Bayard Rustin moved to Harlem with dreams of being on stage. He performed on Broadway, and even at Cafe Society, where Billie Holiday was singing around the same time. And when Rustin turned to activism, his singing voice stayed with him. @throughlineNPR https://t.co/QENFOEXrOl
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris: "I also would not be here without the generations of Americans who struggled and sacrificed to open up opportunity in our country."
Today is the anniversary of the death of #EmmettTill. Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. Our struggle for justice continues! #BlackLivesMatter
Daughter of Africa
Mississippi born
Memphis forged
Chicago rooted
Word Wielding Warrior
Red Record Revealer
Lynch Law Leveler
Naming names
In/of all Her phases
Race Woman
Our People’s Voice
Sword and Shield
The Lioness.
Happy 158th birthday,
Ida Bell Wells Barnett
#IdaBWells