Racism hurts, not only those victimized, but also the unborn. We pray emotional wellness for Mercedes Wells for being forced into roadside birth after rejection by medical professionals. Their firing was a small measure of justice. @joshuadubois

11 years ago today, 12 year old Tamir Rice was gunned down by police officers on Cleveland’s west side. The officer shot him within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in. Tamir’s life mattered. It still does. My thoughts are with his family today.

It is so blatant now. Yet they still don’t get it. That even their own racism was created for them by the wealthy to keep them poor. Will they ever get it?

Over 400 Years of Institutional Racism. Slavery (1619-1865) Black Codes (1865-1866) KKK (1865-) Jim Crow (1877-1954) Redlining (1934-1968) War On Drugs (1971-) Mass Incarceration (1973-) Three Strikes Law(1993-)

“If they can see it, they can be it!” Dear Black Girl, you can do it too! Hey fam, please share this with your daughters, granddaughters, sisters, nieces, cousins and friends. #BlackWomen #BlackGirls #BlackPilots 🙌🏾✈️🙌🏾

No matter they say or do, our resilience causes us to continually rise above their hate. We’re still happy, successful, beautiful, brilliant, blessed Black people! No one can break our soul. NO ONE! ✊🏾 #BlackPeople #BlackCulture #BlackLove #BlackStrength #BlackJoy #Blessed

On this day in 1923, Garrett Morgan received a patent for the invention of the modern traffic light signals. He also invented the gas mask, an improved sewing machine and a hair-straightening product.

Pope Leo ramped up his criticism of President Donald Trump's hard-line immigration polices on Tuesday, saying immigrants living in the United States were being treated by the administration in a manner that was "extremely disrespectful." The pope called for people in the U.S. "to

Resa Nelson just made history as Hofstra’s first Rhodes Scholar! At 21, this brilliant Afro-Caribbean sister is turning seaweed into biofuel, mentoring youth & dreaming of a stem cell breakthrough. Our young Queens are leading with power. The world better take notice! 👏🏿

Mississippi killed her husband. Mega Evans, one of the first victim of civil rights brutality.. He was a leader veteran gone down in front of his family.. it would take decades for the perpetrator to be charged. I had a chance to meet his beautiful widow.

Shocking video: Shows staff at Franciscan Health Crown Point, IN kicking out a pregnant black woman in active labor, told her she was only 3 cm, and sent her away. 8 minutes later, her husband delivered the baby in their car on the highway. 😳

Happy Birthday to Denise McNair. She would’ve been 74 years old today. She was among 4 girls who were killed when white supremacists bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1963.

Justice prevails: Ahmaud Arbery’s killers denied appeal, sentenced to life with no parole.✊🏾

Dearest #RubyBridges: Thank you. >>> 65 years ago today, 4 federal marshals escorted 6-year-old Ruby Bridges to her 1st day of school (1st grade), as the 1st Black student to attend previously all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana. And today, there

Thank God for our veterans! ⁦@joshuadubois⁩

The Black struggle never helped Black Americans only, but it resulted in helping humanity. That’s the difference between us and these other people. This is also why they work so hard to dismantle everything we’ve done. But they’re declining so…🤷🏾‍♀️ #CivilRights #HumanRights

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Your Sunday words of wisdom….. #DV1 #DemsUnited

Socialism is not a bad word (except to the ultra wealthy) it isn't a bad system, it isn't communism or a threat to capitalism. It's a tested and tried system that works extremely well in other parts of the country resulting in high satisfaction rates among citizens. #MAGA

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