Melissa B

Scholar, Artist, Nature Enthusiast. Princeton 2013, UDel English PhD student

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1955, an all-white jury in Mississippi acquitted the two white men who murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till. https://t.co/chyWxP2lcc

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Nina Simone in Central Park, NY

[Melech. @MelechThomas]

This might be the first statement I’ve seen like this.

[W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School @AbolitionSchool]

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[ada enechi @adaenechi]

He travelled to the UK from the Netherlands to harm that child. He packed his bags, got on a plane with the pure intention to assault a child and people are doing "Everyone makes mistakes". You people are SICK

[Mo 🍉 @MozFrame]

On the Left:
Sha'carri Richardson, who was banned from the Olympics last time for testing positive for... cannabis

On the right:
Steven van de Velde, who was convicted of raping a 12 year old girl. He is free to compete for the Netherlands Beach Volleyball team this year

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

But the real danger on college campuses is DEI and students being exposed to dialogue about race and racism.

[Jason James @jasonjamesbnn]

The Haitian cannibal story has been an eye opening moment for me in regards to the way propaganda travels and who is responsible for distributing it.

The current narrative on X (and everywhere else) is that a man named Jimmy Cherizier aka Barbecue has taken over Haiti with his cannibal gang and the island nation has descended into chaos. Now Haitian cannibal gangs are making their way up to the US and are invading through the southern border.

The real story:

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry was unelected and installed by the US and UN in Haiti.

Henry was an extension of US and globalist interests which meant more privation and suffering for Haitians.

This triggered somewhat of a revolution in Haiti and armed groups banded together to remove Henry from power- including Cherizier and his group.

Cherizier is a former police officer who started a group called the Revolutionary Forces of the G9 to protect Haitians from vicious gangs who rob, rape and murder, and are largely supported by elite members of Haitian society who are connected to the US and UN.

Cherizier's group and the gangs agreed to a non-aggression pact and now most are working with Cherizier to remove Henry's government from Haiti.

The US and UN arranged for Henry to travel to Kenya and brokered a deal for Kenya to provide death squads that would put down the resistance.

Cherizier and his groups have blocked off the airports to prevent Henry from returning, and I suspect prevent said death squads from entering the country.

The US is now circulating propaganda via social media to create a pretext for military intervention. The cannibal gang story is their creation. Cherizier and his group are not cannibals. It's unclear who is in the cannibal videos and where they're from. The man you've seen eating a charred human leg is not Cherizier.

The US and UN's interest in Haiti is also unclear (strategic location? Sex trafficking?) but they are putting a lot of focus on Haiti and their propaganda effort to generate western support for intervention.

From what I know, the people in Haiti are largely in support of this revolution and want Henry, along with his globalist puppet masters, removed from their government.

Keep an eye on the big accounts you see sharing the Haitian gang propaganda. These people are either wittingly or unwittingly circulating a narrative constructed by the Biden administration, UN and American Military Industrial-Complex, and working on their behalf.

I learned a lot about sources I can and cannot trust through this story, and the list of sources sharing legitimate information grows smaller by the day. If they'll lie about this, what else are they lying about? If they aren't checking the validity of information they're sharing, what else aren't they looking into?

Nothing is what it seems, and as much as I hate to say it, these big news sources and podcasts that many rely on for information are proving western governments right in their argument for censorship and what they classify as misinformation and disinformation.

[Blake Rogers Wilson @CasesinVirginia]

"Unlike white male sculptors, she could not ground her work in the study of anatomy. Such classes traditionally were limited to white men: however, a few white women paid to get a background in the subject. Lewis could not afford classes..."
https://t.co/SOhMqKJZ1W

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

which one did you learn in school?

[Dr. Marvin Dunn @MarvinDunn4]

Casey DeSantis Florida's First Lady makes a racist fashion statement. Black babies as alligator bait was a theme in racist Florida humor of the early 1900s. It's an inside joke. If you are not from Florida, you may not get it. She does. Do you?

[Smithsonian’s NMAAHC @NMAAHC]

#OTD in 1862, Robert Smalls commandeered the Planter, a Confederate transport ship, to take his family & twelve others to freedom. Smalls employed specialized knowledge, including Confederate Navy signals, to take control of the ship and travel to free waters. #APeoplesJourney

[silverprincess💛 @marsha_vivinate]

Say her name. Her name is AJ Owens. A mother of 4 shot and killed by a white woman. A mom doing what a normal mom would do if you took her children's IPad. She went to confront her neighbor, who has not been arrested for murder.

[Melissa B @MsBenbowReads]

ChatGPT makes me not want to teach anymore. It's dispiriting that so few people truly care about learning.

[Keith Boykin @keithboykin]

Death is not justice.

An arrest warrant was issued for Carolyn Bryant Donham in August 1955 related to the murder of Emmett Till. But it was never served. Instead, she was able to live a full life to 88 years old.

Emmett Till only lived to 14 years old. This is not justice.

[Melissa B @MsBenbowReads]

@ I just signed up for Walk - Saturday History Strolls at NPR https://t.co/iKRAGI3QcF

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

Ralph Paul Yarl was picking up his two siblings. He went to the wrong house in Kansas City, Missouri. The White man who opened the door did not see a lost 16-year-old boy. He saw a threat. Shot Ralph, twice. Once in the head to kill him. Somehow Ralph survived. 1/

[Kathryn Benjamin Golden @kathrynelisehb]

Spring into Black Table Talks this Monday with @drvholden and Africana @UDelaware ! Register here: https://t.co/GvnoIPaJ6h

[Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom @FashioningSelf]

J. Marion Sims's contribution to the field of gynecology lie in a series of experiments performed on the enslaved women Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey, among others, without anesthesia. When artist and activist Michelle Browder saw this painting memorializing Sims's legacy, she was triggered. "From there, I promised myself that I would change that narrative," said Browder in a recent @NewsHour report. In her black feminist intervention, Browder put Sims under scrutiny on the operating table, surrounding him with empowered black women dressed in modern clothing. She sought to restore a sense of bodily autonomy through a creative reinterpretation of the original 1952 painting, underscoring the restorative power of re-envisioning this "great moment in medicine." On Mother's Day of this year, Browder is slated to open The Mothers of Gynecology Health and Wellness Museum and Clinic in Montgomery, Alabama. The property was previously owned and operated by Dr. J. Marion Sims where he conducted his experiments on enslaved women. @mothersofgyno