Tired of discrimination by racists. Our ancestors started their own baseball league.

Friday the 13th ain't as spooky living under a fascist state regime. Everything scary already

Not to yuck anyone’s yum but there is an uptick of DV on Super Bowl Sundays. Just a reminder to keep your eyes peeled for those who may need help, or a reminder that there is help out there if you need it yourself.

From the perspective of a Black US citizen: * Black US citizens work to reduce racism and anti-immigrant sentiment 👍🏿 * Non-white immigrant comes to the US, and immediately starts trying to increase racism and anti-immigrant sentiment 🤷🏿‍♂️ * Non-white immigrant successfully gets themselves deported 🤡

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch CANE RIVER (1982) in our Celebrate Black History collection! ❤️ Written, produced, and directed by the late, trailblazing director Horace B. Jenkins and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew

From yesterday. Links in pinned skeet

They're gonna pray for Kendrick😆😆😆

Did you know that stopping infections today can prevent cancer tomorrow? 1 in 10 cancer cases are caused by infections. But many of these cancers are totally preventable through vaccines, antibiotics and early treatment. Watch the daily dose to learn more.

John Mercer Langston first Black man to become a lawyer when he passed the bar in Ohio in 1854. When he was elected to the post of Town Clerk for Brownhelm, Ohio, in 1855 Langston became one of the first African Americans ever elected to public office in 🇺🇸 #BlackHistoryMonth

In 1939 Miami Klan rode thru Overtown in a 50 car caravan dangling nooses, posted at least 25 crosses + set them ablaze. Then hung a life-size dummy in the community to discourage Blacks from voting. The result was the largest Black voter turnout in the history of the city. #BHM #VoteLocal✊🏽

Those who have tasted the terror and shock of war Will spend all their might to trouble it no more While those who have never tasted its terrible night Will crown themselves its lord and issue it a warm invite.

This has barely gotten any attention even though it should be one of the biggest stories in #Massachusetts. While Maura Healey was attorney general, the Attorney General's Office covered up evidence that hundreds of thousands of criminal convictions may have been tainted by criminal misconduct.

Angie Stone was one of THE FIRST FEMALE RAPPERS EVER. I was about to be so mad if they left her out of this tribute. bsky.app/profile/mark...

They brought out the neo soul avengers for this one! Lol

Give Marcus Miller his flowers while he's still with us.

Me as a dog

Everyone's favorite photo.... but with some context

"It was a homecoming. Stokely Carmichael, now Kwame Touré, the charismatic Black Power leader, returned from his exile in Guinea, and took a seat across from Ellis Haizlip, the equally charismatic, if not enigmatic, host and producer of Soul!" medium.com/p/2111b41a11e4

I welcome February. It will bring healing, restoration, love, remembrance, connection, fresh starts, family, togetherness, clarity, passion, empowerment, joy, faith, strength, protection, prosperity, good health, celebration, fortitude, peace, affirmation and direction. ❤️✨❤️✨❤️✨❤️✨❤️✨❤️✨❤️✨❤️✨❤️✨❤️✨

Each day I will honor a Black hero. 15 at the time, a now 19 y/o Aaren 'Aquamayne' Rudolph from Montgomery, AL, jumped out of a riverboat and swam across the water upon receiving the signal to help the lone security guard who was attacked by multiple white adult men. Get up there, young blood. 🫡

We are not.

RIP Grady Demond Wilson aka/Lamont Sanford on 'Sanford and Son' (1972-1977), at 79 years old... .

in the bringing up of Ida B Wells facing danger to her life for her journalism, I also cant help think of Alexander Manly who was run out of Wilmington in 1898. Black journalists have LONG risked their lives to bring the truth to the masses. Even when others are afraid

Some of you guys haven’t been white for very long. If “whiteness” can be “given”, it can be taken away

Couldn’t be all the raping, pillaging, murdering, poisoning, enslaving, beating, more killing, more pillaging, more enslaving, and using every tool in the white supremacy playbook for this nation’s entire history No, it’s voodoo and black magic I really hate y’all smh

We do not forgive, and we will not forget.

Okay so guys STOP IT. There has been SEVERAL CASES of Black American journalists being TARGETED in this country. The first one that comes to mind???? IDA B. WELLS BARNETT

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

Republicans planning to steal midterms. You need to re-register if: 1. You moved to a new state 2. You moved within your state & didn’t update your address 3. Name change 4. Your registration was canceled (some haven’t voted in years OR a routine purge) Go to vote.gov to get rules for YOUR state

We profiled the important work of Ms. Shirley during the pandemic. Please read:

Not the point, but there are some horrible people in the world. Death be calling the wrong ones home. RIP Ms. Shirley! My heart goes out to her family and folks like “Cigarette man” and the many many lives she touched! Dang man!❤️‍🩹😔

Please address my ginger representative before addressing me about what I should do politically. Thanks 😁

I think a lot about the real life "Lord of the Flies" where all the boys cooperate and build a little community. Westerners would have us believe it's "human nature" to tear each other apart...but that's a premise of Western society, not human nature at all. www.theguardian.com/books/2020/m...

well since @sunnmcheaux.bsky.social doesnt post on here like that, I figured I'd share his video here for him Because of a time like this

I wish folks would stop sharing that verbal clickbait of that lady saying Stevie Wonder can't sing.... and play some of Stevie's music... he doesn't deserve that trash take..... we need to show him love while he's still with us.

On the eve of Dr King's birthday, this message from brother Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael is necessary is today's world (fun fact: Stokely took "Kwame" from Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah. Also NYC mayor, Zohran Kwame Mamdani....same thing)

Thank you Paisley Park

Please remember: The #TikTok US deal has now closed and has officially changed hands. TikTok is no longer safe. (No, it wasn't that safe before.) The new owners have enacted these new policies. Make good choices. 👇🏾

"We don't have to let atrocities define America" but America was built on atrocities. America sustains itself through atrocities. And America is not alone in that. So perhaps, perhaps clinging to the myths and ignoring the realities isn't actually effective in the slightest

I understand the impulse to distance yourself from American history. I do. But the atrocities are the actual normal for many communities. And until we confront them as part of a baseline societal flaw and address why they keep happening, they will not stop. They will just continue to shift targets

If you need more examples look up "Pinkertons union busting". Not enough? Try "Race Riots". You can add in places like Chicago, Hempstead County, Elaine Arkansas, Louisiana...you get the idea. There's nothing more American than state sponsored violence against marginalized communities.