Aunjanue Ellis
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My heart aches. It aches for Regina. My grandmother and the sisters of the church would come and sit. Let’s sit with Regina wherever we are.
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Big Congratulations to my fellow Oscar nominees!
@ArianaDeBose
@kirstendunst
@jessiebuckIey
@JudiDench007
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THE NAME OF THE CEO OF DANIEL DEFENSE, THE MANUFACTURER OF THE GUN THAT KILLED THE CHILDREN IN UVALDE IS MARTY DANIEL. JOIN ME IN MAKING IT VERY HARD FOR THIS COMPANY TO CONTINUE TO DO BUSINESS.
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“The MS State Flag is an AMERICAN issue. Every American should be outraged that a treasonous symbol is flying on American soil, being protected and glorified by a State government in support of white supremacy” -
@GenesisBe
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The lack of access to sufficient WiFi to rural communities especially is an issue that lawmakers must confront. How are students supposed to virtual school if there is no WiFi? Also children are w/o computers. This is not just a problem for education. It is a health emergency.
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Words fail. They fail. They are overdone and say too little in these moments but I will try. I am bereft and undone over the loss of
@chadwickboseman
. He was an extraordinary talent and a irreplaceable icon. I am thankful to have worked with him.
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Getting a Black woman on the Supreme Court is so important for having representation that understands the unique needs of Black and brown people.
#SheWillRise
is working to make that happen.
Learn more at
@sistascotus
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#AMERICA
Will you take a stand? How many more have to die b/c of HATE?
#TakeitDownAmerica
tomorrow at 11am in DC!
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"Hair is a part of YOU, and
@NYCCHR
just made clear that discrimination based on hair will not be tolerated.
#YourHairYourRightNYC
Please read and share!
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I am also thankful for the role he played to all the little black boys/girls who finally saw a hero that looked like them. Rest well champion, you suffered in silence as so many warriors do.
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When the
#museum
broke ground the wife of Medgar Evers, Ms. Myrlie Evers, the governors and former governors ensured her that
#confederate
flags surrounded her as she spoke-the same flags flown by the men who killed her husband.
#sameflag
#samewhitemen
#thesamemen
#TakeItDown
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Senator Hyde-Smith and the Mississippi flag must go. Their heritage is teeming with black blood | Opinion
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Today the white supremacist leadership of the State of Mississippi will be opening its state funded civil rights museum. These are the same men who have made the flag of the
#KKK
the official flag of the State of
#Mississippi
.
#thesamemen
#TakeItDown
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Mississippi is the “birthplace of American music” a proud piece of history! My friend
@GenesisBe
designed “The Briggs Flag” honoring her grandfather and civil rights activist Rev. Clyde Briggs. Please share!
@MDAH_Official
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In
@LiciBev
article for USA TODAY on “inspiring women from Mississippi,”
@LiciBev
pays homage to
#FannieLouHamer
in celebration of the ratification of the 19th amendment.
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When the Oscars fail to see the glory and brilliance of the work of non-whites, it is NOT our failure or insufficiency; it is theirs.
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Please watch this extraordinary film on hero Congressman John Lewis produced by the beloved Erika Alexander. Watch on this link or on Poor People’s Campaign Color of Change or UNCF platforms. The film will split price of ticket with these organizations
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@LiciBev
fails to mention that at the time of ratification, Mrs. Hamer would have been denied the right to vote. This so-called celebration is not one for Black women in this country.
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It is time that the
@DiscChannel
channel networks and
@AETV
networks end filming in MS until the confederate flag is removed.
It is time that director
#TateTaylor
end filming in MS until the confederate flag is removed
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Guest Editor
@aunjanuejlt
offers a glimpse of her in-progress screenplay about the Mississippi civil rights crusader Fannie Lou Hamer.
#summervoicesatthebittersoutherner
#VotingRights
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From me and my
#BookofNegroes
family, from my mama, my sister, my niece, my nephew, my man, we thank you, beautiful viewer! Much obliged.
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Sometimes you gotta stand for what you believe!
#ConfederacyIsHate
#TakeItDownAmerica
#MSFlag
#thegracies
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First. We have to stop measuring ourselves against the white gaze, their institutions, their traditions.
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These are the same white men who have YET to apologize for the state’s statement of secession—its reason for leaving the union—which says explicitly “OUR POSITION IS THOROUGHLY IDENTIFIED WITH SLAVERY.”
#thesamewhitemen
#theSameMen
#TakeItDown
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A big congratulations to my fellow Brown Alum
@AyadAkhtar
on his appointment as president of PEN America.
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@JoanGabel
Thank you Ms. Gabel! We hope your actions will inspire other institutions to follow suit!
Sick about
#GeorgeFloyd
and yet oh so thankful for a president who knows the power she holds and her capacity to make a change.
@JoanGabel
@UMNews
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They invite Donald
#Trump
to further the legacies of the honorees. It is to be expected. They are confederates. He is a Nazi-sympathizer. They are the same men
#samewhitemen
#thesamemen
#TakeItDown
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These are the same white men who designated April
#confederate
heritage month.
#thesamemen
#TakeItDown
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Hey y'all! First thank you! Thank you for those of you who are watching tonight and who have been watching. My heart is full.
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SHARE!!!
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I hope this means that in the near future we will see some real leadership from the organization on domestic terrorism expressed in the continued legality of the confederate flag in this country.
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These are the same men who have passed The Religious Freedom Law making discrimination against
#queer
people legal.
#lthesamemen
#HB1523
#TakeItDown
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These are the same men designate state holidays for confederate generals.
#thesamemen
#TakeItDown
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I'm NOT AFRAID to call a
#Spade
a spade. I will call out
#RogerGoodell
&
#PhilJackson
who treat People of Color like chattle. Join me!
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When will
@PENamerica
stop being complicit in proxy re-segregation? It is imperative your tenure as president brings about a revolution of practice in the organization. Right now, it is an accomplice to the murder and torture of American citizens.
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READ: My Op-Ed:
#TheHelp
's
#AunjanueEllis
: I will not act in
#Mississippi
until the flag comes down
http://t.co/nqmtKeCReJ
via
@TIMEIdeas
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It's a New Year and we must continue the work we started in 2016. Let the
#NFL
know we see them and it's not cool!
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@AyadAkhtar
, when will organizations like
@PENamerica
PENamerica stop being complicit in racial terror?
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Thank you
@MichaelEDyson
!
Eric Dyson says taking down Confederate flag is an American problem: This ain't no MS problem.
#TakeItDownAmerica
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"Ellis displays broad range: resilience in the face... of inhumanity"
#Emmy
#FYC
http://t.co/yos9x8k9sK
@BostonGlobe
http://t.co/INVnIv1DjC
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At Roof penalty trial, victims' families shift focus from the killer
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That has to change. How we discuss this country's history has to change. It has to. I'm hoping folks get a little bothered and demand more.
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#Purpose
: Actress Aunjanue Ellis Launches Rally to Remove Stars and Bars of Confederate Flag in Mississippi
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I was clueless about the document The Book of Negroes which is a testament to the sparse nature of education in American history.
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Mr. Bush, I will do everything in my power to ensure that you will never step foot in the WH except as a tourist.
#Freestuff
. Still waitin.
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Enjoying
#TheGracies
with my fellow sisters, we must stand together against
#MSFlag
#TakeItDownAmerica
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Gov. Bryant, this is the legacy you stand behind when you stand by that flag-- a legacy of terrorism.
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Honored to be awarded Best Female in a leading role in a made for TV movie
#BookOfNegroes
@BET
#TheGracies
#MSFlag
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"Acting is her career but her true calling may be as an activist in this climate of social change." Thanks
@afronews
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Hey Tweeps, join my Facebook page for my LIVE event taking place on Sunday at noon. If you're in D.C. meet me at
#UnionStation
!
#TakeitDown
!
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@ReignOfApril
The flag merely placed on a Black body does not upset the power of the oppressor; it honors it.
http://t.co/4rHZ6vPbsH
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PLEASE stop calling for PEACE. There never will be peace until this stops. Peace only means "behave, black people."
http://t.co/eXwLV5wFVU
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Ellis is using her platform to address racial issues with the same presence that she brings to her roles.
#Truth
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#Emmys
10 Things You Need to Know About
#AunjanueEllis
@bookofnegroes
http://t.co/UPJCUjl8MV
via
@BET
@CBC
@eOne_TV
http://t.co/Cp0Nm6RfVz
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Thanks y'all again for watching tonight. Keep helping us push our little train up that hill! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Just have to say to my now brother Lyric Bent, thank you! For your selflessness. For your beautiful Chekura! Thank you!!
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Join us on
#FlagDay
in
#DC
to
#TakeItDown
#MSFlag
with
@MichaelEDyson
@GenesisBe
and
@Esquiremoore
!
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Yes
@Kaepernick7
Should Be Praised, Not Condemned. He's standing up for the MAJORITY of the
#NFL
player base!
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Morgan Freeman, John Grisham and Others Take Out Ad Against Mississippi’s Flag | TIME Yessssssss!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!
http://t.co/T9hOdy78PL
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#Mississippians
shouldn't be
#taxed
and forced to pay for or pledge allegiance to the
#ConfederateFlag
#TakeItDownAmerica
@rolandsmartin
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#MeetmeinDC
and if you can't set your alarm to join me on Facebook Live today at Noon and hear what I have to say to
#RogerGoodell
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REVIEW: "
#AunjanueEllis
dazzles as the uncompromising
#AminataDiallo
"
http://t.co/CYD7cOnybX
#FYC
#EMMYforAminata
http://t.co/6LNxiyJb3t
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Hmmm...SC State Rep. Who Wanted
#ConfederateFlag
Raised After Dylann Roof Killings Beat, Pointed Gun at Wife
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Mississippi is the ONLY state left that has a flag displaying the Confederate Flag.
#MSFlag
#Takeitdownamerica
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#BookofNegroes
#AminataDiallo
- "Marvelously played by
#AunjanueEllis
"
http://t.co/dyTmuLU8eO
@NYDailyNews
#Emmy
#FYC
http://t.co/yg8eFyYXsz
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Tonight you will meet Daddy Moses played by national treasure Lou Gossett Jr!!
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Thank you
@NatUrbanLeague
for last night. Yes, I am an undaunted citizen & will continue my work this Sunday in D.C.
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We are approaching the 1 year anniversary of the
#Charleston9
. The
#MSFlag
#ConfederateFlag
is a painful reminder
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Join me Feb 20th. NYC. Register for Free. W/
@NYUSocEnt
@focusforhealth
@rolandsmartin
@GenesisBe
#TakeItDown
#MSFlag
#confederateflag
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