Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones Twitter profile

Last Seen Profiles

@cathexpro

@HeyGuffaw

@beckyhopepalmer

@paspeinsp

@kalanit_saidon

@Farmers_eSports

@OXtoolsUK

@Nemutiy

@KenyonClay8

@JillTytherleigh

@jessieeeaaa

@Piggy_Towers

@ScottGrimes

@HUSKYTHICK

@BigHomie_Shaunn

@AlatabiAbdulalm

@SheebsXL

@plastic_pipes

@imomr15

@yourmegitsune

@mikami_ai_

@PokerDetox

@yasereba_ikemen

@DavidDeschane1

@DannyArcher313

@Asw0M7aOWahpXWV

@permuy16

@sidthesiddid

@kamaruch

@YabosWest1

@RBLI

@GaymingBear

@MasterChef_it

@shouldntlook

@FoodLion

@amenteesme

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

I’m tripping that you can assault someone on live television on stage at the Oscars and just take your seat and watch the rest of the show.

7K

16K

181K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

1 year

My daughter just asked my birth year and I said 1976, and she said, "Dang! That's close to the Holocaust." And I was going to object, but it's actually closer to the Holocaust than it is to the present day and now I'm messed up for the rest of the day.

971

4K

85K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

Journalists, stop calling the failure to pass the voting rights bill a “major setback” for Democrats. It is a major setback for DEMOCRACY. The right to vote is not a partisan issue. Stop framing it as such and legitimizing anti-voter efforts.

1K

19K

71K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

With a bachelor’s degree I worked part-time at Subway, as a receptionist, and as a cashier at a department store. I sold mattresses with a master’s degree. I also am human enough to know that your job does not dictate your value.

834

9K

61K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

Say it with me: Voting rights secure all other rights.

1K

10K

59K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

I was invited to give an MLK speech today and a small number of members of the group hosting me wrote and then leaked emails opposing my giving this speech, as it dishonored Dr. King for me to do so. They called me a "discredited activist" "unworthy of such association with King"

1K

18K

58K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

We knew it was coming and yet it still took my breath away. I have no words.

409

5K

53K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

I’ve been thinking more and more that newsrooms need to hold an all-staff meeting where they invite democracy experts & historians in & really do a massive reset of how we are covering what’s happening in our country right now. It’s not about partisanship but covering reality.

2K

11K

50K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

In this country, you can even kill white people and get away with it if those white people are fighting for Black lives. This is the legacy of 1619.

5K

12K

47K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 months

Let’s look at the race of the pilots of every U.S. flight that has ever crashed and then call this what it is: unabashed, standard-issue, racism.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸

@patriottakes

3 months

Charlie Kirk: “I’m sorry. If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’”

4K

2K

5K

1K

6K

47K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

You know what hurts workers more than the cost of milk? The cost of childcare.

354

5K

44K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

A model, in many ways, for how journalists in real time should be forcing politicians to back up their claims with facts and sources and not simply allowing them to go unchallenged.

The Problem With Jon Stewart

@TheProblem

2 years

Jon interviewed Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas Attorney General, about why her state banned gender-affirming care for minors - ignoring the guidelines of major medical organizations and taking the decision out of parents’ hands. Watch the full interview on @AppleTVPlus

9K

53K

214K

617

7K

42K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

This is an argument against every public good and that’s not how public goods work. Why should we pay, then, for public school if our kids attend private or we have no kids? Why pay for libraries if we choose to and have the ability to buy books instead of borrow?

Michael Stratford

@mstratford

3 years

Pelosi also questioned the policy wisdom of cancelling student loan debt: “Suppose…your child just decided they, at this time, [do] not want to go to college but you’re paying taxes to forgive somebody else’s obligations. You may not be happy about that."

6K

623

3K

751

7K

40K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

I am confused about how one state going Republican for governor and another remaining Democrat is the death knell for Biden’s agenda. Seems like the scripts are written no matter the results.

1K

4K

38K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

This is why it’s not enough to tell people to vote. People did vote. These voter suppression laws are in response to people organizing and voting. Our democracy is on the cusp and we cannot treat this as politics as usual.

389

8K

38K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

Happy Birthday to Frederick Douglass, the greatest American ever born. When he self-emancipated, Douglass chose Valentine's Day as his birthday because his mother gave him a heart-shaped cake right before she was sold away. This country has taken so much, and yet we keep giving.

272

5K

38K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

I've been staying off of here today, but just know I see you all and I am grateful.

1K

876

36K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

Black people tried to tell y’all. Do you believe us now?

714

3K

36K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

I have been overwhelmed by all the support you all have shown me. It has truly fortified my spirit and my resolve. You all know that I will OK. But this fight is bigger than me, and I will try my best not to let you down.

780

2K

34K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

It’s actually simple: If you can feel pride in things you didn’t personally take part in, then you can feel shame in things you didn’t personally take part in. Some of you are motivated to make this hard, but it’s only hard bc you want the glory of our history but not the burden.

663

8K

34K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

1 year

Remember when we were told they weren't opposing the teaching of Black history, just "CRT"? And how many dismissed those of us who said these laws were anti-history laws, and anti-Black? Perhaps one day folks will listen to those who know.

DeSantis Blocks AP African-American Studies Course for Breaking Florida’s Anti-CRT Law

It’s thought to be the first time a state has refused a College Board Advanced Placement course.

www.thedailybeast.com

816

11K

34K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

Y’all, my daughter has been asking for a dog since she was five years old. The other day I told her for the first time I’d actually consider it. Why did I do that? She has been going IN since I said that. And last night she hit us with the 10-slide PowerPoint presentation. 😂😩👏🏽

3K

897

33K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

8 months

That's right. "We've" never heard of her. What an amazing self-own.

Sassafrass84

@Sassafrass_84

8 months

Can we start teaching real history again? Link in the comments.

2K

3K

5K

334

2K

33K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

In 2021, I was tested & disrespected. I had the audacity to say I refuse while wearing this bright red hair that so angers people who think intellect & success must adhere to their norms. Most of all tho, I’ve been loved, supported, uplifted. Grateful and looking forward to 2022.

788

1K

33K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

This really is what it’s about. They do not want accurate history, but to erase history. It never occurs to them that we should teach both.

635

4K

31K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

I’ve avoided tweeting about the white supremacist massacre so not to dishonor the dead in anyway. But I keep obsessing over the constant drumbeat of the last year abt the dangers of CRT when the literal violent danger of the white supremacy CRT exposes has been downplayed/denied.

241

5K

31K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

I left them with this: People who oppose today what he stood for back then do not get to be the arbiters of his legacy. The real Dr. King cannot be commodified, homogenized, and white-washed and whatever side you stand on TODAY is the side you would have been back then.

73

4K

31K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

Imagine being in a foreign country, not speaking the language, desperate and with your child, and being dropped off in the middle of the street in a strange city with nothing because a politician wants to stoke the ugliest instincts of humanity. American exceptionalism indeed.

4K

6K

31K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

Folks on here saying this will energize “women” voters are blatantly ignoring that majority of Black, Latina, Asian and Indigenous women voted against Republicans, and majority of white women voted for despite Rs explicit promise to end Roe. So, what are you really saying?

591

5K

31K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

9 months

Once again, it is Black people who are the greatest agents of democracy the United States has ever seen.

1K

4K

31K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

💪🏽✊🏽

CBS Mornings

@CBSMornings

3 years

JUST IN: Award-winning journalist @nhannahjones reveals on @CBSThisMorning she has declined the University of North Carolina's offer for tenure and will be the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Reporting at @HowardU .

604

3K

12K

927

3K

30K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

Dr. King was a radical critic of racism, capitalism and militarism. He didn't die. He was assassinated. And many, including Regan, fought the national holiday we're not commemorating. If you haven't read, in entirety, his speeches, you've been miseducated & I hope that you will

174

4K

30K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

9 months

If you understand the history of Montgomery -- one of the most prolific slave-trading cities in the US turned brutally repressive apartheid regime after, and majority Black but JUST got its first Black mayor -- it gives so much more perspective to this video. Trust.

Shannonnn sharpes Burner (PARODY Account)

@shannonsharpeee

9 months

Yo this is wild 😭 A group of white men attacked a black security guard after the security asked them to move their pontoon boat so the big Harriot can dock. They refused to & attacked the security guard. A group of black men seen & went defend him by beating the white men 💯🙌🏾

17K

88K

479K

249

5K

30K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

What would it look like if Democrats ran an anti-gun campaign the way Republicans ran the anti-CRT campaign?

1K

4K

30K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

4 months

The cruelty of being the poorest state in America and choosing — choosing — to turn down federal aid for poor children to eat.

philip lewis

@Phil_Lewis_

4 months

Gov. Tate Reeves’ office says Mississippi won’t participate in a federal summer food program for children because of his desire to reject “attempts to expand the welfare state”

1K

2K

4K

1K

8K

30K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

America is not a racist country but if we teach our children about all the racist things this country has done they might think the country is racist is a helluva argument, I have to say.

409

4K

29K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

13 days

He shot this 60-year-old woman three times. This is the result of a society with too many guns and too little tolerance and the certainty that the law will protect you for shooting first.

philip lewis

@Phil_Lewis_

13 days

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

1K

8K

31K

984

7K

30K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

Here's a thought: Maybe vaccinated people are still wearing masks because none of us know who is and is not vaccinated and so it is an act of being unselfish to not force workers/others to determine who is putting them at risk and who isn't. WE'RE STILL IN A PANDEMIC.

511

6K

29K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

Many companies are stepping up and offering travel and other assistance for their employees to get abortion access but women should not have to share this private health decision with their employers in order to access what yesterday was a constitutional right.

479

4K

29K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

I have to say hotels claiming they aren’t cleaning rooms daily because of Covid while operating fully maskless bars and restaurants is a great hustle.

382

2K

29K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

14 days

Honestly, y’all should be embarrassed for even posting this salary. Women deserve better.

NBACentral

@TheDunkCentral

14 days

Caitlin Clark’s contract (Via @spotrac )

4K

2K

53K

6K

4K

29K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

Sometimes, Black women simply must say: I refuse.

277

3K

27K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

Are folks realizing how insane this is? One, that teaching an academic theory is prohibited by law? Two, that what’s really outlawed is teaching about race, racism and accurate history? Three, that educators are losing their jobs over this?

TODAY

@TODAYshow

3 years

Dr. James Whitfield, a Black high school principal in Texas, is fighting to get back to his job after being accused of promoting critical race theory, which is outlawed in the state. @ahylton26 reports.

268

753

2K

494

8K

27K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

Here is my full statement about my decision to decline tenure at UNC Chapel Hill and instead accept the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Reporting at @HowardU .

Legal Defense Fund

@NAACP_LDF

3 years

"I have never asked for special treatment. I did not seek it here. All I asked was to be judged by my credentials and treated fairly and equally." @nhannahjones ' official statement on declining the tenure offer from UNC Chapel Hill:

159

2K

8K

703

5K

27K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 months

DEI is not the reason why you presume Black people aren’t qualified. Racism is the reason. And a need to believe a Black person could not possibly do better than you. I know it and you know it, too.

4K

6K

27K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

Because clearly it still needs to be said: Student loan forgiveness is not about irresponsible people taking out education loans and then not paying. These are compounding interest loans: borrowers are struggling because they pay many times OVER what they borrowed and still owe!

525

5K

27K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE TWEETS SOME NONSENSE DOES NOT MEAN I AM REQUIRED TO DEBATE THEM ON HERE OR ANYWHERE ELSE. MY PUBLISHED WORK IS MY DEBATE.

422

1K

27K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

1 year

If you're going to lock up everything in the drug store, an already demeaning shopping experience, at least have enough workers to open up the cases for all the customers who just need a razor.

645

2K

27K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

This is why the 1619 Project exists. This is why the decades of scholarship that undergirds the 1619 Project exists. Because if we do nothing, they will co-opt our history and use it against us.

70

2K

26K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

What we are seeing is exactly why the #1619Project needed to exist in the first place. All these laws are doing are confirming the thesis of the project and affirming why this work must and will go forward.

213

5K

26K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

I used to only read history. Now I’m mostly reading on fascism and authoritarianism and how how democracies fail. If you’re a journalist in these times and not doing the same, I’m wondering why.

984

4K

25K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

7 months

Imagine being Black and running in a political party where you believe you need to disgrace your ancestors to have a chance.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

7 months

Tim Scott says Johnson's Great Society was harder to survive than slavery

985

526

2K

1K

5K

26K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

When I deleted Facebook some years ago over privacy concerns, I missed it for approximately four days. All I have felt since then is liberated. Trust me, it will be ok if you stop using it.

633

2K

25K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

So, I scrapped my original speech and spent the entire first half of it reading excerpts from a bunch of Dr. King's speeches, but without telling anyone that I was doing so, leading the audience to think King's words were mine. And, whew, chile, it was AMAZING.

184

3K

25K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

Oh, the uncomfortable silence as I read Dr. King's words at a commemoration of Dr. King's life when people had no idea that these were his words. When I revealed that everything I said to that point was taken from his speeches between '56 and 67... Can you say SHOOK!

125

2K

25K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

To test how race-neutral the DeSantis bill and others like it are, Black, Latino and Indigenous parents should flood these states with lawsuits about lessons that make their children feel discomfort, or that one race is superior to another and see how it goes.

322

5K

25K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

When the speech was over, Father Pfleger, who had been been cheering me on from the crowd, whispered in my ear: That's what you call the "You Gone Learn Today" speech and I 💀. Because, yeah.

95

1K

25K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

Def the Blackest halftime show in history. #HalfTimeShow

501

1K

24K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

The family *needs* to be honored with some financial reparations.

The New York Times

@nytimes

3 years

Nearly 70 years after her death, Henrietta Lacks — whose cancer cells were taken without her knowledge or consent and led to world-changing advances in medical and scientific research— was honored by the World Health Organization.

125

880

4K

203

4K

24K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

I came from a working-class family. My parents took out Plus Loans & desperate to make something of myself I took out 10s of 1000s in student loans. After repaying many multiples of my original debt, at 45 I finally paid them off. I’d wish that on no one coming behind me.

290

2K

24K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

Do you ever notice how few teachers are ever interviewed in these so-called CRT stories? Simply allowing Republican operatives posing as “concerned parents” to fear-monger about what they don’t want or what they say is happening, isn’t actually good reporting.

386

4K

23K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

I am so honored to reveal the covers of the first #1619Project books: THE 1619 PROJECT: A NEW ORIGIN STORY, which dramatically expands the original project, & the children's picture book BORN ON THE WATER, both to publish by @OneWorldLit Nov. 16. Info at

2K

4K

23K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

I never want to hear anything again about “dysfunctional Black culture.”

Ron Filipkowski

@RonFilipkowski

2 years

The Boebert family.

9K

1K

5K

638

3K

23K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

@WhitlockJason Helluva take from the king of shitty takes. You can’t simultaneously valorize an entire profession as innately heroic and then justify letting children die because Americans don’t think police should lynch a Black man on national television.

104

1K

23K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

Teach our children the truth.

419

3K

23K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

Racist slurs have always been about power, that is why it is convenient for people atop the racial hierarchy to pretend otherwise. There is no equivalent to the N-word that Black people can deploy against white people because of the history of white power in the US.

304

5K

23K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

8 months

Journalists: the Jacksonville mass murder was not racially motivated violence, it was RACIST violence. We must be specific and direct with our language.

528

5K

23K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

I’m thinking leg two of the #1619Project needs to be the “banned book” tour, where I go to all the states that have banned the teaching of this work! What do y’all think?

809

1K

23K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

This was a dream I didn’t even have the audacity to dream. No magazine has meant more to me than @essence . As a Black girl from a working-class family in a working-class town, Essence exposed me to the beautiful spectrum and possibilities of Black womanhood. I am pinching myself.

876

2K

22K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

There’s more.

MacArthur Foundation

@macfound

3 years

MacArthur Fellows @nhannahjones and Ta-Nehisi Coates join the @HowardU faculty to establish the Center for Journalism and Democracy: #MacFellow

245

4K

19K

404

2K

22K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

But it somehow doesn’t include teaching students about racism and inequality?

Chuck Grassley

@ChuckGrassley

2 years

Free speech is free speech PERIOD that spirit incl speech on podcasts

3K

1K

9K

215

4K

22K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 months

Y’all. There’s no illusion anymore. Kids in the diverse Miami-Dade school system in Florida having to sign permission slips to be read to from a book because it’s “by an African American.”

Chuck Walter @ FriendApp

@ChuckWalterFL

3 months

I had to give permission for this or else my child would not participate??? @SuptDotres #BlackHistoryMonth

1K

4K

16K

987

8K

23K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

11 months

UC does not have affirmative action, Black students remain under-enrolled. Blaming Black folks, however, never goes out of style.

Carla ‘Bluechecked’ Marinucci

@cmarinucci

11 months

Asian-American student with 1590 SAT score and 4.65 GPA rejected by 6 elite colleges, inc ⁦ @UCBerkeley ⁩ — blames affirmative action @FoxNews

2K

365

2K

208

4K

22K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

1K

948

22K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

28 days

Why would a journalist even ask this question? When was the last time journalists asked a white governor if a catastrophe happened because too many white people were hired? This is how racial propaganda works. Media should not legitimize it.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

29 days

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Republicans blaming DEI for the bridge collapse: "I have no time for foolishness."

500

2K

11K

546

6K

22K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

Parents in NYC public schools are being asked to try to get our children tested b4 returning to school tomorrow. This is an abject failure. If the city wanted testing, they should have provided home tests before the holiday or rapid testing for every student at the door tomorrow.

449

2K

22K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

The fear that you’ll be treated the way you’ve treated others.

Right Wing Watch

@RightWingWatch

3 years

Pat Robertson says critical race theory is "a monstrous evil" that is urging people of color to "rise up and overtake their oppressors" so that once they've "gotten the whip handle," they'll then "instruct their white neighbors how to behave."

4K

1K

3K

709

4K

22K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

I am HERE for this.

JM Rieger

@RiegerReport

2 years

REPORTER: Is this unfair to people who paid their student loans or chose not to take out loans? BIDEN: Is it fair to people who, in fact, do not own multi-billion-dollar businesses if they see one of these guys getting all the tax breaks? Is that fair? What do you think?

6K

21K

143K

386

2K

22K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

They called Ida B. Wells a “slanderous and nasty-minded mulattress.” None of this is new. And I told y’all: I am built for this.

425

1K

22K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

Through the years people would ask me why I didn’t teach at an HBCU and I’d say because no HBCU ever asked me. Thank you @HUPrez17 for asking. So happy to be part of The Mecca.

209

1K

22K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

My hair color really makes some of you so mad because it grates against your classist, misogynoir notions of what a successful Black woman should look like. I refuse to wear the uniform and everything about my look is intentional. Have a great day!

798

1K

21K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

I nearly fell out. We should make doing this a thing.

🥀_ Imposter_🥀

@Imposter_Edits

2 years

These guys crashed a confederate army reenactment, they even came dressed to play a role.

2K

21K

117K

465

2K

21K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

Meanwhile, Black folks sitting behind bars for weed convictions.

Colin Landforce 🛠

@landforce

2 years

5 years ago I left my job to start selling weed with some guys I grew up with. Our first year we sold $1.2M to dispensaries a pound at a time. Now we're publicly traded and we'll do $130M in 2022. Millions of jars, joints, edibles, vapes. Here's what we did:

838

4K

19K

302

4K

21K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

This is absolutely hilarious because literally from 1790 to 1967 every single member of the Supreme Court was selected initially through an exclusionary criteria of race and gender. What is wrong with some of you?

Jonathan Turley

@JonathanTurley

2 years

Biden is now going to create one of the more jarring and incongruous moments in the history of the Supreme Court. When the justices will hear arguments on the use of race in admissions, one member will have been selected initially through an exclusionary criteria of race and sex.

2K

510

2K

373

4K

21K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

Oh, this was something. Study history folks. Everything old is new again, including motivations.

More Than A Vote

@morethanavote

3 years

That moment when he realizes he put a Jim Crow-era slogan in the bill he’s claiming isn’t voter suppression😬

2K

15K

52K

356

5K

21K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

Last night's shooting & the appalling rise of anti-Asian violence stem frm a sick society where nationalism has again been stoked & normalized. Anti-Black & anti-Asian racism & violence run in tandem in the U.S. Both grps were brought here for labor but never meant to be citizens

529

7K

21K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

The type of country that prevented a talented player from playing strictly because of his race is precisely the history you don’t want children learning.

Tom Cotton

@SenTomCotton

2 years

75 years ago, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier as the first African American Major League Baseball Player. Today we honor him and his lasting legacy.

7K

402

4K

340

4K

21K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

This is why journalists must stop reporting law enforcement accounts as fact. We should be highly skeptical at all times. We know better. Do your jobs.

AJ+

@ajplus

3 years

UPDATE: Chicago has released bodycam video of the police killing of 13-year-old #AdamToledo : ▪️ The video shows Adam had his hands up when police opened fire, killing him. ▪️ Cook County now says prosecutor made an error when they said Adam was holding a gun.

824

12K

23K

138

5K

21K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

8 months

A truly powerful moment in my journey was getting to meet Ms. Viola Fletcher, radiant at 109, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre. As we held each other's books, I felt the power and gravity of the moment: They want to hide a history that we are still living.

253

3K

21K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

Let me say, again, the use of the word wokeness and/or woke by journalists is lazy and biased and counts on the reader/viewer filling in with his or her own stereotypes. If you can’t state specifically what you mean, why are you writing it?

386

3K

21K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

A few weeks ago, parents, activists and educators in a red state where Republicans hold a legislative supermajority successfully beat back an anti-history (CRT) law, & yet I saw no national coverage of it at all. This says something important about media.

Indiana Senate kills CRT-inspired legislation that created outrage among educators, Black Hoosiers

The Indiana Senate killed controversial House Bill 1134 Wednesday night after several hours of closed-door discussions in the Republican caucus.

www.indystar.com

309

7K

21K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

1 year

Interesting choice by @CBSSunday -- my favorite news show btw-- to do an entire segment in book bans that didn't feature one POC, that didn't mention the racial makeup of Moms of Liberty, and that erased the role the targeting of 1619 Project has played in all of this.

428

5K

21K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

I do not understand people who think journalism is important enough to read but somehow are offended that it must be paid for. Producing journalism is not free.

552

2K

21K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

Thomas Jefferson's occupation was an enslaver. That's what he did for a living. Enslaved people built Monticello, worked its lands, made the nails and the bricks, cooked the food, and one enslaved woman bore his children. He went to Monticello for a fairy tale & got hit w reality

Ron Filipkowski

@RonFilipkowski

2 years

Fox brings on a guest who was a recent visitor to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, to complain about his tour guide over-emphasizing TJ’s history as a slave owner: “I just thought that Monticello would be protected from this disease of wokeism.”

4K

1K

8K

514

4K

21K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

Just got home from two days of emotionally devastating filming in my ancestral land of Mississippi and this was waiting for me. It’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen and I finally am holding it in my hands. The very first image in the book: That’s my dad. 🖤🖤🖤

406

1K

20K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

To be clear: We should care about Ukraine. But not because it is European, or the people appear white, or they are “civilized” and not “impoverished.” All people deserve to be free and to be welcomed when their countries are at war.

600

3K

20K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

I cannot predict what will happen in our country, but I do believe we will look back and be appalled at the failures of journalism in this period of clear and in my lifetime, unprecedented, attacks on freedom of speech and our democratic institutions.

395

3K

20K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

Every time they do this, they think they are insulting me, but really are just revealing how much it bothers them to the point of obsession that this Black woman has done something that they never will and never can.

547

2K

20K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

Even if you feel the jury got it right for legal reasons, what kind of person are you to celebrate *someone* who went armed to a protest with an illegal gun and killed two people.

2K

3K

20K

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

3 years

When you study racism as long as I have, little can be truly shocking, but my God, this was just breathtaking and heartbreaking and shows once again how little so many in this society acknowledge the basic humanity of Black children. It's also why investigative reporting MATTERS.

Ken Armstrong

@bykenarmstrong

3 years

Three police officers went to an *elementary* school in Tennessee & arrested four Black girls. One girl fell to her knees. Another threw up. Police handcuffed the youngest, an 8 yo with pigtails. Their supposed crime? Watching some boys fight — and not stopping them. (THREAD)

5K

63K

133K

354

6K

20K