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All Black Everything. Educator. Writer. Organizer. Brother. Son. Contact: zellie.imani @gmail .com

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2 years
Community Fridges are resource hubs where anyone can share surplus food. It’s normalizing the idea that no one should go hungry. It normalizes the reality that everyone needs food. Our Silk City Community fridge has been running since the summer and we hope to install more.❤️
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How do the "I Don't See Color" people see "Black on Black" crime?
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4 years
Today is a perfect day to arrest Breonna Taylor’s killers.
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Two girls walking down a market street in Lagos after leaving the mosque. ⁠
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Still relevant.
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You shouldn’t have to see footage of murdered Black people to be convinced of their humanity.
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These three girls dressed up as the women portrayed in "Hidden Figures" are winners!
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Today, just like yesterday, is a perfect day to arrest the killers of Breonna Taylor.
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Good Morning arrest the cops that killed Breonna Taylor while she was sleeping in her own home.
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6 years
Who did this.
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We said cancel student debt not bomb Syria.
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4 years
You begging blacks to respect private property but not begging cops and courts to respect black lives and black humanity.
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3 years
Steve Harvey is dressed like he just got to Gotham City and is about to ruin Batman's day
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3 years
Pretty much
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Black and Hispanic people are thugs. Muslims are terrorists. White people are “kind and loving” with mental health struggles.
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6 years
White nationalists lead another march in Charlottesville & Pence chooses to be offended by NFL players. This is why they continue to kneel.
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The president of the United States has condemned a football player more harshly than white nationalists. That's why he's a white supremacist
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4 years
Can the homeless see it from below?
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Hotels around the world are illuminating vacant rooms in shapes of hearts to inspire hope and thank health care workers.
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What the media won’t show in Minneapolis. Free food, water and resources. Community is a verb.
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2 years
Happy black history month
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Seattle police maced a child Then refused to give his badge number.
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"This is not about race." -white American proverb
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“fuck around and find out” is literally the scientific method
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White women treat 911 like a private customer service hotline.
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Y'all a Black student reposted this saddened by his friends behaviors. Now the girls parents are calling him a bully. Wow.
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I thought people were better than this especially my so called “friends”
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Yo @marshalls wild disrespectful. Good.
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I need journalists to release the fired Minneapolis officers’ excessive force reports with the same energy they release a Black victim’s arrest history. #GeorgeFloyd
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I’m so heartbroken. Andrew Casciano, the man police filmed themselves assaulting in a hospital, has allegedly died from suicide today. I can’t help to think how much pain, hurt and anguish this incident and lawsuit with the city caused him.
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Two Paterson cops filmed themselves assaulting a suicidal man at the hospital and then submitted false police reports. The one cop was also charged for robbing people for drugs. And then selling it from his cop car.
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This is Najee. He wanted to throw a block party. This was his first event he facilitated with Paterson Healing Collective. He had the whole block out sweeping and cleaning it up for the kids that came to enjoy our activities later. Last month he was killed by police.
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Israel is attacking the last functioning hospital in Gaza and people are still debating on whether or not Israel is committing a genocide.
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3 years
Healthy love exists and it’s worth being patient for.
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The only real apology is corrected behavior.
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If police feel “threatened” or unappreciated they can quit their jobs. I can’t quit being Black.
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These two Paterson cops filmed themselves assaulting a suicidal man at the hospital and then submitted false police reports. Today one was sentenced to 5 years for this incident and selling stolen drugs out his cop car.
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I can hear this picture 😭
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. shooting pool in 1966. Samuel L. Jackson, who was a freshman at Morehouse College at the time, is in this photo.
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In Georgia, officials did not supply power cords for their voting machines at a polling site in a mostly African-American neighborhood. The batteries died and people waiter for hours. This is voter suppression y’all.
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This is still one of the funniest videos to me.
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Of course a white South African who’s family made their wealth from illegal emeralds would want to ban the word decolonization.
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4 years
CANCEL ALL STUDENT DEBT CANCEL ALL STUDENT DEBT CANCEL ALL STUDENT DEBT CANCEL ALL STUDENT DEBT
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4 years
Same city. Same police force. Passing out masks to white folks not social distancing, while literally having their foots on our necks. This is beyond ridiculous at this point.
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5 years
Eric Garner was killed for allegedly selling cigarettes. The El Paso shooter killed at least 18 people and was taken in alive. There really are two Americas.
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Arrested for drugs in his dorm. Shot a cop & killed while in custody. Escaped. Was found & tackled a short time later. Tackled.
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Texas Tech says a 19-year-old student is in custody for allegedly killing a campus police officer
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“Nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them." Assata Shakur
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3 years
Let this be a lesson to you all. Police do not need deescalation or restraint training. They can restrain themselves against certain people. They just not going to restrain themselves against YOU.
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Happy birthday to beloved freedom fighter Malcolm X. He would have been 94 today.
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4 years
Like..they really got us out here marching during a pandemic that’s disproportionately killing black folk, to protest police violence that’s disproportionately killing Black folk.
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This is heart breaking and happens all of the time. Especially in the Black community. Get that 2nd,3rd, 4th opinion.
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Here, in a 1972 interview from prison, Angela Davis responds to the interviewer’s question if she approves of violence.
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Professors about to stop assigning presentations. 😂😂
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4 years
Drop all charges against protestors. Drop all charges against protestors. Drop all charges against protestors.
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You: WAP is a degrading song that the youth shouldn’t listen to. You in 90s:
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Black teachers are amazing 😭😭 #edchat
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561 known people killed by police this year: "Don't Blame all cops". 5 Dallas cops killed last night: Blame Obama & the entire BLM movement
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These are the two murderers of #AhmaudArbery . They are STILL walking free. Their names are Gregory and Travis McMichael.
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Happy birthday Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton, born August 30, 1948. He was 21 when he was murdered by Chicago Police.
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4 years
How fast could you translate this?
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Amazing. The same Starbucks that closed 8,000 stores for racial bias training because of a racist incident in 2018 is now preventing employees from wearing anything in support it Black Lives Matter. See why we believe so little in racial bias trainings and press statements?
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Starbucks bans employees from wearing anything in support of Black Lives Matter
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The police protect white militias because they began as white militias.
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Israel isn’t denying they are committing genocide. They are arguing they have the right to do so because of Oct 7 and they arguing the ICJ has no jurisdiction to stop their actions. That is wild.
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Black people deserve so much better.
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Despicable rewrite of history. "The First Nations people's agreed to move to different areas to make room for the new settlements".
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A ceasefire with an expiration date isn’t a ceasefire.
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Someone is arrested in the United States every three seconds. Oddly, none of them have been the killers of Breonna Taylor.
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Everyone learned about the 100+ Israeli hostages on Oct 7. But now the whole world is learning about the thousands of Palestinian hostages that have been held in Israel for years. Many have not only never been convicted, many have never been to trial or even charged.
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White South Jersey Cop Charged After Pepper Spraying Black Teen Who Was Just Sitting on a Stoop This is the ninth — yes, ninth — police department that the cop has worked for. He’s 31 years old.
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On this day in 1804, Haiti became the world’s first Black republic, the first nation in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery, and the only country in the world established as a result of a successful slave revolt.
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Cop in Paterson, NJ caught on film breaking into someone's car & doing illegal search. Then tries to walk away when approached about it. Wow
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Insulin should be free. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
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Black students have been leading a sit-in at Syracuse University for 6 straight days. #NotAgainSU has a list of demands for their university, including: ◾️Expel anyone involved in racist incidents ◾️Hire more counselors that represent marginalized groups
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Josh Williams is serving the longest sentence from the #Ferguson Rebellion. Get a postcard & write to him today. We owe it to him.
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Police offering $10k so they can find and arrest a woman they suspect to have burned a Wendy’s. While, everyone knows who killed Breonna Taylor and still no arrests have been made. We care more about buildings then Black women.
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“When someone pointed out that Julia Roberts couldn’t be Harriet, the executive responded, ‘It was so long ago. No one is going to know the difference.'”
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Julia Roberts was suggested to play Harriet Tubman by studio exec, says Harriet screenwriter
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George Washington's wooden teeth is a myth. In reality, he had his dentures fitted with teeth pulled from slaves.
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I..i have no words.
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@EJBoss6 @AfricanArchives You’re either a child or an adult. A young man in someone in their early twenties. Not a 14 year old.
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This is badass. High school students lock out administrators in protest of racist video and stage an overnight sit in. #studentsofcolormatter @dad_soc @SOCmatter
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Me and my landlord on April 1st:
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White folk color blind until its time to describe "suspicious" people in their neighborhood. 😂
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So.. on my way to do mutual aid tonight in Paterson, I saw a group of young Black men, almost all with black ski masks, and no older than 18, gathered on a porch enjoying themselves. I knew we’d have extra food and I figured a few would want some Jamaican dinners. Man listen…
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“Are you gonna let politics ruin a friendship?” Yes tf I am.
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Flint's water system could cost $200m to repair fully. And the bomb just dropped on Afghanistan costs $300M. #45
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Cancel all student debt..like now.
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Naw man. Free da kid. 🗣🗣
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The police will always protect white militias because the police are a institutionalized white militia. #Kenosha
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I hope 2017 brings you clear skin, less anxiety, financial stability & an abundance of love.
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Roshdi Sarraj, the photographer who took this widely shared picture of Israel's destruction of Gaza, was himself later killed by an Israeli airstrike.
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Her face at the end 😩😩😩
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Many white women have said to me, ‘We wanted black women and non-white women to join the movement,’ totally unaware of their perception that they somehow ‘own’ the movement, that they are the ‘hosts’ inviting us as ‘guests.’ — bell hooks, “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”
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So...slavery?
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Migrants arriving in Italy will have to do unpaid work for asylum under the Italian government’s new plans
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I hope 2019 is good to Black women.
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The African American urge to call it grandma house even if both grandparents live there.
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The most beautiful thing I’ve seen on twitter. Much respect @FranchiseJSmith
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Alice Walker: The first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Literature.
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And there it is..
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British Hair Awards 2016 – Afro Finalist Collection – photo by Luke Nugen
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