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[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

To close out our #DemocracyForum, I’m joining @Baratunde for a conversation about how to strengthen our shared democratic culture. You can watch now:

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today the @ObamaFoundation brought together leaders, activists, and experts from around the world for our #DemocracyForum to discuss everything from rebuilding trust in our institutions, to the challenges and opportunities that come from AI, to the changing ways we consume information.

I also talked about how, when it comes to creating an economic system that supports and sustains our democratic values, we need young leaders to help us think and act anew. I couldn’t be more inspired by the next generation of leaders I’ve met who are creating a more inclusive and equitable society for all.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

I'm in Chicago for the @ObamaFoundation’s #DemocracyForum and will be speaking about how we can reform our economy to create a more inclusive and sustainable society. Tune in: https://t.co/wsLDYNOrfT

[Eric Holder @EricHolder]

If we want democracy, we have to DO democracy. Participate. VOTE!

[Malcolm Nance @MalcolmNance]

Ah the good old days of 2016 where everything I said on @MSNBC was found out to be true … 7 years later.

[King Of Pop On Spotify @MJJSpotify2015]

BREAKING! #KingOfPop

#MichaelJackson is #36 streams/Sales UP and has passed #HarryStyles, #BrunoMars,#ChrisBrown, #Rihanna, #Eminem, #Adele, and more on the Billboard 100 artists charts week of November 4, 2023.

[PPD Missing Persons @PPDMissing]

Missing Endangered Person Sharon Bryant from the 19th District https://t.co/bw5nYOquWk

[Eric Holder @EricHolder]

The races are going to be close—so we need every single eligible VIRGINIA voter to participate in this election

The progress we have made on reproductive rights, on voting rights, on gun safety, is all on the line

We have to DO democracy in order to protect democracy

VOTE !!

[3ChicsPolitico @3ChicsPolitico]

Arthur Ray Hanson, II, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta on charges of transmitting interstate threats to injure Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat

https://t.co/FOEoLF4Bka

[Eric Holder @EricHolder]

Time to vote Ohio!

[Malcolm Nance @MalcolmNance]

The tight impact zones of the four viable craters indicate that this was an underground target. The blast sequence has sunk the entire street. Hamas bragged they had 500km of underground tunnels. That’s where a HAMAS commander would be. No part of Gaza is wide open. Our experience w/Daesh is very different than this scenario. This is more like attacking the tunnels of Cu Chi.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Dexter Wade’s family fought hard to gain answers from the Jackson (MS) Police Dept. about his disappearance — answers they should have gotten immediately! We need the DOJ to investigate the death of #DexterWade to gain the FULL transparency they deserve!https://t.co/RBwVzsTOFT

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Rosa Ingram and her teen sons were sentenced to death in 1948 after they murdered a white neighbor who attempted to sexually assault their mother.

Thanks to civil rights activists the story gained national press. They were later released on parole for being "model prisoners."

—In 1948 Rosa Lee Ingram, a sharecropper and widowed Mother of four boys, was the center of one of the most-explosive capital punishment cases in history. In 1948 in a one-day trial, Ingram and two of her teenage boys were sentenced to die by electric chair, after an altercation with a White landowner in the state of Georgia.

On November 4, 1947, the landowner reportedly confronted Ingram and three of her sons over livestock entering his land near the small town of Ellaville. John Stratford was armed with a shotgun and pocket knife when he went to have his word with Ingram. Three of Ingram’s boys overheard their mother yelling then rushed over to her armed with farm instruments. Later, the 64-year-old man was found dead by way of blows to the head according to the investigation.

In several accounts and most notably in author Janus Adams‘ “Sister Days: 365 Inspired Moments in African-American Women’s History,” it was said that Stratford struck Ingram in the head with the butt of his rifle after threatening to shoot her mules that allegedly invaded his cornfield. Other historical accounts state that according to later testimony, though, Stratford threatened Ingram with sexual assault before striking her.

Either way, Ingram and her sons, Wallace, 16, and Sammy, 14, were all convicted by an all-White jury to death; Charles, 17, was at the scene but not charged due to lack of evidence.

Although there was an investigation at the scene of the murder, it has been suggested that many who responded to the incident were not officially mandated to do so. As a result, civil rights activists from NAACP branches around the nation leaped in to action to assist Ingram and her boys.

Court-appointed White lawyer S. Hawkins Dykes was aided by the the Civil Rights Congress (CRC) and their fund-raising efforts. Although this move caused some tension with the NAACP, Ingram and her sons were able to get an appeal and their sentences were reduced to life in prison.

National Committee to Free the Ingram Family, led by Mary Church Terrell, was instrumental in continuing to fight on behalf of the Ingram family and worked alongside the CRC and NAACP to ensure their freedom. Working across class and color lines, the case was a rallying cry for women activists and attracted the attention of the media in the North.

These organizations worked tirelessly to keep Ingram’s case alive in the minds of the public, even appealing to President Harry Truman to intervene at one point.

Finally in 1959, the Ingrams were granted parole and released.
The case placed a highlight on the racist and divisive Jim Crow laws of the South and also galvanized African-American women to participate in civil rights activism.

Ms. Ingram lived in Atlanta from the time of her release in prison until her passing in 1980.

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[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

The Debt Collective has cancelled $10 million in loan debt for thousands of former Morehouse College students! The relief will wipe out debt directly owed to Morehouse. This will help so many overcome financial hardships! https://t.co/Rw2KMrHrtz

[Malcolm Nance @MalcolmNance]

TERRIBLE PREDICTION: At some point, the unhinged animosity against Israel, the violent anti-semitism against Jews, and irrational anger at the Biden strategy in Gaza will provoke some individual or a small self-starting group to carry out an act of lethal, armed terrorism in solidarity with HAMAS.
THIS WILL INSTANTLY DESTROY ALL PRO-PALESTINIAN SYMPATHY IN USA AND EMPOWER WHITE SUPREMACIST POLITICIANS TO ENACT MUCH, MUCH WORSE POLICY AGAINST MUSLIMS than after 9/11. Mark. My. Words. Bookmark this post. #IHopeImWrong

[Blk & Missing FDN @BAM_FI]

#Yeadon, PA: 14y/o Raheim White was last seen on October 25 at 6:45 a.m., on the 5300 block of Parkside Avenue.

Have you seen him? #HelpUsFindRaheimWhite #RaheimWhite #Pennsylvania

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

The world’s largest diamond, Cullinan Diamond, was stolen from Africa and pieces put on the British sovereign crown, royal scepter and the rest in the royal jewel collection.

The British claimed it given to them as a symbol of friendship and peace yet it was during colonialism.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Bettersten Wade — Dexter Wade’s mother —- describes the painstaking process of finding out her ONLY son died at the hands of police in Jackson, MS. She pleaded for answers from the police only to learn the devastating truth that authorities knew he’d been dead for months!

[Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin]

My name is Isaiah Martin and I’m running to become the next Gen-Z member of the United States Congress — because democracy is only guaranteed if we fight for it. #TX18

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

We will continue to hold @MorganStanley accountable for its horrific treatment of former financial advisors Col. Jenna Pryor, Kwesi Coleman, and many other African-American employees across the country! We won’t stand for Morgan Stanley’s racial discrimination!