Adrienne Nicodemus

[Adrienne Nicodemus @NicoEdCoach]

James Baldwin offers my heart this graceful conviction. His words make my face cringe like a child to the taste of medicine, yet the healing is swift once absorbed.

[Penguin Books UK @PenguinUKBooks]

‘You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.’

James Baldwin, born #onthisday in 1924

[Andratesha Fritzgerald (she/her) @FritzTesha]

Let this sink in.

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Slavery was divisive
Jim Crow was divisive
Unequal schools is divisive
2-tiered justice is divisive
Economic inequality is divisive
Redlining & Reaganomis & Wars on Drugs are divisive

Americas isn’t “becoming more divided”

It’s just getting harder for white people to ignore it

[Smithsonian’s NMAAHC @NMAAHC]

Happy birthday to the “Mother of Afrofuturism,” Octavia E. Butler, who was born #OTD in 1947 in Pasadena, California! Learn more about her literary and cultural impact in our #NMAAHCFutures exhibition and companion book: https://t.co/eYeqqNfMbu

[CNN @CNN]

She dreamt of living in a beautiful city, so she transformed her neglected Detroit block into a vibrant eco-village. https://t.co/whtRhS1J8k

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

If a Black woman shot and killed a white mother of four in front of the white woman’s 9 year old child, who allegedly had been called racial slurs by the Black woman, would an arrest still not have been made?

Also: According to the latest statistics, in Stand Your Ground states, when a white person kills a Black person, they are 354 percent more likely to have their killings deemed justified.

[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.

[Adrienne Nicodemus @NicoEdCoach]

@SchnellCPS @heymrsbond @pennykittle @CarolJago @KellyGToGo The Marrow Thieves

[Dr. Sonya Vierstraete @DrVteacher]

With gratitude, optimism is sustainable. If you find something to be grateful for, then you find something to look forward to - and you carry on. ~Michael J. Fox

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

It's time for public school teachers to get a raise.

[PEN America @PENamerica]

.@angiecthomas—author of the frequently banned The Hate U Give—responds to a @CBSSunday segment on banned books that featured only white parents from the book banning group Moms for Liberty. #BannedBooks #BlackAuthors #BlackLives

[Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis @RevJacquiLewis]

We need to be very clear about what’s happening.

The ubiquity of guns gives police an excuse to “believe” everyone is armed. It’s a premade defense for murder.

Simultaneously, it creates more shootings, more daily violence—the exact circumstances people use to expand policing.

[Lee Merritt @LeeMerrittesq]

Ralph Yarl is home and recovering! How the bullet in his head did not cause more extensive damage is truly a miracle. To God be the glory!

[Dr. Frank Leon Roberts @DrFrankRoberts]

“We are each other's harvest, we are each other's business: we are each other's magnitude and bond.”

- Gwendolyn Brooks

[Leslie Jones 🦋 @Lesdoggg]

Dale Hansen y’all!

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

On Colbert last week I mentioned my 3rd grade teacher, Ms. Mueller, who after reading a poem I wrote, told me I could be a writer when I grew up. I never forgot those words. So what an utter delight when I looked up from the signing table in New Orleans and saw Ms. Mueller there!

[Angela Dennis ✍🏽 @AngelaDWrites]

“This is the first in American history and we are losing our democracy to white supremacy. It is no coincidence that the youngest two Black legislators in the state of Tennessee are on trial today.”

-Rep.Justin Pearson, Tennessee 3 #TheTennesseeThree

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

It’s only been 10 days since someone fired over 150 rounds with assault rifles and killed those babies in Nashville… and today TN legislators decided not to ban assault rifles but to ban their fellow legislators for protesting gun violence and advocating for change.

[Stella Safo, MD MPH @AmmahStarr]

Look, if this country does not care to protect Black people, fine. But let us make the choices that we can to keep ourselves safe. Don't then turn around and steal our very babies, which is something that harkens back to the days of chattel slavery.

[Stella Safo, MD MPH @AmmahStarr]

top NYC hospital, I feared for my life as a Black birthing mom. The stats worked against me. If I were younger and without a chronic med condition, you can be sure I'd have chosen home birth to deliver on MY terms.

[Stella Safo, MD MPH @AmmahStarr]

I will say this and then be done. When I went into labor I looked at my pediatrician mom and my white partner and told them to use ALLLLLL their privilege to make sure I made it out alive. Why? Because even as a Harvard-trained MD with an exceptional OB team in a..