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🚨URGENT: Help STOP the Execution of an INNOCENT BLACK MAN Marcellus Williams!
Marcellus Williams is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 24 for a crime he DID NOT commit.
🧬 DNA Evidence: Post-conviction DNA testing has proven that Marcellus did not commit the crime. The DNA on the murder weapon belongs to someone else.
Even the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney believes in Marcellus's innocence, moving to vacate his conviction based on this new evidence.
📌 Despite this, a judge has denied the motion to vacate his conviction.
⌛️Time is Running Out: We have only days left to stop this miscarriage of justice.
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Nick Young calls out Team USA for continuing to play in the Olympics amid Sonya Massey death:
“So the police shot and killed an 36-year-old black lady holding a pot… and we out here playing for the USA”
In 1753, Benjamin Banneker created the first functioning clock in the U.S entirely out of wood, it was so advanced it kept accurate time for over 50 years.
He also helped survey and design Washington D.C.
During his funeral, all his belongings including the clock were destroyed in a mysterious house fire.
—Benjamin Banneker. A Mathematician and astronomer who planned all the construction of the U.S. Capitol, in Washington D.C., Benjamin Banneker is known for The first African American To create a scientific book, an almanac published in 1791. Banneker’s book contained information on many subject including weather forecasting, ellipses, medicine and essays calling for the free education and the abolition of physical punishment of school children. President Jefferson sent copies of Banneker's almanac to the French commons and The British House of commons as a proud example of America's scientific and cultural accomplishments. Banneker is also credited with building the first Clock in assembled in the U.S.
Born in Maryland in 1731, Banneker was the son of an African American who freed himself. Banneker worked as a farmer while studying science in his spare time. After inventing his clock, he predicted the eclipse of the sun in 1789. In 1791 he was appointed by President Washington to assist surveyor Andrew Elliott and architect Pierre L'Enfant in planning the capitol building. After L'Enfant resigned and took his maps with him to France Banneker become responsible for completing the the white house. He’s credited with designing Washington DC in its ENTIRETY. —
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Happy Birthday to the late civil rights activist, Baba Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael.
“We are saying that there is a system that allows for one or two Black people to get out and that's the rationale for keeping other Black people down.”
In 1945, Lena Baker, was put on trial for killing her white employer, for raping her. Though she claimed self defense, she was sentenced to death by an all white male jury.
The local newspaper reported her death with the headline “Baker Burns.”
She was pardoned 60 years after her death.
Her last statements were,”What I done, I did in self-defense, or I would have been killed myself. Where I was I could not overcome it. God has forgiven me. I have nothing against anyone. I picked cotton for Mr. Pritchett, and he has been good to me. I am ready to go. I am one in the number. I am ready to meet my God. I have a very strong conscience.”