On this day in 1913, President Woodrow Wilson authorized overt racial segregation in federal employment. Federal endorsement of Jim Crow policies was a significant blow to Black civil rights. https://t.co/gpncD2Uguu
A 28-year-old man named Taurus White was reportedly stabbed to death at Limestone prison in Alabama on tuesday. Mr. White was only one month away from completing a four-year sentence. https://t.co/hMODf2zFs2
On this day in 2020, two white men killed Ahmaud Arbery, a young unarmed Black man out jogging. Local officials lied and did not hold the men accountable for months, until a video was released. https://t.co/hSz1oPlenz
My love and respect for Detective Valentine was deep! This was a day my view shifted hard.
To my friend, we miss you dearly. There are not many left like you…at all.
12/1/21 🕊️
On this day in 1933, a white mob of 7,000 including women and children hanged and burned Lloyd Warner, an 18-year-old Black man, in a spectacle lynching in Missouri. https://t.co/SuV4kT44GA
The White House Initiative on HBCUs will be hosting a webinar with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday, November 8th, 2023, from 4-6PM, ET.
To join the conference, click: https://t.co/zRhiQfT7RT
For more than a decade, the all-white judges of a Louisiana appellate court ignored thousands of petitions filed by prisoners, most of them Black, who claimed they had been wrongly convicted.
Efforts to expose the injustice went unheard. (THREAD)
https://t.co/W8bQJj5eLQ
As America’s Peacemaker—a role we have carried out for nearly 60 years—CRS is on the ground in cities, towns and neighborhoods across America. Our goal? To help create a nation resilient in the face of hate and discrimination: https://t.co/C1j7UbIrxL
📸: Library of Congress
Nine Memphis jail deputies have been indicted in the death of a Black man who was beaten while having a psychotic episode last fall. A sheriff said Wednesday that the man died in custody after jailers punched, kicked and kneeled on his back. https://t.co/ms4r5SM5aD
A letter to 16 governors estimated how each state’s land-grant HBCU has been underfunded in state funds from 1987 to 2020.
During that period, Missouri underfunded Lincoln University in Jefferson City by $361 million. #moleg via @ArianaLFigueroa https://t.co/dWYixPgtDF
Five Former Memphis Police Officers Charged with Federal Civil Rights, Conspiracy and Obstruction Violations in Connection with the Death of Tyre Nichols
https://t.co/FqJiUgvjUx