Denise McLane-Davison, PhD, A.M.

Professor of Social Work
Graduate Program Director
Toronto Metropolitan University
(views expressed belong to me and my ancestors)

[The Root @TheRoot]

For the 13th year in a row, all seniors at one Chicago-area high school will graduate with a 100% college acceptance rate and millions in scholarships 🎓

[Colita'IDissent'FairfaxPhD @clnfairfax]

Love this! #LillieCarrollJackson This is what we are working on at the historic Federation House in Hampton.

[Esha @EshaAA33]

She would have been a great president. Do you agree?

[Denise McLane-Davison, PhD, A.M. @WOMANISTDOC]

@native_am_pride Happy Birthday Beautiful

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

“They kicked me off the plantation, they set me free. It’s the best thing that could happen. Now I can work for my people.” - Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917 and didn't start her activism until 1962 and when she started; she didn't stop until the day she died.

Hamer was threatened, assaulted and shot at while she was trying to register to voters. She was able to help thousands of Black people register to vote.

She was an activist, community organizer, and the vice chair of the Freedom Democratic Party which she represented at the 1964 DNC.

Hamer also organized Mississippi's Freedom Summer along with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

She was a co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus, an organization created to recruit, train, and support women of all races who sought election to government offices.

Hamer died on March 14, 1977, aged 59, in Mound Bayou, Mississippi.

Her memorial service was widely attended.

She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993.

On January 4, 2025, President Joe Biden posthumously awarded Hamer the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Strive to be a Fannie Lou Hamer.

#DemsUnited
#BlackHistoryWithLana
#WomensHistoryMonth

[Smithsonian’s NMAAHC @NMAAHC]

Dorothy Irene Height was born in Richmond, Virginia #OnThisDay in 1912. She led the National Council of Negro Women from 1957 to 1998 and dedicated her life and career to fighting for women’s rights & racial justice.

Learn more: https://t.co/2gG2PTcJli #WomensHistoryMonth

[!Nspirenaire〽️ @Inspirenaire]

As we are out here doing our Genealogy and looking at old census records and history, it's mostly written in cursive. There are at least 3 different decades of youth who don't know how to write or read cursive. What the schools won't teach, you better have your children learn it from somewhere else. They will lose history if they don't. #Inspirenaire

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

If the USA weren’t so damn racist & sexist, we’d be thriving & respected at home and on the global stage.

Instead we’re a fucking joke.

[Afande Irra🌼💫🧕 @Irra_____]

He knew he was dying, he said thank you to the man who gave him chance at this life. Rest in peace Chadwick.

[Denise McLane-Davison, PhD, A.M. @WOMANISTDOC]

@JeanAugustine07 Thank you for standing for and with The People!

[Denise McLane-Davison, PhD, A.M. @WOMANISTDOC]

@clnfairfax Free Black Press is essential!

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

#SayHerName #SandraBland should be celebrating her 39th birthday today. “Until justice rolls down like water...”

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Facing racism in the sport head on, Surya Bonaly landed the banned backflip on one foot and made history anyway ⛸️ 💥

[The Jennifer Hudson Show @JHudShow]

We’re nominated for an NAACP Image Award! ⭐ Link in bio to vote! @IAMJHUD

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Fannie Lou Hamer was fired and evicted in 1962 after trying to register to vote in Mississippi, despite 18 years working on the plantation as a sharecropper and timekeeper. Yet, she refused to be silenced. Her courage helped launch the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and push forward the Voting Rights Act. Hamer’s sacrifice reminds us: the fight for equality has ALWAYS come at a cost. She risked everything so future generations could have a voice!

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

The history of Black Canadians is one of relentless progress, earned through perseverance, and carried forward by opening doors for so many to follow. 

This week, we celebrated 30 years of Black History Month in Canada.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

Adding your name to a memorial already named in honor of a great man doesn’t make you a great man. Quite the contrary. Putting your name on top of someone else’s doesn’t mean that people will speak of you in the same breath as the other man. Putting your name above another man’s name on his existing memorial… What is that about? Truly? What’s that about? Do you want people to speak the names as one? Dig down deep. What are you trying to say? I’m really interested. There is no other president who would do this. None. Zero. In fact, it’s not even legal. Congress named the performing arts center as a living memorial in 1964, and only congress can change that law.

This will always be the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Art. A great man would have said to his hand picked board, “Thank you, but the building already has its name. Let it stand. Let it be. I don’t need that.” But then again…

[WE HAVE NO FRIENDS/BY ANY MEME NECESSARY @CLG98264897]

♥️ 🖤 💚

[Denise McLane-Davison, PhD, A.M. @WOMANISTDOC]

@clnfairfax 'Representation matters. But representation without empathy or accountability becomes performance.

The meaning — and the duty — of a first https://t.co/hVbDyufNGG

[Colita'IDissent'FairfaxPhD @clnfairfax]

@JoshEakle https://t.co/reIjpPW98M