Maxine Jones

An original member of EnVogue New Single: Bookings: Bri Star Ent. 770-335-5975

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

The effort to secure restitution for the three last known living survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre has ended after a judge dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice – meaning the case can’t be refiled

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[Maxine Jones @MaxineJonesEV]

Hey to all my followers I’m deleting this app!! I don’t feel valued here by Musk! I feel and strongly believe he’s a racist! I would NEVER BUY A TESLA!! 👎🏿 Follow me on #Threads #ThreadsInstagram #fb #TwitterIsDead #Tesla ✌🏾

[Jazz Is Dead @jazzisdeadco]

Gil Scott Heron performs "Winter in America" - a song written by Heron & his writing partner Brian Jackson

#jazzisdead

[Cree Summer @IAmCreeSummer]

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[rolandsmartin @rolandsmartin]

Go to hell, ASSHOLE. @TheBrockEasley

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

The United States refuse to atone for slavery, Jim crow, the apartheid state, segregation, the Ku Klux Klan, police brutality, human rights abuse, gentrification redlining, Mass incarceration, anti-black policies,

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

With affirmative action in college admissions banned — Republicans are now targeting minority scholarships. https://t.co/4ETqcjkIiv

[Eddie Smith @eddsmitty]

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was one of the worst national disasters in history, yet what many people did not know that it led to one of the most heinous acts of peonage since slavery. Black people were (cont)
#ProudWokeHistory

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[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

This is Lancaster, California.

A Los Angeles county sheriffs deputy throws a Black woman to the ground and brutalized her for filming them arresting her husband.

Filming the police is not illegal.

This is brutality.

Arrest this pig.

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

A white supremacist deputy brutalize a Blackwom in for videotaping a black man being arrested, LA deputy brutality. All she did was videotaping it’s not against the law, Police terrorism,

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

LANCASTER, CA: @LASDHQ Deputy slams elderly Black woman with cancer to the ground and assaults her as she films her husband being arrested for ALLEGEDLY shoplifting a cake. Outrageous. (H/T @Lesdoggg)

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

The Declaration of Independence was written by enslavers and didn’t recognize Black people as human.

Today is a great day to demand Reparations Now ✊🏾

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

Happy #JulyFourth
#IndependenceDay

[Dave Zirin @EdgeofSports]

I post this every year. Feels particularly poignant in 2023. Read the words and you’ll get what I mean. Frederick Douglass is timeless….https://t.co/izNtyNzFHj

[James Brown Family @JamesBrownFF]

We are saddened to hear of the passing of Ms. Vicky Anderson. She was part of the James Brown Revue in the 1960’s later married Mr. Bobby Byrd while working for Mr. Brown. Recording, touring and gracing the world with her talent for nearly 50 years. #rip #vickyanderson

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

4th July, 1844 — Edmonia Lewis was born.

Edmonia was the first professional black sculptor and one of the most celebrated neoclassical sculptors of her time.

‘The Death of Cleopatra’ is one her most recognised works. It depicts the famous Cleopatra in the moment of her death.

[Keith Boykin @keithboykin]

(KABC) – A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was caught on camera throwing a woman to the ground outside a store in Lancaster, California as she attempted to record her husband who was being arrested outside a WinCo grocery store.

[Mike Baggz @MikeBaggz]

I’ll say it again, empowerment starts with LAND ownership ✊🏿

[Tamorah Shareef Muhammad @ModestyQueen19]

List of all the HBCUS If you're a rising senior here's the list of HBCUs. Go where you will be valued!

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

On July 4, 1776 my ancestors were enslaved. Frederick Douglass asked the question, “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?”

America remembers it’s independence, yet when African-Americans recall their struggle towards freedom, they’re told to “get over it.”

#IndependenceDay