With the grace of God I’ll be flying over the pond, as I will be accepting my 2nd Professional contract to go play football. I’ll be playing for one of the best teams in France🇫🇷 & all of Europe, the La Courneuve ⚡️Flash⚡️! I thank God for this opportunity & I Gotta go hard!💯🙏🏿
For those who are old enough to remember, Elvis Presley released “Hound Dog” in 1956, his biggest worldwide hit record. Few recall that Big Mama Thornton released the song first in 1953.
Terence Crawford reveals why he handed Canelo his belts back:
“Those are his titles… I got a ton of respect for Canelo.
I wanted to be the one to give him back his belts. I didn’t want my team to hand him back his belts.” 🤝
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Republicans will blame immigrants for everything, but stay silent on white supremacists, Jan 6th rioters, and school shootings. If y’all really cared as much as you claim you do, you’d call out all threats to our communities—not just the ones that fit your agenda.
On this day in 1838, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and found his calling as a leading voice in the abolitionist movement.
Douglass escaped slavery by boarding a train to Havre de Grace, Maryland. He was dressed in a sailor's uniform, provided to him by Anna Murray, (he married her 12 days later, she was a free black woman in Baltimore) she also gave him part of her savings to cover his travel costs, and carried identification papers which he had obtained from a free black seaman.
He crossed the Susquehanna River by ferry at Havre de Grace, then continued by train to Wilmington, Delaware. From there he went by steamboat to "Quaker City" (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and continued to the safe house of abolitionist David Ruggles in New York; the whole journey took less than 24 hours.
Frederick Douglass later wrote of his arrival in New York:
"I have often been asked, how I felt when first I found myself on free soil. And my readers may share the same curiosity. There is scarcely anything in my experience about which I could not give a more satisfactory answer. A new world had opened upon me. If life is more than breath, and the 'quick round of blood,' I lived more in one day than in a year of my slave life. It was a time of joyous excitement which words can but tamely describe. In a letter written to a friend soon after reaching New York, I said: 'I felt as one might feel upon escape from a den of hungry lions.' Anguish and grief, like darkness and rain, may be depicted; but gladness and joy, like the rainbow, defy the skill of pen or pencil."
Frederick Douglass first tried to escape from Freeland, who had hired him out from his owner Colonel Lloyd, but was unsuccessful. In 1836, he tried to escape from his new owner Covey, but failed again.
In 1837, Douglass met and fell in love with Anna Murray, her freedom strengthened his belief in the possibility of his own.
Once he had arrived, he sent for Murray to follow him to New York; she arrived with the necessary basics for them to set up home. They were married on September 15, 1838, by a black Presbyterian minister eleven days after his arrival in New York.
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Your kids tell you they are getting bully because you talk too much publicly and your first thought is to…..
Go on podcast and talk about it publicly.
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Sac Dawg Alumni Coach Bill Fisk led the Mounties for 18 years, going 126-64-2. His teams played in 9 bowl games, won the 1997 national title, and sent 459 players to college on scholarships!
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That Canadian who died in ICE custody last month was an epileptic who was denied his medication. These masked kidnappers are basically murderers, and this girl's life is in danger, untreated epilepsy can easily lead to death.
When Fannie Lou Hamer went to a hospital in 1961 to have a uterine tumor removed, she left without her reproductive organs. Dubbed a 'Mississippi appendectomy,' it was part of a statewide effort to reduce the Black population through forced sterilization. https://t.co/swXve0qfsM
A sundown or sunset town was a town, city, or neighborhood in the US that excluded non-whites after dark.
The term sundown came from the signs that were posted stating that people of color had to leave the town by sundown.
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