In The Place

Connecting diverse creators in the arts & tech to peers, allies, opportunities & resources. Connect.Collaborate.Expand In the Place Founder: @angeliamaria

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@Immanuel_Morris Hugs

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@evanleaphart Congrats Evan!

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Mary Fields aka Stagecoach Mary was hired as a mail carrier because she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of six horses.

She was the first black woman employed as a mail carrier in the US and the second woman to work for the US Postal Service.

—Mary Fields was born enslaved around 1832 and freed following the American Civil War. In 1895, Fields was hired as a mail carrier because she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of six horses. Fields was the first African American woman, and only the second woman, to work in the United States Postal Service. She got her nickname stagecoach because she never missed a day of work, even showing up during heavy snow by wearing snowshoes and carrying the mail packs on her back.

Fields stood six feet tall, and was a woman who commanded attention. Legend has it she wore a 38 Smith & Weston strapped under her apron and could hit anything within 50 paces.

After quitting the mail route in 1901, Fields opened her own laundry and restaurant with the help of Mother Amadeus, the mother superior of an Ursuline convent in Toledo, Ohio.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In 1938, Lloyd Gaines filed a lawsuit after being denied admission to the University of Missouri Law School in 1935 because he was black.

The Court ruled in his favor & required Missouri to admit him or set up a black law school.

He disappeared 3 months later never to be found.

—Lloyd Lionel Gaines was born to the Gaines family in northern Mississippi in 1911. One of eleven children, seven of whom survived illness and accident, he moved with his widowed mother and siblings to St. Louis after the premature death of their father. They found a better, although not easy, life for themselves in Missouri. Gaines excelled in his studies graduating as valedictorian in 1931 from Vashon High School. At Lincoln University in Jefferson City, he graduated with honors and was President of the senior class, while participating in many extra-curricular activities and working to pay for his schooling.
Despite his outstanding scholastic record, the University of Missouri School of Law denied Gaines admittance in 1936 solely on the grounds that Missouri's Constitution called for "separate education of the races." By state law, Missouri would have been required to pay for Gaines to attend the Universities in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, but Gaines was determined to fight for the right to attend law school in his own state university. He sought legal assistance from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which had been working systematically to overturn the ignominious precedent of "separate but equal" established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. Together, they challenged the University of Missouri's admissions policies. In 1938, Gaines won his case before the United States Supreme Court in State of Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada, paving the way for a series of cases that would lead to Brown v. Board of Education's outlawing segregation in public education. In March 1939, only three months after his Supreme Court victory, Lloyd Gaines was last seen in Chicago. He disappeared at age 28 with his promise of attending law school in Missouri unfilfilled. Lloyd Gaines was never to be seen or heard from again.

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🗳 Vote

[Jewel Burks Solomon @jewelmelanie]

Last night I asked my 94 year old grandmother if she’d voted. She said since age 21 she has never missed an opportunity to vote. She reminded me that for her first several elections she had to pay poll taxes and take literacy tests in order to vote, but was never deterred. #vote

[nader dabit @dabit3]

I'm helping with another job opportunity, Senior Cloud Information Security Lead (AWS)

Pay range is $300,000 - $400,000

Manage a team to architect, design, build & operate the infrastructure for both cloud and on-premises environments. Contact info here 👇

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

We've been saying "Say Her Name" for six months... and #BreonnaTaylor's name was NEVER mentioned in yesterday's indictment...

[In The Place @InThePlaceNow]

For Senior Full Stack React Native + Serverless experts looking for a role.

[nader dabit @dabit3]

I’ll helping to find a senior full stack React Native + serverless developer, remote / US based.

$250-$300k base salary + great benefits, interesting company backed with a lot of funding.

Must have solid RN experience. Shoot your info to [email protected]

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We should all learn Matthew’s story.

Thank you soyouwanttotalkabout for sharing this story along with ways we can all help. 🤍

Via soyouwanttotalkabout
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Matthew Rushin is a name you need to know. We need to… https://t.co/yNeeI1nXvV

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@RepMaxineWaters Happy Birthday Auntie 🥰

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Join me (@InThePlaceNow) and my fellow filmmakers tomorrow night as we screen and discuss Sprint, in which I had the pleasure of Directing ‘Resilience’ featuring my favorite child actress alexis_wanguhu 🥰and her play… https://t.co/dccNYuaRfc

[t @lilvonii]

a 16 year old was murdered for throwing a sandwich in a cafeteria. when the school staff heard that he threw a sandwich one of them sat on his neck for 12 minutes. he kept saying that he couldn’t breathe and died of cardiac arrest. his name is cornelius fredericks. SAY HIS NAME.

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Posted withregram • blavity Happy #VoteByMail Day, Blavity fam! 🗳 ⁣
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@MollyMcKew Lol

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Posted withregram • @yourrightscamp #FreeGrace from the juvenile criminal system.
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Judge Mary Ellen Brennan sent Grace to a juvenile detention center in the midst of a pandemic for not completing her homework. We… https://t.co/M1lTvXFawR

[Steph ☥ @_missxoxo]

LOVE IT

[Cassie 🤍 @kittycassss]

My 2.5 year-old wore a mask for about 3 hours straight today. Didn’t take it off for a second, or complain.

I explained the importance, and how we wear it to keep EVERYBODY safe.

Apparently my toddler exhibits a level of empathy, maturity, and respect that grown adults cannot.

[Prentice Penny (FUX YO BLUE CHECK) @The_A_Prentice]

I had to recently tell an agent who sent me a slave movie to direct. I said send me the scripts you would send to the Coen Brothers to direct. And guess what: THEY DID. TWO. That shows they have them but they don’t consider it for us initially. STAND YOUR GROUND WRITERS

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Just so we are clear. Her killers are still free. How do you name a law after someone and not convict...sorry, let’s start with the basics, arrest her murderers. If I had a dollar for every distraction going on… https://t.co/6uAQzkY2u6

[Florida Department of Education @EducationFL]

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