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[cmackey @cmackey]

😔The passing of a great. A legend. RIP.

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

Fernando Valenzuela, the legendary Dodgers pitcher who ignited the “Fernandomania” phenomenon that forged a bond between the team and the Latino community in Los Angeles, has died. He was 63.
https://t.co/W3xh6U0dWD

[cmackey @cmackey]

Go Berkeley!! #collegegameday

[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

It’s an HONOR to be in Berkeley..

THEY’VE BEEN HERE SINCE MIDNIGHT

🗣🗣USA USA USA

COLLEGE FOOTBALL RUNS THRU OUR SOUL

#CollegeGameDay

[cmackey @cmackey]

🙌🏾

[Matt @nosoupforgeorge]

The Oakland Coliseum BART bridge is simply one of the best ways to enter a stadium, ever.

[cmackey @cmackey]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[Matt George @MattGeorgeSAC]

Tonight on @ABC10, I shared my final thoughts on the A's leaving Oakland and heading to Sacramento.

I wish I could be excited. But I can't. My heart is with Oakland this week.

[cmackey @cmackey]

Agree. And thanks Larry for saying it on air. Unlike the A’s owner.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

“John, you’re a serial penny pincher, you’ve destroyed your family’s great name & legacy because of your cheapness”

This sports reporter in Oakland went off on A’s owner John Fisher

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Kroger now admits it jacked up milk and egg prices above inflation.

Millions of shoppers had no choice but to accept it.

This is what happens when five companies dominate over 60% of American grocery sales.

Minimal competition means maximized price gouging.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

This woman who works at Kroger is homeless, living in a shelter.

Kroger is one of the biggest supermarket chains in the country and made over $2 billion in profits last year.

They're also trying to conduct a $24.6 billion merger with Albertsons right now.

[cmackey @cmackey]

Learn more about #PortChicagoMagazine and one of the greatest tragedies to occur on US soil. Not just the blast, but how the Black soldiers were treated afterwards. And her, wry few know about it. Watch this 30 minute video and share.

https://t.co/g5UJ0IenyN

[cmackey @cmackey]

Attended the 80th Commemoration. So grateful that the arc of justice finally touched these sailors. Extremely grateful for the Secretary of the Navy taking action to make this wrong right. If you have family ties to any of the #PortChicago sailors contact the Department the Navy

[Reuters @Reuters]

US Navy exonerates 258 Black sailors unjustly punished after 1944 explosion https://t.co/7mxw0GoOUq

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Police are investigating vandalism at FarmerJawn, a Black women-owned farm in Chester County (PA), after a swastika was spray-painted in the barn. This isn’t the 1st time the farm has been targeted — but owner Christa Barfield stands resilent & won't let HATE deter their success!

[Ludacris @Ludacris]

Share the good news!

-Karma’s World my animated series seasons 1 - 4 are currently streaming on @Netflix!

-The Karma’s World soundtrack both 1 & 2 featuring music from the show are available on ALL digital platforms

Without YOUR SUPPORT shows & products like ours don’t last!

Welcome to #KarmasWorld 💜🎤

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

88 years ago today, Jesse Owens won his first Olympics gold medal, he humiliated Hitler at the Berlin Olympics by winning 4 Olympic Gold Medals.

Hitler had hosted the Olympics, intending to be a showcase of Aryan supremacy.

—On August 3, Owens won the 100 m dash with a time of 10.3 seconds.

—On August 4, he won the long jump with a leap of 8.06 metres (26 ft 5 in) (3¼ inches short of his own world record).

—On August 5, he won the 200 m sprint with a time of 20.7 seconds, defeating teammate Mack Robinson (the older brother of Jackie Robinson).

—On August 9, Owens won his fourth gold medal in the 4 × 100 m sprint relay when head coach Lawson Robertson replaced Jewish-American sprinters Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller with Owens and Ralph Metcalfe, who teamed with Frank Wykoff and Foy Draper to set a world record of 39.8 seconds in the event. Owens had initially protested the last-minute switch.

[Jerry Mitchell @JMitchellNews]

#OnThisDay in 1974, Beverly Johnson made fashion history when she became the first Black model to appear on the American cover of Vogue magazine.

When her first managers told her that major magazine covers weren’t going to happen due to her race, she got new managers. She went on to make Vogue’s cover three more times. Within a year, every major American fashion designer began to use Black models.

“My dean gave me permission to model during my work semester, even though I was in the Criminal Justice Department. I don’t know whether I’d ever have become a model if he hadn’t let me do that,” she said.

“The only reason I went into modeling originally was to help out my family, because I knew that money gave you freedom.”

Her success led her to star in television and films, and write health and beauty books. “There’s not a hair extension or a makeup artist,” she later said, “that can make me feel the way I feel when I give back.”
https://t.co/lTxOCfjTUV

[Jerry Mitchell @JMitchellNews]

#OnThisDay in 1979, Patricia Roberts Harris began serving as secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under President Jimmy Carter after serving for two years as secretary of Housing and Urban Development. It was one of many firsts for Harris.

She became involved in the civil rights movement while attending Howard University, taking part in a sit-in. She was the first Black woman to serve in the presidential cabinet and the first Black woman to enter the presidential line of succession.

When someone questioned her ability to represent the underclass, she shot back, “You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a Black woman, the daughter of a Pullman (railroad) car waiter. I am a Black woman who even eight years ago could not buy a house in parts of the District of Columbia. I didn’t start out as a member of a prestigious law firm, but as a woman who needed a scholarship to go to school. If you think I have forgotten that, you are wrong.”
https://t.co/GMRTboWzGw

[cmackey @cmackey]

🙏🏾HeLa cells have been been fundamental in saving countless lives, and yet she gained little credit or benefits from it. Praying that will change.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1920, Henrietta Lacks was born.

Her cells were taken without her knowledge in 1951 and became one of the most important tools in medicine. They became vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization & more.

A THREAD

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Medical debt is ruining lives.

Eliminate it.

[Rep. Bennie G. Thompson @BennieGThompson]

I am pleased to announce $521 million in funding for farmers in Mississippi who have been affected by documented discrimination in federal farm lending programs. This significant funding was made available through the #InflationReductionAct.

[cmackey @cmackey]

@LawrenceDCodes @roywoodjr Know that look. My mom wasn’t in the choir but it was my 1st time cooking Thanksgiving dinner, dropped the cleaned turkey, it slid toward the back door as if it was on the run, picking up dust bunnies along the way. I turned, felt the look, 👀 knew I was black, & was scared

[Jennifer Hudson @IAMJHUD]

I had to do it : it just hit my spirit ! I got to sing in the Chateau de Versailles !!! I turned around and everyone was crying!

[cmackey @cmackey]

One of my greatest memories at the Oakland Coliseum was when Nelson Mandela visited. The house was rocking with an incredible energy. He specifically thanked Oakland, Berkeley and San Francisco to be among the first to support divestiture from S.A. 🙏🏾 https://t.co/YyO3288cJK