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At 16, Yvette Stevens joined the Black Panther Party. She was responsible selling the Black Panther newspaper & helping start the free breakfast program for children.
You might know her by another name: CHAKA KHAN!
Happy 71st Birthday to Grammy Award winning singer Chaka Khan!
On this day in 1946, Isaac Woodard, WWII veteran, hours after being honorably discharged, was attacked by South Carolina police while still in uniform when taking the bus home & left permanently BLIND The officers were acquitted by an all white jury.
—Isaac enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942 at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C, and served in the Pacific Theater as a longshoreman in a labor battalion. In February 1946, the decorated soldier received an honorable discharge at Camp Gordon, which is located near Augusta, Georgia.
Along with other discharged soldiers, Woodard boarded a Greyhound bus on February 12 to travel home. A conflict was triggered when the white bus driver belittled the army veteran for asking to take a bathroom break.
At the next stop, Woodard was met by the Chief Linwood Shull of the Batesburg, South Carolina police. While still in his army uniform, the police forcibly removed him from the bus and arrested him for disorderly conduct.
They beat Woodward, and the next day he was convicted of 'drunken and disorderly conduct' and fined $50. They also refused to take him to hospital after beating him for several days. The beatings that he suffered while in police custody caused him Permanent Blindness.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein…Where to begin? She’s been in public office almost as long as I’ve been alive. When she got elected to the Senate, there were only two women Senators. Two! There literally wasn’t even a women’s bathroom off the Senate floor. She would say to her, being a woman leader was incidental because she strived for it to be normal to see women in these positions.
She showed us you could be a wife, a mother and a brilliant Senator in leadership. The Latino community, LGBTQ+, those who want sensible gun control, and many others, could and did count on her.
She was a serious person. A lion of the Senate. A work horse. An institutionalist who worked across Party lines to get things done. There are some women, who break a glass-ceiling, but then do nothing to help other women rise through. That was NOT Dianne Feinstein. She opened her house, her office, her heart, her trove of wisdom, to so many other women to help mentor us and lift us up.
So often, the word, “trailblazer.”, “glass-ceiling shatterer” are thrown around. Dianne Feinstein was all of that, and more. Gracias, Senadora.
On this day in 1919, enraged white mobs began a massacre of hundreds of innocent Black women, men, and children, after white men attempted to invade a Black farmer's union meeting. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/GywdLadmF5
Dianne Feinstein will be rightly remembered as a trailblazer—the first woman to serve as mayor of San Francisco and the first woman elected to the Senate from California. But once she broke those barriers and walked through those doors, she got to work.
I first got to know Dianne in the Senate, where she was a fierce advocate for gun safety measures and civil rights. Later, when I was president, I came to rely on her as a trusted partner in the fight to guarantee affordable healthcare and economic opportunity for everyone.
The best politicians get into public service because they care about this country and the people they represent. That was certainly true of Dianne Feinstein, and all of us are better for it. Today Michelle and I are thinking of her daughter, Katherine, and everyone who knew and loved her.