Breaking: The road between the @WhiteHouse and the US Congress is being shut down by Palestinian 🇵🇸 Rights Activists ahead of the #StateOfTheUnion
Roxanne Lawson of @ggjalliance is addressing the crowd.
Briana Perry with @HealthyFreeTN just gave the most 🔥remarks about organizing around abortion as a divest/invest strategy. Yooo!! RJ leaders always making the connection around the criminal legal system and the must to abolish it so we can leave lives of dignity!
“I want to believe that this means Black women survivors will be heard, but I don’t want it to be dependent on a piece of media going viral,” @dreamhampton, executive producer of “Surviving R. Kelly,” says of his conviction.
Black voters put Biden over the top in Philly and Detroit. We don't just want brown faces in the cabinet, we want a Red, Black and Green New Deal, the Breathe Act's passage, Medicare for All and investment in communities in need, not quick on the trigger police. @rising_majority
“Cultural work is about confronting the corrosive individualism that infects every area of our lives”—
a vital conversation between brilliant minds: @ruha9@markgonzalesco@miabirdsong@SageSense Cecilia Aldarondo & Iyabo Kwayana #BlackStarFilmFestival 1/
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"It doesn't serve your highest self to be breaking up yourself into little pieces. The conversation I have with other men is about being in integrity - femme people deserve respect cause they deserve respect." - @richiereseda#BNC2020#BNCTaughtMe#BlackFeministsAtTheBNC
Unity, not uniformity - there are real distinctions between candidates we need to disagree and debate about. They are NOT distinctions that are going to keep us from fighting for Black liberation. - @MauriceWFP#BNC2020#BNCTaughtMe#BlackFeministsAtTheBNC
Yes to the voices of CURRENTLY incarcerated folks being amplified art #BNC2020. Our caged family at Parchman prison in Mississippi speaking on medical neglect - they have got ONE mask in the past 6 months, and risk abuse if they speak out.
#BNCTaughtMe#BlackFeministsAtTheBNC
"Everything that happens in the immigration system is even shittier for Black immigrants."
Black communities are over policed AND are detained at higher rates than non-Black immigrants. #BNC2020
There is no way to do this work under white supremacy without contradictions -- the question is "what contradictions do we want to hold?" -- @MauriceWFP#BNC2020
"Everyday working class Black folks are some of the most nuanced and sophisticated political thinkers. The double consciousness is what allows us to move through the contradictions of the 2 party system." - Maurice Mitchell from @WorkingFamilies#BNC2020#BlackFeministsAtTheBNC