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Ceremony is first of its kind in university history On the heels of a history-making event with the opening of the first Digital…

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… with no Black people?

[C Parish Ward @ParishWard]

Help protect these local ecosystems. When we take care of nature, nature takes care of us.

[Soldiers Delight NEA @soldiersdelight]

Sunday, January 7, 2024 @ 8:45 am: SERP Event!

Volunteer with the Serpentine Ecosystem Restoration Project this winter at Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area!

Read about all the details here: https://t.co/TcwqSE5acW

[Loni Love @LoniLove]

Just heartbreaking news…. He was a fine actor and we never gave him his flowers enough.. rest in peace Mr. Braugher

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@MagicJohnson Congratulations and thank you for demonstrating how black families can build and sustain generational wealth.

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Laurence Fishburne reads a former slave's incredible letter to his old m... https://t.co/qQyQSMze9p via @YouTube

[Baltimore County Police Department @BaltCoPolice]

📣Do you drive a Kia? Does it have a steel turn-key ignition? If so, and it was manufactured between 2011 and 2022, you won't want to miss the Kia anti-theft software upgrade event taking place in Anne Arundel County today, Saturday, and Sunday.

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@RazorbackFB Battle for the Boot! 🐗 vs 🐯

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The Battle for the Boot.

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Touchdown @RazorbackFB! 🐗🏈🐗🏈🐗🏈🐗🏈🐗🏈🐗

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1957, Nashville's all-white Hattie Cotton Elementary School was destroyed by dynamite blast when black kids integrated the school.

—On September 9, 1957, as 19 Black six-year-olds integrated all-white elementary schools in Nashville, Tennessee, white church members—including one local minister—organized a persistent and violent campaign to oppose the integration of Nashville public schools. Outside Fehr Elementary School, one person held a sign that read “God is the author of segregation” and pursued two Black children walking to the school. Outside three different elementary schools that same morning, Fred Stroud, a white minister, sought to dissuade white parents from allowing their children to be educated alongside Black children by preaching damnation for those who did not uphold segregation.

The next day, 100 sticks of dynamite were thrown into Hattie Cotton Elementary School and exploded. Patricia Watson, the one Black elementary student who had been in class the previous morning, did not return. No Black children returned to Hattie Cotton Elementary School the following year, and no one faced criminal charges for the bombing.

Though Brown v. Board of Education determined in 1954 that school segregation was unconstitutional, for three years white residents in Nashville relied on intimidation and organized political resistance to maintain segregation in the public schools. In 1957, Nashville finally developed a “stair step program” which permitted a few Black elementary school students to enroll in eight elementary schools in their zones.

Throughout the summer of 1957, white segregationists in Nashville held intimidation rallies to terrorize Black families. In the days leading up to the first day of school, as Black parents pre-registered their children for school, mobs of white church members gathered outside buildings with signs calling segregation the “will of God.” One leader declared that “integration can be reversed” and that “blood will run the streets” before Nashville’s schools were integrated.

By the morning of September 9, out of the 126 Black children eligible to attend all-white elementary schools in their zones, only 19 Black children matriculated. Reverend Stroud gathered crowds at Glenn Elementary to preach about the evils of integration, and white people in cars outside of Jones Elementary held signs emblazoned with KKK iconography and Biblical quotes. As opposition grew throughout the morning, white mobs crowded the sidewalks and threw rocks and bottles at Black children and their parents who attempted to pass through the crowd. By the end of the day, half of the white students at Glenn Elementary School—nearly 250 children—had not arrived, as white parents chose to deny their children education rather than permit them to learn alongside Black children.

That evening, 300 white people gathered downtown and continued to threaten Black families who sent their children to school. They strung an effigy in blackface from a stoplight with a note pinned to its chest that read “this could be you.” As the mob around Fehr Elementary grew to at least 400, white people burned two outbuildings located on the property of a Black family that had sent their daughter to the school. The mob also continued to burn crosses on lawns of Black families who had dared to enroll their students that morning.

[The ReidOut @thereidout]

.@JonesForAR on Sarah Huckabee Sanders: "It's cringeworthy and a doggone shame that she is a graduate of Little Rock Central High School, and she would willingly say those things, and then turn around and try to deny the history." #TheReidOut

[Rue Mapp @RueMapp]

I’m overjoyed to present and discuss my @ChronicleBooks #NatureSwagger in beloved #Yosemite National Park tomorrow afternoon. If you’re already in the area, enjoying the final weeks of summer there, I hope you’ll stop by!

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Lady Luna is sharing her full brilliance tonight! 🌕

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[Shani Harris @shanikharris]

@IAMJHUD @violadavis I am so happy for Viola Davis making #GRAMMYs history as a talented EGOTT! She is everything & a legend just like you are Queen! I was glad to celebrate the night of your big Tony win when you become an EGOT too. Wonderful news. Proud of both of you. Beautiful #BlackGirlMagic