Civil Rights Movement
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Lincoln was no liberator! On Juneteenth, we honor the heroic history of the fight for Black liberation & commit ourselves to continuing this struggle today! ⬇️Read more about the...
I'll say it... 1. They were behind the SCOTUS cases banning God from schools, like Engel v Vitale being 2. They did Vatican II 3. They popularized the Scofield Bible 4. They m...
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, best known to the world as Malcolm X, was a social revolutionary, human rights leader, civil rights activist, cleric & one of the most powerful voices in...
🧵𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐉𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬. "𝐽𝑒𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑...
Dr. King is celebrated today, but when he called for a ceasefire in Vietnam in 1967 & denounced US militarism, he faced almost universal backlash from the political & media establi...
1/ Some were surprised yesterday that an African American Judge, Rossie Alston Jr. was the person to temporarily save the Confederate Memorial, dedicated to reconciliation between...
The Deacons for Defense and Justice was an armed Black self defense group who stood up against the KKK and discriminatory treatment by police in the Jim Crow South. Though the gro...
60 years ago today, The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. A THREAD https://t.co/Q1aw6PTheT
In 1966, The Black Panther Party for Self Defence was founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Originally founded to fight police racism, they were dedicated to liberating peopl...
A lot of outlets have been telling the story of Tony Bennett marching with MLK. But have you ever heard the story about how “wokeness,” DEI, Jesus, an actual anti-racist, 2 church...
In Louisiana, black women were put in cells with male prisoners and some became pregnant. All children born in the penitentiary to blacks were property of the state. At 10 years,...
This attempt by activists to disrupt the screening of ‘The Kerala Story’ goes beyond the reasonable limits of the right to protest – it represents an effort to suppress freedom of...
As you say #JaiBhim to celebrate #SB403 clearing the judiciary committee unanimously, remember that the "Jai Bhim" works on multiple levels. We know of MLK being inspired by Gandh...
Now both of you are reunited. RIP Harry Belafonte (1927-2023). https://t.co/IX4gWWdm06
THREAD: Proof that Racist Republicans and Democrats switched parties between the 1860s and the 1960s.
55 years ago today Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Below is some quick facts of what happened to his family shortly after his...
As I was getting fed up with bimbos getting all the attention, I had an idea. Why not fill the space with great women, instead of the ones that hurt our brains? Let us focus on t...
they’re coming for Obergefell https://t.co/7lLqn3bd1a
Protest in Georgia (News Analysis) When I m writing this tweet, regime change operation by deep state n funded by Soros has started in Georgia Georgia is a small country in middl...
Happy International Women's Day, here is a reference of those women who make history. Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005) Rosa Parks was a staunch defender of civil rights in the United Stat...
"evolution of King’s thinking about economic and social justice with his activism in support of organized labour...Note the UAW banners demanding full employment and a guaranteed a...
One of the more interesting and under-explored figures in MLK assassination lore is Art Hanes, one-time lawyer for James Earl Ray. He's someone who deserves deeper examination. htt...
On what would have been MLK’s 94th birthday, I want to share a few of my favorite moments of a 1967 speech he delivered — exemplary public philosophy from the greatest public philo...
In the African American community, New Year’s Day used to be widely known as “Hiring Day” or “Heartbreak Day,” as the African American abolitionist journalist William Cooper Nell d...
