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Rev. & Prof. Cornell William Brooks

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Prof., Harvard Kennedy School; Vis. Prof., Harvard Divinity ; Dir. @harvard_trotter ; Min.; Attny; & 18th NAACP pres. & CEO.For speaking:

Wherever injustice resides.
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Had Harriet Tubman compared the 70 slaves she freed to 4 million enslaved , she might have given up. Her hope and leadership were not based on the dire math of reality, but on a calculation of faith . Hope is not empirically demonstrated, it is morally chosen. #ThursdayThoughts
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Son of Selma, John Lewis, on #BlackLivesMattter Plaza. —battling cancer in a pandemic —STILL fighting. A real one. RESPECT
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Lo-Letha Hall was a mother, a friend, an entrepreneur and much more before being senselessly killed.
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Who was The Uber Driver Gunned Down by a White Man?
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The @NAACP & @AlabamaNAACP are occupying the Mobile office of @jeffsessions --untill he withdraws as a AG nominee or we're arrested. @tvonetv
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I do hope Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson are being inundated with scholarships, college admissions, and academic prizes. Let’s say the word… BRILLIANT.
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Two high school seniors solved a mathematical puzzle that was thought to be impossible for 2,000 years. @BillWhitakerCBS reports, Sunday.
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A billionaire rapper is paying a price for spewing hate, but a millionaire cable TV host is still getting paid for hate. If you’re not AS CONCERNED about Carlson as Kanye, you’re discounting the moral price America pays when HATE, #Racism & #Antisemitism IS the BUSINESS MODEL.
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Dear @FoxNews , I was “spotted” washing dishes, busing tables, cooking, doing yard work, & riding as a bike messenger. I am also a lawyer, professor, mininster & activist. Like #geoffreyowens & other brothers, I am NOT ASHAMED to be a “ #BMW ,” Black Man Working.
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'Cosby Show' actor Geoffrey Owens spotted bagging groceries at NJ Trader Joe's
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My beloved cousin Rev. William Brooks was found dead, asphyxiated, propped on a cinder block, his body jammed halfway thru a shed window, WITH keys to his shed door in his pocket. A SC police dept,, with racist history, says NO foul play. The family seeks state/fed investigation.
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Why must #CyntoniaBrown be LOCKED up for 51 YEARS for a murder committed as sexually enslaved 16 yr. old? And millionaire #JeffreyEpstein serves 13 MONTHS for molesting dozens of girls her age? If our criminal justice system punished HYPOCRISY, it would get the DEATH PENALTY.
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We were arrested at the office of Senator Sessions earlier this evening. Just released from jail. #StopSessions , call (877)959-6082.
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ATTORNEY: Who are you? ME: Cornell William Brooks A: Here to make copies? ME: No A: Paralegal? ME: No A: What’s your role? ME: I am a Department of Justice attorney—suing your client—for discrimination. Years ago, STILLthe same?👇🏾 #BlackLaw
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Black attorney says deputy thought he was a suspect and detained him at court

Rashad James said a Harford County deputy thought he was a client impersonating a lawyer.

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Black brilliance A to Z... Watch till end, sound up...
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Watching this video of Jews being ethno-slimed, I think about walking around cloaked in somebody’s fear of me as a N-word. The pseudo fears of bigots can make you feel the need to bathe your soul—w/ a soap that cleanses the filth of their stereotypes. #Antisemitism is WRONG.
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It’s really not difficult at all to condemn this anti-Semitic, nonsensical bilge. Unless of course you (a) agree with it or (b) don’t want to alienate those who do.
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If you can shoot a Black child 4 ringing a doorbell & an older Black woman 4 driving Uber, who next? What next?
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An 81-year-old Ohio man shot and killed an Uber driver he believed was working with a scammer, according to officials who said the victim was sent to the home by the same scammer. Loletha Hall didn't threaten him, didn't have a weapon or assault him
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#ElijahMcClain played music to comfort animals, but was killed by the police. #KyleRittenhouse murdered 2 people, but was aided by the police. Morally imagine an America where everyone mourned Elijah and no one celebrated Kyle. We would yet be better citizens—and humans.
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This throwback photo of poet Langston Hughes with Harlem kids is everything . Courtesy of @BeineckeLibrary
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I can’t make ANY sense of a world where MSNBC’s #TiffanyCross is FIRED for being “controversial,” while FOX’s #TuckerCarlson is PAID to make racism profitably controversial. Tiffany Cross is to Tucker Carlson what Raphael Warnock is Herschel Walker. What a massive loss.
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WERE IT NOT FOR civil rights laws Black folks DIED FOR, #NikkiHaley ’s family might not be in America. WERE IT NOT FOR an #HBCU giving her father his 1st JOB in the US, Haley wouldn’t be in a position to INSULT GA’s 1st BLACK SENATOR. Warnock’s history makes her story possible.
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Nikki Haley: "The only person we need to make sure we deport is Warnock"
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When polling places are deliberately shut down to force working people to wait HOURS to vote, it’s a poll tax. The time STOLEN from your job, and time STOLEN from your paycheck is a #SuperTuesday poll tax. This is a #2020 violation of the 24th Amendment. #VoterSuppression
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The last voter at Texas Southern University has walked out of the voting booth. It took Hervis Rogers nearly 7 hours to vote tonight. #supertuesday2020
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When Black people are shot dead by police, there is a postmortem character assassination. When a white woman is killed by police storming the Capital, there is character redemption. Every news story refers to #AshliBabbitt not as an #insurrectionist , but a veteran.
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These 2 would be murderers weren’t on the #MigrantCaravan . ALL 50 extremist murders in 2018—were by the #rightwing . Making up threats, ignoring real threats, is a public safety threat. #Trump policy & rhetoric is now a defacto apologia for extremism—& itself a danger. @AP
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Minnesota: Two Men Plead Guilty to Bombing Bloomington Mosque
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If @SenatorSessions wouldn't call grabbing your body an assault, we can't call him Attorney General. Call 877-959-6082. #WomensMarch
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Dad love can be silly, but it’s love:
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Black boys aren’t stereotypes shrink-wrapped in white fear, they’re just kids to be loved. #RalphYarl
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A WOMAN’S WORTH IN BLACK, WHITE & INJUSTICE Carey Birmingham kills his allegedly unfaithful wife with a shotgun—& is only sentenced 10 years. Marissa Alexander fired a warning shot at an allegedly abusive husband—& was sentenced 20 years. #International_Womens_Day .
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Why should ANY Black athlete play for universities in Alabama willing to use their bodies, but not teach their history or hire their people❓
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Woodfin says if anti-DEI bill passes, he would urge athletes to leave Alabama

"You might as well stand in front of the school door like Governor Wallace,” Woodfin said. “Mannnn it’s Black History Month."

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Few HAVE to risk their lives to protect others from hate, all MUST risk the status quo to protect our country from hatred. @AP @splcenter
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Taliesin Meche, 2016 graduate of Reed College, was murdered yesterday while defending strangers from racist abuse. A role model and a hero.
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My dad was an army officer, which is why I was born in a military hospital —where army doctors saved my life as a baby. WHY is #Trump treating American military babies as undocumented and under suspicion? Anti-immigrant and anti-military? #TrumpHatesMilitaryFamilies
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Baldwin’s brilliance and erudition make it clear #WhiteSupremacy is not merely a lie, but a joke.
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The sh… mess Black women go through. Her prosecution was the crime—a sin and a shame.
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BREAKING: An Ohio woman facing a criminal charge for her handling of a home miscarriage will not be charged, a grand jury decided.
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You can't both honor Muhammad Ali as a conscientious objector & object to #ColinKaepernick exercising his conscience. #UnitedWeStand @espn
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My mother dressed up to protest segregation. THEN police used water hoses to rip & ruin her clothes . She & other young people asserted power with clothes worn with dignity, not guns carried in fear. Patriot protesters dressed in camo look so weak compared to this generation.
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In requesting presidents #BarackObama & #GeorgeWBush to offer eulogies, #JohnMcCain demonstrated— even in death—a love of country larger than party. We as a nation and certainly our president can learn from #McCain ‘s legacy.
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As younger men, these 2 led very different lives.Tell President-elect @realDonaldTrump whose leadership should be honored or criticized.
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WHO IS INSULTED BY THE WAR ON WOKE❓ DeSantis has determined not only that Black voters don’t count but White voters don’t care if a presidential candidate is racist. He is politically insulting Black voters and morally insulting White voters. @ap @npr
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Those who commend Muhammad Ali & condemn #ColinKaepernick are engaging in both revisionist history & present hypocrisy. #UnitedWeStand @CNN
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Hank Aaron says he won't watch @NFL because of how Colin Kaepernick was treated
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@davidhogg111 “Concerning messages.” I get those too. Don’t underestimate their danger and the appreciation others have you. Be safe.
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A Billionaire predator rapes girls and gets 1 year in a luxury cell. A Black mother casts an uncounted vote and get 5 years in prison. #JeffreyEpstien deserves prosecution and prison, while #CrystalMason deserves her freedom. #ACLU
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Texas is sending this mother to prison for just because she filled out a provisional ballot that was not even counted. She had no idea she was ineligible to vote and an honest mistake will cost her five years. Watch Crystal’s story here.
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May Erica Garner rest in peace--and may we neither rest nor have peace until we end police brutality . Prayers for her family. @NAACP
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Erica Garner, daughter of police chokehold victim, dies in Brooklyn
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61% of Americans think Roger Goodell owes #ColinKaepernick an apology— how many think the NFL owes him a contract?$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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I VOTED for #RalphNortham AND @FairfaxJustin . That’s why I am again calling on Gov. Northam to RESIGN. His moonwalking apologies & explanations demonstrate he has to go. #Northam insults our intelligence to explain having insulted our values. It’s time for Gov. Fairfax. @AP
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I have preached #forgiveness for 25 years, BUT using the willingness of Black people to forgive as an excuse to further victimize Black people is SINFUL. America should ask Black people forgiveness for serially asking African Americans to forgive sanctioned #PoliceBrutality .
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It is so good to know that #CarleeRussell has been found alive. The public’s “right to know”, however, does not include a right to know about any trauma she may have endured. She & her family deserve privacy, time, & healing.
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Missing Alabama woman Carlee Russell has been found alive and taken to UAB Hospital, WBRC reports
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After the @jeffsessions sit-in, these mugshots aren't pretty but they're pictures of @NAACP determination. #RestoreTheVRA & #stopsessions
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On my sabbath, I wake up to the disgusting image of #ProudBoys ripping down a #BlackLivesMatter banner from my church. Will #Trump , who held up a bible in front of a church, bless not condemn this racist vandalism against Metropolitan AME Church ❓ @ap
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This #MemorialDay17 , we remember 2 soldiers we lost to HATE within days: 2LT Richard Collins III & SFC Ricky Best. Hate isn't patriotic. @NPR
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This Black boy has the lionine hair of Frederick Douglas, Bob Marley & so many regal Black men. As hard as you try to convince children they are brilliant & beautiful, some ignorant bigot is working to persuade them they’re ugly & stupid.We have to put bigots out of work.👇🏿
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REMEMBERING WOMEN REMEMBER Harriet Tubman, became the 1st woman to lead a major military operation in the US when she & 150 Black soldiers freed at 700+ slaves in the Civil War. AND Black women like her founded #MemorialDay . Courage & character comes in all colors & genders.
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To fling my arms wide In the face of the sun, Dance! Whirl! Whirl! Till the quick day is done. Rest at pale evening . . . A tall, slim tree . . . Night coming tenderly     Black like me. Langston Hughes—and the Dance Theatre of Harlem. #TuesdayThoughts
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Whether you’re a soldier like #EJBradford or a school boy like #TamirRice , we ALL deserve bullet free bodies. A young Black man is 21x more likely to be killed by police than a young White man & Black CHILDREN are more likely to face force by police than White ADULTS👇🏾
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After Cops Refuse to Release Video, Report Reveals E.J. Bradford Shot 3 Times From the Back via @TheRoot
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BREAKING: Sell “cannabis” and you qualify as an entrepreneur , use “weed” and you’re disqualified as an Olympian!? I neither smoke nor drink, but I need both to make any sense of this👇🏿 #ShaCarri #ShaCarriRichardson
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Sha’Carri Richardson's Olympic dreams may be in jeopardy after reportedly testing positive for marijuana. More:
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#FaniWillis was accused by the defendants for using the “GOD CARD” & “RACE CARD” —after they alluded she was the subject of a B**TY CALL. This is character assassination wrapped in a legal proceeding—with Black women’s dignity as collateral damage. OUTRAGEOUS
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I am so honored to serve as an executive producer for the ... New CNN Original Series “The People V. The Klan” From Blumhouse Television, Premieres Sun., April 11 at 9pm ET/PT PLEASE SHARE the story of this courageous woman, Beulah Mae Donald.
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The Ku Klux Klan killed her son. She took them down. The true story of Beulah Mae Donald is told in the powerful new CNN Original Series, The People v. the Klan, premiering Sunday, April 11th at 9 p.m. ET/PT
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4 seconds.... The time it took between a verbal command ... and a Fort Worth Cop KILLING a Black Woman inside HER home after her NEIGHBOR called police because her door was open. Are Black HOMES gun ranges for Texas police? #BothemJean @AP
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Any Senator or Representative who does not condemn the President’s #shithole comments should keep the words “Martin Luther King” out of their months on #MLKDay .Don’t offer a silent blessing of #Trump bigotry today & sing “We shall overcome” on Monday.” @CNN @NAACP @AP @Essence
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To truly see our shared humanity, we must stare into the eyes of the victims of humanity’s inhumanity.
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24 January 1916 | A Polish woman, Władysława Kaczor, was born in Łódź. A worker. In #Auschwitz from 22 January 1943. No. 30542 She perished in the camp on 16 March 1943.
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The mass #Hanukkah #MonseyStabbing has been called an act of “domestic terrorism.” While the investigation unfolds, I have exactly one question: HOW many Jews have to be attacked for America to realize we have a problem? #Antisemitism #HateCrime #terrorism #MonseyAttack
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JUST SAY IT If #DeSantis whitewashed the lynching of Italians in the 1900s, you wouldn’t call it “conservative.” If he sugarcoated the #Holocaust , you wouldn’t call it “controversial.” What he’s doing to Black people is neither controversial nor conservative, it is RACIST.
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BREAKING: The #NFL assumes #ColinKaepernick can’t play—& Blacks don’t think. The NFL legally assumed Blacks were LESS SMART to make it MORE DIFFICULT for Black players to prove brain damage from playing football👇🏾 THIS is moral cruelty wrapped in statistical “objectivity”👇🏾
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The NFL says it will halt the use of “race-norming” — which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive functioning — in a $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims. The practice had made it harder for Black players to qualify.
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“Kanye was right about the Jews.” This #AntiSemitism in neon lights portends a darkness descending across America. The imperiled “they” are us. @AP
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MISSING Please help find missing Clark Atlanta Univ. student, #AlexisCrawford . She has been missing for over a week.
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These mugshots are a measure of our #RESISTANCE after today's sit-in to #stopsessions . #NoBanNoWall
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By disrespecting @repjohnlewis , @realDonaldTrump dishonored Lewis' sacrifice & demeaned the Americans & rights, he nearly died 4. Apologize.
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On #JUNETEENTH , a story.... My Great Great Grandfather Rev. Pompey Lavallie was enslaved as a boy. My Great Grandmother Rosa Lavallie made a quilt with patches from his “britches.” My Grandma Rosa Lee put me to sleep under his quilt as a boy. Was slavery that long ago?
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Nigg*r is the last word enslaved Black men heard before being lynched, the last word Black women heard before being raped, the first word Black children heard after being enslaved, BUT #AmyConeyBarrett wrote N-Word’ doesn’t prove a workplace is hostile.
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Let the Record Show: Amy Coney Barrett Draws Scrutiny for Ruling Saying ‘N-Word’ Doesn’t Prove a...

As Senate confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s Supreme Court candidate Amy Coney Barrett began on Tuesday, her record on big-ticket issues will come under increased scrutiny as people on both...

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#AshliBabbitt was shot storming the Capital—and died AFTER receiving first aid. #BreonnaTaylor was shot standing innocently at home—and died without receiving ANY aid. Democracy & #WhiteSupremacy can’t coexist.The #insurrectionists are hash-tagging & body-bagging our democracy.
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Our family seeks prayers, justice, and answers.
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Civil Rights group claims Colleton officials are not doing enough in the death of a local black man
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DAMNABLY CLEAR CHOICE Tennessee Republicans voted to sacrifice White school children & Black legislators for #WhiteSupremacy & guns.
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Dear #JaredKushner , You say “Blacks don’t want to be successful?” My enslaved grandfather fought for his country in the Civil War, led a strike for fair wages in 1876, & died a success—in poverty. Your ancestors left you wealth, mine left us a nation.
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BREAKING: FBI is vetting 25,000 Nat. Guard troops because of the fear of an inside attack. Think about it...we can’t trust our own troops because of an #insurrectionist commander-in- chief . #Trump has weaponized us against us.
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FBI vetting Guard troops in DC amid fears of insider attack

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. defense officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, prompting the...

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While discouraged by unnecessarily long lines due to voter suppression, we are GREATLY encouraged by our voter determination! @NAACP
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How could the enslavement then emancipation of 3.9 million Black people as a RACE ever be about “INDIVIDUAL freedom?” As a professor, I have NEVER heard a student answer a question WRONG TWICE while insulting BOTH the intelligence AND conscience of everyone. SMH
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Nikki Haley today: “Of course the Civil War was about slavery. We know that. That’s the easy part of it. What I was saying was what does it mean to us today? What it means to us today is about freedom. That’s what that was all about.”
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The last survivor of a U.S. slave ship was named Redoshi & renamed Sally Smith. Mrs.Smith died in 1937. SAME YEAR government-paid workers took these photos of former slaves (1937-1938). SAME YEAR Gen. Colin Powell & Rep. @EleanorNorton were born. Was Slavery that long ago?
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Dear #America , Imagine being subject to the death penalty by anyone w/a badge. At any minute ? Anywhere? In your own home? The evidence against you? Any stereotype. Any fear. Any offense. Any reason at all. Was #BothamJean racially profiled in his OWN house? 👇🏾
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Think about this... A #WhiteNationalist takes a machete to a NJ mall to kill #Blacks —while planning to blow up #Jews in Midwest synagogues —according to the @FBI . NOW is the time to declare a National State of Emergency on #Hate . Agree? Please SHARE.
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Obama, Bush, Clinton, Carter: Declare a National State of Emergency on Hate

The four former presidents need to claim the moral high ground their successor has forfeited, and bring together a citizens' assembly of Americans—a National Summit on Hate and Democracy.

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Anticipating our arrival, Senator Sessions closes his office on the eve of a critical Senate vote. We're sitting-in anyway.
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This is the hospital where army doctors saved the life of a premature baby—3 pounds & 3 ounces, with an umbilical cord wrapped around his neck. The baby’s dad, Willie Brooks, was also an army officer. The army saved my life—and enabled my dad to become a MD. #WeRespectVets .
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Civil disobedience is 1 way for citizens to honor the rule of law. We were arrested to support a @TheJusticeDept for everyone. #stopsessions
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When Black man after Black man after Black man spends decade after decade after decade IN PRISON for crimes they did NOT commit, we say not only do #BlackLivesMatter but BLACK LIFETIMES MATTER too. 👇🏿👇🏼👇🏾👇🏽👇🏿👏🏽👇🏾👇🏽👇🏿👇🏼
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Eric Kelley and Ralph Lee Walk Out of Prison After 24-Year Fight for Freedom - Innocence Project
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I needed this....pure joy.
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Years ago, I was at Yale Law for a speech. I see this friendly looking Black man, kinda chill. He asked “where’s the bookstore, I want to buy a T shirt.” I say “I’ll take you, my name’s Cornell,” he says “my name’s John”—he humbly added “Lewis.” —that’s why he seemed familiar:)
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The ballot box isn't colored red, white & blue--it's colored w' the blood, sweat & tears of people of all colors. Vote
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Police in Norway Haven't Killed Anyone in Nearly 10 Years
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There are so many people who are SURPRISED at how QUICKLY a peaceful demonstration can turn violent. What’s more SHOCKING is how quickly a Black man’s life can be taken —less than 8 minutes. No more lives taken. #Minneapolisprotests #BlackLivesMatter
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REMEMBER the first casualties of #racism are children—they are the youngest martyrs & youngest bigots. #EmmettTill , killed by racists at 14 in 1955, would have been 79 today. Protect our children—as best we can. #SaturdayThought #BlackLivesMatter
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When polling places are deliberately shut down to force working people to wait HOURS to vote, its a poll tax. The time STOLEN from your job, and time STOLEN from your paycheck is a #SuperTuesday poll tax. This is a #2020 violation of the 24th Amendment. #VoterSuppression
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Dead white children in schools are the hidden casualties of anti-Black #VoterSupression . Voter suppression & gerrymandering have so ethically cleansed the Republican Party, TN GOP legislators can not only MIDDLE FINGER Black people, but young voters, White youth, & kids.
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Do you EVEN know Rosa Parks stood up for rape survivor Recy Taylor in 1944? She fought against sexual predators. Don’t you dare #SayHerName .
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Dear #POTUS , You falsely alleged rape by the #CentralParkFive even AFTER they were exonerated, but said nothing about due process for 5 black boys. For 2 white men accused of wife beating, you argue due process. Due process applies to more than @WhiteHouse staff or white men.
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Peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true and some are false. Some are old and some are new. There is no recovery for someone falsely accused - life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?
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@BriannaABaker Colorism, like racism, is real & wrong. I recall well a woman staring at me as a child & saying “you were such a handsome little boy, BUT you were lighter then.” As a prof. I teach civil rights—while hoping to unteach, undo trauma. I am so sorry this happened to you.
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The building manager has requested that we leave. And the police have just arrived. We are about to be arrested. @NAACP
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Enough said....
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We walked 1000 miles, Selma to DC for the vote, I am joining the march #Cville2DC against #hate . The destination is the same--justice. @AP
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Leaders can’t tell people “keep calm” while police keep killing. That’s like police screaming “don’t resist” as they beat unarmed people.
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By disrespecting @repjohnlewis , @realDonaldTrump dishonored Lewis' sacrifice & demeaned Americans & the rights, he nearly died 4. Apologize.
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BREAKING INJUSTICE After America dropped bombs on the MARSHALL ISLANDS 1948-1956, the survivors and heirs received at least $759 million. After America dropped bombs on Black people in the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, as of today the 3 living survivors will not get 1 RED CENT.
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philip lewis
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The effort to secure restitution for the three last known living survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre has ended after a judge dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice – meaning the case can’t be refiled
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Slavery was NOT “400 years ago.” 2019 is the year we commemorate the 400th anniversary of African slavery in America (1619). Slavery formally ended 246 years later in 1865. The convict leasing system only ended in 1941. Mass incarceration yet continues in 2019.
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When two men beat a Black gay man, place a noose on him and verbally assault him, it is a LYNCHING of our shared HUMANITY. In 1919 lynching was rationalized by race & sex. In 2019, a lynching justified by race & sex is as much of a SIN—and now even more of a CRIME.
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As a young student, I remember talking to a prospective roommate. My future roommate told me, “I should let you know that I am gay.” I remember thinking: No human being should have to WARN another human being about their humanity. Love and acceptance on #ComingOutDay
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Dear @kanyewest , The brutality of slavery was calibrated to the #RESISTANCE of the enslaved.There were at least 250 slave revolts—the first in 1663.Not only did Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner & Harriet Tubman resist, countless slaves engaged in acts of micro & macro resistance.
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