Y'all have all heard of the Suez Canal, right? Maybe when the Evergreen ship Ever Given ran around and stopped all shipping you looked it up. If not I'll try a quickie explanation....
John Morton Finney was a Buffalo soldier who fought in World War 1, earned 11 degrees and practiced law until he was 106 years old.
He was believed to be the longest practicing attorney in the United States. #BlackHistoryMonth
—John Morton-Finney (June 25, 1889 - January 28, 1998) was an American civil rights activist, lawyer, and educator who earned 11 academic degrees, including 5 law degrees.
—He spent most of his career as an educator and lawyer after serving from 1911 to 1914 in the U.S. Army as a member of the 24th Infantry Regiment, better known as the Buffalo soldiers, and with the American Expeditionary Forces in
France during World War I.
—Morton-Finney taught languages at Fisk University in Tennessee and at Lincoln University in Missouri, before moving to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he taught in the Indianapolis Public Schools for forty-seven years.
—Morton-Finney was a member of the original faculty at Indianapolis's Crisps Attucks High School when it opened in 1927 and later became head of its foreign language department. He also taught at Shortridge High School and at other IPS schools.
—Morton-Finney was admitted as a member of the Bar of the Indiana Supreme Court in 1935, as a member of the Bar of the U.S. District Court in 1941, and was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1972.
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During the 1940s, it was rare for a black person to have control over an enormous amount of land. However, Reverend Isaac Simmons from Amite County, Mississippi, owned than 270 acres of debt-free land. His family is said to have owned the land since 1887, and worked the land producing crops and selling the wood. It was not long before rumors began to spread that there was oil in southwest Mississippi.
A group of six white men decided to show up on Simmons’ land and warn him to stop cutting lumber. Simmons consulted with a lawyer to work out the dispute and ensure his that the property would belong to his children in the event of his death.
The men shot Simmons three times, cut out his tongue, and told his son that the family had ten days to get off the land. Three days later, Reverend Simmons was buried and his family fled the area, so the killers took possession of the land. Later, an all-white jury acquitted the only one of the six men to face trial for murder.
Anyone else familiar with the story either by playing or watching Cyberpunk kinda baffled by how much of what happened in that world is going on? The writers of Cyberpunk and The Simpsons know something the rest of us don't lol.
My inner Karen is raging that two dudes are on sales calls in the phone free area of this lounge in the airport. I guess since it's their laptops they think it doesn't count.
@talleyberrybaby It is terrifying. I saw it when visiting my mom once and it got cold enough they were falling out of trees. Raining dinosaurs is not a weather pattern I'm into.
@unionicorn@hoodnymph Hi, I just got a PO Box. I needed an ID with an address for any person who would be allowed access to said mailbox. So definitely not a valid option.
BREAKING: Not only is abortion still fully legal in Colorado, but the right to an abortion was just voted into the state constitution. That’s not all — abortion care can now be covered by state health insurance, expanding access for Coloradans! Huge victory for repro freedom!🏔