Reina del mundo♍

None of your sodding business. I don't like you and I'm always hungry.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In 1938, Lloyd Gaines filed a lawsuit after being denied admission to the University of Missouri Law School in 1935 because he was black.

The Court ruled in his favor & required Missouri to admit him or set up a black law school.

He disappeared 3 months later never to be found.

—Lloyd Lionel Gaines was born to the Gaines family in northern Mississippi in 1911. One of eleven children, seven of whom survived illness and accident, he moved with his widowed mother and siblings to St. Louis after the premature death of their father. They found a better, although not easy, life for themselves in Missouri. Gaines excelled in his studies graduating as valedictorian in 1931 from Vashon High School. At Lincoln University in Jefferson City, he graduated with honors and was President of the senior class, while participating in many extra-curricular activities and working to pay for his schooling.
Despite his outstanding scholastic record, the University of Missouri School of Law denied Gaines admittance in 1936 solely on the grounds that Missouri's Constitution called for "separate education of the races." By state law, Missouri would have been required to pay for Gaines to attend the Universities in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, but Gaines was determined to fight for the right to attend law school in his own state university. He sought legal assistance from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which had been working systematically to overturn the ignominious precedent of "separate but equal" established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. Together, they challenged the University of Missouri's admissions policies. In 1938, Gaines won his case before the United States Supreme Court in State of Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada, paving the way for a series of cases that would lead to Brown v. Board of Education's outlawing segregation in public education. In March 1939, only three months after his Supreme Court victory, Lloyd Gaines was last seen in Chicago. He disappeared at age 28 with his promise of attending law school in Missouri unfilfilled. Lloyd Gaines was never to be seen or heard from again.

[Reina del mundo♍ @Hannah_Cholula]

@TheGymGroup do your staff have any training on sexual assault whilst inside the gym? An incident just happened in canning town gym and it was a pretty shit experience?

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

For the record: cops aren’t supposed to kill guilty people either.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Lets talk about the dysfunctional expectations of society and how it sets us up for anxiety, depression, and addiction:

[Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman]

I hate so much all that cost of living advice that is basically “give up anything that might bring you a modicum of joy during these rancid times so that you can afford to simply exist as a husk otherwise you are not worthy of support because you’re not doing the most you can”

[Reina del mundo♍ @Hannah_Cholula]

@RavWilding Botox works really well too!

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Venus Williams's father schools white journalist on how to interview a 14-year-old Black girl (1995)

[Ash @theashrb]

Me after asking for a Bank Holiday for so long:

[Amanda @Pandamoanimum]

The 2022 John Lewis ad will be a family burning their belongings for heat and to cook a rat for Christmas dinner while sadly looking at a photo of grandad who sacrificed his life for a packet of value pasta as a breathy slow version of ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ by D:Ream plays

[Fiona Hamilton @Fhamiltontimes]

I'm at Westminster Mags Court where three Metropolitan police officers are accused of sending grossly offensive messages in which they joked about sexually assaulting domestic violence victims and much more. This will be a thread.

[Jonathan C. @RamseySaidWHAT]

I know it ain’t miss not posting the salary talkin

[Detention Action @DetentionAction]

🚨BREAKING🚨 We've found out that @hifly_airline is the airline now operating Priti Patel's mass deportation flight to #Jamaica tonight.
We've only a few hours to stop this cruel deportation flight from leaving. Please take our updated Twitter action now!

https://t.co/vSGNtUPUOO

[Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Haggis_UK]

Yvette Cooper - "The charge rate for rape has gone down from 8.5% to a truly shocking 1.3%... it's estimated 300 women will be raped today & a 170 cases will be reported... but just 3 are likely to make it to a court of law, never mind a jail cell... this is a total disgrace"

[jamie amalea pappas @jamieamalea]

easily the funniest thing I’ve seen happen all year.

[momo ✨ @SheabuttrPapi]

In Hollywood you’ll get blackballed for a slap but not for sexual harassment, pedophilia, or human trafficking.