“I am convinced that the only way the fundamentalist forces can be stopped is if all of us who are secular and humanist join and fight their malignant influence. I, for one, will not be silenced.”
- Taslima Nasrin
On July 27, 1919, 17-year-old Eugene Williams and his friends decided to seek relief from the blistering Chicago heat along the shores of Lake Michigan.
The lake was segregated by an invisible line.
They inadvertently drifted across the line that divided the waters by race.
This pissed off George Stauber, a twenty-four-year-old white man who decided to throw rocks at the boys. A rock hit Williams in the head, he fell off the raft and drowned.
The police refused to take Stauber into custody. The failure to arrest Williams’s killer was the immediate spark of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919.
Williams was buried in an unmarked grave in what was an all-Black Lincoln Cemetery in Blue Island because Black people back then were not allowed to be buried in city limits.
In 2018, a monument finally was unveiled at the gravesite with the help of local historian Tammy Gibson. #BlackHistoryWithLana #FreshVoicesRise
@RepMaxwellFrost Credit scores are a huge scam. Have too much debt = bad, have no debt = bad. No transparency and little redress. Just another mechanism to try to keep the people under the thumb of the oligarchy through life long financial obligation.
"We went to Walmart today, and my nephew Lakken happens to see an elderly man that was having a hard time shopping and finding things due to him not being able to lift his head up and see straight.
He can see the ground and barely the sides of him, so that’s when my nephew Lakken looks at me and goes, ‘Aunt Ry can I please help him?’ I said, ‘Yes.’
My nephew went up to the man and asked him if he would like some help. His eyes lit up and said, ‘Well, yes that would be amazing young man, thank you so much.’ Lakken was running all over the place for this man and he was so happy.
The man told us he hasn’t had help in years, and he was so happy he ran into an amazing smart young man like Lakken!
I was so proud of him! Lakken went and helped him check out and bag his stuff as well and had them call the show bus. The man tried to tip Lakken and my nephew said, ‘Oh thank you but I don’t need this. I enjoyed helping you, you keep your money’. I’m beyond proud of my nephew Lakken.
You don’t see or get many people, let alone children, who do these things for people.”
Credit: Rylee Lon
@sewistwrites Absolutely! My husband is the one who made a vow and commitment to me. The “other woman” owes me nothing. If he cheats, it’s 100% his faulty. Same if I cheat…totally on me.
🚨 BREAKING In yet another example of how #Bidenomics is working, today the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 183 pts, notching its longest winning streak since February 2017!
This is only the sixth time since 1945 that the stock market has risen for 11 or more consecutive days.
Thanks, @POTUS@JoeBiden! 👏
Thanks to #Bidenomics, job numbers are up and unemployment is down.
Thanks to Ron and the Republican supermajority’s failed economic policies, inflation in Florida is double the national average. https://t.co/26wZr8KxHK
A right wing legislative committee, the hunt for “queers and communists” and the Florida State university system in the 1960s. This 26 minutes documentary produced by UCF students is eye opening, heart wrenching and worth the watch!
https://t.co/DNq1P0DcNN
So many of the horrible things happening in America right now, like teaching our children slaves were lucky to learn skills, or allowing women to bleed out in hospital parking lots, or pushing migrants into rivers to drown, could be stopped by the women who look exactly like me.
“The veterinary and animal care teams have not yet approached the infant”
I’m so confused! How is it that they can tell that the infant is female, but couldn’t tell that the mother was?!?
https://t.co/ZC3DoUGWpA
@fl_girl09 @Dualchgwp@Fla_Pol@RonDeSantis@AGGancarski Not to mention blatantly violating the constitution by punishing businesses for their free speech, ignoring the insurance crisis, and wasting tax payer’s money on ridiculous lawsuit after ridiculous lawsuit.