How far back can you trace your lineage? 🧬🌳
For young genealogist Alex Trapps-Chaballa, he's setting out to do this for African American families, that will lead to the road towards reparations. https://t.co/RgEHRIe38c
10 YEARS!!!!!! I’m trying to be intentional about celebrating every single moment because I’ve spent so much time prayinggg in the shower, having conversations with myself & pushing my idea of what’s possible for me. I’ve been working HARD AF so I’m sitting in this one today 🩷
I hardly use this site now, especially considering its own etc. Im on substack, and so far really like it. Maybe ill be writing over there soon. As for now, lets stay connected and follow me ova ther
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To all of my "where's the African fantasy" & "we need better representation" folks, all my "no more raceswaps" people...
This is how you make change and get more of what you want. Don't let this be another project that gets million RTs just to crash in the ratings.
📣 Join Us for the Union Vote Count! 📣
Be part of the historic moment 📊
🔴 When: 12 noon🔴 Where: CAUSE HQ Encampment in front of RDU1
Come witness the process firsthand and show your support for transparency and democracy in action ✊
Black politics is incredibly stunted & how people discuss the politics in art is often a mirror of that. Black mainstream musicians constantly flirt with the idea they’re revolutionaries but never challenge capitalism, imperialism and material exploitation yet people eat it up
There’s a whole history lesson in how Vietnam vets who came back & allied with anti war protesters & the Black Panthers to become the first Street Medics were arrested & maligned by the govt but it RARELY gets taught.
They’re hitting leftist orgs with RICO charges for bailing out members arrested at protests. There’s not a single ounce of decorum that will protect you from the state leftist or not but especially if you’re a leftist and that was true before trump.
telling natives of a place who they are & what their history is with the AI-generated summary from page 1 of google..😕
the largest slave market in the country but giving all credited to colonizers who didn't lift a finger..😕😕😕
so many only see new orleans as a place that doesn't know better, that needs to be educated, fixed, consumed, & saved from itself. in the 20th anniversary year of katrina, please go head & interrogate why y'all speak on & interact this place with so much unearned authority.