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Entrepreneur and Writer still doing the corporate America thing.

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[Nora @Heal_within96]

The stereotype of absent black fathers was created by the government in the 1950s to destroy the Black families.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

“It’s time to wake the fuck up”

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Half of my fellow graduate students when I was getting my PhD were foreign nationals. Do you realize one third of all the Nobel Prizes in sciences won by Americans were won by immigrants to America? If you’re gonna trail the world in practically everything, including your economy, it’s time to wake the fuck up”

[𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥 @SankaraDispatch]

These men were the Senegalese Tirailleurs—African soldiers recruited from across France's West African colonies, including present-day Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, and Niger.

When Nazi Germany invaded France in 1940, they fought and died defending a country that was not their own.

Thousands served on the front lines, facing the same artillery, machine guns, and tanks as their white comrades.

Many were captured by the Nazis and endured years of imprisonment under brutal conditions.

But for many survivors, the greatest betrayal came not from Germany, but from the very nation they had fought to defend — France !

After the war, African veterans returned expecting the pay, pensions, and respect promised to them for their service.

Instead, they encountered discrimination, delayed wages, and unequal treatment.

On 1 December 1944, a group of demobilized Tirailleurs at the Thiaroye military camp near Dakar protested over unpaid salaries and benefits.

French colonial forces opened fire on them, killing 500+ veterans. Historians are convinced that the true death toll was likely much higher than this.

They fought for France against fascism, survived Nazi captivity, and came home only to be met with bullets from the French colonial state.

It did not end there. In 1945, 34 of the Senegalese veterans, who were thought to be the instigators of the protest, were tried and given sentences of upto ten years.

They were later pardoned as French President Vincent Auriol visited Senegal in March 1947, but they were not exonerated, and their widows were never awarded the veteran pensions usually granted to widows of fallen soldiers.

The Thiaroye massacre is not taught in schools in France, and a Senegalese film about the massacre released in 1988, Camp de Thiaroye, was both banned in France and censored in Senegal.

[Jennifer Get In Good Trouble @TheJenniWren]

Trump’s FBI showed up, without warrants, at the homes of Black and Brown voter registration canvassers in Ohio. They raided the Ohio Organizing Coalition’s offices.

Over 100 agents. No charges. No crime. This is federal voter intimidation, happening right now, ahead of a major election cycle in a purple state.

Wake up and fight back people because it’s coming to your state too.

[JAKE ♠️🇺🇸🩸 @jake_oncall]

No one has committed more murder and savagery throughout history than White people—and we’ll never let them rewrite it.

[Amunet @freakoutsideofx]

Awww the legendary Ms. Patti LaBelle 82, and Ms. Gladys Knight 82, who recently celebrated their birthdays were born 4 days apart. 🥳 Happy Birthday beautiful talented Queens

[Ayanna Pressley @AyannaPressley]

The living conditions in Dilley Detention Center are unconscionable. We must close this facility immediately.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Three Black men were exonerated after spending nearly 30 years in prison for the 1997 killing of a Philadelphia woman, despite no physical evidence tying them to the crime. Prosecutors said the case relied on unreliable eyewitness testimony and flawed forensic findings. This is why we keep demanding truth, accountability, and justice in a system that too often steals the futures of our people. Wrongful convictions destroy families, rob generations, and can never truly be repaid.

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

On this day in 1963, civil rights leader and organizer #MedgarEvers was assassinated by a white supremacist in the driveway of his home. We remember his legacy and honor his family, including his wife, #MyrlieEversWilliams, who was a dear friend of our founder, #CorettaScottKing.

#MartyrsOfTheMovement #MLK #MalcolmX #TheKingCenter

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

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.

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

Why cannot Black people pull themselves up by the boot strap?. we did and so many cases the US government use every trick in the book to put a stop to that. Including destroying black cities and towns in the name of building freeways, and highways.. white mob, burning down and bombing our homes. Banks, denying Black people loans.. Dr. King talks about it.

[Renee @PettyLupone]

Samara Joy and harpist Brandee Younger cover If It’s Magic by Stevie Wonder. 🥹

BONUS: That’s Alice Coltrane’s harp!!!

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

I wouldn’t be where I am today without the love and support that @MichelleObama has poured into me over the years. Her story — from her South Side roots to the White House and beyond — is a central part of the Obama Presidential Center.

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[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Jackie and Rachel Robinson with their son at home, 1949.

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