Larry James

Lead inner city human and community development organization: CitySquare. Seeking the arrival of a just society.

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

🧵Today, we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a landmark victory for justice in America. This act ended legal discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Let me get this straight...

Students getting relief from onerous debt is unconstitutional.

But justices secretly getting hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in gifts, vacations, and free housing and education for their family members is just fine.

Hello?

[Michael Sorrell @michaelsorrell]

Here are some things that life has taught me:
1. When people show you who they are, believe them.
2. Trust your gut.
3. Bet on yourself, not the status quo.
4. It is better to be early to a decision than late.
5. Dream, pray, and always be prepared to fight. 1/

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

This is Charles & Willa Bruce. In 1912 they bought prime beachfront land in Manhattan Beach, LA County and built a Black resort community. In 1924 the county took it and refused to pay its value. In 2021, worth $72 million, it was returned to their descendents by Senate Bill 796.

In 1912, Black Californians Charles and Willa Bruce bought a small slice of Manhattan Beach real estate for around $1,200. They built a resort for fellow Black families in the area who found themselves unwelcome at Whites-only beaches, even renting out bathing suits and selling snacks — and they were almost immediately subjected to racist attacks. Everyone from neighbors, the police, the city council, and even the Ku Klux Klan tried to close the beach down. The city imposed 10-minute parking limits near the beach to try and discourage visitors, and finally in 1924, the Manhattan Beach city council just seized the property entirely, offering the Bruces a fraction of their asking price. Today, the stretch of beach is worth around $20 million — and Los Angeles County voted to finally return it to the Bruces' descendants in 2021.

[Larry James @lmjread]

https://t.co/LuR60qrFNt
We've simply lost our way. Time for meaningful reform for the sake of everyone.

[Larry James @lmjread]

Game-changing leader coming to (Dallas)! @CitySq @AmeriCorps Breaking barriers! So excited!

[Larry James @lmjread]

HopeWorks CEO Annam Manthiram leaving to lead CitySquare - Albuquerque Business First https://t.co/Ukte03T8K2 via @ABQBizFirst Big news at CitySquare! @lmjread @lblarrea @Randy1116 @ntcumc @naehomelessness @DSTNHome @BishopMcKee @brandontoombs @jenhsampson

[Larry James @lmjread]

HopeWorks CEO Annam Manthiram leaving to lead CitySquare - Albuquerque Business First https://t.co/Ukte03T8K2 via @ABQBizFirst Big news at CitySquare! @lmjread @lblarrea @Randy1116 @ntcumc @naehomelessness @DSTNHome @BishopMcKee @brandontoombs @jenhsampson

[Larry James @lmjread]

Juneteenth: an enduring tribute to liberty, freedom, justice and union.

[Larry James @lmjread]

The requirement to work in order to qualify to receive SNAP (Food Stamp) benefits indicates ignorance of the challenges already facing the working poor in the US, as well as the important impact of the nation’smain nutrition program on public health and economic stability.

[Larry James @lmjread]

thanks, GeorgeMason

[George Mason @GeorgeMason]

Imagine the reduction of poverty and the healing of social divisions in TX if we did our Constitutional duty and fully funded our public school system.

[Brandon Toombs @brandontoombs]

My latest video: "Manage Mass Changes". This is the oldest tool for updating Employee Central data and still has some solid use cases.

https://t.co/9p4zz0miFy
#SuccessFactors #EmployeeCentral

[George Mason @GeorgeMason]

You deserve this team.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

The lady circled in the photo was Lucy Higgs Nichols. She was born into slavery in Tennessee, but during the Civil War she managed to escape and found her way to 23rd Indiana Infantry Regiment which was encamped nearby.

She stayed with the regiment and worked as a nurse throughout the war.
After the war, she moved north with the regiment and settled in Indiana, where she found work with some of the veterans of the 23rd.

She applied for a pension after Congress passed the Army Nurses Pension Act of 1892 which allowed Civil War nurses to draw pensions for their service.

The War Department had no record of her, so her pension was denied. Fifty-five surviving veterans of the 23rd petitioned Congress for the pension they felt she had rightfully earned, and it was granted.

The photograph shows Nichols and other veterans of the Indiana regiment at a reunion in 1898. Beloved by the troops who referred to her as “Aunt Lucy,” Nichols was the only woman to receive an honorary induction into the Grand Army of the Republic, and she was buried in an unmarked grave in New Albany with full military honors in 1915.

[Holly Robinson Peete 💃🏾♍️ @hollyrpeete]

No words………..💔💔💔💔💔😡😡😡

[David Leavitt 🎲🎮🧙‍♂️🌈 @DavidLeavitt]

“…it wasn't mental health that killed these people, it was an automatic rifle. I'm a gun lover. I have guns. I'm a former police officer. I’m a former Army officer ... prayers won't bring these people back. We need action in our legislatures.

[Larry James @lmjread]

The Second Amendment enjoys no standing in an Allen, TX outlet mall! Another AK15 does it’s job. TX Governor still opposes any gun control. Time to wake up TX! @FUMCDallas @BishopMcKee @NTCCMO

[Larry James @lmjread]

New Rules! No civilian needs an assault rifle. Stop saying guns don’t kill people. Past time for organized, political movement to change our current system of nothing pro active. Movement time has arrived. We demand new rules! #ntcumc. #MitchelBoones

[Brandon Toombs @brandontoombs]

14 years of 140 characters !#MyTwitterAnniversary

[Larry James @lmjread]

Walter Isaacson and Jon Meacham kick off the ‘Values in America’ series https://t.co/No8s9GGydw