Lani JUSTICE4BREONNA Hall 🖤✊🏾👊🏾

Bibliophile hyped on inclusion, belonging, connection & Ubuntu. Lover and fearer of tattoos. No one matters until BLM ✊🏿. Opinions are my own.

[Lani JUSTICE4BREONNA Hall 🖤✊🏾👊🏾 @DiversityDynamo]

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[Lani JUSTICE4BREONNA Hall 🖤✊🏾👊🏾 @DiversityDynamo]

@AIHR_Academy IdeaCan we stop using the term cultural fit, and instead use cultural add. More inclusive terminology

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Henry "Box" Brown, the 19th century enslaved man from Virginia (later a noted abolitionist speaker), escaped to freedom by mailing himself in a wooden crate.

“if you have never been deprived of your liberty, as I was, you cannot realize the power of that hope of freedom.”

—Henry "Box" Brown escaped to freedom at the age of 33 by arranging to have himself mailed in a wooden crate in 1849 to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Brown was hired out by his master in Richmond, Virginia, and worked in a tobacco factory, renting a house where he and his wife lived with their children. Brown had also been paying his wife's master not to sell his family, but the man betrayed Brown, selling pregnant Nancy and their three children to a different slave owner.

With the help of James C. A. Smith, a free black man, and a sympathetic white shoemaker named Samuel A. Smith, Brown devised a plan to have himself shipped in a box to a free state by the Adams Express Company, known for its confidentiality and efficiency.Brown paid $86 (out of his savings of $166) to Samuel Smith. Smith went to Philadelphia to consult with members of Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society on how to accomplish the escape, meeting with minister James Miller McKim, William Still, and Cyrus Burleigh. He corresponded with them to work out the details after returning to Richmond. They advised him to mail the box to the office of Quaker merchant Passmore Williamson, who was active with the Vigilance Committee.

To get out of work the day he was to escape, Brown burned his hand to the bone with sulfuric acid. The box that Brown was shipped n was 3ft long by 2ft 8 inches deep by 2ft wide and displayed the words "dry goods" on it. It was lined with baize, a coarse woolen cloth, and he carried only a small portion of water and a few biscuits. There was a single hole cut for air and it was nailed & tied with straps. Brown later wrote that his uncertain method of travel was worth the risk: "if you have never been deprived of your liberty, as I was, you cannot realize the power of that hope of freedom, which was to me indeed, an anchor to the soul both sure and steadfast." During the trip, which began on March 29, 1849, Brown's box was transported by wagon, railroad, steamboat, wagon again, railroad, ferry, railroad, and finally delivery wagon, being completed in 27 hours. The box was successfully received on March 30th 1849. Just look at me the determination of our ancestors.

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[Anthony Liuzzo @harpmaster1]

I honor of Women’s History Month I highlight my mother, Viola Liuzzo, executed by the klan 3/25/65. I love the first image most. The second is the last known photo of her in the Selma to Montgomery March. #WomensHistoryMonth #WomensHistoryMonth2024

[Lani JUSTICE4BREONNA Hall 🖤✊🏾👊🏾 @DiversityDynamo]

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[TizzyEnt @TizzyEnt]

Man calls out Ryan Walters for breeding the hate that lead to the attack on Nex Benedict.

[Thread Reader App @threadreaderapp]

@heyshrutimishra Your thread is everybody's favorite! #TopUnroll https://t.co/EpwOdJL1Fq 🙏🏼@btcjournal for 🥇unroll

[Lani JUSTICE4BREONNA Hall 🖤✊🏾👊🏾 @DiversityDynamo]

💔😩🦅👊🏾✊🏾 I listen to him every single day, and every single night. Rest in Power Joe Madison

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

This could literally be the definition of whiteness.

Or white supremacy.

Or any variation of the specific brand of Christian nationalism that has been weaponized and used to justify white supremacy since the beginning of America history.

A thread: https://t.co/EKwf5nrhEh

[Ben Crump Law, PLLC @BenCrumpLaw]

MEDIA ALERT: @AttorneyCrump serves as producer of the new documentary “How to Sue the Klan.” The film, which will screen beginning Black History Month, features the heroic efforts of 5 Black women who fought and emerged victorious against the KKK in a landmark 1982 civil trial.

[Anita Sharma @anitaklab]

@AMAZlNGNATURE

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

“How do you charge them?” 😭

[Eric S Bannav (Sheikh El Bashiro), MBA, PMP @djshirosmokes]

This epic moment between Coco Gauff and Alycia Parks.

[Leslie Jones 🦋 @Lesdoggg]

THIS THIS THIS!! It’s very simple!!

[Lani JUSTICE4BREONNA Hall 🖤✊🏾👊🏾 @DiversityDynamo]

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[Symone D. Sanders Townsend @SymoneDSanders]

Worth your time to watch the full clip. I am so glad @NatashaSAlford was at work today because we all benefitted from her brilliance.

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

Age yourself with a store that no longer exists