CorinneBerksethBaker

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[CorinneBerksethBaker @cbbstudios]

@nhannahjones Thank you for continuing to hold a mirror up to America. Even those of us who think we’re trying to push against the tide of our history, white America’s original sin and its ongoing impact must ask ourselves, what else can I do? And then get to it. Again & again & again & again.

[CorinneBerksethBaker @cbbstudios]

Love, love, love.

[Kayla Hom @mohalyak]

Just put on the #GRAMMYs right as Tracy Chapman performs Fast Car? Let's gooo
Happy Luke Combs is helping give her her flowers like she DESERVES

[Colita'IDissent'FairfaxPhD @clnfairfax]

In Hampton, we unveiled the very first Green Book marker/plaque in Virginia. The goal is to mark all locations in Virginia that were listed in our survival guide, the Green Book.

[CorinneBerksethBaker @cbbstudios]

@StLuGal @SIfill_ Best analogy I’ve seen in a while!

[CorinneBerksethBaker @cbbstudios]

Heartbreaking and powerful. Thank you for your service to our country, to those who gave themselves and their loved ones.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

The straight line distance between Washington, D.C. and Dover, Delaware is less than 85 miles. It takes a helicopter about 40-45 minutes to make the trip. I was 19 years-old, and it was my first time riding a helicopter. I barely remember any of it. I was distracted. (thread)

[CorinneBerksethBaker @cbbstudios]

@trackspice Beautiful, strong, powerful, joyous—you wear it well!

[CorinneBerksethBaker @cbbstudios]

Amen

[Carlos A. Rodríguez @CarlosHappyNPO]

Religion is at its best when it makes us ask hard questions of ourselves.

It is at its worst when it deludes us into thinking we have all the answers for everybody else.

- Archibald Macleish

[CorinneBerksethBaker @cbbstudios]

Just pure joy 💜

[Coco Gauff @CocoGauff]

no wonder my brother didn’t answer the phone. legend says he’s still screaming to this day😂

[CorinneBerksethBaker @cbbstudios]

Yes! Coco Gauff - what an amazing person, athlete, leader, role model, American. So happy for her!

[Kimberly Bryant @6Gems]

Whew! A whole entire sermon.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1838, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and found his calling as a leading voice in the abolitionist movement.

Douglass escaped slavery by boarding a train to Havre de Grace, Maryland. He was dressed in a sailor's uniform, provided to him by Anna Murray, (he married her 12 days later, she was a free black woman in Baltimore) she also gave him part of her savings to cover his travel costs, and carried identification papers which he had obtained from a free black seaman.

He crossed the Susquehanna River by ferry at Havre de Grace, then continued by train to Wilmington, Delaware. From there he went by steamboat to "Quaker City" (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and continued to the safe house of abolitionist David Ruggles in New York; the whole journey took less than 24 hours.

Frederick Douglass later wrote of his arrival in New York:

"I have often been asked, how I felt when first I found myself on free soil. And my readers may share the same curiosity. There is scarcely anything in my experience about which I could not give a more satisfactory answer. A new world had opened upon me. If life is more than breath, and the 'quick round of blood,' I lived more in one day than in a year of my slave life. It was a time of joyous excitement which words can but tamely describe. In a letter written to a friend soon after reaching New York, I said: 'I felt as one might feel upon escape from a den of hungry lions.' Anguish and grief, like darkness and rain, may be depicted; but gladness and joy, like the rainbow, defy the skill of pen or pencil."

Frederick Douglass first tried to escape from Freeland, who had hired him out from his owner Colonel Lloyd, but was unsuccessful. In 1836, he tried to escape from his new owner Covey, but failed again.

In 1837, Douglass met and fell in love with Anna Murray, her freedom strengthened his belief in the possibility of his own.

Once he had arrived, he sent for Murray to follow him to New York; she arrived with the necessary basics for them to set up home. They were married on September 15, 1838, by a black Presbyterian minister eleven days after his arrival in New York.

[CorinneBerksethBaker @cbbstudios]

#BlackLivesMatter

[Imani Perry @imaniperry]

In the words of one of Jacksonville’s sons, James Weldon Johnson “We have come over a way that with tears has been watered. We have come treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered…”

[Nicholas Ferroni @NicholasFerroni]

For perspective, I took REAL stories about teachers and just replaced them with other professions. If you think these are insane, then you should feel the same when it is about teachers...

[GoodShep Lutheran @gsluth]

Thank you to all our blood donors and volunteers for another successful Inova blood drive. We are honored to give back to the community in this way.

[Bill Clinton @BillClinton]

On his birthday, I am remembering my friend Nelson Mandela and giving thanks for his life and his long quest for justice. I still miss him. May the world continue to be inspired by his actions and enriched by his example. #MandelaDay

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today, some of the books that shaped my life—and the lives of so many others—are being challenged by people who disagree with certain ideas or perspectives. And librarians are on the front lines, fighting every day to make the widest possible range of viewpoints, opinions, and ideas available to everyone.

[CorinneBerksethBaker @cbbstudios]

@stewartdantec Such a sweetie!

[CorinneBerksethBaker @cbbstudios]

Sharing with thanks to @drchanequa for this:

[CorinneBerksethBaker @cbbstudios]

This Christian agrees—religious freedom is only freedom when it applies to all religions.

[Nicholas Ferroni @NicholasFerroni]

This one definitely rubbed people the wrong way, but it’s still true.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

On Juneteenth, we commemorate the anniversary of the delayed but welcome news of freedom reaching the enslaved Black folks in Galveston, Texas. It’s a reminder that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope — and a reason to keep building a country that lives up to its highest ideals.

[CorinneBerksethBaker @cbbstudios]

Bittersweet news, indeed! I love Sylvia Poggioli’s distinctive voice and reporting, along with so many fabulous women (& men) @NPR, including @NPRKelly. Wishing you all the best in your next chapter, @spoggioli1, you leave big shoes 👠 and inspiration for those who follow.

[Mary Louise Kelly @NPRKelly]

Hard to know where to start to say how much Sylvia Poggioli will be missed @npr. Thank you for 41 years bringing us the news from Italy & the world beyond! https://t.co/XxDG1lkjTG