Cassoundra Taylor

A Mom and Gaga who can’t stand Maga, a leftist who prays there’s something left 4 our babies after this mofo finishes with America the beautiful!

[Naima Cochrane @naima]

This story is fantastic, but this impression is PHENOMENAL.
https://t.co/3DiFGcugkO

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

For eight years, @POTUS and I worked to deliver change for the American people. I couldn’t have asked for a better Vice President and friend — and we’ll always be thankful to all the campaign staff and Administration alumni who helped bring that progress to folks across the country.

Yes we can.
Yes we did.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1750, Jean Baptist Pointe Desable was born. He founded the city of Chicago.

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[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Earlier this week, @POTUS Biden issued an executive order on artificial intelligence – a breakthrough technology that has the power to change the world in ways we’re only beginning to understand.

I wanted to share some of the books, articles, and podcasts that have helped shape my perspective on artificial intelligence over the past year.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today the @ObamaFoundation brought together leaders, activists, and experts from around the world for our #DemocracyForum to discuss everything from rebuilding trust in our institutions, to the challenges and opportunities that come from AI, to the changing ways we consume information.

I also talked about how, when it comes to creating an economic system that supports and sustains our democratic values, we need young leaders to help us think and act anew. I couldn’t be more inspired by the next generation of leaders I’ve met who are creating a more inclusive and equitable society for all.

[Cassoundra Taylor @CassoundraT]

@theliamnissan @LeighCBrandt Antichrist=like for sure!

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

“The Queen of Gospel” Mahalia Jackson was born on this day in 1911 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

[Black, Blessed & Unbothered @MelanatedTalk]

Baby boy can barely talk but can write and do math. He’s only TWO and he’ll probably graduate from college at age 12! Lol. Some kids are just born with it. And I’m sure mom and dad have some influence as well. Black brilliance!
#BlackKids
#Genius
#BlackBoy
#BlackExcellence

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

Rob Reiner makes a great point here.
Who agrees?

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

““This is my great-grandma, Christina Levant Platt at age 100, weeding her garden. She was born into slavery. Her “owner” was a wife that taught my great grandma to read and write secretly, which was illegal and quite dangerous at that time for both of them. She learned to read the Bible.

She had 11 children, she lost two, one son was one of the first black attorneys in US. She sent the 4 boys to college in Boston. Exceptional in those days.

She passed 5yrs before I was born but I love her as if I knew her. Family tells me she would say “ I put prayers on my children’s children’s heads”.

This apparently worked💜

Around April 12, 1861, Christina was at the 1st battle of the CIVIL WAR, in Fort Sumter at Charleston Bay, South Carolina, working in the cotton fields.

She said “the sky was black as night” from cannonball fire. She saw a man decapitated by a cannonball.

She was the water girl for the other slaves as a young girl and “ the lookout” for the slaves in the fields for the approaching overseer on horseback as they secretly knelt and prayed for their freedom.

She would watch for the switching tail of the approaching horse and would alert the slaves to rise up and return to picking cotton before he saw them.

She eventually married a Native American from the Santee Tribe. John C, Platt.

After freedom, Christina insisted upon taking her children north as she knew they would not get a good education in the south, and that’s all she cared about. She died at age 101 in 1944, where she and her husband had built a home in Medfield, Massachusetts, the first black family to move there.

With great respect, I honor my great grandmother.

So much more I could say about this miraculous woman. She gave me much strength in my hard times.

Whenever I thought I was having a hard day, I would think of her and shrug it off.

Thank you for reading one story of millions. 💜 💜”

-Brenda Russell

[Just saying @kangaroos991]

Who’s with Mark Hamill? 🙋‍♂️

[Cassoundra Taylor @CassoundraT]

@robreiner Absofucknlutely! This is just the beginning, he sold everything in the store.....we really need to brace ourselves! 'Something wicked this way comes.'

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Dianne Feinstein will be rightly remembered as a trailblazer—the first woman to serve as mayor of San Francisco and the first woman elected to the Senate from California. But once she broke those barriers and walked through those doors, she got to work.

I first got to know Dianne in the Senate, where she was a fierce advocate for gun safety measures and civil rights. Later, when I was president, I came to rely on her as a trusted partner in the fight to guarantee affordable healthcare and economic opportunity for everyone.

The best politicians get into public service because they care about this country and the people they represent. That was certainly true of Dianne Feinstein, and all of us are better for it. Today Michelle and I are thinking of her daughter, Katherine, and everyone who knew and loved her.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

17 year old Tupac Shakur’s views on education.

[SadityGlow @GlowSadity]

Me on my way to #cashapp headquarters to fix the connection myself…

[Cassoundra Taylor @CassoundraT]

@VP You go Madame!

[Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive]

A very warm welcome from the people of Indonesia.

[Cassoundra Taylor @CassoundraT]

@MissyElliott Love you beautiful😍😍

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1955, Emmett Till, 14, was kidnapped and brutally murdered for whistling at a white woman.

His killers, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, allegedly saw Till whistle at a white women at a gas station.

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