Maya Angelou was assaulted by her mother’s boyfriend when she was seven. She told her brother, then her abuser was found beaten to death. So she became mute. She did not speak a word for five years, because she believed her words could kill a person.
10/10 parenting. I will die on the hill that supporting young adults and staying right there with them as they climb into adulthood is one of the most important things you will ever, ever do as a parent.
This is when you let artist speak and teach yall literacy:
And if the last screen don’t provide the whistle then idk what to tell yall…..
I pray for us to understand how they play in our faces everywhere and in every walk of life.
Her tire blew out. She pulled into a gas station, locked the doors, and waited for her family to come help.
When police arrived she was unconscious in the driver's seat.
They broke the window and fired twenty-three shots into the car.
Tyisha Miller. Riverside, California, December 1998. She was 19.
She was hit twelve times. Four officers fired.
No one was charged with anything. A grand jury declined. The Justice Department reviewed it and closed it.
The four officers were eventually fired by the city — and the police union fought that, too.
A nineteen-year-old waiting for roadside assistance, asleep behind a locked door, in a car that was not going anywhere.
Twenty-three shots. Riverside changed its entire police department after this, under state supervision. That is what it cost.
You know what happened to Tyisha Miller. But what happened to the hundreds of other cases that never became national headlines?
We went looking. The result is 150 Crimes Against Black America They Never Answered For—a collection of cases that deserve more than a paragraph in an archive.
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Not even ten years ago. Like, this video is literally in HD. Now Australia prides itself on being a progressive and accepting country for LGBTQ+ people.
I’m tired of Adéla and her stans trying to rewrite history. She’s trying to sell this “blame the machine” story and act like there was never an issue and that it was “taken out of context.” Adéla never ONCE blamed the machine during DA and was constantly blaming and shading Manon