The depth of my love for this brother, can only be matched by the depth of my pain learning of his loss. A immensely talented man with the ability to give voice to the human condition portraying the lives of those whose humanity is seldom elevated until he sings their truth.
Mr. Hughes Vann Ellis, age 100, and Ms. Viola Fletcher, age 107. The siblings are two of the last living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. They testified before Congress today at a hearing focused on legal remedies to compensate survivors and their descendants.
"If Brian Kemp's goal over the last 24 hours was not to recall the worst aspects of racialized voter suppression, white supremacy, and the fight against democratic representation in the Jim Crow South, says @chrislhayes, "Well, I gotta say he's doing a very poor job of that."
Another powerful and influential voice has transitioned. Thank you for sharing your gift with the world. Thank you for blessing us with such beauty and grace. Rest well, Cicely Tyson 💕🙏🏾
Restoring & expanding the Voting Rights Act has to happen in this first two years while there’s a Dem majority in both houses b/c we can be certain the GOP will be doing everything in its power to prevent us from having a free & fair election in the midterms.
#Kwanzaa runs from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1. Day 4 is #UJAMAA or Cooperative Economics. How can we do a better job of coming together as a collective? What can we personally do to enhance our future through cooperative economics? #FoodForThought#HappyKwanzaa!
There are now more recorded cases of COVID-19 in the White House than in New Zealand, Taiwan, and Vietnam combined, and they have 124 million people.
Let that sink in.
@terrinwatson @ValeriaBrownEdu This dude is always playing the angle. I'm betting he has a "miraculous recovery" right around voting time. I'm on c-o-n-spiracy mode.
Trump pays far less in taxes than:
🔹Nurses
🔹Teachers
🔹Construction workers
🔹Waitresses
🔹Grocery store workers
It’s time we stand up and vote him out! #VoteHimOut#Vote#TrumpTaxReturns#TrumpIsBroke