Former Ohio State Senator. Founder: @StrikeForAll. Senior Fellow: @RacePowerPolicy. National co-chair: Bernie Sanders 2020. Cohost: @2waytvapp’s The Group Chat
We can either send @Target a clear message now, or be quiet & allow corporations use allyship when it’s convenient.
My organization @StrikeForAll is calling on working class solidarity—#BoycottTarget & let’s build a movement that stands at the intersection of race and class.
🚨BOYCOTT ALERT 🚨
STARTING FEBRUARY 1st, WE ARE SOMEBODY IS CALLING ON A MASS BOYCOTT OF ALL TARGET STORES.
Friday, @target announced that they are rolling back diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. 1/4
Mr. Orange…is back! Well, he hasn’t left, sadly. He’s become buddies with Mr. Magnum.
They don’t believe in having a heart. ❤️🩹
THOU SHALL NOT STEAL THE HEART OF BEN & JERRY’S!!
It’s time to juice Mr. Orange 🍊
Go to https://t.co/Dr6WoGMrSG to take action in protecting the heart and values of Ben & Jerry’s. #freebenandjerrys
This is how they steal black welt from black family. They use the law to confiscate black land and give it to white corporation.. They get ready to lock up a black family for refusing to give up their land to a railroad company..
On this day in 1844, the Oregon Territory passed its first of many laws prohibiting free Black people from moving into the area and authorizing violators to be whipped as punishment.
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Jeff Landry took millions of your tax dollars from projects serving Black communities across Louisiana.
Tomorrow, you get to decide how you respond.
If someone keeps taking from your community, do you stay home—or do you show up?
Go vote. Text 10 people. Share this video.
Love is an action word. Let your actions speak.
Share if you care. 🦾
Israel killed 4,300 Lebanese & laid waste to much of south Lebanon, demolishing 81 villages. It’s an insult for the US to get the Lebanese to sign an agreement w/ Israel that ignores Lebanese loss & pain & threatens Lebanon’s unity. Why must everything be on Israel’s terms?
Lander: "I look forward to helping elect Hakeem Jeffries to be the Speaker in January. He called to congratulate me and we had a good conversation. Primaries are where we work out the direction of the party ... the line is between fighters and folders"
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is pushing back after the Supreme Court ruled against a Rastafarian man whose dreadlocks were cut in prison. Jackson warned the decision could leave religious freedom violations without a remedy.
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Did you know hundreds of thousands of black women were sterilized against their will across America from California to Mississippi and Georgia and Alabama and Louisiana and Tennessee and Florida. eugenics in America before the Nazis. As a matter of fact, the Nazis adapted it from America.
A 32-year-old Democratic socialist who once said "Fuck Kamala Harris" has just beat the Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus — who was backed by the entire party establishment and millions of dollars.
There is not even a doubt. The Democratic Tea Party is here.
On this day in 1997, Betty Shabazz, educator, civil rights advocate and the wife of Malcolm X. passed away today 🕊️
Born Betty Dean Sanders, Dr. Shabazz grew up in Detroit, Michigan, where her foster parents largely sheltered her from racism. She attended the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, where she had her first encounters with racism. Unhappy with the situation in Alabama, she moved to New York City, where she became a nurse.
It was in New York that she met Malcolm X. The couple married in 1958.
Along with her husband, Dr. Shabazz left the Nation of Islam in 1964. She witnessed his assassination the following year.
MEMORIALS:
•In late 1997, the Community Healthcare Network renamed one of its Brooklyn, New York, clinics the Dr. Betty Shabazz Health Center, in honor of Shabazz.
•The Betty Shabazz International Charter School was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1998 and named in her honor.
•In 2005, Columbia University announced the opening of the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center. The memorial is located in the Audubon Ballroom, where Malcolm X was assassinated.
•In March 2012, New York City co-named Broadway at the corner of West 165th Street, the corner in front of the Audubon Ballroom, Betty Shabazz Way.
PORTRAYALS IN FILM:
🎬Yolanda King, the daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott King, played Dr. Shabazz in the 1981 television movie Death of a Prophet.
🎬She was portrayed by Angela Bassett in the 1992 film Malcolm X.
🎬Bassett also played the part of Dr. Shabazz in the 1995 film Panther.
🎬Dr. Shabazz was portrayed by Victoria Dillard in the 2001 film Ali.
🎬Dr. Shabazz was the subject of the 2013 television movie Betty and Coretta, in which she was played by Mary J. Blige.
Wild to me that she doesn’t get as much shine as some of the other left electeds. She’s been incredibly poised, principled, and effective while maintaining her principles.