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Tweets are my own. 🔴🐼

[Alabama A&M University @aamuedu]

🐶 The Birmingham skyline just got a little more maroon. The largest billboard in the state now celebrates Alabama’s largest #HBCU. As we prepare to celebrate 150 years, we’re reimagining what it means to Start Here and Go Anywhere. Buckle up. 👀 #ProtectTheHill

[O. Hawk @mr_hawko]

@Joshparker777 Congrats!!

[Esaias Guthrie’s Stylist @DNjtrenton]

@ohitswaters @SecCardona https://t.co/Qh07d5Z2mV

[O. Hawk @mr_hawko]

@Texts2Empower This is how the system perpetuates inequity. It must be dismantled

[O. Hawk @mr_hawko]

@PrincipalSewell Congratulations Doc!

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

So who taught a young Jack Daniel how to distill what would become the world’s best-selling whiskey?

Nathan "Nearest" Green, an enslaved Black master distiller, taught distilling techniques to Jack Daniel, founder of the Jack Daniel Tennessee whiskey.

—Uncle Nearest, as he was fondly called by family and friends grew up in Lynchburg, Tennessee, and began working on the farm of a country preacher and distiller in Lincoln County around the mid-1800s. It was there that he learned the skill of distilling and specialized in a process of distillation known as sugar maple charcoal filtering which was also called the Lincoln County Process.

Nearest was such a skilled distiller in the process he specialized in but he kept working with the preacher in the Lincoln County and fortunately it was there that Jack Daniels met him.

In the mid-1850s, Jack Daniels who was just a young white boy from a large family and who also lost his mother to a sudden illness at the age of four months began working as a chore boy for the preacher whom Uncle Nearest worked for.

It is said that Jack Daniels was a curious young boy who kept asking about the smoke coming up through the hollow on the 338-acre property and why men kept hurrying back and forth from that area which he was never allowed to go with mules and wagons.

He never stopped asking, until the preacher whim he worked for decided to give in to his curiosity took him to the area on the property where the smoke came from.

As later described in the boy’s biography, it is said that the preacher introduced the young boy to a “coal-black negro” which was uncle Nearest.

He introduced Uncle Nearest by saying “This is Uncle Nearest. He’s the best whiskey maker I know of”. The preacher went further to ask Nearest to teach the young (Jack Daniels) everything he knew about distilling and also the process of sugar maple charcoal filtering. A request Nearest obliged and taught the young boy the special filtration process of the Tennessee whiskey.

[O. Hawk @mr_hawko]

Is your belief about students malleable?
Are the learning theories we put in front of students actually aligned to what we believe about the ability of our students?
There will be courageous conversations this week! @unboundedu #StandardsInstituteDC

[UnboundEd @unboundedu]

📣 UnboundEd's June newsletter is out now! 📣 Don't miss the highlights including all about our NEW Leadership Institute and an inspiring podcast episode on self-care and resistance in education.

Get all the details and spread the word: https://t.co/8Q90As4t38

[soulPhoodie @soulphoodie]

Black-Owned Whiskey Brand Uncle Nearest Hits $100M In Sales — 'They Expected us to Fail' ... https://t.co/IXTwrrfQKn

[Black Teacher Collab @BlkTeachCollab]

Today marks 102 years since a white mob burned down Tulsa's Black Wall Street, mass murdering 300 Black Americans & destroying 35 blocks of one of the wealthiest Black communities in America in just 2 days. We remember & honor the lives lost in the #TulsaRaceMassacre

[James O'Neal, Jr. @MrJamesONeal]

The #BONDAcademy was AMAZING this past weekend! Thank you to the visionaries of this movement. My session, Motivating Hard to Reach Students received 100% in the categories of satisfactory and relevance. The greatest critic, was that participants wanted more! #MasteryForAll.

[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

Age at first $1,000,000:

• 18 Beyoncé
• 26 Jay-Z
• 23 Steve Jobs
• 27 Elon Musk
• 29 Naval
• 30 Michael Jordan
• 31 Bill Gates
• 32 Warren Buffett
• 32 Oprah
• 34 Gary V
• 35 Jeff Bezos

1 lesson from each (to develop a millionaire mindset):

[19keys @19keys_]

Never try to please everyone

[ChristinaProenzaColes @ProenzaColes]

This portrait of Paul Laurence Dunbar from 1934 is in the National Portrait Gallery. Born in Ohio in 1872 to formerly enslaved parents, he became an internationally renowned poet & was among the most important literary figures of the 20th century. https://t.co/SanAf1EWOz

[Black Teacher Collab @BlkTeachCollab]

In honor of #TeacherAppreciationWeek , we're accepting submissions for our Black Teacher Yearbook! Join us in affirming the value of Black teachers & inspire future Black educators.

Are you a Black teacher? Add yourself to our yearbook: https://t.co/uzMM9DYbkr #teachertwitter

[HBCU Gameday @HBCUGameday]

And @HUBison_Golf wins the D1 HBCU national title once again.

[Reconstruction @reconstruct_us]

While teachers deserve their flowers everyday, we're showing a little extra love to Black teachers for Teacher Appreciation Week and we encourage you to do the same 💐 RT this and thank a Black teacher today 🖤✊🏿

[Rev Jesse Jackson Sr @RevJJackson]

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Jamaal Bowman @RepBowman]

Republicans won't do SHIT when it comes to gun violence, but try to tell me to calm down.

NO.

We can't calm down. People are dying everyday while we wait.

[Larry Savoy @LarrySavoy22]

Congratulation.. we are proud of this Mighty Carroll Lion! @ACHSWashDC