Harmful people are not redeemed in death

Gonna have to block because no one needs a reminder that their seasonal depression is approaching.

If you remember Full House, you know who this is. The other option was a wrestler. I am not a wrestling fan.

The Aches of Black Women in Leadership open.substack.com/pub/question...

Black women in higher education, consider supporting this doctoral student with her dissertation research. #academicsky #edusky

Happy Juneteenth, beautiful people! Love y’all!

June 2023

I let go of my fears and embrace love and prosperity.

Not wearing a seat belt or bicycle helmet.

They are taking public comment on the covid vaccine for just 2 days, after recent announcement that it will be restricted to individuals 65+ or at high risk of complications. Please take a moment to submit a comment. It only takes 2 minutes. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Sample text Make COVID vaccines available for everyone 6+ months of age to protect the community and reduce new variants. COVID can cause Long COVID, loss IQ, heart attack, stroke, diabetes, etc and disability. Children are susceptible and should be vaccinated. buff.ly/RwAQeCJ #medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

Yall gone make me lose my mind up in here, up in here.

Bicentennial of the U.S. and the election of this guy. Rest in power, sir. #blackskyover40

Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

I need all my Black people to start capitalizing that B when you referring to us

I am aligned with the earth below me and the sky above me.

It's Taurus season, my fellow bulls. May the new moon mark a planning time with intentionality and manifestation. #blacksky #blackskyover40 youtube.com/post/Ugkx5mY...

“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco

Head Start, an early childhood education program for low income families, is on the chopping block. Growing up, my own mom was an aide with the program; it’s helped countless young mothers, including the one who tells her story here. www.kqed.org/news/1203596...

Amid recent political tensions and increased border control, international visitors are turning away from the U.S. as a travel destination.

Black excellence on display! He broke racist Strom Thurmond's record. A BLACK MAN broke the record of a man who fought against civil rights in order to fight for DEMOCRACY! We have always been the patriots the other side thinks they are. Thank you Senator Cory Booker! Thank you God & ancestors ❤️❤️❤️

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

Thank you, @booker.senate.gov!

Reminder: People of color are more likely to wear a mask to protect their health and their communities. People of color are also more likely to be profiled by the police. No organization who is serious about racial justice should support mask bans or criminalization of masking.

It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.

Sesame Street is looking for writers. sesameworkshop.org/our-work/fel...

I can sing a 30 year old song word for word but can’t remember what I came into the living room for.

#InternationalWomensDay #BlakcSkyOver40 #BlackSky youtu.be/8Qimg_q7LbQ?...

"International Women’s Day, once a radical call for equality, has become a hollow spectacle – one where feminist organisations and politicians pick and choose which women deserve justice and which women can be sacrificed at the altar of Western interests." — #AJOpinion by Maryam Aldossari ⤵️

#tdih 1965 Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. While corporate media focused on the march, the violence against African Americans had a long history. So did the organizing by Black sharecroppers, teachers, students, & more. Read about the UNIA, DCVL, SNCC⬇️. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bl...

"...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it...is no struggle at all." ~Arundhati Roy

#tdih 1955 "I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat. . . Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on another, and I could not move. — Claudette Colvin, #TeachTruth ⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/cl...

#tdih 1870, Hiram Revels was sworn into office as senator from Mississippi, becoming the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate. Do you know how many African Americans have served in the Senate to date? #TeachReconstruction Read ⬇️ 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/hi...

Remembering John Lewis on his birthday (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) #GoodTrouble 💙🕊

Your intent does not negate the impact. Keep the apology, especially when you will not accept responsibility for your behavior.

#tdih 1965 El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) was assassinated. 💔 Year before he appealed to UN: "We believe that our problem is not a violation of civil rights but a violation of human rights." 📷 Malcolm X speaking in Selma at invite of SNCC 2/4/65 ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ma...

On this day in 1956, local officials issued arrest warrants for civil rights activists for leading an "illegal boycott" to protest racial segregation on city buses. 89 would later be indicted.

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

Friendly reminder to get your free Covid tests before they throw them away. Covidtests.gov wapo.st/42VLGQh

#tdih 1942, Huey P. Newton, co-founder of Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was born in Monroe, La. His family moved to Oakland as part of the Great Migration, after his father was almost lynched. Read more ⬇️ and find lessons on BPP in 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/hu...

On this day in 1945, an all-white, all-male grand jury in Alabama failed to indict any of the white men accused of raping Mrs. Recy Taylor, a Black woman. Despite a confession, the men were never prosecuted.

It's Poppy the Cat's gotcha day. We have been roommates since 2012. #catsofbluesky

"We have been deprived of enjoying the profits of our labor. . . and now are, taxed. . . " #tdih 1780. Paul Cuffee and other free African Americans petitioned Mass. gov't to either give African and Native Americans the right to vote or to stop taxing them. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/pa...

On this day in 1968, white state troopers fired into a mostly African American crowd on the campus of South Carolina State College, a historically Black college in Orangeburg, and killed three young Black men.

My sentiments exactly!

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵