Leslie J. Sherrod

Always Have Hope ✨️
Travel is therapy 🛩
Faith | Love | Joy

[Leslie J. Sherrod @lesliejsherrod]

Try a different kind of read... http://t.co/VuiTPdaSWs #amwriting #inspiration #mystery #drama #soul

[Yolonda Tonette Sand @ytsanders]

Connecting with Christ | Week 27: Get Your Party On
Don't wait for a perfect moment to celebrate.

Celebrate God's faithfulness today.

Nehemiah 12:27 (NIV)

Thank you, @lesliejsherrod, for joining me to discuss Week 27!

Watch the full series on YouTube:
https://t.co/WGFV26wGWx

#ConnectingWithChrist
#Celebration
#ChooseJoy
#Faith

[Yolonda Tonette Sand @ytsanders]

@cindyswriting @Sandra_M_Hart @FestivalFaith @INwritergirl @lesliejsherrod @diannmills @RachelHauck

[Leslie J. Sherrod @lesliejsherrod]

💍 When 'I do' turns into 'What now?'💍

Celebrate one year of life lessons, laughter, and love in this lighthearted, faith-filled read.

https://t.co/dN2DLTZIC7

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods.

Now, under Trump, the agency plans to drop the cases

https://t.co/1kaH6YbtVv

[Leslie J. Sherrod @lesliejsherrod]

Our History... Our Voices...
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[Girl, Have You Read. @GirlHaveYouRead]

#NewRelease Housebroken by @lesliejsherrod https://t.co/KE2aCf2qB2 #BlackRomance #GHYR

[Black Fiction Addiction @BlackFictionAd1]

#bookoftheday: Housebroken by @lesliejsherrod

With her home and her heart both falling apart, will she even want to make it to year two?

https://t.co/ASIJDEk5Ht

[Black Fiction Addiction @BlackFictionAd1]

This week over on https://t.co/Ab8NHySPIX, I’m talking with @lesliejsherrod and @Jamie_Wesley about their latest releases.

[Chandra S. Splond @cssplond]

This week on my blogs:
I’m sharing scriptures of Thanksgiving on https://t.co/9thQmiLbpd, and over on https://t.co/MPhO5YNWzS, I’m talking with @lesliejsherrod and @Jamie_Wesley about their latest releases.

[The REAL Dr. Dré @DrDre1914]

11/03/24:

Remarks from Madam Vice President Kamala Harris at Greater Emmanuel Institutional COGIC, Detroit, MI

[Torrey Smith @TorreySmithWR]

This is disturbing.

[Leslie J. Sherrod @lesliejsherrod]

I have a short story available that is one of my most favorite creations. Would love if you check it out, share, and tell me what you think! #amwriting #shortstories Thank you! (https://t.co/vSNWcGaYTt)

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

I’ve suffered from depression and anxiety for over 25 years.

I thought I’d share some things that help me. Not medical advice but rather trial and error through many dark days of personal experience.

Here are 10 things that help me battle anxiety and depression… (1/12)

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Sonya Massey’s family says she is a descendant of William Donnegan, who was lynched by a white mob during violent racist attacks that led to the creation of the NAACP.

Massey was taken to the same hospital as her ancestor Donnegan, the family said

https://t.co/ckbtFCgUPw

[Leslie J. Sherrod @lesliejsherrod]

Shout out to @SouthwestAir today! My son accidentally threw away his AirPods and flight attendant Robert was kind enough to actually go through three trash bags after the flight to find them. That's over and beyond when it comes to customer service! Thank you, Robert!

[Baltimore County Police Department @BaltCoPolice]

The Baltimore County 911 Center is now accepting applications for Emergency Communications Technician-I. To find out more about becoming a part of the team, visit https://t.co/LisuxkcpNm
Start a Career With the 911 Center- Make a Difference! #BCoPD

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1957, Nashville's all-white Hattie Cotton Elementary School was destroyed by dynamite blast when black kids integrated the school.

—On September 9, 1957, as 19 Black six-year-olds integrated all-white elementary schools in Nashville, Tennessee, white church members—including one local minister—organized a persistent and violent campaign to oppose the integration of Nashville public schools. Outside Fehr Elementary School, one person held a sign that read “God is the author of segregation” and pursued two Black children walking to the school. Outside three different elementary schools that same morning, Fred Stroud, a white minister, sought to dissuade white parents from allowing their children to be educated alongside Black children by preaching damnation for those who did not uphold segregation.

The next day, 100 sticks of dynamite were thrown into Hattie Cotton Elementary School and exploded. Patricia Watson, the one Black elementary student who had been in class the previous morning, did not return. No Black children returned to Hattie Cotton Elementary School the following year, and no one faced criminal charges for the bombing.

Though Brown v. Board of Education determined in 1954 that school segregation was unconstitutional, for three years white residents in Nashville relied on intimidation and organized political resistance to maintain segregation in the public schools. In 1957, Nashville finally developed a “stair step program” which permitted a few Black elementary school students to enroll in eight elementary schools in their zones.

Throughout the summer of 1957, white segregationists in Nashville held intimidation rallies to terrorize Black families. In the days leading up to the first day of school, as Black parents pre-registered their children for school, mobs of white church members gathered outside buildings with signs calling segregation the “will of God.” One leader declared that “integration can be reversed” and that “blood will run the streets” before Nashville’s schools were integrated.

By the morning of September 9, out of the 126 Black children eligible to attend all-white elementary schools in their zones, only 19 Black children matriculated. Reverend Stroud gathered crowds at Glenn Elementary to preach about the evils of integration, and white people in cars outside of Jones Elementary held signs emblazoned with KKK iconography and Biblical quotes. As opposition grew throughout the morning, white mobs crowded the sidewalks and threw rocks and bottles at Black children and their parents who attempted to pass through the crowd. By the end of the day, half of the white students at Glenn Elementary School—nearly 250 children—had not arrived, as white parents chose to deny their children education rather than permit them to learn alongside Black children.

That evening, 300 white people gathered downtown and continued to threaten Black families who sent their children to school. They strung an effigy in blackface from a stoplight with a note pinned to its chest that read “this could be you.” As the mob around Fehr Elementary grew to at least 400, white people burned two outbuildings located on the property of a Black family that had sent their daughter to the school. The mob also continued to burn crosses on lawns of Black families who had dared to enroll their students that morning.

[Brandon M. Scott @MayorBMScott]

Effective Immediately: Voluntary Water Restriction Notice Issued for Entire Baltimore Region. https://t.co/8NKZRKmeaD

[Leslie J. Sherrod @lesliejsherrod]

@CocoJenell 😘

[Leslie J. Sherrod @lesliejsherrod]

@CocoJenell Proud of you, cousin ❤️