Someone just texted me this message and they are absolutely correct: “This is a bad look for the NFL. This feels like Kaepernick-level collusion.” All the hard work the NFL League Office puts in to eradicate these kinds of perceptions, only to turn around and watch as the OWNERS look like they’re colluding, messing up everything. What has been done to Shedeur will outshine everything else in this draft. We’ll never believe this is about just talent evaluation again.
People don’t need more guilt, more condemnation. They already know what they did wrong. They’ve got enough faultfinders. They need someone that will show mercy, someone that will love them back into wholeness.
No matter what people have done, you are still a masterpiece. No matter who walked away, you are still prized. No matter how far off course you’ve gotten, you still have the fingerprints of God all over you.
Listen to this message, "You Are Worthy": https://t.co/fzO8ZeVnAZ
Rafael Perez is a former police officer of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) who became infamous for his involvement in the Rampart scandal, one of the most widespread cases of police corruption in the United States. The scandal, which came to light in the late 1990s, exposed a pattern of misconduct within the LAPD's Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH) anti-gang unit
In 1959, police were called to a segregated library when a Black 9-year-old boy trying to check out books refused to leave, after being told the library was not for Black people.
The boy, Ronald McNair, went on to became an astronaut. The library is also now named after him.
Ronald McNair was 9 when a South Carolina librarian told him he could not check out books from a segregated library in 1959. Refusing to leave, a determined McNair sat on the counter while the librarian called the police, as well McNair's mother. The police arrived, told the librarian to let the young boy have his books, and McNair walked out alongside his mother and brother.
McNair went on to earn his Ph.D. in physics at MIT and became one of the first African Americans selected as astronauts by NASA, alongside Guion S. Bluford, Jr. and Frederick Gregory.
McNair's first spaceflight was the STS-41B mission, aboard the "Challenger" shuttle. He successfully maneuvered the robotic arm, which allowed astronaut Bruce McCandless to perform the first space walk without being tethered to the spacecraft.
On this day in 1986, the second space flight for McNair would be his last. He, along with six other NASA astronauts, were aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger when it exploded 73 seconds after takeoff in 1986. Everyone on board the shuttle was killed.
Today, the library in South Carolina where McNair was refused books is named after the heroic boy determined to make a difference.
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Dangerfield Newby is the actual man on which the movie D’Jango Unchained is loosely based.
He was a member of the John Brown raiders. He joined the gang to save his wife, Harriet and children from slavery.
—Dangerfield Newby (1815 – October 17, 1859) was the oldest of John Brown's raiders, one of five black raiders, and the first of his men to die at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Born into slavery in Fauquier County, Virginia, Newby married a woman also enslaved. Newby's father was Henry Newby, a landowner in Fauquier County. His mother was Elsey Newby, who was a slave, owned not by Henry, but by a neighbor, John Fox. Elsey and Henry lived together for many years and had several children, although interracial marriage was illegal in Virginia. Dangerfield was their first child. Dangerfield Newby, his mother and his siblings were later freed by his father when he moved them across the Ohio River into Bridgeport, Ohio. John Fox, who died in 1859, apparently did not attempt to retrieve Elsey, Dangerfield, or any of his siblings. Dangerfield's wife and their seven children remained in bondage. A letter found on his body revealed some of his motivation for joining John Brown and the raid on Harpers Ferry.
Dangerfield Newby's wife, Harriet Newby, was the slave of Jesse Jennings, of Arlington or Warrenton, Virginia. Newby had been unable to purchase the freedom of his wife and seven children. Their master raised the price after Newby had saved the $1,500 that had previously been agreed on. Because all of Newby's other efforts had failed he hoped to free them by force. Harriet's poignant letters, found on his body, proved instrumental in advancing the abolitionist cause. Newby was six foot two.
On October 17, 1859, the citizens of Harpers Ferry set to put down the raid. Harpers Ferry manufactured guns but the citizens had little ammunition, so during the assault on the raiders they fired anything they could fit into a gun barrel. One man was shooting six inch spikes from his rifle, one of which struck Newby in the throat, killing him instantly. After the raid, the people of Harpers Ferry took his body, stabbed it repeatedly, and amputated his limbs. His body was left in an alley to be eaten by hogs. In 1899 the remains of Newby-plus remains of nine other raiders-were reburied in a common grave near the body of John Brown in North Elba, New York.
Dangerfield Newby's wife, Harriet and her children were sold to a Louisiana slave owner after the raid.
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@MariahCarey Wonderful show last night in Baltimore. We traveled from Richmond, VA to see you. So sad you didn’t sing Miss you most at Christmas time 😢😢. I see you sang it in Detroit but not Baltimore 😓 Please add it back in!! ☺️
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@kirkfranklin@isaaccarree Wonderful Reunion Tour! Phenomenal 👏🏽👏🏽Why did Isaac not do any of his songs?? It was saddening to see him there, but he not perform. But God?? Clean this House?? It would of been the cherry on top!
@KorynHawthorne Can you please turn your “Look at God” into a ringtone. I want to hear that every time some one calls my phone. Thank you and Blessings Sis! 🙏🏽🙏🏽
@POTUS I’m a democrat and I voted for you President Biden, BUT WHEN are you going to get CONCERNED about the MIGRANT situation?? Uhhh…everybody can’t come in…..PLEASE DO SOMETHING!!!
sins have been in public view unlike ours at times. Let’s not treat these Christian artists and preachers like they are above sin and life and any of us living life knows it can be rough and messy! I really hope this blesses you all today! THANK YOU KIRK!!! @kirkfranklin
Father's Day: A Kirk Franklin Story https://t.co/W0EKA16tak via @YouTube
If you haven’t watched this yet, WATCH IT! It is powerful and it shows the dysfunction that we often have in our families. He is so transparent and authentic. Kirk has shown us as a public figure who
happens to be an extremely gifted Christian how we OFTEN ALL ACT AS CHRISTIANS. We get angry, we cuss people and family members out at times, we listen to secular music and A LOT OF CHRISTIANS AT SOME POINT has struggled with SEX, LUST, PORN AND FORNICATION. His struggles and