Kimberly Bryant

Founder @Blackgirlscode + Black Innovation Lab @TheAscendCo
Forthcoming Author: ASCENDING
#Memphis
💗1908💚

[Kimberly Bryant @6Gems]

Sooo...when I go on my little soapbox about this thing called a "tech pipeline"? This pic is what I mean. Almost 100 little Black/brown girls (in Oakland) doing robotics the Sat before Christmas.

[Kimberly Bryant @6Gems]

@PitheadChapel 🖤🖤🖤

[Kimberly Bryant @6Gems]

My first journal publication,
“A Kennedy Half Dollar” appears in the latest issue of @pitheadchapel. This essay is part of a longer arc of writing toward my forthcoming memoir and I’m deeply appreciative and honored to be part of this issue. Grateful.🖤🙏🏾

[Pithead Chapel @PitheadChapel]

Our February issue is live!

Cover art: Kyle Mercer

Words: @dallonwrites , Alex Miller, @AFB16, Christopher Negri, @6Gems , Liam Carnahan, @emmabheath & Evan Murphy, David McArthur, Patricia Caspers, Anne Duncan, and Spencer Eckart!

https://t.co/wLDv333SrX

[Pithead Chapel @PitheadChapel]

Our February issue is live!

Cover art: Kyle Mercer

Words: @dallonwrites , Alex Miller, @AFB16, Christopher Negri, @6Gems , Liam Carnahan, @emmabheath & Evan Murphy, David McArthur, Patricia Caspers, Anne Duncan, and Spencer Eckart!

https://t.co/wLDv333SrX

[Kimberly Bryant @6Gems]

@NYCMayor @julianakilrose 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95. https://t.co/kfVPnCBSNt

[Acyn @Acyn]

Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here

McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying….Everything that is in these files—it could bring an entire house down. And if it has to, it has to. If it brings down Democrats, bring them down. If it brings down Republicans, bring them down. Bring down princes, world leaders, Hollywood people, bring them down. But what it feels like right now is that there's a giant cabal of people that do not have to listen to the law

[Jenin Younes @JeninYounesEsq]

I'm a former defense attorney and currently a civil liberties attorney with no political dog in this fight. I watched the video at least 10 times from different angles and at different speeds and waited to offer an opinion, which I still reserve the right to change if additional information changes the calculus.

It is very clear that the officers instigated the confrontation. The woman initially tried to wave them past her.

ICE officers have no authority to search a US citizen or arrest her (unless there's probable cause to believe she's harboring undocumented individuals, not a contention here). A woman surrounded by masked, armed men who have no law enforcement authority over her has every right to try to escape. Video shows her steering wheel is turned to the right, clearly an attempt to leave WITHOUT hitting anyone and steer clear of the officer standing towards the front of her car. That officer had time to step to the side, which is where he was when he shot her.

Even a real police officer would not have the right to shoot at her for trying to flee. This is well-established in the case law; deadly force may not be used simply to prevent someone from getting away. Given that the ICE officers had no law enforcement authority to begin with, AND the video footage shows she was trying to escape a perceived threat, not to kill anyone, the crime is all the more inexcusable.

I'm praying for the victim's family, especially her children. I'm also praying for all the conservatives who are so unprincipled and lost they're excusing this terrible crime, and gloating over a death that will leave three young children motherless, because of the victim's politics.

[Kimberly Bryant @6Gems]

@astronaia You're welcome and I'm so very proud of you! 🖤

[Walter M. Kimbrough @HipHopPrez]

This is a great article! Here are some key points- a 🧵
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[Kimberly Bryant @6Gems]

@drgurner @jaymac I'm currently in this phase of my life at the moment. It's a blessing and a curse and sometimes takes you half a century for it to click. 😉

[Kimberly Bryant @6Gems]

@dearsilas @MIKELARRY2010 I was like dude!!! WTH he from Mississippi 😆🙄 Wild

[Kimberly Bryant @6Gems]

@dearsilas @moremoneyvibez Yuppppp

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

If you can look at your life proudly and say,
"I Built This."

That's really the most satisfying thing in the world.

[Kimberly Bryant @6Gems]

@Slangdini @_dawnmontgomery Yup HBO Max

[Kimberly Bryant @6Gems]

@ImCooL_LiKe_DaT @_dawnmontgomery I've been watching the original High and Low and I'm probably going down to a 3 😩😆

[Kimberly Bryant @6Gems]

Ok my time over here is done. I just popped in to see WTH was up with what I just saw. Byeeeee 👋🏾😆😭

[Kimberly Bryant @6Gems]

@_dawnmontgomery Lissennnnnn I have literally EVERY Spike and every Denzel movie at my house. I was like nah what is this?!!?!?!

[Kimberly Bryant @6Gems]

@jakejonesSWR This is a common Spike technique but I agree it was too much.

[Kimberly Bryant @6Gems]

@ImCooL_LiKe_DaT @_dawnmontgomery I'm at 5