Toni

So y'all just be on here talking nonsense? Okay. Same 🫡

[Toni @Tonichatmanit]

@PhoenixReign209 @tinybutsosassy Loll let me go listen to the hits then cause ain't no way lolll

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1940, Engineer and entrepreneur, Jerry Lawson, was born. He created the technology that paved the way for modern gaming.

His groundbreaking technology became the foundation for Atari, Nintendo and Sega.

[sai @Saisailu97]

Colonizer countries pretending to be saviors of the world

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In 1985, Philadelphia Police Department dropped a bomb onto a residential home occupied by the MOVE Organization.

The Fire Department let the fire burn out of control, destroying 61 homes over two city blocks. 11 people died including 6 children

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[senya♡⁷ 🦋 @_theblackbride]

IMPORTANT: How YOU can help get sanitary products to women in Gaza right now. This includes menstrual products and maternity pads/products for pregnant women. There are over 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza with no access to maternity supplies. A very important thread.❗️❗️

[karina 🍂 / from the river to the sea @basedhutao]

as we slept in the comforts of our beds last night, the Palestinians just had the most violent night since the start of Israel’s aggression. they’ve cut off electricity, they’re trying so hard for the world not to see. don’t stop clamoring.

[Toni @Tonichatmanit]

@collinscollin77 @NappyHairedGod @heyyitsjanea Maybe in the beginning but eventually he'll get sent to gen pop

[Toni @Tonichatmanit]

@queersocialism Okay but why are they all still at 4th grade levels ? Like he not wrong. I think I'd step my game up a bit so I wouldn't be the one he's talking about. Our education system is failing our next generation and yall just like oh wow he wouldn't be talking about me like that. Huhhh

[beep 🇵🇸 @beep____boop]

@fatfabfeminist babe wake up new type of virginity just dropped

[Toni @Tonichatmanit]

@haworthes I only kept watching because Carl was my fave and I wanted to see his ending tbh. How Debbie turned out threw me cause wtffff ? I thought Debbie was sweet to be one of the only ones tha still cared about frank. frank was a favorite of mine as well. He just like my dad lol sad 😅

[Toni @Tonichatmanit]

@TheFairestGames @zukosmadre Yo whole thread tbh Jesus.

[Toni @Tonichatmanit]

@WaveyForever For all those saying don't nobody want to talk about rape. She did. She answered the question and they pushed her aside. And that's exactly why so many women and men get raped and their rapist is never taken to jail. Sad tbh I am hoping she has a support system.

[Toni @Tonichatmanit]

@fairyfemmes I love that these pass years we just been coming together as a community. It's like smetin shifted in the air and we are done with the bullshit. It's refreshing.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Grace Wisher, an enslaved black girl at just 13 years old, helped create the American flag which inspired the national anthem. She is often overlooked in the storytelling of the nation’s most prominent visual emblem.

Two hundred years ago, an African American girl made history—literally. She was an indentured servant named Grace Wisher in the household of Mary Pickersgill. Helen Yuen and Ms. Asantewa Boakyewa of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum share her story.

The likeness of Grace Wisher is unknown. However, the Star Spangled Banner Flag House is home to a portrait with her figure traced in, to recognize her contribution. Detail of "Placing the Stars on the Flag that Inspired Francis Scott Key to Write Our National Anthem" by Robert McGill Mackall, ca. 1962.

Mary Pickersgill is often credited with sewing the Star-Spangled Banner which flew over Fort McHenry in Maryland and inspired Francis Scott Key to write our national anthem. Less known is that Grace Wisher, an African American girl at just 13 years old, also helped make the flag. It's another testament to the deeply rooted, yet oft unmentioned, contributions of African Americans to the very core of this country.

Indenture was a waning practice in early 19th century Baltimore, although Maryland law did allow for courts to take away children of African Americans who were considered "lazy, indolent, and worthless free negroes" to bind the youngsters into apprenticeship. Orphans usually met a similar fate.
The size of the Star-Spangled Banner and its six-week timeline for completion would have necessitated many people working on the flag, including Mary Pickersgill's three nieces and Grace Wisher. The household also had an enslaved person, whose name we do not know.

The home where Pickersgill and Wisher lived is now a museum called the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House. It holds a 1962 painting by famed Baltimore artist Robert McGill Mackall. The portrait features the Pickersgill household and the three men who commissioned the garrison and storm flags for Fort McHenry: Commodore Joshua Barney, General John Stricker, and Colonel George Armistead. As a tribute to Wisher, the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House drew in a ghost figure into the painting that represents the young girl. Due to our uncertainty of what she looked like, the placeholder is a traced line, but the recognition is tangible.

[Toni @Tonichatmanit]

@ask_aubry Wtf wrong with folks for real.

[iyosias @iloveiyosias]

this how i know imma love it