#Selma

Tia Mitchell

TIAreports

As John Lewis's hometown paper, the @ajc covered his career extensively. Here is a #thread of articles published thus far as we mourn his passing.More is to come. All of

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

So much of history has been whitewashed for the sake of making it palatable for white consumption that we are starting to perpetuate things that are not only misconceptions, but

omid safi

ostadjaan

One of the great ancestors, the beautiful ones who taught “good trouble” has returned Home. RIP #RestinpowerJohnLewis #JohnLewis @repjohnlewis. A short thread on this beautiful warrior for love and

Chris England

RepEngland70

Congressman John Lewis is a true American hero. I had an opportunity as a kid to meet him. It is a story that I carry with me that changed my

Utah State University

USUAggies

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Below are a few ways you can celebrate and honor Dr. King's legacy in a meaningful way. 1. Dive deeper into his speeches.

Erica Buddington ✨

ericabuddington

Edmund Pettus served in the c*nfederate army and as a Grand Dr*gon of the white sup*emacist group that-shall-not-be-named. The Edmund Pettus Bridge, that John Lewis and many other Civil Rights

Chantelle Marcelle

ccmarce_writes

We're about halfway through Black History Month, so I'd like to celebrate by sharing 10 individuals you might not know about - but who achieved great things.Here we go Selma

Connor Sheets

ConnorASheets

Poll inspector Clementene Mosley says that w/ ~500 votes cast by noon, turnout is higher than usual at the Alabama National Guard armory here in Marion, AL, a town of

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

This a useful reminder that in 1994, the year of the great GOP ascendancy of Newt Gingrich, several states across the South instituted official Confederate History Month.https://twitter.com/ajc/status/1357509430947020800 Six years later,

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

A thread about the four times I met John Lewis:First of all, I stan John Lewis and Muhammad Ali probably more than any men who ever lived. Seriously, I could

Dr. Frederick V. Engram Jr.

VanCarlito2003

Amelia Boynton Robinson helped to organize the 1965 Selma march. She also became the first Black woman to run for Congress in Alabama! Although her candidacy was unsuccessful it helped

Latif Nasser

latifnasser

But … that had to be a coincidence, right? How could these two maps 100 million years apart be so eerily similar?! To start, let’s go back to the Cretaceous.

Dr. Peniel E. Joseph

PenielJoseph

America’s Third Reconstruction also parallels and echoes the Second. We usually consider the years between 1954 and 1968 as the Civil Rights Movement’s (CRM) Heroic Period. Or at least I

Sierra Gray

sierragrayy

Today is my granddaddy’s (Fred D. Gray) 90th birthday. He was Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King’s attorney. Retweet to tell @JoeBiden he deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom because

Latif Nasser

latifnasser

A Democratic blue swoosh running through the heart of the South. As if a painter just swiped a blue brush down the edge of Arkansas and Louisiana, and then swooped up

Rasool Berry

rasoolberry

The O.G. by @ckpalive h/t @praymarchactCharles Octavius Boothe, despite his anonymity to many in the present, carved out an exemplary legacy of theological and social influence.Boothe is an OG model

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