Miriam Kirk

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. - Maya Angelou

[Simone Biles @Simone_Biles]

Mr Biden,
I need you to stand up, straighten your back and make some things shake before your departure

xoxo the women in america 💙

[Miriam Kirk @Shantelkirk43]

Yall really just HATE women

[seamus casey crew 2 @spelunky_]

trump supporters are always like “i hope you don’t hate me because of who i voted for” but based on who you voted for, i’m pretty sure you hate me

[Miriam Kirk @Shantelkirk43]

I love that some professional athletes reside in one country and then during the Olympics return to their home country to represent

[Mel Smith @iamMelsmith]

Her decision to forsake "pop" commerciality in order to exclusively invest in creating and performing Black sound is probably the greatest risk + pay off we'll ever see in modern music.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

These are the Muse Brothers. Their biological names are George and Willie Muse. They were two albino brothers;

In 1899 they were kidnapped as boys in Truevine, Virginia by bounty hunters and were forced into the circus, labeled as “freak show” performers.

Their owners showcased the brothers in circuses where they were exploited for profit in so-called freak shows. The Muse Brothers became famous across the United States as “Eko and Iko”, the “White Ecuadorian Cannibals”, the “Sheep Headed Men”, the “Sheep Headed Cannibals”, the “Ministers from Dahomey” and “Ambassadors from Mars”.

George and Willie were forced to grow their hair into massive “dreadlocks“ which together with their white skin and bluish eyes were exhibited as rarities. They were also billed as “Darwin’s Missing Links” and “Nature’s Greatest Mistakes”.

The boys were not permitted to go to school, neither were they paid for their work. They were literally kept in slavery.

One of their owners had found that George and Willie harboured the ability to play any song on almost any instrument, from the xylophone to the saxophone and mandolin, and that made them even more famous and more valuable ‘assets’ to owners of travelling circuses. However, after all this time, their illiterate mother had not ceased looking for her boys.

In the fall of 1927, the brothers were on a tour with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to Roanoke, little did the boys know they were coming home from which they had disappeared nearly three decades back.

It came to their mother’s attention that the The Greatest Show On Earth was in town and she was determined to find them. It was a tough decision to confront the Ringling Brothers who were powerful multimillionaires who also had the attention of the heavyweight politicians and law enforcement agencies.

Their mother tracked them down and eventually found the boys working for the Ringling Brothers circus and surprised them while they were on stage and their family reunited, 28 years later since they had gone missing in the very same town. The poor and powerless black woman stood up to police and big shot circus owners and successfully took her sons home.

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

He put his bag down to go throw something in the trash and was accused of stealing his own bag when he returned to it. It wasn’t until a white woman stepped in that the police believed him.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1921, The Tulsa Race Massacre happened in the affluent black community of Greenwood in Tulsa (Black Wall Street)

White supremacists killed more than 300 African Americans and looted & burned to ground homes & businesses.

History of Tulsa before the riot

A THREAD

[jordan @JordanUhl]

This you?

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

NEW: Judge Joe Brown says he’s bringing a defamation suit against Sheryl Lee Ralph for stating in an interview that a TV judge sexually assaulted her. She never mentioned the name of the person who did it.

[M. Simone Boyd @MSimoneBoyd]

North Nashville will never
Never
Ever
EVAAAA be Germantown.

Put that on everything.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Again...

Left: White woman Riley June Williams stormed the Capitol & directed a mob toward Pelosi
•3 years prison

Right: Black woman named Crystal Mason filed a provisional ballot on the advice of a poll worker
•5 years prison

The system isn’t broken—it’s working as intended

[Barius Polk @_Bariusgq]

They all in Nashville buying up shit! Making the cost of living high as hell!

[Tennessean @Tennessean]

The proposal for a new NFL stadium in downtown Nashville will likely be decided within the next two weeks but concerns about whether Davidson County residents are getting a fair deal continue to linger. https://t.co/9Nib8sFZXd

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

At 16, Yvette Stevens joined the Black Panther Party. She was responsible selling the Black Panther newspaper & helping start the free breakfast program for children.

You might know her by another name: CHAKA KHAN!

Happy 70th Birthday to Grammy Award winning singer Chaka Khan!

[2000s @PopCulture2000s]

only the OGs remember the real cinderella

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Today we honour the memories of all the lives lost on this day in 1960, when white police in apartheid South Africa killed over 80 black people and wounded 186 on what is known as the Sharpville Massacre.

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[Mari Copeny @LittleMissFlint]

Hi, I'm Mari and I'm 15 years old and from Flint, MI. I have spent half of my life fighting for clean safe water.

It's #WorldWaterDay and I want to share a little bit of my story.

https://t.co/XkybJMYQNn

[SAY CHEESE! 👄🧀 @SaycheeseDGTL]

A Mississippi man was found with his body parts dismembered after telling his mother he was being chased by a group of white supremacists while yelling slurs.

Mississippi police said there was “no foul play,” even though his body was found dismembered.