Sharon Johnson

[Sharon Johnson @iamtriedoftryin]

@The__Bible7 Amen 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[Sharon Johnson @iamtriedoftryin]

@The__Bible7 Amen 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[The Hill @thehill]

#BREAKING: Texas House passes GOP-friendly map after weeks of Dem resistance https://t.co/FeDiAP6rNj

[Sharon Johnson @iamtriedoftryin]

[Video] With inconvenience #fyp
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[Sharon Johnson @iamtriedoftryin]

[Video] this is no joke. Listen very carefully +
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[SunnyAnderson (Taylor's Version😘) @SunnyAnderson]

The news is in a lil uproar about a prisoner that died in Russia... meanwhile we have prisoners dying here REGULARLY from a multitude of reasons.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Sister Rosetta Tharpe is credited as the Godmother of Rock ‘N’ Roll. Before Elvis, Johnny Cash or Little Richard, there was Sister Tharpe- A Black woman who forged her own sound in a male dominated industry. She does not get the credit she deserves.

[Sharon Johnson @iamtriedoftryin]

@Dr_Heavenly And & Danny

[Sharon Johnson @iamtriedoftryin]

@DougDavidsonYR My condolences to you and your children.

[Black Girl Nerds @BlackGirlNerds]

We’re sad to hear of the passing of veteran actor Andre Braugher. The Emmy-award winning star was 61 years old.

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

Michele Obama

Harvard Law School graduate
Former First Lady
Sang onstage with Bruce Springsteen
On at least 40 magazine covers
Author of 12 books
Won a Grammy
Dedicated wife and mother
Role model to women everywhere

Drop a 💙 and Repost if you love Michelle Obama!

[Madison Sawyer @MadisonSawyerTV]

BREAKING: Major building fire on FM 429 near FM 355 in Terrell @CBSNewsTexas

[Sharon Johnson @iamtriedoftryin]

@AfricanArchives I'm glad they made it back to their families.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

"I just went to buy a Samsung washer and dryer from a guy, and he was asking $500.

I told him I just had a kid and if he could take $400, I’d be really grateful.

I got home, hooked everything up, and everything worked great.

I opened up the dryer to check the lint filter and I was shocked my $400 was sitting in there.

I got a message from him saying, “Check the dryer. A gift for the new baby.”

Man, words can't describe how grateful I am right now.

🥺

I feel so blessed; I felt I had to share. Big shout out to David! Thank you so much!"

Credit: Chris Blaze.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

These are the Muse Brothers. Their biological names are George and Willie Muse. They were two albino brothers;

In 1899 they were kidnapped as boys in Truevine, Virginia by bounty hunters and were forced into the circus, labeled as “freak show” performers.

Their owners showcased the brothers in circuses where they were exploited for profit in so-called freak shows. The Muse Brothers became famous across the United States as “Eko and Iko”, the “White Ecuadorian Cannibals”, the “Sheep Headed Men”, the “Sheep Headed Cannibals”, the “Ministers from Dahomey” and “Ambassadors from Mars”.

George and Willie were forced to grow their hair into massive “dreadlocks“ which together with their white skin and bluish eyes were exhibited as rarities. They were also billed as “Darwin’s Missing Links” and “Nature’s Greatest Mistakes”.

The boys were not permitted to go to school, neither were they paid for their work. They were literally kept in slavery.

One of their owners had found that George and Willie harboured the ability to play any song on almost any instrument, from the xylophone to the saxophone and mandolin, and that made them even more famous and more valuable ‘assets’ to owners of travelling circuses. However, after all this time, their illiterate mother had not ceased looking for her boys.

In the fall of 1927, the brothers were on a tour with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to Roanoke, little did the boys know they were coming home from which they had disappeared nearly three decades back.

It came to their mother’s attention that the The Greatest Show On Earth was in town and she was determined to find them. It was a tough decision to confront the Ringling Brothers who were powerful multimillionaires who also had the attention of the heavyweight politicians and law enforcement agencies.

Their mother tracked them down and eventually found the boys working for the Ringling Brothers circus and surprised them while they were on stage and their family reunited, 28 years later since they had gone missing in the very same town. The poor and powerless black woman stood up to police and big shot circus owners and successfully took her sons home.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today, the Supreme Court rejected the fringe independent state legislature theory that threatened to upend our democracy and dismantle our system of checks and balances.

[Sharon Johnson @iamtriedoftryin]

@SunnyAnderson @FoodNetwork We love you Miss. Sunny🌞

[Sharon Johnson @iamtriedoftryin]

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