23-year-old Daniel Cressy just became the first person in Louisiana to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease through gene therapy https://t.co/snRE0wOGaP
James Dorsey is 94 years old. Born on Ellerbe Plantation in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1931. He still does not have a birth certificate because the plantation never recorded his existence. The effects of slavery did not end with emancipation. They followed our people into the most basic records of identity. This is NOT ancient history.
Want to find out if someone is racist? Say that you hate racist. And if they assume you're saying you hate white people, they're racist because they assume all white people feel like them.
Was just telling my mom how nc/sc Gullah folk escaped to Florida , join the Seminole tribe then migrated to Mexico instead of reservations.
A bunch of folks that look like our cousins ..the diaspora is endless
A Group of Palestinian guys DRAW A CROWD in the matter of seconds during the New York Knicks celebration in NYC by doing a cultural dance called Pali Dabka 🇵🇸
Pali Dabka comes from Palestine culture, where they link arms & rest shoulders on one another. It’s often performed at celebrations like weddings, graduations, symbolizing unity, resilience & community
The crowd was BLOWN AWAY as they cheered them on 🗽🔥
I want to give you guys some facts about General Chappie James. He wasn’t a “DEI” hire—he was a complete badass that had to overcome MORE than any white pilot. Did 178 combat missions—that’s like 7 bomber tours on a B-17 in WWII.
His medal count? Impeccable. 3 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 14 Air Medals, Two Legions of Merit, and a Defense Distinguished Service Medal. One of the original Tuskegee Airmen, the first four-star African American General.
Hegseth couldn’t sniff the level of soldiering and warrior that was in Chappie’s DNA. God bless him. And Hegseth took down his picture from a hallway like a racist little child, which is what he is.
🚨BREAKING: ICE agents kidnapped a U.S. citizen, while he was grabbing coffee, in Maryland.
Samuel Guzmán repeatedly told agents he was born in the United States. He even offered to show his ID… and they didn’t believe him.
Instead, they took his phone, wallet, and keys, shoved him in their car, illegally transported him to another location, questioned him about where he was “really” from, for 2 hours, and refused to let him call anyone.
Then, once they realized he was a U.S. citizen… they let him go without explaining why he was detained.
The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures…. ICE agents don’t get to kidnap someone, from a coffee shop parking lot, without reasonable suspicion or probable cause.
The Fifth Amendment guarantees due process…. Holding someone against their will while refusing to tell them why, or denying them access to contact anyone, is a constitutional violation.
And the Equal Protection principles mean the government can’t target people simply because of their race, ethnicity, or the language they speak.
If you’re okay with constitutional rights disappearing the moment someone has the wrong last name, or skin color…
You were never defending law and order.
Today we honor James Byrd Jr., who was brutally murdered on this day 28 years ago. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act was signed into law by former President Barack Obama 17 years ago.
black people can get chased over 100 yards out of a store, shot in the back, and the killer goes free on self defense. black people can get chased down a hotel lobby, get killed while celebrating our birthday and get told it was a suicide.
im fucking tired.
🚨 DAMN.
Ruby Bridges said the moment she finally understood what was happening during school integration was when a little white boy told her:
“My mom said I can’t play with you because you’re a nigger.”
She was SIX.
And she said hearing that felt like “a huge weight lifted,” because suddenly everything made sense.
Why the classrooms were empty.
Why adults were screaming.
Why U.S. Marshals had to escort her to school.
Not because of anything she did.
Just because of the color of her skin.
A six-year-old child realizing an entire country was angry at her for existing.