Thank goodness #BlackHistoryMonth has an extra day cuz @VAMNit just sent me this. Loud as you can...LAFAYETTE! nymag.com/daily/intellig…
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Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) February 29, 2025"Only Black ppl are asked to forgive & forget when we are being slaughtered. And we are saying no longer." Sis. Ava Muhammad #JusticeOrElse
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Melina Abdullah (@DocMellyMel) October 10, 2025We're not 3/5 of a human! Stand up for who you are and speak out! ~Mother of #TrayvonMartin #JusticeOrElse http://t.co/FCh5ekHvFk
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Maajid A. Muhammad (@NextGenFOI) October 10, 2025****
The crowd at the Million Man March/Justice or Else has been swelling since before sunrise. Now, many thousands. http://t.co/D8Nlr0A6xW
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Trymaine Lee (@trymainelee) October 10, 2025What a beautiful day 10-10-15 #JusticeOrElse http://t.co/nK84fNHvhW
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Jasiri X (@jasiri_x) October 10, 2025****
Crowded around the reflection pool! #JusticeOrElse http://t.co/90lvjEVmgA
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Brother Jesse (@BrotherJesse) October 10, 2025On the other side of 3rd street and beyond! Wow #JusticeOrElse http://t.co/KapquYYFSk
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Brother Jesse (@BrotherJesse) October 10, 2025****
Black children signing their names on portraits of Martin King, Farrakhan, Trayvon Martin, et al. #JusticeOrElse http://t.co/NF04Hez3CS
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Greg Carr (@AfricanaCarr) October 10, 2025Sandra Bland's sister just asked everyone to #SayHerName #JusticeOrElse http://t.co/2vz268UI0O
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Cassandra Fairbanks (@CassandraRules) October 10, 2025****
I am watching #JusticeOrElse all the way from London, in solidarity with my black brothers and sisters in America. http://t.co/oUNMEYdnc5
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Sandra Bland (@cheyshakurr) October 10, 2025The Native Americans & Indigenous People of America have a large representation here at the #JusticeOrElse rally http://t.co/e5cNELOkCE
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NV - No I Dont DJ (@NVme68) October 10, 2025****
J. Cole is in attendance at the #JusticeOrElse event in D.C.: bit.ly/1jVSzZ9 http://t.co/xrr7MXJu65
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XXL Magazine (@XXL) October 10, 2025Crowds rally under the theme of #JusticeOrElse on 20th anniversary of #MillionManMarch cnn.it/1GC5B2B http://t.co/qnsGtUp6rX
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Chants of @kendricklamar's "Alright" echoes down 7th street downtown. #JusticeOrElse http://t.co/f1R62P0bIi
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The Hilltop (@TheHilltopHU) October 10, 2025As quiet as its kept by the MSM, there is a HUGE rally taking place in DC right now. #MillionManMarch @cnnbrk @MSNBC http://t.co/LcM1U3dSpy
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Donna NoShock (@NoShock) October 10, 2025****
Farrakhan mocks Washington for lecturing China and Cuba on human rights "as though you don't have any problems in America." #JusticeOrElse
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David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) October 10, 2025Louis Farrakhan: Native Americans have suffered indignities and are present at #JusticeOrElse "not as mascots" like the Washington Redskins.
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David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) October 10, 2025****
how grand it is to see those whose land was stolen unite with those stolen from their land? #justiceorelse http://t.co/ehb8KmjsQ3
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Ben Matlock (@saraknowsbest) October 10, 2025Ancestors Row at #JusticeOrElse : Moments like this make me even more glad to be an African. http://t.co/11AUl5kgnC
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Friday afternoon announcements in Washington are usually aimed at attracting as little attention as possible, but last Friday was different. President Obama’s decision to nominate Eric Fanning — an openly gay man — to head a branch of the military which only four years ago did not allow gays and lesbians to serve openly, was both historic and attention-grabbing. And it underscored an often-overlooked feature of the Obama presidency: Obama has presided over the most demographically diverse administration in history, according to a new analysis of his top appointments. The majority of top policy appointments within the executive branch are held by women and minorities for the first time in history. The shifts are significant enough, experts say, that they may have forever transformed the face of government. The Obama White House, by contrast, has established specific programs to boost diversity among appointees.
For the 1st time ever the majority of top exec branch posts aren't held by white men. Here's how @POTUS @vj44 did it wapo.st/1KsI5Xk
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Juliet Eilperin (@eilperin) September 21, 2025The Presidential Personnel Office targets historically black colleges and universities, as well as minority-serving institutions, as part of a new campus recruitment program. It has a liaison to identify candidates by working with leaders from underrepresented groups, including those who are LGBT or have disabilities. The impact of Obama’s diversity efforts could reverberate for decades in people such as Michael Blake, a son of Jamaican immigrants who was homeless as a child but worked on Obama’s two presidential campaigns and in the White House as associate director of public engagement. Last year, Blake won election to the New York State Assembly, with the help of a lot of other Obama alumni, including Marlon Marshall, who is now Hillary Rodham Clinton’s director of state campaigns and political engagement. Blake’s campaign slogan was about his transformation: “No House to the White House.” Obama, Blake said, has helped create a new network of people of color now climbing the ranks of government. “He did that,” Blake said. “He grew that.”
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President Obama admin: 53.5% women and minorities
W: 25.6%
Bill Clinton: 37.5%
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meta (@metaquest) September 21, 2025Where did @POTUS actually deliver on change? For the 1st time ever white men are a minority of top exec branch posts wapo.st/1KsI5Xk
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Ed O'Keefe (@edatpost) September 21, 2025
“Where the jazz makes you cry, the funerals make you dance, and the bayou makes you believe all kinds of things.”
President Barack Obama holds a child as he greets residents in the the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans for the 10th anniversary since the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Tremé is one of the oldest black neighborhoods in America
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President Barack Obama sits for lunch at Willie Mae’s restaurant with young men from My Brother’s Keeper initiative
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President Barack Obama participates in a roundtable on Hurricane Katrina at the Andrew P. Sanchez Community Center in New Orleans
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President Barack Obama speaks during an event to mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on August 27, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. President Obama spoke at the Andrew P. Sanchez & Copelin-Byrd Multi-Service Center located in the Lower 9th Ward, a largely African-American neighborhood that was one of the hardest hit by the storm
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The rules change, the goal posts are moved, and terrorism greets anyone who excels or tries to stand up for him/herself. White society has to do this to maintain their idea of racial superiority. What excuses will the lazy, poor, and willfully ignornant- among them will have if there is true equality? The most ragged-mouth, uncouth, poorly educated, sickly pale, hump-backed on- welfare white person has to believe that his whiteness alone makes him better. It keeps him poor and ignorant and the 1% who uses them as a weapon wealthy and powerful. He who shall not be named, who assassinated 9 people who were smarter and more accomplished than he, is a perfect example of this.
One of the best things that resulted from the push for integration in public places, was for A-A people to see that the mysterious, all-powerful white man, especially in the South, is a myth. We learned that many of us were smarter and more accomplished than many of them were. That we could go to ivy league schools and excel, own beautiful homes, send our children to high-performing schools, and take vacations in beautiful places here and abroad. All that so many of them have is their whiteness, which has no intrinsic value whatsoever. They are killing us because we are beautiful, brilliant, talented, and not afraid of them. We refuse to lower our eyes, to move off the sidewalk, to give up our positions, or to give them unearned respect. They cannot kill all of us and their days of terrorism are numbered. They have the cops, the media, and the power brokers, but we have right and the might of courage and determination. Barack Obama is not an anomaly; we have many like him in the A-A community. We will not be afraid, we will not be moved, we will not be denied, we will not leave the country, we will not apologize for our existence. We are American citizens and we are here to stay and to flourish.
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They will know ur smile
They will know ur face
They will know ur story
#WhatHappenedtoSandraBland
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SHE-KINAH-KNOWZ (@ShekinahJo) July 24, 2025#SandraBland's fam rep told me she knew bail money was on the way, that she would be getting out the next day. One reason they doubt suicide
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Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) July 27, 2025****
Woman arrested on shoplifting charge found dead in holding cell... abc7.ws/1JPZCrJ http://t.co/bAJ7sGupKh
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ABC 7 Chicago (@ABC7Chicago) July 28, 2025This is the FOURTH black woman found dead in her jail cell this month thkpr.gs/3685435 http://t.co/RLQ0lQSbyy
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Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 29, 2025****
Cincinnati police chief: Video of fatal shooting of unarmed black man by police ‘not good’ on.thegrio.com/1gjBG94
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theGrio.com (@theGrio) July 28, 2025And I've been told that the #SamuelDubose video is damning, that it is nothing short of an execution.
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deray mckesson (@deray) July 29, 2025****
White campus officers shoots black man in the head after traffic stop bit.ly/1g4Mw2x
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Mic (@micnews) July 25, 2025If #SamDubose did something wrong, the video would have BEEN released with no hesitation or delay.
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Kayser SoBae (@MilftasticJJC) July 29, 2025
President Barack Obama smiles with Emma Didlake, the oldest known World War II veteran at 110 years old, in the the Oval Office of the White House. Didlake was a Private during the course of her service and her decorations include the Women’s Army Corps Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, and World War II Victory Medal
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President Obama met with a 110-year-old woman believed to be the nation’s oldest veteran at the White House Friday. The president said it was a “great honor” to speak with Emma Didlake, a longtime Detroit resident and veteran of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps during World War II. “It’s a great reminder of not only the sacrifices that the greatest generation made on our behalf but also the kind of trailblazing that our women veterans made,” Mr. Obama told reporters. “We are so grateful that she is here with us today.”
President Obama meets with 110-year-old Emma Didlake, the nation's oldest living veteran cbsn.ws/1HWePWR http://t.co/SaBhGQGf34
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CBS News Politics (@CBSPolitics) July 17, 2025Known to family as “Big Mama,” Didlake was a 38-year-old wife and mother of five when she “wanted to do something different” and signed up for the WAAC in 1943, said her granddaughter, Marilyn Horne. She served stateside for about seven months during the war, as a private and driver. After she was discharged, she and her family moved to Detroit in 1944 - and she quickly joined the local NAACP chapter. She marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963, and received a lifetime achievement award two years ago from the chapter.
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Had a great visit today with Emma Didlake - our oldest living veteran at 110-years-young! She's a true American hero. http://t.co/EeeIC3AK4A
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Michelle Obama’s thoughts turned to those grieving for nine people killed in a U.S. church as she visited Friday with American soldiers and their families stationed in northern Italy. “We have seen too many tragedies like this,” Mrs. Obama said of the attack in a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina. “There is something particularly horrifying about something that happens so senseless in a house of worship.” She added: “I pray for a community that I know is in pain with the hope that tragedies like these will one day come to an end.” The U.S. first lady was visiting at the U.S. Army Garrison Vicenza, thanking hundreds of the troops and their families for their service.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday had expressed anger and sadness over the slayings at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. “As my husband said yesterday, simply saying our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and community of Charleston does not convey the heartache,” Mrs. Obama said. Her time with the troops and their families included reading a book to children, and visiting with about 30 expectant mothers to discuss the challenges faced by military families overseas. The families live in an area that includes housing units and an elementary and middle school. She spent a good half hour giving hugs and shaking hands. Her daughters Malia and Sasha helped her scoop out ice cream. About 500 people were attending a barbecue on the middle school’s athletic fields.
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First Lady on #Charlestonshooting: "I pray ... with the hope that tragedies like these will one day come to an end."
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ABC News (@ABC) June 19, 2025#MichelleObama @MichelleObama speaking about #CharlestonShooting in #Vicenza http://t.co/LpN8FZh4A5
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Michelle Obama and her elder daughter visited Milan’s Duomo cathedral on Thursday, where an official traveling with her said they lit candles in memory of the victims of the shooting in South Carolina. The first lady and her daughter Malia were seen by photographers entering the Gothic-inspired cathedral on the unannounced stop. Mrs. Obama was dressed in black with dark glasses, while Malia wore a white blouse with black trousers. Mrs. Obama made no comment and issued no statement. Nine people, including the pastor, were killed overnight at a prayer meeting inside a historic black church in downtown Charleston.
Earlier Thursday, Mrs. Obama visited the Expo 2015 World’s Fair in Milan, which focuses on food and nutrition. She found kindred spirits in her campaign to promote healthy eating during visits to the U.S. and the Italian pavilions. Mrs. Obama was greeted by a video image of her husband, President Barack Obama, as she entered the U.S. pavilion, guided by U.S. student delegates to Expo from universities around the United States. She spent some time discussing the vertical garden covering the length of pavilion, which has rotating panels of herbs and vegetables that are engineered to maximize sunlight exposure. Mrs. Obama said the pavilion was “awe-inspiring.” “The most impactful part of it, obviously, is the vertical farm, the largest of its kind. And I couldn’t help but think about all the issues we face around hunger, around food deserts in our countries and places all over the world. And when you walk around this pavilion, you think the solutions are right in our grasp,” Mrs. Obama told some 60 student delegates during a question-and-answer session at the end of the tour.
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Italy’s First Lady Agnese Landini welcomes First Lady Michelle Obama to the 2015 Expo in Rho, near Milan, Italy. First Lady Michelle Obama is leading a presidential delegation to the world’s fair, organized around issues concerning food and nutrition, which dovetails with her “Let’s Move” initiative to fight childhood obesity
I gotta get to work, but one quick thing before I go: We don't teach the true history of white supremacy in this country.
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Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2025We call Jim Crow "segregation" as if it was about lunch counters and movie theaters, not lynching and disfranchisement.
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Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2025****
We talk about lynching as if it were lawlessness in the night. Lynch law was THE law.
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Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2025We teach the Civil War, but not the collapse of Reconstruction. We teach the bus boycott but not the 80 years that went before.
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Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2025****
We teach about colored water fountains but not black children executed by the state for imaginary crimes.
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Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2025Teach the young people you know about white supremacy and how to fight it. Because their schools won't. studentactivism.net/2015/06/18/how…
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Fellow white ppl, today is the day to look at your white friends and family in the eye and say "Black lives matter."
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Jessica Luther (@scATX) June 18, 2025Yesterday was the day, too. But if you aren't already having this convo, start now.
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Jessica Luther (@scATX) June 18, 2025****
Don't be cowards. You risk what, criticism? An argument? We are talking about black people's lives at stake.
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Jessica Luther (@scATX) June 18, 2025I will be telling my 6yo white son what happened last night on our way to camp this morning and then I will tell him that black lives matter
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Jessica Luther (@scATX) June 18, 2025****
I'm not saying this for praise but just for you to know that I think white kids should be in convo now. Bc you know black kids are.
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Jessica Luther (@scATX) June 18, 2025A 5yo black girl survived last night by playing dead. Surely my 6yo white son can survive a conversation about why she matters.
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Jessica Luther (@scATX) June 18, 2025****
if you read anything about the #CharlestonShooting, let it be this piece on who the victims of the shooting were: buzzfeed.com/jessicasimeone…
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andrea (@zevallos_andrea) June 18, 2025IMPORTANT READ: Coroner names 9 slain in downtown #CharlestonShooting postandcourier.com/article/201506…
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deray mckesson (@deray) June 18, 2025****
#CharlestonShooting victims include "brilliant" pastor, recent college grad: cbsn.ws/1JXhUw5 http://t.co/TynN76GAIL
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CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) June 18, 2025I'm not feeling these Je Suis tweets. The SC victims were black folk in prayer and bible study. They weren't drawing race-baiting cartoons.
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Aniyar Uoke (@eclecticbrotha) June 18, 2025****
2 years ago John Roberts overturned heart of Voting Rights Act because he said "things have changed dramatically" in the South
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Ari Berman (@AriBerman) June 18, 2025Since PBO's election Republicans have screamed it's time to 'take our country back'
No, Dylann Roof didn't act alone http://t.co/QBw7775d56
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 18, 2025****
Dylann Roof, suspected gunman in SC church massacre, escorted from Shelby, NC, Police station en route to court. http://t.co/JslPeyenJh
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ABC News (@ABC) June 18, 2025MORE: Roommate: Alleged Charleston church gunman “was big into segregation and ... wanted to start a civil war" -- abcn.ws/1K11nWB
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Stop using some ambiguous mental illness to justify white men who are terrorists. Racism and entitlement aren't mental illnesses.
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Queen Mikayla (@mikaylaesthetic) June 18, 2025Media: lol we don't know why he did it
Dylann Roof: I did it because I hate black people
Media: lol we don't know why he did it
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Queen Mikayla (@mikaylaesthetic) June 18, 2025****
Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks on Charleston, S.C. shooting
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 18, 2025Deny voting rights, healthcare, equality, dignity. Fly the confederate flag over state buildings. Purchase a clue, @nikkihaley
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meta (@metaquest) June 18, 2025****
Birmingham, AL
Oak Creek, WI
Overland Park, KS
Charleston, SC
Attacks on houses of worship are a STAPLE of white supremacist terrorism.
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Zeddonymous (@ZeddRebel) June 18, 2025How Charleston's Emanuel AME Church triggered white southern militarism bit.ly/1d4bTiL http://t.co/uX79c7O2ox
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Talking Points Memo (@TPM) June 18, 2025****
Sen. Clementa Pinckney's desk in the state Senate chamber is covered in a black drape, with a single rose. http://t.co/tkH6NljOHy
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Robert Kittle (@RobertKittle) June 18, 2025Reverend Clementa Pinckney was the youngest senator in South Carolina's history ti.me/1LkPdXn
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This devil killed 9 Black people and you're worried about how Black people are gonna react? Fuck you.
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#WeWillShootBack (@SankofaBrown) June 18, 2025In the belief that every moment of joy is a rebellion and that every bit of collective work is a revolution twitter.com/theandregeorge…
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W.E.B.B.I.E DuBois (@fivefifths) June 18, 2025****
Black people: "Thugs"
Arab people: "Terrorists"
White guys who routinely are responsible for mass killings in the US: "Troubled loners"
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Ian (@iboudreau) June 18, 2025White men are 31% of the U.S. population, but 71% of mass shooters. Can we talk about the white male culture of violence yet?
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Goat Lady (@civilwarbore) June 18, 2025****
Four little girls in 1963. And here we are, in 2015. Still.
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Elle Elle Cool Baé (@spokenELLE) June 18, 2025We can't worship. We can't play. We can't sleep. We can't fight.We can't comply. We can't run.We can't stand. We can't breathe. We can't BE.
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Elle Elle Cool Baé (@spokenELLE) June 18, 2025****
NRA - "If only someone had a gun to stop this bad person with a gun!"
Black person with toy gun - <gets shot by police>
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Chris Kluwe (@ChrisWarcraft) June 18, 2025Don't tell Black people not to be enraged. They have every right to be enraged. We have been provoking them for five hundred years.
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Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) June 18, 2025****
The African American community has been far more peaceful toward white America than we ever have been toward them. Never forget that.
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Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) June 18, 2025*We* are the ones who need to stop the violence. *We* are the ones who need to stop the hate. *We* are the bad guys. *We must change.*
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Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) June 18, 2025****
Any news source that doesn't peg motivation as pure racism is in malpractice territory now. twitter.com/JuddLegum/stat…
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Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) June 18, 2025The flags on Dylann Roof's jacket are white supremacist patches. Referencing white ruled African states. #AMEShooting http://t.co/h3xpfhL7pf
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zellie (@zellieimani) June 18, 2025****
Fellow white folk: do not allow anyone to equivocate on Charleston. A white man shooting up a historic black church in prayer is terrorism.
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STEVE HUFF (@SteveHuff) June 18, 2025Republicans who say Christianity is under attack sure were silent about 9 black people gunned down in a church today. #CharlestonShooting
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Political Nerd (@Sttbs73) June 18, 2025****
Despite mourning, statehouse Confederate battle flag remains at full staff #CharlestonShooting postandcourier.com/article/201506… http://t.co/0IFOXu1KDH
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deray mckesson (@deray) June 18, 2025The confederate flag waves today at the #SC statehouse, while the other flags fly at half … ift.tt/1Fp631Z http://t.co/xFVH7QLDWy
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Miss Packnett (@MsPackyetti) June 18, 2025Dr. King at #EmanuelAME. #HistoricBlackChurch #CivilRightsMovement #CharlestonShooting http://t.co/Iu3ihGjQ2V
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The King Center (@TheKingCenter) June 18, 2025Charleston's Emanuel A.M.E. Church was once burned to the ground for its connection with a thwarted slave revolt. wpo.st/A93M0
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Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) June 18, 2025****
Watch as the media reduces 200 years of black church bombings, burnings, and shootings into "one isolated gunman". #CharlestonShooting
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Mark Provost (@markaprovost) June 18, 2025The #AMEShooting was an act of domestic terrorism. It should be treated with all of the urgency that term implies. http://t.co/WVjLw0nEsg
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Joshua DuBois (@joshuadubois) June 18, 2025****
The history of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church reflects the development of religious institutions for African Americans in Charleston. Dating back to the fall of 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Richard Allen founded the Free African Society, adhering to the Doctrines of Methodism established by John Wesley. In 1816, black members of Charleston’s Methodist Episcopal church withdrew over disputed burial ground, and under the leadership of Morris Brown. The Rev. Morris Brown organized a church of persons of color and sought to have it affiliated with Allen’s church. Three churches arose under the Free African Society and were named the “Bethel Circuit”. One of the Circuit churches was located in the suburbs of Ansonborough, Hampstead, and Cow Alley, now known as Philadelphia Alley in the French Quarters of Charleston. Emanuel’s congregation grew out of the Hampstead Church, located at Reid and Hanover Streets.
A white Southerner spoke this after the '63 church bombing. They sear after #AMEShooting. Via theatln.tc/1kwUrjx http://t.co/GD973Yls7D
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Miss Packnett (@MsPackyetti) June 18, 2025Racism is taught. Perpetuated. Learned. It is a cancerous root. It controls a society. It chokes.
Are you guilty?
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Miss Packnett (@MsPackyetti) June 18, 2025In 1822 the church was investigated for its involvement with a planned slave revolt. Denmark Vesey, one of the church’s founders, organized a major slave uprising in Charleston. Vesey was raised in slavery in the Virgin Islands among newly imported Africans. He was the personal servant of slavetrader Captain Joseph Vesey, who settled in Charleston in 1783. Beginning in December 1821, Vesey began to organize a slave rebellion, but authorities were informed of the plot before it could take place. The plot created mass hysteria throughout the Carolinas and the South. Brown, suspected but never convicted of knowledge of the plot, went north to Philadelphia where he eventually became the second bishop of the AME denomination.
Governor who flies Confederate flag at SC capitol says "we’ll never understand what motivates" #Charleston massacre: gu.com/p/49qkx/stw#bl…
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Chase Madar (@ChMadar) June 18, 2025We are dishonest about present acts of terrorism against black people in America because we are dishonest about our past. #AMEShooting
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Ryan Dalton (@capetownbrown) June 18, 2025During the Vesey controversy, the AME church was burned. Worship services continued after the church was rebuilt until 1834 when all black churches were outlawed. The congregation continued the tradition of the African church by worshipping underground until 1865 when it was formally reorganized, and the name Emanuel was adopted, meaning “God with us”. The wooden two-story church that was built on the present site in 1872 was destroyed by the devastating earthquake of August 31, 1886. The present edifice was completed in 1891 under the pastorate of the Rev. L. Ruffin Nichols. The magnificent brick structure with encircling marble panels was restored, redecorated and stuccoed during the years of 1949-51 under the leadership of the Rev. Frank R. Veal. The bodies of the Rev. Nichols and his wife were exhumed and entomed in the base of the steeple so that they may forever be with the Emanuel that they helped to nurture.
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This has been a rotten week for black people.
So was last week.
And the week before.
And...
You see where this is going...
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Miss Packnett (@MsPackyetti) June 18, 2025#BREAKING- Reports: #Charleston shooter said,"You rape our women and are taking over our country & you have to go."Report coming on @NBCDFW
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They welcomed this white man into their safe space & and he got up & turned his guns on them. American history in a nutshell. #AMEShooting
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zellie (@zellieimani) June 18, 2025White “Christians” bombed the 16th St. Baptist Church in 1963. This ain’t new twitter.com/imadeintruth/s…
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ATribe Called Breast (@theelectwoman08) June 18, 2025****
Note the shooting suspect is 21. Please stop telling the lie that racism will die out. This story replicates 100+ years of violence.
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Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) June 18, 2025This is what American terrorism looks like & has looked like for over 400 years. #AMEShooting http://t.co/B4Vwvunshl
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zellie (@zellieimani) June 18, 2025****
No hoodies
No toy guns
No breathing
No listening to music at a gas station
No asking for help after a car accident
No praying at church
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LEFT (@LeftSentThis) June 18, 2025To be making mental health diagnoses on WM terrorist who has not been apprehended is White supremacy in action. Also ableism. #AMEShooting
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Trudy (@thetrudz) June 18, 2025****
.@FBI confirms that Dylann Roof, 21, of #Columbia area is suspect in #CharlestonShooting. #chsnews http://t.co/FFYhF1CwYz
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The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) June 18, 2025Breaking: Suspect named in #CharlestonShooting Dylan Storm Roof http://t.co/2IeffUCfGV
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Facebook page photo of suspect Dylann Roof, 21, and surveillance image. #CharlestonShooting http://t.co/In5AjlzCRp
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Andrew Knapp (@offlede) June 18, 2025Suspect in #Charleston shooting identified as 21 yr old Dylann Roof. If you know his whereabouts, call 1-800-CALL-FBI http://t.co/EmFL5gLMCL
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Berkeley County SC (@BerkeleySCGov) June 18, 2025****
#VeteranOfTheDay Maj. Joseph "Beau" Biden @USArmy @DelawareNG JAG Corps 261st Signal Brigade #OIF Veteran http://t.co/zhudIpa5wG
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Veterans Affairs (@DeptVetAffairs) June 03, 2025A law enforcement official says that @BeauBiden's Secret Service detail will remain with him continuously until his burial.
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Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) June 04, 2025****
We, the families of fallen heroes, send strength, love to @vp @DrBiden & family. We know pain, pride of this moment. http://t.co/8mXDaLW82a
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TAPS (@TAPS4America) June 04, 2025He’s Uncle Joe. And his son’s death has resonated like a death in the American family. politi.co/1KPdAzj | Getty http://t.co/J78W7LR5XT
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POLITICO (@politico) June 04, 2025****
As Biden grieves, I wrote about how he comforted another devastated family: My wife's. Twice.
yahoo.com/politics/griev…
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Olivier Knox (@OKnox) June 04, 2025Ted Kaufman on Beau Biden in this week’s @TIME http://t.co/w64813lHxM
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Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) June 05, 2025****
Behind The Lens: Photographing an American Hero: go.wh.gov/behind-the-lens
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(@petesouza) June 05, 2025.@FLOTUS boosts pollinators bigstory.ap.org/article/26f5da…
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darlene superville (@dsupervilleap) June 04, 2025****
MAY JOB GROWTH
Construction: +17K
Retail: +31K
Health care: +47K
Leisure/Hospitality: +57K
Professional Svcs: +63K
thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/0…
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ThinkProgress Econ (@TPEconomy) June 05, 2025Adding 280K jobs in a month is more proof things were better when US was subtracting 800K jobs a month.
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Michael Grunwald (@MikeGrunwald) June 05, 2025****
Good news! vox.com/e/8498566?utm_… http://t.co/lAygWYnMZ9
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Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 05, 2025The number of people reporting they were employed went up by 272,000 in May
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Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) June 05, 2025****
DEAR GOD WHEN WILL THE SUPREME COURT SAVE US FROM THIS NIGHTMARE!!! #KingvBurwell
twitter.com/ddiamond/statu…
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Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) June 05, 2025I'm old enough to remember when Rs said Obamacare would kill jobs twitter.com/ddiamond/statu…
Oh, wait, they still do newrepublic.com/article/121499…
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Jonathan Cohn (@CitizenCohn) June 05, 2025****
WAGE GROWTH! read.bi/1KeI5gL http://t.co/z550c29tEx
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Business Insider (@businessinsider) June 05, 2025Quick recap
Labor force participation ↑↑
Employment ↑
Unemployment ↑
Real wages ↑ (barely)
U6 ↓
We’ll take this one
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Michael Madowitz (@mikemadowitz) June 05, 2025****
Government added 18,000 jobs in May - mostly in local government
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Daniel Gross (@grossdm) June 05, 2025Revisions to prior months add another 32,000 jobs. In other words, about 310,000 more payroll jobs now than a month ago.
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Daniel Gross (@grossdm) June 05, 2025****
This chart shows you why UE going up is good. Labor force growing meaning people are hopeful. bls.gov/news.release/e…
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Ben White (@morningmoneyben) June 05, 2025Auto sector adds 6,600 jobs in May to 926,200, auto dealers add 7,700 jobs to 1.23 million
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David Shepardson (@davidshepardson) June 05, 2025****
Remembering Beau Biden → WhiteHouse/remembering-beau-biden-e1beac049489"> medium.com@WhiteHouse/re… http://t.co/HlyVIubLV8
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 02, 2025Biden family establishes Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children. beaubidenfoundation.org
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PETER MAER (@petermaer) June 02, 2025****
Read the full transcript of @KaiRyssdal's interview with President Obama: mktplc.org/1FuQR4O http://t.co/hvk3sn9WF6
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(@Marketplace) June 03, 2025The First Lady with students who helped harvest the White House kitchen garden today http://t.co/wwugMrV45V
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 03, 2025****
Obama will win ObamaCare showdown buff.ly/1KyuIpL
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Amy Lynn Smith (@alswrite) June 03, 2025A Pragmatic Progressive’s Response to Hair-on-Fire Opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership — The People's View thepeoplesview.net/main/2015/6/2/…
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Pretty Foot (@PrettyFootWoman) June 03, 2025****
There are now fewer backlogged @DeptVetAffairs disability claims than when President Obama took office. http://t.co/nR6B5kmwfG
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Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) June 03, 2025Houston Just Became the Biggest City in America to Eradicate Veteran Homelessness mic.com/articles/11993…
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Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) June 02, 2025****
Dad photographs his daughter like famous black heroines, the 📷s will absolutely blow you away: cosm.ag/6013hbU1 http://t.co/oq2Tsa9Tus
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(@Cosmopolitan) June 01, 2025Akon is taking a bold step to bring electricity to 600 million people in Africa bit.ly/1JqD6Zu http://t.co/Cs9lGSnqgE
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Mic (@micnews) June 03, 2025****
CNN has assembled a diverse panel to discuss the challenge posed by ISIS: http://t.co/1QIKYYceGw
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Arif Rafiq (@ArifCRafiq) June 03, 2025@FelicityMorse Grey-haired white men in suits got us into this mess & God dammit grey-haired white men in suits are going to get us out!
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Dean Rutland (@Herne_TheHunter) June 03, 2025****
Income disparity in America in one shocking chart.
More tax breaks for the wealthy, anyone? @GOP @TheDemocrats http://t.co/OobvSvX3Mv
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meta (@metaquest) June 03, 2025A full-time minimum-wage job won't get you a 1-bedroom apartment anywhere in America vox.com/2015/5/28/8679… http://t.co/hj0uUcEkfV
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deray mckesson (@deray) May 30, 2025****
Days after being acquitted in 137 bullets case, Cleveland officer Michael Brelo charged with assaulting his brother clevescene.com/scene-and-hear…
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Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) June 03, 2025I guess b/c he punched his bro, Brelo's regarded as a violent malcontent.
Not b/c of the 2 ppl he killed though:
twitter.com/deray/status/6…
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Tiffany, Obviously (@TiffAmI0308) June 03, 2025****
MUST READ: Cleveland Police officer Michael Brelo faces assault charge in Bay Village cleveland.com/bay-village/in… http://t.co/8BHiMSnroY
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deray mckesson (@deray) June 03, 2025Brelo expected to turn himself in later today at Bay Village. Most likely face a misdemeanor charge.
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Peggy Gallek (@PeggySinkovich) June 03, 2025****
Worth a read: President Obama on our new tool to counter cyber threats (via @Medium) → go.wh.gov/cyber-sanctions http://t.co/BkN1IVy4RP
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 01, 2025Pres Obama calls cyber-attacks against US a national emergency and announces sanctions program abcn.ws/1OZh3M3 http://t.co/b4qgOqCpTT
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ABC News (@ABC) April 01, 2025****
I found someone's Visa card at the Home Depot parking lot. Older white couple saw me pick it up to take it inside and gave me a look. UGH
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Ⓜ (@_StylishM) April 01, 2025Even when you are doing good people make you feel dirty.
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Ⓜ (@_StylishM) April 01, 2025****
This is Justin Lynch. 17yr old who broke Michael Phelps 100m butterfly record. #ChangeTheStory http://t.co/00ZMh06DJa
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David McQueen ♕ (@DavidMcQueen) September 21, 2025Remembering one of Hip Hop's forefathers, Gil Scott Heron, on his born day. If ya don't know, now ya know! #legend http://t.co/nuMGRE9pjU
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(@CrossColoursLA) April 01, 2025****
Yelp users troll Indiana pizzeria that refuses to cater gay weddings. bit.ly/19JIUix http://t.co/HE1spOJgOk
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Talking Points Memo (@TPM) April 01, 2025Oooops: Indiana's Memories Pizza has been hacked
memoriespizza.com http://t.co/kaYTrTnedN
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) April 01, 2025****
Broward woman's life sentence commuted by President @BarackObama sunsent.nl/1CKqUQP http://t.co/yM0JlNycHL
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Sun Sentinel (@SunSentinel) April 01, 2025Wrongfully convicted man Glenn Ford spent 30 years on death row, now denied restitution huff.to/1MuhrmZ http://t.co/MNu9lGlgwn
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HuffPost BlackVoices (@blackvoices) April 01, 2025****
JUST IN: Secretary Kerry will remain in Lausanne until at least Thursday to continue Iran nuclear talks, according to the State Dept.
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(@msnbc) April 01, 2025State Dpt. on Iran talks: Sec. of State John Kerry "will remain in Lausanne until at least Thursday morning to continue the negotiations.”
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ABC News (@ABC) April 01, 2025****
I'm hoping my Af Am friends on twitter will give me some feedback on this one => Democrats and Dog Whistles immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2015/04/democr…
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Nancy LeTourneau (@Smartypants60) April 01, 2025Sitting down for a conversation with White House photographer Pete Souza: goo.gl/MfYH2q http://t.co/JP7yZzzPrD
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PetaPixel (@petapixel) March 31, 2025****
We're debuting a new slavery tour at the historic mansion today, and so far it's going very well.
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Af Am History Fail (@afamhistfail) April 01, 2025Most of the tourists have been in a good mood and receptive to information about slavery.
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Af Am History Fail (@afamhistfail) April 01, 2025****
With one notable exception.
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Af Am History Fail (@afamhistfail) April 01, 2025One lady stayed late after my coworker’s tour. “What is your name?” she demanded of the guide.
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Af Am History Fail (@afamhistfail) April 01, 2025****
My coworker gave her name. The tourist continued, “Well, I just want you to know that was the worst tour I’ve ever been on.”
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Af Am History Fail (@afamhistfail) April 01, 2025Tourist: “You talked way too much about the slaves and not enough about the [family that owned them]."
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Af Am History Fail (@afamhistfail) April 01, 2025****
My coworker was like, "Well, my job title is slavery specialist."
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Af Am History Fail (@afamhistfail) April 01, 2025The tourist kept barging on. "EVERYBODY owned slaves back then. EVERYBODY had servants. I came here to learn abt the [slaveowning family]."
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Af Am History Fail (@afamhistfail) April 01, 2025****
The other people in the tour were staring at this point. The lady was full-on yelling at my coworker.
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Af Am History Fail (@afamhistfail) April 01, 2025Tourist: "I've been coming here for years, & I wanted to hear about [slaveowning family]. You just talked about the slaves the whole time."
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Af Am History Fail (@afamhistfail) April 01, 2025****
My coworker tried to gently interrupt the yelling. The tourist yelled, "CAN I JUST FINISH."
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Af Am History Fail (@afamhistfail) April 01, 2025When she had tired herself out, the offending tourist stormed away.
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Af Am History Fail (@afamhistfail) April 01, 2025****
Presumable in search of more information about white people.
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Af Am History Fail (@afamhistfail) April 01, 2025She'd probably assumed that since the guide was white, she'd be safe from all this slavery talk.
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Af Am History Fail (@afamhistfail) April 01, 2025****
Anyway, after she left, the next tourist family to exit the building came up to my coworker. Their 13yo daughter gave my coworker a hug.
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Af Am History Fail (@afamhistfail) April 01, 2025"You didn't deserve that," said the parents. "Your tour was great." "It made me think about slavery in a new way," their daughter said.
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Af Am History Fail (@afamhistfail) April 01, 2025****
My coworker came back to the break room shaken.
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Af Am History Fail (@afamhistfail) April 01, 2025We all assured her that when racists hate you enough to want to scream in your face, it’s cuz you must be doing something right.
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Af Am History Fail (@afamhistfail) April 01, 2025****
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said his son had asked him to veto the Arkansas religious freedom bill nyti.ms/1EE5RS0
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The New York Times (@nytimes) April 01, 2025Hutchinson considering an executive order to disallow discrimination in workforce for LGBT. #arpx #arleg
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Roby Brock (@RobyBrock) April 01, 2025****
At least Hutchison, unlike Pence, admits that the bill differs from the federal RFRA. Pence insisted, wrongly, that they were the same.
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Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) April 01, 2025More Arkansas Gov Hutchinson. Says he would accept a new bill from state lawmakers that mirrors federal religious freedom measure.
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Charlie Kaye (@CharlieKayeCBS) April 01, 2025****
An apology to our readers bit.ly/1MAK4PA
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The Cavalier Daily (@cavalierdaily) April 01, 2025Homeless man stops rape attempt in northwest D.C. on.thegrio.com/19zzS7T
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RiPPa (@RippDemUp) March 31, 2025****
Death of man shot by police after Hurricane Katrina ruled as homicide trib.al/ZtUwKUw
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The Guardian (@guardian) April 01, 2025FBI confirms that one of bureau's "most wanted terrorist" is dead cbsn.ws/19Lh0Tl http://t.co/4Sx2rVddf0
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CBS News (@CBSNews) April 01, 2025****
No country has ever launched physician-assisted suicide on the scale now underway in Canada bit.ly/newshourlive #pbsnews
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PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) April 01, 2025Arming college kids is a terrible, terrible idea.
Thank you for speaking out, Bryant Gumbel! http://t.co/a7fRXaeauL
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(@Everytown) April 01, 2025****
Brilliant 1979 Roger Ebert interview with Muhammad Ali - they watched Rocky II together, Ali:
rogerebert.com/interviews/wat… http://t.co/diVrYg78Tf
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) April 01, 2025Police killed more than 100 people in March thkpr.gs/3641143 http://t.co/3OALZjH0JU
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ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) April 01, 2025****
I think he’s on the money, Chips. Think about Megan Kelly on Fox – I think she was the one who went into a snit about Jesus and Santa Claus being white. I remember Bobby Kennedy putting out the question “What if Jesus is black?” Some people don’t want to go there. As Muhammad Ali said, this nation is conditioned to believe that white is the best at everything.
It also ties in with what LBJ said 50 years ago – to paraphrase, if you give the lowest white man something to look down on, he’ll empty his pockets for you. That was how southern politicians won whites – making them think that any and all of them were better than the BEST black man. That’s why we have the Sarah Palins and Tom Cottons – clearly not sharp tools – coming at this Harvard Law Review, with-honors President with unprecedented disrespect and arrogance.
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I'm trying not to go there but I have to. This is the epitome of American Superiority Complex. "I know more than you about your own country"
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Awesomely Luvvie (@Luvvie) April 01, 2025These are the headlines you write when Nigerian elections don't live up to your "widespread violence" narrative. http://t.co/HrJ2dpkz2k
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Atane Ofiaja (@atane) April 01, 2025****
WAIT!! WAAAAAIIIT!!! Isaiah Washington wants Chris Rock to "adapt" to racial profiling! 💀 http://t.co/IKrkz3LMeB
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Kim Moore (@SoulRevision) April 01, 2025Problem 1: changing your lifestyle to avoid a form of racism.
Problem 2: sharing the changes or "adaptation" instead of calling it out
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Kim Moore (@SoulRevision) April 01, 2025****
Prius won't save you from #DWB @IWashington i know. trust.
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Questlove Gomez (@questlove) April 01, 2025lol @brianepps not even, asked a cop 1ce after 2 stops in one night, he told me "looks like u stole college student car
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Questlove Gomez (@questlove) April 01, 2025****
#BlackTwitter My good brother .@donlemon has just reached out to me personally. I can't wait to talk to my dear brother. #Truthdom
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Isaiah Washington (@IWashington) April 01, 2025Driving a Prius instead of a Mercedes doesn't stop racial profiling! #adapt LLLOOOOLLLL
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Kim Moore (@SoulRevision) April 01, 2025****
MORE: NJ Sen. Bob Menendez indicted on corruption charges, accused of abusing office to aid donor: apne.ws/19KWIZW
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The Associated Press (@AP) April 01, 2025"Nailed it." - Justice Kennedy. http://t.co/WF7Bx2BUNx
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Adam Smith (@asmith83) April 01, 2025****
White House.gov WH Tumblr The People’s View Smartypants A Writing Corner (LL) Greg Sargent Steve Benen
