A gentle reminder that you’re worthy of love, always. Not when you get your money right, not when you lose that weight, not when you’re successful, but now. You are worthy of love as you are in this moment
I’m never going to stop being a good person because people weren’t good to me
But my Daddy once said to me “you have the face of an angel, and the voice of the devil.” Because he still raised me to make sure people never take my kindness for weakness
just imagine if Orson Welles tried to stage his famous 1930s production of MACBETH today, with an all Black cast and was set in the Caribbean and replaced witchcraft with voodoo
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Holy sh*t... Epstein’s files just got a physical shrine in NYC 3.5 MILLION pages. 3,400+ bound volumes.
All the names.
All the flights.
All the evidence.
And they built a full “Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room” to house it.
I got my hands on 65 hours worth of live broadcast news coverage and special reports on the MOVE bombing which occurred 41 years ago today. I produced this piece using that archival footage.
On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police dropped a C4 explosive on the home of the @themoveorganization family at 62nd and Osage Avenue, after 500 police fired over 10,000 rounds into the home. City officials allowed the fire to burn, killing 11 people including five children, and destroying 61 homes.
Eyewitness and forensic evidence indicates that several MOVE children attempted to flee the burning home through the rear but were either shot back inside or their bullet-ridden bodies were thrown back into fire by police waiting in the alleyway.
In 2021, it was revealed UPenn and Princeton had stolen the remains of several of the children and not only conducted experiments on them but also wheeled them out on gurneys at fundraising events.
John Africa's head has never been returned and saw marks on his neck indicate foul play during an unauthorized autopsy.
No one has ever been held accountable for any of it.
In 2023, @mikeafricajr bought the house back which was originally owned by his aunt Louise James, but was seized by the City through eminent domain after the bombing and turned into a police substation. He is barred from turning the home into a memorial until he pays off the $400K mortgage, support link below.
Today we remember:
Rhonda Africa
Theresa Africa
Frank Africa
Raymond Africa
Conrad Africa
John Africa
Tree Africa (14)
Delisha Africa (13)
Netta Africa (12)
Phil Africa (12)
Tomaso Africa (9)
Ramona Africa (survivor)
Birdie Africa (survivor)
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Archival material accessed through Temple University's Digital Collections
Marlon Brando, conocido, entre otros muchos papeles, como Vito Corleone en El Padrino, era fiel seguidor de los Panteras Negras y fue de los pocos actores que los apoyó abiertamente su lucha.
Incluso Marlon llegó a dar este discurso antiracista en el funeral de Bobby Hutton.