#Missing 12-year-old Levi Best last seen yesterday @ 1pm in the 7500 block of Little River Turnpike in Annandale. He is 5’7", 80lbs, with black dreadlocks & brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a gray Puma sweater. Call 703-691-2131 with information.
#Missing 12-year-old Levi Best last seen yesterday @ 1pm in the 7500 block of Little River Turnpike in Annandale. He is 5’7", 80lbs, with black dreadlocks & brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a gray Puma sweater. Call 703-691-2131 with information.
"We came here chanting #ceasefire. We came here saying stop murdering Palestinians. Stop killing children. They met us with pepper spray, full riot gear, tear gas, violence. That is what our government thinks about Palestinian lives." @sumayaawad@DemSocialists@IfNotNowOrg
““This is my great-grandma, Christina Levant Platt at age 100, weeding her garden. She was born into slavery. Her “owner” was a wife that taught my great grandma to read and write secretly, which was illegal and quite dangerous at that time for both of them. She learned to read the Bible.
She had 11 children, she lost two, one son was one of the first black attorneys in US. She sent the 4 boys to college in Boston. Exceptional in those days.
She passed 5yrs before I was born but I love her as if I knew her. Family tells me she would say “ I put prayers on my children’s children’s heads”.
This apparently worked💜
Around April 12, 1861, Christina was at the 1st battle of the CIVIL WAR, in Fort Sumter at Charleston Bay, South Carolina, working in the cotton fields.
She said “the sky was black as night” from cannonball fire. She saw a man decapitated by a cannonball.
She was the water girl for the other slaves as a young girl and “ the lookout” for the slaves in the fields for the approaching overseer on horseback as they secretly knelt and prayed for their freedom.
She would watch for the switching tail of the approaching horse and would alert the slaves to rise up and return to picking cotton before he saw them.
She eventually married a Native American from the Santee Tribe. John C, Platt.
After freedom, Christina insisted upon taking her children north as she knew they would not get a good education in the south, and that’s all she cared about. She died at age 101 in 1944, where she and her husband had built a home in Medfield, Massachusetts, the first black family to move there.
With great respect, I honor my great grandmother.
So much more I could say about this miraculous woman. She gave me much strength in my hard times.
Whenever I thought I was having a hard day, I would think of her and shrug it off.
Thank you for reading one story of millions. 💜 💜”
-Brenda Russell
How in the actual BEEP does @RepOgles that represents NASHVILLE dare to threaten to take away DCs autonomy because "DC is too violent of a city?" Pot/Kettle man... Keep your political dirty moves off of the citizens of DC @repsonaldspress @mattformontana#dchomerule#HR5195
Last week I shared a flight with a crying infant who, despite his mother’s best efforts, wasn’t easily calmed in the minutes just before and after takeoff.
I was amazed by the level of anger it provoked among several fellow passengers - and one man in particular, who kept loudly asking if someone can’t “stick something in that kid’s mouth?”
I can only imagine how uncomfortable the baby’s mother, traveling solo with her child, must have felt.
She did eventually soothe her little guy (who may have cried for a total of five minutes) - but the man’s nastiness really soured the vibe on the flight - which may be why I felt so drawn to this video, which shows a markedly more empathetic community approach.
Alarmed by his first visit to the barber shop, this little guy begins to melt down.
Watch what the other patrons do to distract him from his anxiety and enable the barber to finish his work. Just beautiful.
Remember that we’re all in this together.
🎥 via shop.barberclassic
I wonder what conservatives who support this message would say if on Christmas Day I posted a sign saying:
“God is fake, Trust the science”.
Actions like this serve one purpose and one purpose only on this first day of Pride month. They further divide us, marginalize people who are already battling lies and hate, and make people feel like they need to hide from society, or even worse.
Stop giving into hate. Spread love and equality.