Taleah Mc... Riley

[ESSENCE @Essence]

Dear Stacey Abrams,

This moment is dedicated to YOU.

Before Keisha Lance Bottoms made history as the first Black woman elected governor in America, you dared to show us that it was possible.

You ran when the road was uncertain. You stood tall when the outcome wasn’t what we’d hoped. And instead of allowing defeat to define your story, you continued the work of making sure our voices were heard.

Your courage, your grace, your commitment to voting rights, and your power to organize helped lay the groundwork for a Georgia that looks different today.

And while we celebrate this historic victory and the wave of change sweeping across the country, we cannot forget the women who helped make moments like this possible.

Stacey, we see you. We thank you. And we give you your flowers.

Video: @thezactivist

[King Roy @RoyIsThaTruth]

WE GOT 6 BLACK GOVERNORS
MAKE SOME MF NOISE ‼️✊🏾💯🗝️

[Taleah Mc... Riley @MrsLatte215]

@Emily2153315 Ice cube tray

[Jenifer Lewis @JeniferLewis]

WE “HAFTA” SHOW UP!!! Everybody get two pieces of paper, post yourself doing this video and spread it around.

#midterms
#registertovote
#votingSTILLmatters

https://t.co/xcNMdyIDAj

[King Roy @RoyIsThaTruth]

Wait, Nolan Wells is no longer showing on this timeline!!!
Changing that right now!!

⚖JUSTICE FOR NOLAN

[Jenifer Lewis @JeniferLewis]

My sincere condolences to ALL the families around the world who have lost their children to so much hatred.

#NolanXavierWells
#StopKillingOurChildren
#VoteGov

[Nora @Heal_within96]

Nolan Wells' mother is half Asian and this Asian comrade is telling Asians to support Nolan because some White "friends" have done the same thing to an Asian lady.

[Bae @bae_baenicki]

Whitney Houston singing one of the hardest bridges of all time acapella 😭😭😭. EFFORTLESSLY!!!!!!!!

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

"Being Black is not a problem for a Black person. Being Black is a problem for the community that doesn't understand that you are a human being." Diahann Carroll

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

In 1946 WWII veteran Maceo Snipes was shot in his back by the KKK the day after he became the first Black person to cast a vote in Taylor County, Georgia.

After he was shot, Mr. Snipes walked three miles to the hospital with his mother. For six hours doctors left him waiting and bleeding. By the time he was seen, he needed a blood transfusion. The doctors said the hospital had no “black blood.” Snipes died two days later.

This is why I will vote in every election. The day I stop voting is the day I stop breathing. #DemsUnited #BlackHistoryWithLana

[Forever Trill🇳🇬 🇰🇪 🇧🇸 @mccauley318]

Today I learned the first black independent Label was founded in Houston and their first artist was Big Mama Thornton with the hit Elvis stole “You ain’t nothing but a hound dog”

[Old Helen Is Gone! @ItsMicahB]

Can we talk about the way Jill Scott flipped, “The Way” on her Tiny Desk. This arrangement made an already perfect song even more perfect. And those BGVs go crazy. Give this queen her 10s.

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

Flags at half mast speak loudly about who a nation chooses to honor.

When Charlie Kirk, a racist agitator who trafficked in division and grievance, died, Trump moved swiftly to lower the American flag, a symbolic gesture of national mourning.

But when Reverend Jesse Jackson, a global civil rights icon, freedom fighter, and lifelong advocate for justice, dignity, and unity passed away, there was no such urgency. No national gesture. No unifying call to honor a man whose life’s work helped expand democracy and human rights for millions.

Instead, the president took to social media to center himself rather than the legacy of a giant who marched with Dr. King, negotiated for the oppressed, and spent decades bringing people together across race, class, and nation.

Let that contrast sink in.

A figure known for stoking division is memorialized with the full weight of presidential symbolism, while a civil rights statesman whose mission was reconciliation, equality, and global justice is met with indifference.

That is not just an oversight.
That is a statement of values.

History will remember who was honored, how they were honored, and who was quietly minimized.

And it raises a sobering question:
What does it say about the soul of a nation when a divider is mourned with national symbols, but a unifier is not?

Talbert Swan

[Taleah Mc... Riley @MrsLatte215]

@asherkiinee 10

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

People without empathy vs people who make us continue to believe in humanity.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

This is Office David Rose, who was killed during a mass shooting at the CDC by an anti-vax extremist. Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who oversees the CDC, did not attend Rose’s funeral but found the time to speak at Charlie Kirk’s memorial.

RETWEET to honor Officer Rose! ❤️

[GEN @GEN80]

Y’all miss this era?

#BlackAmericanCulture

[kevin blue @kevinblue345]

Whites say blacks are violent There are 54 black countries in Africa and there are 16 Caribbean black countries Out of 195 countries in the world 70 are black countries, and not one black country has invaded another land to enslave people. Not one built weapon of mass destruction

[Taleah Mc... Riley @MrsLatte215]

@RatedRnB @IAMANITABAKER #1 Fairytales

[Taleah Mc... Riley @MrsLatte215]

@6abcadamjoseph @6abc HAPPY 18TH WORKIVERSARY!