Listen, I have nothing against #timtebow but you’re gonna tell me with a straight face that he can get a contract but #Kaepernick can’t ? All the talk about how much time Kap has missed & potential distractions etc should never be repeated ever again in life
May 4: The Freedom Rides began #OTD in 1961. CORE organized activists to travel throughout the South on Greyhound & Trailways in order to test federal law prohibiting racial segregation in interstate transportation. Read more: https://t.co/YfEnMyCOzv.
“We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can [and] do read worthwhile books.”
W. E. B. Du Bois - February, 1953
Today is the 71st anniversary of Chuck Cooper becoming the 1st African American drafted in the NBA.
His son's efforts made sure he got into Hall of Fame: https://t.co/YKr9YTL2yO
On this day in 1959, a Black man named Mack Charles Parker was killed by a white mob in Mississippi. No one was ever prosecuted. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/T74aSuzil8
Charles McMillian, who tried to speak to George Floyd as officers first tried to put him in a police car and then later as Floyd shouted for his mama while Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck, just broke down on the witness stand.
Court on a break now.