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intuitive storyteller in progress & at heart 🖤 here for Freedom & to dream for Justice & for art 18+// art by @leetheghost000
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The persecution of @MomodouTaal endangers all Black students, Muslim students, immigrant students. It also sets up a greater stage of persecution of all students, at a higher level of state violence, that threatens a chilling effect of the first amendment right & practice.
“If Cornell deports @MomodouTaal, we deem it an unsafe space for all Black students” — new statement from @Cornell’s Black Students United
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“When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” - Toni Morrison, born on this day in 1931
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe is credited as the Godmother of Rock ‘N’ Roll. Before Elvis, Johnny Cash or Little Richard, there was Sister Tharpe- A Black woman who forged her own sound in a male dominated industry. She does not get the credit she deserves.
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Day 17: Black Female Heralds/Trumpeters In a French painting from c. 1480-85 by Robinet Testard, there are two Black women trumpeters announcing the arrival of the masses. This depiction is a little before the famous Black trumpeter John Blanke was in England. 1/
Day 16: Black Maidens (France c. 1411) We often think of white figures when we visualize medieval fair maidens, but there were entire events, particularly in medieval France devoted to Black maidens. 1/
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They are literally wiping out centuries of ancient knowledge that our people have preserved in manuscripts and texts going back to the pre-modern historical era. This shows that their goal is to erase our cultural heritage, history, records, storytelling traditions and identity.
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ethel cain just released a song on soundcloud dedicated to the people of palestine and called out the united states government in actively funding israel’s genocide against the palestinian people. this is the language that more people need to adopt when addressing this.
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In the context of Gaza, reproductive genocide includes the control and cutting off of vital life-giving sources such as water, fuel, electricity, and food; the denial of life-giving and life-saving medical resources; collective starvation;
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Hello everyone, a friend of mine from Gaza who is studying in London on a scholarship needs help getting her family out of Gaza. Please urgently circulate this fundraiser and donate if you can. Any contribution counts. Please share and donate. https://t.co/RGuaNRIA7L
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My name is Isabelle Tarran, from London. I am raising funds on behalf of my friend… Isabelle Tarran needs your support for Help a Gaza family reach safety
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For colonizers occupation of land is never enough. The destruction of Indigenous knowledges, epistemicide is an ongoing project of subjugation
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Maha Bakhit (a Sudanese activist) says that women are taken from the city of Khartoum towards Darfur, and their hands are tied with chains and sold in the market like other goods. They also remembered that there was a merchant who said that a 13-year-old girl was crying and
Maha Bakhit (a Sudanese activist) says that she was afraid that the Rapid Support Forces would break into her house to the point that she slept with the knife under her pillow for fear that they would break down the door with heavy weapons. While her family was thinking about
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Remember Canada, for more than 160 years, had a state-sponsored "residential school" system that was designed to eradicate the language and culture of the country's Indigenous population. Birds of a settler colonial feather flock together.
BREAKING| Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denies that Israel has been committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza saying that his country rejects the premise of South Africa's case at the ICJ, which was described as fact-based and compelling.
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"Israel has forced the displacement of about 85% of Palestinians in Gaza. There is nowhere safe for them to flee to. Those who cannot leave or refuse to be displaced have either been killed or at extreme risk of being killed in their homes" Adila Hassim speaking at the ICJ
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So, let me get this right. BBC, Sky News et al are live-streaming the WHITE-majority response to the charge brought by a BLACK-majority nation so that viewers can hear a one-sided set of claims? That is, of course, the British empire's understanding of "balance" & "fair play"
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Keep marching for Gaza, it means alot for us. Call for ceasefire
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“If I am killed, write about me and tell the world about my dreams” The martyr, Reem Mahmoud Abu Daya. Reem's greatest fear was not death itself, but rather being remembered only as a statistic after being killed in the Israeli aggression. She often told her friend Mohammed,
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Rise for Gaza is a media campaign by my fellow students here in Palestine to help shed light on Israeli occupation crimes in Gaza. Consider following: #GazaGenocide #CeasefireNOW
The Israeli occupation commits 3 massacres against the people of the Gaza Strip within 3 hours, creating more than 400 martyrs, and the world still watching these crimes! #RiseforGaza
#GazaUnderAttack #GazaGenocide #Save_Gaza #IsraelPalestineConflict #palestine #Israel #Gaza
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If you are looking to read books on Palestine that debunk every Israeli myth and instead presents Palestinian history from the mouth of Palestinians themselves, there are two excellent books. 🇵🇸
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We are living the Nakba again. This time it is televised. #GazaUnderAttack #FreePalestine
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Heba Zagout was one of the most talented artists in Gaza Strip. Here is her work ⤵️ I just found out she was killed, along with children. May her memory be a blessing
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