Hall of Fame Coach Dawn Staley on the business of winning, loving someone enough to let them fail, and living everyday with zero margin:
💎 You don’t have to be for everybody to be right for your people. Leadership isn’t a popularity contest, it’s a courage practice! When you’re crystal clear on who you are and what you stand for, you can lead with conviction. And that becomes a magnet for people who want to be part of something real.
🏺 Tell the truth, even when it costs you comfort. We're in the business of winning. And winning built on half-truths is fragile; it cracks under pressure. Real leaders choose honesty over image, because trust, not talent—is what holds a team together when things get hard.
❤️ Care enough to step back. Loving someone isn’t rescuing always them from failure, it’s standing close enough to support, but far enough to let them struggle, adapt, and discover their own strength. Growth doesn’t come from protection; it comes from earned resilience.
📆 Respect the weight of every day. There is no neutral, only progress or erosion. When you give away a day because you're not all the way there mentally, someone else is investing it, and preparing to take what you’re not protecting.
Own your identity without apology! The moment you start shrinking to be digestible, you lose the very edge that makes you effective. You're not in the politics business, you're in the people business. The right people don’t need you to be everything, they need you to be authentically you, CONSISTENTLY and without COMPROMISE.
2 National Championships
5 Final Fours
3 SEC Tournament Championships
5 SEC Regular Season Championships
SEC DPOY
SEC All-Defensive Team
SEC All-Freshman Team
Impact. Leader. Winner.
What a ride, Big Bird!🥂
@DaweMassage@kareemcopeland@maggie_vanoni This is such a ignorant comment. He did the same stuff to Pat Summit and I bet you you’re not gonna call her a thug. Racist prick
“The system continues to fail Black People. This happened with Philando and when they are finished with us, they are coming for you…..yall will be next standing up here fighting for justice just as I am”
~Valerie Castile
Mother Of Philando Castile
(10 years ago)
ANNOUNCING THE 2026 ALLSTATE HBCU LEGACY BOWL HEAD COACHES!
TEAM GAITHER (MEAC & CIAA)
Chennis Berry — South Carolina State
Maurice Flowers — Johnson C. Smith
TEAM ROBINSON (SWAC & SIAC)
Tremaine Jackson — Prairie View A&M
Quinn Gray Sr. — Albany State
⭐ TEAM GAITHER (MEAC & CIAA)
Chennis Berry — South Carolina State 🏆 Record: 46–13 overall as a head coach 🏆 Championships: 2 MEAC Championships (2024–2025), 2 SIAC Championships (2022–2023), 3 Black College National Titles (2022, 2023 for Division II; 2025 for Division I) A transformative leader who has brought consistent championship success wherever he’s coached, including back-to-back MEAC titles with SC State.
@coachberry77
Maurice Flowers — Johnson C. Smith 🏆 Record: 34–20 overall as head coach 🏆 Championships: CIAA Championship (2025) Known for steady improvement and leading the Golden Bulls to conference glory, Flowers blends passionate leadership with a winning mentality in CIAA play.
@CoachFlowers
⭐ TEAM ROBINSON (SWAC & SIAC)
Tremaine Jackson — Prairie View A&M 🏆 Record: 10–4 (2025 season with Prairie View A&M) 🏆 Championships: SWAC Championship (2025) Prairie View’s first league title since 2009
In his first season at PVAMU, Jackson orchestrated one of the most remarkable turnarounds in HBCU football, leading the Panthers to a SWAC crown.
@coachjack212
Quinn Gray Sr. — Albany State 🏆 Record: 24–11 over three seasons 🏆 Championships: SIAC Championship (2025) Gray brought historic success to Albany State, including the program’s first unbeaten conference season and SIAC title, elevating the Golden Rams into national relevance. (Albany State University)
@CoachQGray
These four leaders bring passion, championship experience, and a legacy of developing elite talent!
Happy birthday, Daddy. Thank you for being a bold purveyor of true peace. Thank you for living with purpose and for radically lifting the power of love. Thank you for believing that we can defeat injustice without destroying each other. Thank you for your courage and strategic, compassionate action. Thank you for teaching me so much, even now. I remember you today, on your 97th birthday. I remember you always.
#MLK #MartinLutherKingJr #HappyBirthday
This is why there is a disproportionate amount of Black women dying during labor.
Not because of obesity or poor prenatal care, but because of the absolute disregard and inhumanity we are treated with while in labor.
Since Trump doesn't want this portrait of President Obama displayed in the White House, let's make this photo of our President go viral here!
RETWEET if you love @BarackObama!
Republicans will blame immigrants for everything, but stay silent on white supremacists, Jan 6th rioters, and school shootings. If y’all really cared as much as you claim you do, you’d call out all threats to our communities—not just the ones that fit your agenda.
Rarely agree with ryan clark but he’s correct, Arch played the local ymca in high school and wasnt very good, 6 star last name, and 3 star high school film