Freda

I'm simply me.

[Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella]

Launch day! Welcome to The Black Grief Project, an artist-led initiative exploring the expansiveness of Black grief through story, memory & community. Founded by me! I'm calling this initiative a tribute to Black aliveness because loss + life are an infinite circle.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Let me get right to the point. The Senate should not confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general.

Here's why: https://t.co/Nx3C0aNbUK

[Ben Vereen @BenVereen]

Every now and then, I come across a photo that takes me right back to a young performer with big dreams who simply loved being on stage. Looking back, I’m filled with gratitude. Not for the accolades, but for the journey itself. ❤️

[Freda @FredaFiredUp]

@Rep_Stansbury @nytimes Hey, Melanie. Not only do y'all need to call them to the stand to testify, you need cops on standby ready to take them to jail for various charges to include, accessory to crimes. Enough is enough.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

If your bank forced you to legally put a certain amount of your paycheck every payday for 30 years into a savings account for your "retirement," didn't give you interest, then when you were getting ready to retire, said "we're only going to give you 70% of your money back, because we can't afford to pay you the full amount."

Would you accept that?
Vote every Republican out.

[kevin blue @kevinblue345]

It is always about race. It is only self-defence when a white person kills a black child

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

On a summer evening in 1972, a pivotal generation of Harlem Renaissance legends gathered at Duke Ellington’s townhouse.

The trailer for “Once Upon a Time in Harlem” is out:

[Missy Elliott @MissyElliott]

When @kehlani new song “Back&Forth” come on me & my friends just zone out🚀🔥🔥hit a cute lil 1 2 Step💃🏾😝

Some1 say I look tall in this video it must be the cuffs in my pants & heels because I’m only 5’2 😫😂

[Freda @FredaFiredUp]

@gonglez159 @Dr_Heavenly You ppl won't leave us alone.

[Freda @FredaFiredUp]

@LuantPower @Dr_Heavenly It was not disproved, the jury just didn't take into account the affidavit statements from Karmelo's side saying he was. That's why I'm flummoxed on why ppl keep saying ALL witnesses said it was only a push when that wasn't true by the affidavits.

[Freda @FredaFiredUp]

@gonglez159 @Dr_Heavenly Not to mention they weren't even sitting under the tent themselves. They came from somewhere else bc they saw him sitting there to harass him & that's respect? Fohwtbs.

[RealTimBlack @RealTimBlack]

Let me be clear about what's happening in the Karmelo Anthony case RIGHT NOW. Because the verdict traveled. The fallout isn't.

FACT: Karmelo Anthony filed his own appeal BY HAND the day after sentencing.

FACT: In his filing, he described himself as "penniless, destitute, and indigent" and asked the court to appoint him an attorney.

FACT: $635,000 was raised for his defense. The donation account has since been closed.

FACT: Karmelo Anthony is currently being held in solitary confinement at Collin County Jail while the system figures out where to place him.

FACT: He has never been in trouble before. No record. No gang affiliation. He was taking college courses while awaiting trial.

FACT: The Batson Challenge I covered all week is now confirmed as a likely ground for appeal. Legal experts agree the denial of that challenge is the most compelling appellate argument in the case. (Shout out to my detractors).

FACT: The prosecution's own closing argument admitted they could not prove whether Karmelo stabbed Austin Metcalfe or whether Metcalfe fell onto the knife. Yet the jury returned a murder conviction.

FACT: Under Texas law, murder requires knowingly and intentionally taking a life. If the prosecution admitted they couldn't prove the stabbing was intentional — how was murder proven beyond a reasonable doubt?

FACT: The defense mounted a four-hour case against a prosecution that went on for days. Not one moment in that courtroom is being cited as a standout defense.

FACT: Jasmine Crockett, Kamala Harris, Michelle Obama, the Congressional Black Caucus, AOC — none of them said a word DURING the trial. Now some are speaking. After the sentence. After it's over.

FACT: Every nationality in the comment sections of videos attacking Black America came forward to declare solidarity with the other side. Latinos. Asians. Arabs. Filipinos. Italians. Peruvians. Pan Africans.

FACT: There is no people of color coalition. The Karmelo Anthony verdict just proved it again.

This fight is not over. The appeal is filed. The Batson Challenge lives.

Karmelo Anthony. Say his name.

Stay Dangerous.

-Tim Black

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[Freda @FredaFiredUp]

@gonglez159 @Dr_Heavenly In your mind, I'm not being logical bc you think Blk kids owe obedience to yt kids. That's the long & short of it.

[Freda @FredaFiredUp]

@LuantPower @Dr_Heavenly His intent was to get more than one person off of him. Not Austin in particular as he was being jumped. That's why he poked once & ran to find an adult, not ran off & had to be searched for by the cops.

[Freda @FredaFiredUp]

@bennyben2222 @wolfamonsheep @mosesbergTM @itzRex 😂😂😂

[Freda @FredaFiredUp]

@gonglez159 @Dr_Heavenly He didn't create or escalate the situation. None of the students outside of those particular 2 had such an issue they had to get physical. They couldn't have told an adult if it was that serious for them? That's the logic I'm coming from.

[Freda @FredaFiredUp]

@LuantPower @Dr_Heavenly It's one of the 4 pillars needed for a murder conviction to show the intent. So they're saying by him sitting in a tent, he intentionally egged them to come over to fck with him & therefore he deserves the time he got. Totally ignoring he didn't create or escalate the situation.

[Freda @FredaFiredUp]

@noah_theninja @_jefe5 @DanG53609839 @Mbakaza4L The FBI crime chart begs to differ.