“The descendants of slaves who had worked those fields and so many others throughout Mississippi and the rest of the South, denied freedom, wages, and basic human rights, had become the owners of many of those farms.” -Caron Butler Tweet
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Jesse Owens On The Aftermath Of His Olympic Win
“Although I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.” -Jesse Owens Tweet
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“Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.” -Ossie Davis Tweet
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PLEASE PASS THIS ON! (EACH ONE TEACH ONE OR TWO!) THIS IS PHASE ONE ON HOW WE CAN HELP TO STRENGTHEN & EMPOWER OUR COMMUNITY: The 2008 not guilty verdict in the Sean Bell case evoked outrage, emotion, and debate. It is not an anomaly that the police officers involved in the Sean Bell slaying […]
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Charles Evers, older brother of Medgar Evers, was elected mayor of Fayette, Mississippi in 1969. This election made him the first African-American to be elected as a mayor in the south since the Reconstruction era. Born on September 11, 1922, Charles Evers is currently 93 years old. Tweet
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“Every nothing you say and do makes it just that much easier for the next incident of that nature.” -Gil Scott-Heron Tweet
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PLEASE PASS THIS ON! (EACH ONE TEACH ONE OR TWO!) THIS IS PHASE ONE ON HOW WE CAN HELP TO STRENGTHEN & EMPOWER OUR COMMUNITY: The 2008 not guilty verdict in the Sean Bell case evoked outrage, emotion, and debate. It is not an anomaly that the police officers involved in the Sean Bell slaying […]
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Harlem, NYC. Tweet
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“The first premise of the argument to deny black New Yorkers the vote asserted that African-Americans were by nature incapable of responsibly exercises this precious right of self-rule. ‘The minds of the blacks are not competent to vote,’ argued one [New York State Constitutional] Convention member. ‘They are too ignorant to know whether their vote […]
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