Three young Black lives. Three trips to a store. Three families left carrying a lifetime of grief.
Latasha Harlins was killed after being falsely accused of stealing a bottle of orange juice. Video evidence showed she had money in her hand and did not steal the item.
Cyrus Carmack-Belton, 14 years old, was shot in the back after being accused of shoplifting. His family lost a son. A community lost a child.
Trayvon Martin was returning from a store with an Arizona tea and a bag of Skittles when his life was taken.
Different cities. Different years. The same painful question.
How many Black children must die under suspicion before Black life is treated as innocent, human, and worthy of protection?
Oppression does not disappear because we ignore it. It does not retreat because we hope it will. Every generation must decide whether it will accept injustice or confront it.
We are a people who desire peace. But peace without justice is submission. Peace without accountability is silence. Peace without power is fragile.
The question is not whether history is repeating itself. The question are prepared to do to stop it?
Shout out to our FBA Brother Black Alpha for standing on Business on Reparations. That white liberal didn’t know what to say. He ran off real quick, lol ✊🏾
Before it was called Memorial Day, our people were already honoring the fallen.
In 1865, newly freed Foundational Black Americans in Charleston, South Carolina held the first Decoration Day.
This was done by exhuming Union soldiers from mass graves, giving them proper burials, and marching in reverence.
They didn't do this to gain credit. They did it to honor what our ancestors began.
Decoration Day is ours.
And we will never forget.
I put these two clips of Daddy together because I want to share him saying “I’m tired of marching,” then, after continuing the multifaceted work of nonviolence, saying “I’ve been to the mountaintop.”
The 2nd clip is from the speech he gave the night before he was assassinated.
#MLK #MLKDay #Mountaintop #MLKDay2026
A 68-year-old black woman, Deborah Terrell, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, was shot and dragged in the hallway by white cops. Family demanded officers be fired and prosecuted for failing to call in mental health professionals before shooting with a gun, pepper spray, and a Taser