Atlanta is ~47% Black, yet make up ~80% of its homeless population, per the city’s Jan. 2025 federal count. Family homelessness rose 18%. Council member Liliana Bakhtiari calls it a system failing Black families for generations. A Black Agenda is needed. https://t.co/CHYgDJAxhl
Founded in 1937, the Southern Negro Youth Congress was a key player in the radical wing of the early phase of the civil rights movement. https://t.co/8WGxKcAau8
Senator Scott Colom will be the first ADOS Senator from Mississippi to be elected to the U.S. Senate since the Reconstruction era. Shout out to the ADOS Mississippi organizers on the ground who helped make history!
Here are some things to know about the two previous Black senators from Mississippi, Hiram Rhodes Revels and Blanche Kelso Bruce.
via @AP
https://t.co/T8wl8QSLb0
Ellora Derenoncourt says the Black-white wealth ratio has stayed near 6-to-1 for 70 years as wealth compounds across generations. Closing the gap requires lineage-based reparations for what was owed at emancipation. #RacialWealthGap https://t.co/5m7H9PJKjG
From illegal immigrants receiving payments for family separations at the boarder, to approving redress for Iran… Congress fully understands how #reparations works, & how implement it.
Unconstitutional pilots & comedy clubs won’t move the needle.
#ADOS politics is the only way!
Jim Crow Era Romanticizers don't care how insane the poverty in the Rural South was and how high the extreme poverty rate was for our people overall. They still lie and say we were thriving then
Now that Black American voters and Black American political candidates have made history, it’s time for @TheDemocrats to do their part and correct the historical and ongoing injustices impacting Black American communities.
The racial wealth gap.
Gentrification.
Police violence…
On this day in 1935, a white mob lynched 15-year-old Ernest Collins and 16-year-old Benny Mitchell in Colorado County, Texas. Officials later called the lynching “justice,” and no one was punished.
https://t.co/ucRX9CmNGR
"The incoming leader of the Congressional Black Caucus urged his party to focus on affordability and environmental justice in the next Congress — and the voting rights fight that ripped the party apart the last time Democrats controlled both chambers."
“That man is a racist…”
Angie Nixon POPS OFF on James Carville for his recent comments on her candidacy/campaign.
Check out her direct message to Carville in the clip below:
Non black people are obsessed with using black trauma, pain and oppression as a measuring stick for their own but will simultaneously downplay black trauma, pain and oppression