Social Justice

He came to set the captives free

[Social Justice @JUSTITIARUAT]

First They Came - Niemoller, 1946

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

A Black professor applied to study at the University of Mississippi in 1958.

The state's response was to have him committed to a MENTAL ASYLUM — on the official reasoning that a Black man who wanted to attend Ole Miss must, by definition, be insane.

He was held for twelve days. Clennon King was already a history professor at a Black college in Georgia.

He arrived at the registrar's office in Oxford, Mississippi in June 1958 to submit his application.
Highway patrolmen removed him from the building.

A lunacy warrant was sworn out. He was driven to the state hospital at Whitfield.

Doctors examined him. They found nothing wrong with him, because there was nothing wrong with him, and released him after twelve days.

He left the state and never got in. Stories like Clennon King’s are exactly why we created this book—to bring buried injustices like his back into the light https://t.co/V6OJtazidd

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

Black jockeys won fifteen of the first twenty-eight Kentucky Derbies.

By 1921 there were none. Not fewer — NONE. They were removed from the sport entirely and it took sixty-nine years before another Black jockey rode in the Derby.

Isaac Murphy was the best of them. He was born enslaved in Kentucky. He won the Derby three times — the first jockey ever to do it and rode with a win rate he reported at around forty-four per cent, a figure no modern jockey approaches.

As prize money and prestige grew, white jockeys organised to force Black riders out — boxing them in on the rail, refusing to ride against them, pressuring owners.

Racing associations stopped licensing them.
Within twenty years, an entire profession that Black men had dominated since before the Civil War was simply emptied.

This is the pattern that repeats everywhere in this archive and almost nobody names it: Black excellence does not get pushed out of the poor jobs. It gets pushed out of the jobs that become lucrative.

We must never forget our history

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

South Carolina passed a law in 1740 banning enslaved people from learning to write, from gathering in groups, from growing their own food, and from earning money.

It also banned them from wearing nice clothes.

There is a clause in the statute specifying the quality of fabric a Black person was permitted to wear.

It is called the Negro Act. It was passed the year after the Stono Rebellion, which we have covered on this page — and every clause in it is a confession about what frightened them.

Writing was banned because literate people can forge a pass.

Assembly was banned because that is how a rebellion is planned.

Growing your own food and earning your own money were banned because a person with savings can buy a horse, a weapon, or a journey.

And clothing was banned because the law could not tolerate a Black person looking prosperous. The statute authorised officials to seize and destroy any garment judged above the permitted grade — the coarse stuff that became known as "Negro cloth."

[Social Justice @JUSTITIARUAT]

@amanpour Nigeria?

[Jim DeFede @DeFede]

Shortly after JD Vance told an audience in Florida that @AngieNixon should "get the hell out of here. You don't belong in America," I sat down with Nixon to get her response. See attached video. @CBSMiami

[Jim DeFede @DeFede]

As Republicans demonize @AngieNixon, and JD Vance tells her "you don't belong in America," they run the risk of having it backfire. Nixon can be a compelling figure. Here she is getting emotional when I asked her to tell voters something personal about herself. @CBSMiami

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Angie Nixon fired back:

“The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while they enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors built.

Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here.

[Social Justice @JUSTITIARUAT]

@atrupar 😮

[Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour @GRVlagos]

Dear Lagosians, This is my promise to you.
I will never in any language tell you to live in your parents house as an answer to the expensive rents and housing deficit.
Instead we will work tirelessly to deliver a 100,000 units of housing that are not only accessible but truly affordable.
Enact laws that protect tenants and create an agency to investigate and enforce said laws.

I will never in any language tell you that Traffic is a lifestyle.

Instead we will deliver the entire rail network in 2years by opening the project to private sector procurement. Our focus will not be how to pad or steal money it would be on making movement in lagos more effective and affordable.

I will never in any language tell you that we do not know or understand how much waste is being generated in Lagos state, neither will we tell you to go back to you village when you complain about the state of the enviroment .

We will rid the waste management system of the corruption and racketeering that has left lagos covered in filth. We will create a waste to energy and waste to wealth value chain. We will build out proper sewage processing facilities and empower local governments to participate in waste management.

Lastly under no circumstance will any public official boast about expensive watches whilst so many struggle in poverty.

My promise to you is high impact governance, actions you will feel, because Actions speak far louder than words.

#ourlagos.

[𝟭𝟴𝟵𝟵 @Barca_Archive]

12-year-old Lionel Messi leading Newell's from 2-0 down to a 3-2 comeback victory against El Torito, 1999.

[Parallel Facts @ParallelFacts]

Repentant Boko Haram Terrorists Rehabilitated Into Military Rejoin Boko Haram, Cart Away With AK-47 Rifles https://t.co/xhJRpR1Cqd

[Dean W. Perkins @deanwperkins]

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[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: FINAL CAPITULATION! Trump ABANDONS his bid to claw back E. Jean Carroll’s $5.6 million payout after the court dismisses his appeal WITH PREJUDICE.

E. Jean Carroll has accomplished what practically no other person involved in litigation with Donald Trump has ever been able to do: finally get him to give up on fighting the court’s judgment.

After years of stalling, appealing, and demanding the impossible, Trump just quietly dropped his final legal fight against the $5.6 million he owes Carroll, and this time, he can never bring it back.

Trump agreed to dismiss his appeal "with prejudice," meaning the case is over for good, according to a September 25th order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit.

He also abandoned his bizarre demand that Carroll RETURN the money she'd already legally won. New York Daily News reporter Molly Crane-Newman called it a genuine first: "In what I believe is a first for my eyes, Trump withdraws his appeal fighting the payout of $5M in damages to E. Jean Carroll."

Let's remember exactly what this money represents. A 2023 jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s and for defaming her afterward, awarding her $5 million.

After the Supreme Court refused to even hear Trump's appeal back in June, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered the money finally released in July, delivering one of the more satisfying judicial smackdowns in recent memory: "In the last analysis, defendant has been stalling this case for years. It is time for him to 'do equity' and pay the judgment."

Trump's team, naturally, still couldn't resist framing this as victimhood, releasing a statement calling it part of "Witch Hunts, including the Democrat-funded travesty of the Carroll Hoaxes," even as they were simultaneously agreeing to permanently drop the fight. Trump's lawyers had already sent $5,625,005.48, judgment plus interest, straight to Carroll's legal team back in July.

Trump kept trying anyway, asking the appeals court in July to either block the payout entirely or force Carroll to give the money back, arguing she'd publicly stated her intent to donate it and had even started a foundation to distribute the funds. The court finally forced his hand, ordering him earlier this month to declare whether his motion was moot. He folded a week before that deadline.

Of course, this isn't fully over. Trump is still separately asking the Supreme Court to take up his appeal of a much larger $83.3 million defamation verdict from a different jury, a request the justices are expected to consider this fall.

But for now, on this particular case, after years of delay tactics and legal gymnastics, Trump finally did something that must have had him stewing in anger and denial: he simply paid what he owed.

Please like and share to spread the good news!

[Social Justice @JUSTITIARUAT]

@sowore @iOccupyNigeria 👀

[Social Justice @JUSTITIARUAT]

@HQNewsNow 💯

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump: I've done a shitty job as president

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

My latest piece about SCOTUS' anti-voting decision was originally exclusively for Democracy Docket members. Based on the reaction, earlier today, the team decided to drop the paywall. https://t.co/UTJCMzeg1Q

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

On September 28, 1868, white mobs in Opelousas, Louisiana, unleashed racial terror as Black citizens were beginning to exercise newly gained voting rights during Reconstruction. An estimated 200 Black people were killed. The violence was so effective at suppressing Black political participation that, weeks later, Ulysses S. Grant received not a single vote in St. Landry Parish.

The right to vote has never been only about access to a ballot. It is also about being able to exercise political power without intimidation, violence, or fear.

We honor those who were killed by telling the truth about what happened and by protecting the freedom of every eligible voter to participate fully and safely in our democracy.

#Opelousas #VotingRights #BlackHistory #Democracy #HumanDignity

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Nearly 4 million records of enslaved people are now free to search on Ancestry, helping descendants across the African diaspora uncover names, family connections, and pieces of their history. Slavery tried to reduce our ancestors to property, but their names, their stories, and their LEGACY matter.
https://t.co/HIMju68smr

[Akwa Ibom 1st Son @ukocarter]

"Alot of US former governors all stole from our states when we were governors, when you say didn't steal, you're demarketing all of us"

— Dave Umahi confesses why he hates Peter Obi