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[News 12 @wcti12]

Did you know New Bern was the site where North Carolina's first Black troops were recruited during the Civil War?
A living history event at Tryon Palace is helping preserve the story of the United States Colored Troops and their role in history.
READ: https://t.co/EBFfn8upCW

[Sheila @smurfmate]

@DrKanisha @ECSU Yeah!!! Finally!!!

[theGrio.com @theGrio]

Pastor Jamal Bryant paused certain offerings this month—calling on his church to give groceries instead of money to feed families hit by the shutdown and SNAP cuts.

Read more #OnTheGrio

https://t.co/isGuI3LC9r

[Black Americans @BLKAmericans_]

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority - Booker T. Washington

[Gary Chambers @GaryChambersJr]

Louisiana is the blueprint for the Republican Party — from Project 2025 to the Speaker of the House, the power is being built right here.

So why won’t Democrats invest here too? You spent $300 million in Wisconsin, but Louisiana and Mississippi are the Blackest states in America. If Black voters are already with you 80–90% of the time, why not build power where we’re a large part of the population? It worked in Georgia. Maryland shows what happens when over 30% of the population is Black — power shifts.

Either you don’t understand the math, or you don’t value the people who can actually win you elections. All that party talk is BS if the Louisiana strategy doesn’t change. Just two years ago, we had a two-term Democratic governor — because of Black voters.

You need 5 million votes to win in Texas, but only 700,000 to win in Louisiana. Texas hasn’t elected a Democrat statewide since 1994. Louisiana’s had a Democratic governor three times since 2003 and a Democratic U.S. Senator up until 2014 — and the party still hasn’t invested here. Every win we’ve had came off the muscle of organizers and organizations on the ground doing the work.

America is getting its ass kicked by a man from Benton, Louisiana, running the House — and the party is still asking what to do.

We should be asking when the Democratic Party plans to really show up in the Deep South.

Amazing convo on @richlessonspodcast — watch it now on YouTube.

[theGrio.com @theGrio]

Bakari Sellers fired back at Stephen A. Smith:

“I know you stand on the shoulders of strong Black men, and you are disappointing us every time you continue to chop down those people who are doing that real work.”

https://t.co/w5OH81T8QN

More about the online spat #OnTheGrio

[Gary Chambers @GaryChambersJr]

The history I’m sharing, if you don’t know it ask yourself why? It’s intentional that you don’t know it. The goal has always been to keep us unaware of all that we’ve done. So we wouldn’t have the audacity to do it again.

If Black people fresh off the plantation could take half of the Louisiana legislature, several statewide offices, including the first Black governor in 1868 in the Deep South what’s our excuse?

We have to get out of our own way. There is no perfect person or hero coming to save us. What will save us is using what we have and building with each other.

Beaumont Texas last night with the NAACP local chapter.

[Sheila @smurfmate]

@luthervandross Forever For Always, For Love

[Sheila @smurfmate]

@rolandsmartin Yes Sir!!! These are real facts! Can ya'll just stop the craziest and listen to this elder??

[Sheila @smurfmate]

Check out this video: https://t.co/XPXEVosGcE

[Sheila @smurfmate]

@RickeySmiley I love the idea, I just refuse to enhance the economy of Florida.

[Sheila @smurfmate]

@Lilblackbabies Kerry Washington

[Sheila @smurfmate]

She quit her job as a NYC lawyer to move to Ghana https://t.co/QZzj3dctFR via @CNNTravel

[Sheila @smurfmate]

@EHunterWrites I absolutely loved The Bone Scroll. I've read all the books of your vampire world. Just fascinating!

[North Carolina NAACP @ncnaacp]

North Carolina's incarceration rate is 639 out of 100,000. Moreover, meaning that North Carolina is putting people in jail at a higher rate of its citizens than its counterparts. This includes Prisons, jails, immigration detention, and juvenile facilities.

#ncnaacp #covi19

[Sheila @smurfmate]

@MichelleObama @Skating_Starr 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[Sheila @smurfmate]

@EHunterWrites The Force of Wind...

[Sheila @smurfmate]

@mercyk #1--Vivian kicking Jake's behind; #2--When Shawn picked Jake up in the van; #3--Shock of GM building cabin for Virginia

[Sheila @smurfmate]

Hurry with the next volume because I've been hooked on this from the start #Bomaw

[Sheila @smurfmate]

Just finished reading BOMAW VOL 13. Please fix Crystal, suffered enough #Bomaw