Everything is energy. Every thought and every action. Every cell in my being that creates me, desires to create tracks. Those tracks, hopefully, will lay the foundation for others to stand up against INSTITUTIONAL bullies. Without tracks there is no road to change. #sacrifice
John Morton Finney was a Buffalo soldier who fought in World War 1, earned 11 degrees and practiced law until he was 106 years old.
He was believed to be the longest practicing attorney in the United States.
—John Morton-Finney (June 25, 1889 January 28, 1998) was an American civil rights activist, lawyer, and educator who earned 11 academic degrees, including 5 law degrees.
—He spent most of his career as an educator and lawyer after serving from 1911 to 1914 in the U.S. Army as a member of the 24th Infantry Regiment, better known as the Buffalo soldiers, and with the American Expeditionary Forces in
France during World War I.
—Morton-Finney taught languages at Fisk University in Tennessee and at Lincoln University in Missouri, before moving to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he taught in the Indianapolis Public Schools for forty-seven years.
—Morton-Finney was a member of the original faculty at Indianapolis's Crisps Attucks High School when it opened in 1927 and later became head of its foreign language department. He also taught at Shortridge High School and at other IPS schools.
—Morton-Finney was admitted as a member of the Bar of the Indiana Supreme Court in 1935, as a member of the Bar of the U.S. District Court in 1941, and was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1972.
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Months after a statewide ban on DEI programs in public colleges took effect, the UT has laid off dozens of staff who worked in DEI-related positions. This is incredibly disappointing — we have yet to see the full impact this ban will have on students! https://t.co/ZxRpl2fKHy
MUST WATCH: Blacks going MISSING in MISSISSIPPI…Being FOUND in UNMARKED GRAVES behind the jail! Mississippi 🐷’s being INVESTIGATED for the killing & burying of missing Black’s! DISMANTLE ALL 🐷 DEPART this is SICK! Poor Mother😢#BlackTwitter#RacistCops#DOJ#Woke#BadPolice
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽…”WE NEED A LOT MORE OF THIS”…I give this BLACK COURT OFFICER nothing but the UTMOST RESPECT ✊🏽 for taking a stand against these RACIST OVERZEALOUS White court officers! “They ALWAYS try to do the MOST & LOVE choking” #BlackMan#Justice#Court#BlackTwitter#BlackPeople
Julie Jackson, 49, is the first African-American president of a tech-forward corporate event production company, DEVLINHAIR (DH), a women-owned company in New York City founded by Dorothy Devlin and Barbara Hair.
https://t.co/BrmFBOKijR
Here’s a reminder that professionalism is a social construct put in place to uphold the norms of oppressive systems that weren’t designed w/ marginalized people in mind.
Show up BOLDLY to remind folks that no matter what it looks like, change is coming.
#StopPlayingDiversity
"I had a divine calling on my life, a charge, a challenge to serve not just Black people, but all oppressed humankind. That calling will be with me to the end." #CorettaScottKing
One hundred young Black girls from East Orange, Newark, and Hillside took a trip to Yale University on July 28th to participate in the Black Girls Go to Yale initiative.
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Florida is skewing Black history. A Black mom living in the state says it's our job as parents to empower our kids and tell them the truth.
https://t.co/EWz6FUHyMD
There are still missing women out there. Don't allow one false story to distract us from a real problem in this country. Sex trafficking is real and many are still missing and need to be found.
#CarleeRussell, the Alabama woman who went missing, searched online for information on bus tickets, Amber Alerts, and a movie about a kidnapping. Comedian KevOnStage talks about the case.
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