Barack Obama is not your mule or your personal Bagger Vance. In the nicest possible way, go fuck yourself.

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Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

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Georgetown University is moving Let Freedom Ring, an annual concert in Washington, D.C., celebrating the life of Martin Luther King Jr., away from the John F. Kennedy Center www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Congratulations to Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/ajco...

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Reposting: The history people are trying to keep out of schools is being replayed in the streets daily. As Faulkner said, 'The past is never dead. It's not even past.' share.inquirer.com/eThmcv

"Greenland and Venezuela, after all, share at least one troubling commonality: They possess stores of natural riches that the oligarchs around Trump want to access and profit from." @vermontgmg.bsky.social @wired.com www.wired.com/story/3-keys...

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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.