The Institute for Common Power

We are committed to combatting the assault against truth. Education to Action! An educational arm of @ourcommonpower. Director, of Institute, @terryannescott

[The Institute for Common Power @TheInstituteCP]

Florida and @GovRonDeSantis are endeavoring to destroy truth in education. We have had enough! We are going to Florida for a 24 hr. teach-in. Direct action! Join us via zoom and help us spread truth, educate voters, and create change.
Register: https://t.co/HtoLKhjeOQ

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Jackson Mississippi response to Civil Rights Act of 1964.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

By June 1, 1921, the Tulsa Race Massacre had left behind the devastation of a deliberate assault on Black life, Black excellence, and Black progress.

Too often in this nation, Black advancement has been met with backlash, violence, erasure, and policy designed to pull back what had been gained. We saw it after Reconstruction, when Black civic participation was answered with terror, disenfranchisement, and the rise of Jim Crow. We saw it in places like Colfax, Wilmington, Elaine, and Tulsa. And 105 years later, we still see echoes of that pattern when voting rights are weakened, DEI is dismantled, truth is resisted, and efforts to widen opportunity are attacked.

Remembering June 1, 1921 also means telling the truth about what comes after progress in America. It means staying vigilant, organized, and unwilling to let backlash have the final word.

#TulsaRaceMassacre #BlackWallStreet #VotingRights #DEI #MLK

[The Institute for Common Power @TheInstituteCP]

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[The Institute for Common Power @TheInstituteCP]

Join us Sunday for a National Teach-In for Voting Justice! Sunday, July 7. Watch on Zoom.
Register here: https://t.co/KPz6PD5UFD
@ProfJeffries @terryannescott
#trending #vote #news #history

[Jerry Mitchell @JMitchellNews]

https://t.co/dmMchkx9eY

[Smithsonian’s NMAAHC @NMAAHC]

#OnThisDay in 1921, one of the deadliest racial massacres in U.S. history began in the thriving Greenwood African American community of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Black Wall Street in Tulsa, OK, was destroyed by a mob. Explore: https://t.co/1urx2dCDTY. #APeoplesJourney #ANationsStory

[Hasan Kwame Jeffries @ProfJeffries]

#ScorchedEarth!

[Maya Wiley @mayawiley]

They’re not coming after @SPLCenter DESPITE their work to protect the rights of Black voters. They’re coming after it BECAUSE of it.  

Wednesday’s hearing did not fool us. This is a campaign to deny racism is real & civil rights are necessary. We won’t back down.

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

White supremacist ideology + bigotry-laced patriotism = tragedy. White nationalists shot and killed 3 heroes who died trying to stop the shooters from killing 140 children inside the Islamic Center of San Diego.

“San Diego authorities say three victims from Monday’s shooting attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego died as they protected 140 children. Mansour Kaziha, 78, Nader Awad, 57, and Amin Abdullah, 51, died trying to stop the gunmen.⁠” @npr

[NAACP @NAACP]

Today, the NAACP gathered on the steps of the Tennessee Supreme Court following oral arguments in NAACP, Gloria Sweet-Love, et. al v. The State of Tennessee Governor, et. al, challenging the unlawful process leading to adoption of the state's racially discriminatory Congressional map.

The emergency lawsuit challenges a 48-hour special session carried out by state lawmakers earlier this month as both unlawful and unconstitutional.

“Across the South we are witnessing officials recklessly moving to dismantle Congressional districts that have provided Black communities a voice in our democracy. It is not surprising that in their mad dash to disenfranchise Black voters, they are breaking laws, defying rules and running afoul of state constitutional guardrails." — NAACP General Counsel @KristenClarkeJD https://t.co/03oLT0mTNU

[Hasan Kwame Jeffries @ProfJeffries]

This new coffee table book on the history of voter disenfranchisement and the long struggle to secure Black voting rights couldn’t be more timely.

Spread the word!

[Hasan Kwame Jeffries @ProfJeffries]

We’ll look at this kingly bullshit. 🤬🤬🤬

[NAACP @NAACP]

The NAACP is fighting to block Trump’s executive order on mail-in ballots, which threatens millions of voters.

"Whether by mailbox or ballot box, every American deserves the right to cast their vote." —NAACP President and CEO @DerrickNAACP

We’ve filed a motion to stop this order and protect democracy. https://t.co/vvtzlPfIgc

[NAACP @NAACP]

Our right to vote is facing new threats, but we are standing our ground.

Following the Supreme Court's Callais decision, NAACP is uniting with over 90 organizations to defend fair representation across the South. We are organizing, mobilizing, and building power for the road ahead.

Tune in live for All Roads Lead to the South TOMORROW, May 16, at 1 p.m. ET: https://t.co/sIfKCAoASH

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

John Lewis was my parishioner.

He had no reason to think that he would win when he was crossing the Edmund Pettus bridge.

But he just kept walking.

We must keep walking.

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

All Roads Lead to the South. Tomorrow, May 16. Montgomery and Selma. Join King Center CEO, Dr. Bernice A. King, and many others who are committed to meeting this critical moment for voting rights in the United States with urgency and strategy.

Why? The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Louisiana vs. Callais and the immediate reaction of several Southern state legislatures to suppress the votes of Black people + the other decisions by the Supreme Court that gutted the Voting Rights Act.

We are awake and alert, and committed to restoring + strengthening the Voting Rights Act. We must build better. And bold nonviolent strategies and solutions will still work.

#AlIRoadsLeadToTheSouth #VotingRights #DayOfAction #MLK #TheKingCenter

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

65 years ago today, The ‘Freedom Riders’ were brutally attacked by violent, well-armed and organized mob of White Supremacist and other terrorists in Anniston and Birmingham, Alabama.

The bus tires were blew out then someone threw a bomb into the bus.

The Freedom Riders were groups of African American and white civil rights activists who rode buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years. Mobs in the South would violently protest this exercise to end segregation

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

The rush to silence Black voters ahead of the 2026 election is stone cold racism.

It's Jim Crow 2.0.

[The Institute for Common Power @TheInstituteCP]

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The Institute for Common Power partners with teachers, tutors, curriculum specialists, organizational foundations, and school system leaders across the country to provide an experiential learning opportunity for educators in the long historical arcs of Civil Rights, Voting Rights, and the African American experience in America. Truth in education is essential for democracy to work. We are dedicated to creating a nation of educators who understand and teach accurately, while being models for students to grow and work collaboratively in building a just and inclusive American democracy.

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[Historyland @HistorylandHQ]

Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy riding on the first desegregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama in December 1956.