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@gowokegobroke88 @tatereeves Checked the room and decided it's time to remove your god.

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Miss the blue supermoon? David Grunfeld, director of photography at The Times-Picayune, captured this stunning photo in case you didn't get to witness the rare phenomenon. https://t.co/UyuBOiHJiG

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First Kentucky Derby Winner: Oliver Lewis

In 1875, Oliver Lewis became the first jockey to win the Kentucky Derby, America's longest continuous sporting event. Lewis was born in 1856 in Fayette Country, Kentucky, to his parents Goodson and Eleanor Lewis. Lewis was born free, but there is little known about his parents or family. Lewis was only 19 years old when he entered the first Kentucky Derby. The race was held at what was then the Louisville Jockey Club on May 17, 1875, but is now known as Churchill Downs.

Ten thousand spectators watched this first race. Lewis rode a horse named Aristide, which was one of two colts entered by their owner, H. Price McGrath of Jessamine, Kentucky. The other horse, Chesapeake, was ridden by William Henry. Although the same owner entered both horses, Chesapeake was favored to win the $2,850 purse, and Lewis was told that his job was to lead most of the race to tire out the other horses. Out of the fifteen jockeys in the field, at this first Kentucky Derby, thirteen of them were African American. Aristide's trainer, Ansel Williamson, was also an African American.

Oliver Lewis followed his instructions and was pushing most of the field while trailing a horse named Volcano for most of the race. However, in the last stretch, Chesapeake was unexpectedly far back in the pack while Aristide and Volcano were running neck and neck for first place. Lewis and Aristide pulled away near the finish line and won the race by two lengths. With that victory Lewis became the first jockey to win the Kentucky Derby. Later that season, Lewis came in second in the Belmont Stakes in New York and won three more races at the Louisville Jockey Club, riding Aristide in all of them. He would never ride in the Kentucky Derby again, however, and would retire after that racing season for unknown reasons.

After retiring, Lewis worked for a short time as a day laborer, but then began providing handicapping tables and racing forms to bookies. He later became a bookie himself which was legal in Kentucky at that time. Lewis married although his wife's name is unknown. The couple had six children including James who inherited his lucrative bookmaking business. Oliver Lewis died in Lexington, Kentucky in 1924 at the age of 68.

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@MSSalleForth Drink one for me

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#OnThisDay in 1955, Emmett Till’s mother, Mamie Till Mobley, opened her son’s casket so that the world could “see what they did to my baby.” Some wept. Some fainted. All were moved by the sight of his brutalized body, a witness to the murderers’ monstrous deeds.

More than 50,000 flooded the streets of Chicago outside the Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ, and the photograph of Till’s brutalized body appeared in publications around the world. The resulting outrage helped propel the civil rights movement.

“It was myself in that coffin, it was my brothers in that coffin,” author James Baldwin said. “I can’t describe it so precisely, because it had been so mutilated, it had been so violated. It was him, but it was all of us.”
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[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

NEW: An Indianola Police officer pointed a gun at Kelvin Franklin, repeatedly tased and choked him all while the 33-year-old U.S. Army staff sergeant was handcuffed, he alleges in a lawsuit.

The officer was suspended in June after shooting an 11-year-old.
https://t.co/SSQmeFzz93

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@Megawatts55 Even 12 yo are smarter.

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@RyanWaltersSupt A fake university to go with your fake history. Bravo

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@BoiJuanda Dr. Pepper

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@bluertwo Nest

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@bluertwo Bites

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Here's a link to Ken Paxton's 2003 brief urging SCOTUS to hold that Texas has a right to convict, fine, and incarcerate gays and lesbians: https://t.co/wh8U3aXwse

Always comes to mind when Ken's in the news.

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We have shortages of people with degrees that keep our society functioning and keep us alive. Instead of discouraging college we should support unions AND demand the same free education every other developed nation provides.

[Clay Edwards @SaveJxn]

A Jackson Pothole claimed another victim in North Jackson this

#jacksonms #JxnMs #Mississippi #Savejxn

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@bluertwo Things We Do For Love

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@BoiJuanda You got this.