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a group of Alabama students organizing for equality and justice / advocates for removal of monuments to The Lost Cause

[takeitdownAL @TakeitdownAL]

To everyone who got out and voted today for Doug Jones especially millennials and ESPECIALLY BLACK ALABAMIANS: thank you. They said it wouldn’t happen BUT IT DID. We showed that bigotry and sexual harassment won’t be tolerated ✊✊✊

[Ari Berman @AriBerman]

The right to vote that Martin Luther King devoted his life to winning is under attack today. 395 new voting restrictions introduced in 49 states from 2011-2015

[Leslie Proll @LeslieProll]

One of Martin Luther King’s first major speeches took place before huge crowd at Holt Street Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama four days after Rosa Parks was arrested and launched Montgomery Bus Boycott. https://t.co/YlDT9jnvcy

[takeitdownAL @TakeitdownAL]

Brought to you by: the people who fought to get an unabashed racist elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama a month ago #alpolitics https://t.co/iEME5GKIfg

[ALGOP @ALGOP]

Today, and always we remember the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
#MLKDay #ALPolitics

[takeitdownAL @TakeitdownAL]

@_AvaNoelle_ Same

[takeitdownAL @TakeitdownAL]

On Dec 25, 1956 the KKK put 16 sticks of dynamite under Fred Shuttlesworth’s house. The Minister and his family escaped. A police officer told Shuttlesworth “If I were you I'd get out of town as quick as I could". Shuttlesworth told him to tell the Klan, “I wasn't raised to run."

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

“Confederate Domination 1861-1865”

These are on street lights in New Orleans. I don’t know that folks fully appreciate how pervasive Confederate iconography is across the South. Its not just the statues. It’s everywhere.

[takeitdownAL @TakeitdownAL]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! See y’all in 2018 ☃️🎄✊✊✊🎄❄️

[b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie]

excellent piece on mid-century segregation as the domestic sphere of racial capitalism: government subsidized asset accumulation, where whiteness = value & institutions work to increase the value of whiteness—in real and material terms—through exclusion. https://t.co/LddXdxxy1K

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Memphis City Council voted unanimously to immediately remove Confederate statues of Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis from city-owned properties.

Watch LIVE: https://t.co/2h2f0Fs3Jk

[takeemdownnola @takeemdownnola]

The NFL and the Confederacy https://t.co/DZS8Z8oe9e
Yup yup yup aaand...
#Yup
#TakeEmDownNOLA
#NFLBoycott
#westandwithcap
@Kaepernick7

[Moral Courage @MoralCourage]

Mississippi turns 200 today. Is it time for a new flag? Young ppl on opposite sides of the issue discuss:

https://t.co/9gDi79kKrH

@aunjanuejlt @VanJones68 @GenesisBe @MississippiRise @caraygrace @wlox @wxxvGina @wxxv25
#Mississippi200 #TakeitDownMS

[takeitdownAL @TakeitdownAL]

Alabama unions see Doug Jones's win as a victory for organized labor https://t.co/6mPCvjySZr

[Leslie Proll @LeslieProll]

Access to transportation is a voting rights issue too. https://t.co/Gp7brnim6Y

[takeitdownAL @TakeitdownAL]

Hey, we just had a new and very limited batch of #GOP4Jones signs printed due to new demand from all over the country after this historic election. Hit us up in the DMs for a discount code! #ThankYouAlabama https://t.co/ZPPlb4bUmP

[takeitdownAL @TakeitdownAL]

#ThursdayThoughts Where’s all the women and people of color running for offices in 2018? Alabama is over 50% women and over 25% Black. State leadership should reflect that.

[takeitdownAL @TakeitdownAL]

@BeerCompanion @TuscaloosaDems @KudzuFrannie Amen.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

If Doug Jones wins, media narrative needs to move from Black Americans’ lack of enthusiasm is losing elections to Black Americans’ turnout is winning elections - despite voter suppression, racism, and candidates that don’t cater to them.

#AlabamaSenateElection

[takeitdownAL @TakeitdownAL]

@jeffcannata Told ya 😉