#Selma

People: “Believe Black women”Coretta Scott King: “My husband was never unfaithful. My husband did not cheat. The FBI is out to assassinate his character & destroy his image.“FBI: *Organizes smear
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Oh! Also. If you’re wondering who i voted for, you’re not wondering about the right things.I kind of quiet about politics online because I’m very passionate about many things, always
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Wages for housework: my grandmother did all of the typing for decades and this is how people talk about her “James would have documents typed, annotate them, and then dispatch
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While many Alabamians honored the life and legacy of John Lewis today, state Rep. Will Dismukes celebrated the founder of the KKK and boasted about it in his Facebook page.
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(deep breathe)In general, our politics should be *much* more confrontational. I shouldn’t even have to say that, since *democratic politics* should necessarily be understood to involve *struggle,* but here we
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On March 8, 2015, one day after the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” John Lewis asked me to take his picture at the foot of The Edmund Pettus Bridge in
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THREADLook, the victories of Sens.-elect Warnock and Ossoff didn't happen overnight. It took YEARS of canvassing, registering voters, getting them to the polls, and educating voters about ballot issues and
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So interesting to read about the origin of the phrase "white skin privilege" and note the enormous distance between what Theodore Allen meant & what people using "white privilege" mean
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John Lewis RIP John Lewis inside the door of a restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee during a sit-in protest in 1960. Photo by .Jack Corn. #OTD #JohnLewisRIP John Lewis and James
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When MacArthur Parker calls Troy, the script has him offering Troy a part on a German version of “Laverne & Shirley” playing “Der Lennysquiggen” & Troy replying that he will
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"And as the noted historian, C. Vann Woodward, in his book, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, clearly points out, the segregation of the races was really a political stratagem
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Today is a day for reflecting on, celebrating, and honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Impact.This is a thread suggesting ways to make today a day on, not a day
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Yesterday @TiaCArango shed soooooo much light on why I don’t know how to swim...@TiaCArango reminded me that pools used to be segregated. That’s why my mother (born in 1954) never
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If the rich vote in favour of lower taxes that is a vote based on material considerations I guess but I feel something is wrong if that is positively contrasted
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My grandfather passed away in spring on the day after my birthday. We couldn't see him because of the coronavirus.I'm finding solace in looking at his old work during his
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The Dutch artist Cornelia Van der Hart (1851-1940) was born in Sumatra and educated at the Academy of Arts in The Hague, where she lived and worked. A versatile artist,
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