Rep. @brotherjones_ on @GinoBulso’s Charlie Kirk Act for college campuses: “This isn’t about protecting free speech. It’s about protecting a certain type of speech— white supremacist violence and hate speech that sees people like us as not worthy.”
"A lie told once is questioned. A lie repeated often enough becomes accepted. And once it becomes 'common sense,' people stop investigating it. That is how deception survives."
~ Malcolm X
BOOM! WITNESS THIS. A 9-year-old warrior took the mic and Dismantled Trump's attacks on Black and brown communities, our seniors, & those who served.
More courage, fire, & moral clarity than most grown folks will ever have. Slashing Social Security. Gutting healthcare. Stripping Medicaid & Medicare. Defunding schools. Withholding disaster relief from states that didn't vote for him.
The universe has a strange poetry: when a would-be despot grabs power, a child's voice rises up echoing the spirit of Fannie Lou Hamer, Fred Hampton, Septima Clark, & the freedom fighters before him.
BREAKING: Music legend Bruce Springsteen just released this incredible song that will be sure to piss Trump off beyond belief.
“Streets of Minneapolis”.
He wrote this song about Alex Pretti and Renée Good Saturday and recorded it yesterday.
Share it far and wide and play it as loud as you can
When this sermon went viral years ago, one of my CLOSEST, white evangelical friends told me, “Dewey, this sermon was pathetic!” After MUCH debate, we agreed to disagree! THIS morning, he sent me this clip & said, “Dewey, I was wrong, Dr. Jeremiah Wright was prophetic!”. I’m still chuckling! Please KNOW that you can both love AND criticize America simultaneously!
✔️Jesus was not a white, American or British man.
✔️The U.S. flag is not a symbol for the Church or for Jesus.
✔️The National Anthem is not a holy hymn.
✔️Slavery was not a "necessary evil" to build empire and to "bring" Africans to Jesus.
✔️Jesus carried the Cross, not a gun.
Quick trip to Scotland this week. Learned a alot. Thx to all the Black (Brit) Scottish creators who sat down w/ me and thx to Glasgow P.D. for not trippin when you saw me and Sterling K. Brown-ish posted up in that parking lot. Could've gone left real fast.
BREAKING: First ever African American Federal Reserve Governor, Lisa Cook, has just responded to Trump’s call for her resignation:
“I have no intention of being bullied to step down from my position because of some questions raised in a tweet.”
Remembering the great Count Basie who was born on this day in 1904. Noted for his spare, economical piano style and for his leadership of influential and widely heralded big bands, Basie is considered as one of the greatest bandleaders of all time.
Over a sixty-plus year career, he helped to establish jazz as a serious art form played not just in clubs but in theaters and concert halls. He established swing as one of the predominant styles in jazz music and solidified the link between jazz and blues.
Here, he is performing “How High The Moon” with his orchestra, featuring Snooky Young on trumpet, Frank Wess on sax, Joe Newman on trumpet, Frank Wess on flute, Eddie Jones on bass, Freddie Green on guitar, Sonny Payn on drums, and Joe Williams on vocals live in Belgium, 1961.
Bass Reeves, the real Lone Ranger.
Bass Reeves was the first African American commissioned to serve as a deputy marshal west of the Mississippi River. He brought to justice over 3,000 criminals and killed fourteen outlaws during his years as a marshal.