On this day in 1919, a Black teenager drifted across an invisible line in Lake Michigan. White beachgoers stoned him until he drowned. He was 17.
His name was Eugene Williams. The "line" was the unofficial boundary between the white and Black sections of a Chicago beach. A line drawn on WATER.
Police arrived. Black witnesses pointed out the man who had thrown the stones. The officer refused to arrest him and arrested a Black man from the crowd instead.
That refusal lit Chicago on fire. Thirteen days of white mobs raiding Black neighborhoods, and Black veterans fighting back: 38 dead, 537 injured, roughly 1,000 Black families burned out of their homes.
It began because a child couldn't see a border that existed only in white minds.
This is why we have documented 150 crimes against Black people that remain unanswered for https://t.co/V6OJtayKnF
These Black kids told these Latino neighbors to stay in their place because ICE was around looking for immigrants.
So the Black kids all armed themselves with buckets of water, water guns, all the water they could get & threw it all over the ICE “agents”, the agents got so soaked they left.
I love Black people, thank you for being protective of our community in the funniest way.
Supreme Court, 8-0 (with William Rehnquist recusing himself), ordered President Richard Nixon to surrender Watergate tapes, issuing its ruling tomorrow 1974:
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." This quote in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial comes from "Strength to Love" - a collection of Dr. King's sermons published in the summer of 1963. #WashingtonDC
Remember when Joy Reid ripped MAGA/Republicans to shreds asking why they’re so angry. They got everything they wanted from dismantling DEI, covering up the Epstein files, banning abortion rights, withdrawing financial aid for HBCU’s, threatening to withhold funding for Black museums, etc., yet they’re still so angry? Take a listen.
#DemsUnited
Tony Brown, the legendary journalist, educator, author, and longtime host of Tony Brown's Journal, has passed away at 93. He died June 17, 2026, at his home in Newport News, Virginia, from coronary heart disease. Thoughts 💭 ⁉️
FAMU students Hannah Kirby and Kennedy Richardson recently completed the prestigious USGA Pathways Discover Program, gaining hands-on experience at the U.S. Open Championship after being selected from 782 applicants. 🐍⛳
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