Viola Liuzzo

Civil rights activist & martyr. Took part in MLK's march from Selma to Montgomery before being assassinated by Klansmen.
1925 - 1965. Page run by family.

[Viola Liuzzo @Viola_Liuzzo]

The Conversation: Anthony J. Liuzzo, Sr. speaks with President Lyndon B. Johnson and aides on March 26th, 1965 following the murder of wife Viola Liuzzo.
https://t.co/kL1KS4Ycmv

[Viola Liuzzo @Viola_Liuzzo]

@RepBeatty We all agree. Thank you so very much, Rep. @JoyceBeatty. 👏🗳️🇺🇸
https://t.co/PpmPyXthOl

[Viola Liuzzo @Viola_Liuzzo]

@RepBeatty Undisputed truth, Rep. @JoyceBeatty. 👏🇺🇸

[David Crary @CraryAP]

Pope Leo XIV closes 2025 Holy Year with critique of consumerism and xenophobia (from AP Religion Team’s ⁦@nwinfield⁩)

https://t.co/X4bbAmTQt6

[Anthe Rhodes-Liuzzo @AntheRhodes]

In a country full of phony, patriots, be this brave little boy.
(Anthony Quin, sit-in for civil rights, Jackson, Mississippi 1965. Photo by Matt Herron). 👏🗳️✊🇺🇸

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

until the day I die I will never understand why he was even still allowed to run after this

[ProPublica @propublica]

ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.

The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
https://t.co/t26YC5jflk

[ABC News @ABC]

A report prepared by Democratic members of Congress says the Pentagon has diverted at least $2 billion of its own funds to support the Trump administration's immigration operations, negatively impacting what they say is the U.S. military's readiness. https://t.co/mGTk4cZQgm

[Anthe Rhodes-Liuzzo @AntheRhodes]

“An NPR investigation details how the Trump administration is trying to erase government information on the attack.”

NPR investigation shows how the government tried to erase information about January 6 https://t.co/aLIIPpKIn3

[Talking Points Memo @TPM]

The results of the 2024 election made clear which fork we took from Jan. 6 forward, and so we now remember the attack on the Capitol as a last chance to avoid a calamitous path that has taken us over a cliff. We haven’t hit bottom yet.
https://t.co/CQ95hXYWZW

[Talking Points Memo @TPM]

The attack on the Capitol — and the response to it — left Trump’s violent authoritarian movement emboldened and able to continue onward.
https://t.co/qYTHfoDzSU

[ProPublica @propublica]

After Jan. 6, 2021, ProPublica sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there.

See all the footage here: https://t.co/gYmFUamftn

[David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik]

NPR has created a front-line account of the Jan 6 riot and a public database drawing on thousands of hours of footage and years of reporting:

"The evidence vividly shows the planning for 'revolution' and the brutality of violence."

https://t.co/3qJFP8VKOO

[Tom Dreisbach @TomDreisbach]

As Donald Trump prepares to pardon people convicted for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, it's worth looking at what leading Republicans said in the immediate aftermath of that day's violence.

A thread:

[Tom Dreisbach @TomDreisbach]

Sen. Murkowski responds to the White House’s attempt at whitewashing the history of Jan. 6. The White House put up a new website explicitly blaming Capitol Police.

[Tom Dreisbach @TomDreisbach]

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day.

Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.

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[Ryan J. Reilly @ryanjreilly]

NEW:

Dramatic new Jan. 6 video shows two GOP representatives speaking with Capitol rioters through the broken windows of the House chamber doors as officers point weapons at the mob attempting to breach the floor.

This evidence was released in response to a request by @NBCNews.

[Jazz the Professor @Jazzieeiswhoiam]

🧵
#OTD Jan 6, 2021: The U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. was attacked by a mob of supporters of then-prez Donald Trump in an attempted self-coup d'état 2 months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. They sought to keep him in power by preventing a joint session of Congress from counting the Electoral College votes to formalize the victory of President-elect Joe Biden.
#History #insurrection #January6th
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[Program On Extremism @gwupoe]

"They've become conspiratorial-minded people looking for the next thing to mobilize for."

Read comments from our research fellow @Jon_Lewis27 in this @nytimes article on the enduring prominence of January 6 conspiracies👇
https://t.co/y0Tk5oACB0

[Jerry Mitchell @JMitchellNews]

#OnThisDay in 2021, Amanda Gorman was trying to finish her poem on national unity when scenes burst upon the television of the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The 22-year-old stayed up late, writing new lines into the night. Two weeks later, she became the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, joining a prestigious group that included Maya Angelou and Robert Frost. But few faced as difficult a task, searching for unity amid violence, a deadly pandemic and polarizing partisanship.

She described herself as a “skinny Black girl, descended from slaves and raised by a single mother” who can dream of being president one day, “only to find herself reciting for one.”

She shared the words she wrote in the wake of the nation’s first attack on the Capitol in more than two centuries:

"We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it

Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy

And this effort very nearly succeeded

But while democracy can be periodically delayed

It can never be permanently defeated.”

In the wake of the attack that resulted in five deaths and injuries to 138 officers, she penned that the nation would endure:

Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed

a nation that isn’t broken

but simply unfinished

She reminded those present that “history has its eyes on us” and that this nation will indeed rise again:

“We will rebuild, reconcile and recover

And every known nook of our nation and

Every corner called our country,

Our people diverse and beautiful will emerge,

Battered and beautiful…

For there is always light,

If only we’re brave enough to see it

If only we’re brave enough to be it."
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[EmmettTillLegacyFdn @EmmettTill]

🕊 23 years ago today, #MamieTillMobley, went on to glory after a 47 year fight for justice for the brutal murder of her only son, #EmmettTill.

Her resilience, courage, persistence and pain united our nation, inspired the #CivilrightsMovement and division of the DOJ.