Kevin Mosley

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.” MLK

[Kevin Mosley @KevinMosleyTalk]

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[Stephanie Kennedy @WordswithSteph]

NEW: Evidence has been uncovered that Donald Trump enriched himself at the expense of taxpayers. While Trump was president, he stole $1.7 billion dollars in revenue and directed the funds to flow through his businesses. Further, Trump did everything possible to ensure the majority of the stolen money came from American taxpayers.

Additionally, “Stop the Steal” profiteering raked in more than $500,000,000 for Trump, less than $9,000,000 of which has been spent on lawyers. Trump is spending the remainder of the funds on himself.

An agonizing example of the thieving fundraising practices of “Stop the Steal” — The Trump campaign stole a man’s last $3000 as he lay dying in hospice.

Source: Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, David Cay Johnston @DavidCayJ

[Manisha Sinha @ProfMSinha]

Historian of Reconstruction here I am seriously in awe of Jack Smith who is channeling the spirit of Amos Akerman. But like Akerman he faces a lousy Supreme Court.

[Jerry Mitchell @JMitchellNews]

120 years ago today, Mary McLeod Bethune opened a training school in Daytona Beach, Florida, with “$1.50, faith in God and five little girls.” Discarded crates and boxes served as their desks and chairs.

Eventually that school became an accredited institution, Bethune-Cookman College, and she served as a college president, one of the few women in the world to do so.

“Invest in the human soul,” she urged. “Who knows? It might be a diamond in the rough.”

A determined civil rights leader, she decried the lynchings of Black Americans and fought for voting rights and better health care. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her as a national adviser of his “Black Cabinet” to direct the National Youth Administration. She was known as “The First Lady of The Struggle” because of her dedication to the movement.

Her home in Daytona Beach was designated as a National Historic Landmark. In 2018, the Florida Legislature designated her to become one of two statues representing the state inside the U.S. Capitol. Two years later, Time selected her as one of the most influential women of the past century.
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[Jerry Mitchell @JMitchellNews]

#OnThisDay in 1899, William Levi Dawson was born in Anniston, Alabama. He ran away from home when he was 13 to attend Tuskegee Institute. He supported himself through jobs and performed in Tuskegee’s band and orchestra. He continued to study music and graduated in 1927 from the American Conservatory of Music with a master’s degree in composition.

His wife, Cornella, died within the first year of their 1928 marriage, and he found solace in music. He composed music in the European tradition before relying on his African roots to write symphonies.

“I’ve not tried to imitate Beethoven or Brahms, Franck or Ravel, but to just be myself,” he told the Chicago Defender. “To me, the finest compliment that could be paid my symphony when it has its premiere is that is unmistakably is not the work of a white man. I want the audience to say, ‘Only a Black man could have written that.’”

He wrote what others called spirituals, and he called folk songs. “We have got to know and treat them as folk songs, because they contain the best that’s in us,” he said. “All the nations prize their folks’ songs.”

He led the 100-voice Tuskegee Choir, which proved so talented that they sang for the grand opening of Radio City Music Hall in 1932. The choir performed for the White House, and in 1946, broke the race barrier at Constitutional Hall, becoming the first Black Americans to perform there.

In 1952, Dawson visited seven countries in west Africa to study indigenous music there. His symphonies drew worldwide attention, and churches sang his spirituals such as “Ezekiel Saw the Wheel” and “King Jesus Is a-Listening.” Inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame before his death in 1990, his legacy persists through the internationally acclaimed Tuskegee Golden Voices Choir.
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[ChristinaProenzaColes @ProenzaColes]

John Smythe (b. 1844 in VA) studied at the Institute for Colored Youth & was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts at Philadelphia. He was a politically active federal employee, a lawyer, & a leader in several organizations. Smythe was appointed U.S. ambassador to Liberia in 1878.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Hello, President Biden, it's Ron! May I please have some socialism?

[Manisha Sinha @ProfMSinha]

Historian here it’s not everyday that you sign 200 books and present your work to members of Congress. I took pics with Rep James Clyburn and others and got into a staring competition with Rand Paul! I told them to live up to the legendary Reconstruction era 39th Congress.

[Richard Branson @richardbranson]

Marcellus Williams is innocent. We placed this full-page ad in the Kansas City Star today, urging Missouri @GovParsonMO to halt the execution of an innocent man: https://t.co/5M1g5ZzpwN @innocence @The_MIP #SaveMarcellus

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

Never underestimate the ability of racism to make people vote against their own interests. Never.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

.@KamalaHarris has spent her life fighting for people who need a voice and a champion. She’s more than ready to be President – let’s help her get elected. https://t.co/MzJFG9c4HI

[Jerry Mitchell @JMitchellNews]

#OnThisDay in 1963, members of the Ku Klux Klan planted a bomb inside the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four young girls, Denise McNair, 11, and Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and Carole Robertson, all 14. Collins’ younger sister, Sarah, was blinded by the blast, which also injured 22 others.

That same day, police shot and killed 16-year-old Johnny Robinson after a group of kids reportedly threw rocks. Virgil Ware, 13, was shot to death while riding on the handlebars of his brother’s bicycle. (The teens who killed him got no jail time.)

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sent a telegram to President Lyndon B. Johnson, “Dear Mr. President, I shudder to think what our nation has become when Sunday school children … are killed in church by racist bombs.”

Days later, he told a crowd of 8,000 at the girls’ funeral service, “The innocent blood of these little girls may well serve as the redemptive force that will bring new light to the city.”

The bombing became a turning point in generating broader sympathy for the civil rights movement. On the same day of the bombing, James Bevel and Diane Nash began the Alabama Project, which later grew into the Selma Voting Rights Movement.
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[Eric Umansky @ericuman]

I reported today that the NYPD has been *throwing out* cases of police misconduct *without even looking at the evidence*

Under the current commissioner--who just got his phone seized by the feds--they've been doing it even more

400+ cases just this year

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[Donna Brazile @donnabrazile]

The US presidential debate saw Trump become what he most feared: a laughing stock https://t.co/dqTODu2UOL

[Yamiche Alcindor @Yamiche]

My story for @nbcnightlynews from Springfield, Ohio where Haitian immigrants told me they are hurt and scared because of the baseless claims being spread about them by former President Trump and Senator JD Vance.

[Kevin Mosley @KevinMosleyTalk]

@abbydphillip @ninaturner She can have several seats

[Paul Krugman @paulkrugman]

Gee, I wonder who won the debate

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Trump: "People aren't going to the rallies."

The rallies:

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Exclusive: Ben & Jerry's co-founders unveil Kamala Harris 'Coconut Jubilee' ice cream flavor https://t.co/GxwI4jqMW7

[ChristinaProenzaColes @ProenzaColes]

Students at Leonard Medical School (Shaw University) in the the late 19th century. “Nearly every member of the first graduating class of 1886 went on to have a notable career and was deeply involved in civic life.”