Pandora Carreker Payne

Wife of Tee Payne, Mother of 3 Young Men, Gene & Gert's Daughter, SiStar, Soror 💗💚, Baker/Caterer, ASU 💙💛🐏 Cheer Alum

[Everything Georgia @GAFollowers]

Phenomenal job! Jonesboro High School’s Majestic Marching Cardinals put on an incredible performance for the world to see. 👏💯

[Pandora Carreker Payne @PandoraP1908]

@ThomBlank @SpaceWunder @moodigirl16 @best_emptynest @MrGee54 After he had it removed from funding…

[Pandora Carreker Payne @PandoraP1908]

@AtlantaFalcons A whole mess

[Pandora Carreker Payne @PandoraP1908]

Agreed ❤️‍🔥

[Boston Celtics @celtics]

Took care of business 💪

[Pandora Carreker Payne @PandoraP1908]

@RossKneeDeep 💙

[Roc 🇭🇹 @rocligon]

I mean the whole state of Alabama lost today! Smh!🤦🏾‍♂️

[Atlanta Falcons @AtlantaFalcons]

Can he kick it?

YES KOO CAN

FOX | NFL+

[Atlanta Falcons @AtlantaFalcons]

Ain’t nothing better than an ATL dub

[Amy Kremer @AmyKremer]

Not all heroes wear capes…

Atlanta weatherman rescues woman in Buckhead LIVE while on air

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Kamala Harris released a detailed, 82-page policy paper yesterday (link below) that outlines exactly how she plans to lower costs and create an opportunity economy.

The media won’t cover this, so it would be great if you could share!!
#HarrisWalz2024
https://t.co/lX31e9ASIX

[Golden Ram Athletics @ASUGoldenRams]

The @ASUGoldenRamsFB team has arrived safely in Rochester, NY for the Frederick Douglass HBCU Football Classic! #AllIn #MoveTheNeedle #CreatingLegacies

[Pam Keith, Esq. @PamKeithFL]

FUN FACT: Each of us who support Kamala are de facto surrogates for her campaign. So we have to have the talking points at the ready to answer questions or criticism about her or her campaign. So here are a few at the ready:

1) She didn’t pass any great things as VP:

[Holly Robinson Peete 💃🏾♍️ @hollyrpeete]

Rest in Peace, Tito 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

[Pandora Carreker Payne @PandoraP1908]

Rest in Peace 💔

[Everything Georgia @GAFollowers]

RIP to the 4 victims who tragically lost their lives today in the Apalachee High School shooting. As pictured:

1. Richard Aspinwall (math teacher)
2. Mason Schermerhorn (14y/o student)
3. Christian Angulo (14y/o student)
4. Christina Irimie (math teacher)

[Pandora Carreker Payne @PandoraP1908]

Poor baby…I’m sick to my stomach ❤️‍🩹

[Everything Georgia @GAFollowers]

One of the victims in the school shooting was Mason Schermerhorn, a student with autism. 😢😢

[Jaye T. @JayeJaybird54]

#ProudBlue #ProudWokeHistory #ProudBlueEditorials

On September 4, 1957, 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford came across an angry mob when she tried to enter Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Eckford was one of nine teenagers, who became known as the Little Rock Nine. They were the first Black students to attend the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

The original plan had been for the 9 teenagers to walk into the school together, but the night before, the meeting place was changed. Eckford’s family did not have a telephone; therefore, she was not aware of the change in plans. As a result, she tried to enter the school by herself, through a crowd of 400 hostile segregationists and a barricade by the Arkansas National Guard, which the pro-segregationist governor, Orval Faubus, had commanded to deter the students in violation of the Supreme Court decision.

Because of the line of soldiers blocking the school and the threats being made from the crowd, Eckford was forced to run to a bus stop. As she sat at the bus stop crying, a New York Times reporter comforted the frightened girl, telling her "don't let them see you cry." Civil rights activist Grace Lorch, who had learned that Eckford had arrived separately from the other students, then arrived to escort her home.

In response to Eckford and the other students being blocked from the school, Little Rock Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann asked President Eisenhower to send federal troops to protect the students. To enforce desegregation, Eisenhower sent the US Army's 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock and federalized the entire Arkansas National Guard to remove control from the governor. The Little Rock Nine then started school by the end of September. Soldiers were deployed at the school for the entire year but many of the students, including Eckford, still experienced physical and verbal abuse.

The governor continued to fight integration and, the following year, in what came to be known as the "Lost Year", ordered Little Rock's four high schools closed rather than allow it to continue. Because of the closure, Eckford did not graduate from Central High but took correspondence courses to complete her degree. Eckford and the rest of the Little Rock Nine were awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP and she later received a BA in history at Central State University in Ohio.

The photograph below shows Elizabeth Eckford on September 4, 1957 as she walked alone through a mob to Central High. Taken by Will Counts, it was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize for Photography. Hazel Massey, the young woman shown shouting in the picture, apologized to Eckford and the two women made amends at a 40th anniversary celebration of the school's integration.

[Pandora Carreker Payne @PandoraP1908]

@michaelharriot I said the same thing to my husband mid 4th quarter

[Pandora Carreker Payne @PandoraP1908]

@Whotfismick Hot sauce

[U.S. Women's National Soccer Team @USWNT]

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