Joy Stephens

[Joy Stephens @JoyStephensMPH]

2.2.2020 at 2:00pm my daughter made her Carnegie Hall debut as Principal Cellist of the Honors String Orchestra in New York.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Cicely Tyson, the actress whose vivid portrayals of strong African-American women shattered racial stereotypes, died at 96. https://t.co/Civ9w17KEF

[Tampa Bay Buccaneers @Buccaneers]

NFC Champions 🏆

[Tampa Bay Buccaneers @Buccaneers]

"Getting to the Super Bowl wasn't what our goal is. Our goal is to win it."

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

To give you a sense of how 2021 is going

More Americans died from covid in the last 3 days than on 9/11, the Iraq war and the Afghanistan war combined, and that's not even a top 10 news story right now.

[Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams]

While today’s terrible display of terror and meanness shakes us, let’s remember: @ossoff, Jewish son of an immigrant & @ReverendWarnock, first Black Senator from Georgia, will join a Catholic POTUS & the first woman, Black + Indian VP in our nation’s capital. God bless America.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

A reminder that the people who breached security today at the Capitol find what @Kaepernick7 did to be offensive.

[NAACP @NAACP]

They've killed us for less!

[Oprah Winfrey @Oprah]

Join me if you can and learn more about their mission by visiting https://t.co/7BeZRTppPa. Happy Holidays! 🎄🎄🎄

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

217 years ago today, on January 1, 1804, Haiti became became the first independent Black republic in the world following a 12 year revolution. It changed the trajectory of world history.

In 1893, Frederick Douglass gave a speech outlining why Haiti's revolution was so important:

[The New York Times @nytimes]

When Haitians won independence on Jan. 1, 1804, the culmination of the Haitian Revolution, they celebrated with soup joumou, a symbol of the foods that had been forbidden to them. https://t.co/GwPn53KJrD

[Shawn Upchurch @ShawnUpchurch]

"The strongest people I've met have not been given an easier life. They've learned to create ... from dark places." ~@positiveKristen

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

You know what really helps businesses? Customers with money.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Congressman John Lewis wrote before his passing: “Democracy is not a state. It is an act.”

What he meant was that America’s democracy is not guaranteed. It is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it—and that’s exactly what you did.

[mamrie hart @mametown]

I feel like an ibuprofen just kicked in after a four year stress headache.

[gh0stn 🦍 @_gh0stn]

LMAOOO IM NEVER DELETING THIS APP

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

ARIZONA: Make sure your vote is counted.

If you voted by mail or early, track your ballot and contact your local election official TODAY to fix any issues: https://t.co/QzIpT5LwM0

Any problems call, https://t.co/lXPlSi4nni

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

NEVADA: Make sure your vote is counted.

If you voted by mail or early, track your ballot and contact your local election official TODAY to fix any issues: https://t.co/D0pbDDYnXE

Any problems call, https://t.co/lXPlSi4nni

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

NORTH CAROLINA: Make sure your vote is counted.

If you voted by mail or early, track your ballot and contact your local election official TODAY to fix any issues: https://t.co/ZMo15WIwoN

Any problems call, https://t.co/lXPlSi4nni

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Please share with friends and family in Georgia:

If you voted absentee in Georgia, please check the status of your ballot now.

If it was rejected, you have until 5pm on Friday, November 6, to fix it and make sure your vote counts.

https://t.co/G232v3OA50

[Brian Stack @BrianStack153]

My neighbor’s “Skeleton Zoom” display rules.