40 years ago... sheesh... Rest easy, Eddie Money & Ronnie Spector 🕊🕊 🗣Just like Ronnie sang…

1981 / 1986 News@40yearsago.bsky.social · 17h ago

[August 16th, 1986] Eddie Money releases his single "Take Me Home Tonight" www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aJv...

[August 16th, 1946] A massive benefit concert was held at Harlem's Lewisohn Stadium to raise funds for Sergeant Isaac Woodard Jr., a Black World War II veteran who had been brutally beaten and permanently blinded by a white South Carolina police chief six months earlier.

I'm sorry but I just think that Hakeem Jeffries knows how to do his job better than you do. The only complaints I've ever seen about him are complaints that are not legitimate for someone who doesn't have a majority. He's done the opposite of what he should have been able to do without one.

I really hope some of y'all are ok. I've seen too many messages about wanting to disappear today. And idk if I know which disappear y'all are referring too. You have value, you are seen, you are heard, you matter. Take a break if you need for sure but I'm here for y'all.

In the PNW? Kroger owns Fred Meyer and QFC.

Miss Aja@brat2381.bsky.social · 17h ago

🚨👀 #StayReadyCrew Here's another update to the update😭 The recall has been expanded to 38 million eggs. The original recall was for 19 million eggs. Stay safe y'all! www.rd.com/article/urge...

And as usual, always investigated as suicide

A question for every commentator on race at Cambridge or UK higher education How many of you university lecturers in the UK were Black? I'll start: zero

Republicans being sneaky, you say?! Well knock me over with a feather. 🙄

Voting in America has always been about race. All these other side issues are just symptoms of that pattern. These "brand new to the civil rights game" people have no idea how to build statewide/nationwide coalitions, and they barely win local elections in ruby blue places.

The media hates democrats and wants them to lose

“Some are trying to redefine the term ‘woke,’ and in doing so, openly disregarding the linguistic proprietorship of Black people.” www.levelman.com/black-people...

Black People Defined Woke. Others Want to Redefine It

Some overlook the original meaning, and superimpose their own.

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*sigh* Again, what white Americans call "rising fascism🤡" is just what happens to Black people every day, now happening to people that aren't Black. We deploy cops, in schools, with electroshock gloves, so that they can be closer to the innocent Black students that they target to abuse and arrest.

OPD says its school resource officers have shock gloves at 29 schools and they've been used twice on students

OPD says shock gloves have been delivered to school resource officers at 29 Omaha area schools and used twice on students.

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REMEMBER WHEN… A rich guy put some money into a startup electric car company… Then forced out the founders and passed the company off as his own creation.

In the U.S., affirmative action for white people has been in place literally since slavery.

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 5d ago

ok

I've memoryholed quite a bit of past pain (and I'm in perimenopause now so whew, the brain fog is real), but far too many Black folks have stories like these. Which means I've been accused of plagiarism or academic dishonesty 4 times. Only the fanfic one stands. 💔 It's a lot! And.. still we rise.

You know what? FOX 2 Detroit ended their high school essay contest in 1995 because of me. I was the last winner. A (white) teacher at another HS accused me and my (white) AP English teacher of cheating. Essay was "too long." Previous winners read their essays on TV. I only got to visit the studio.

Greenwood, Tulsa wasn’t an accident by any means, my friends. It was a planned Black economic district founded in the early 1900s by landowners, entrepreneurs, and migrants — many of whom had been enslaved or were the children of enslaved people. (cont) www.history.com/articles/bla...

9 Entrepreneurs Who Helped Build Tulsa's 'Black Wall Street' | HISTORY

Before the Tulsa Race Massacre, the city’s African American district thrived as a community of business leaders and v...

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⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 By now, the 1921 Tulsa race massacre is known to many. Today, we are not going to talk about that. Let us get into how Black Wall Street began and meet the movers & shakers behind it. Pull up a seat🪑my friends.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Happy birthday, Julie Newmar!

Trans-women are being used as a proxy to get BLACK women up out of competitive spaces so MAGA white women can feel good about themselves. However, the real agenda is to close down ALL women’s athletics so instead of getting trans/Black women out of sports, MAGA is rushing to end women’s sports NOW.

Peter Flax@pflax1.bsky.social · 2d ago

Someday as a culture we will look back on this era and have some clarity on why people who said they were deeply concerned about women's sports tried so hard to destroy the fastest growing professional women's sports league. www.wsj.com/sports/baske...

Time to make sure that everyone in the world you care about is paying attention because things are going to get really really bad very very soon

To be a prominent antiracist Black scholar is to know you are a target, almost totally surrounded by resentments. You know that at any point, the attacks can come like a lynch mob. My latest @TheEmancipator.org. theemancipator.org/2026/08/15/i...

The Media Lynched Jason Arday

The death yesterday of Jason Arday, a 41-year-old Black scholar who resigned from the University of Cambridge after waves of attacks over the last few weeks, hits close to home. His death left me so d...

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The way news is reporting on these Navy suicide attempts is really, REALLY irking the language nerd in me. These sailors apparently “went overboard” and were rescued. “Went overboard” is so passive—makes it sound like an accident. Add it to the list of ways our news media is complicit in fascism.

🚨🧵 Ok y'all...here's another thread of food recalls. Sigh...I get tired of posting these but I want folks to be informed and stay safe. local12.com/news/nation-...

High-alert recall issued for frozen fish products sold in 8 states, including Ohio

A high-alert recall was issued for multiple frozen fish products sold in eight states, including Ohio and Indiana.

local12.com

There's a portion of people who believe it's just God's will if you get sick and die. There's another portion of people who believe you only get sick & die because you're inferior and deserve to die: only the strong survive. You can't fix people with these mentalities with facts & figures:

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 2d ago

Growing up in India, I saw poor polio ridden, crippled kids because their parents didn't have access to vaccines. We are so privileged that we have forgotten how life was without vaccines. We have access to these vaccines whenever we want. 🧪 archive.today/p4RTd

Dawn Staley and the 1996 Olympic women's basketball team paved the way for the WNBA and players such as Candace Parker, Elena Delle Donne and Chamique Holdsclaw.

A trailblazing women’s class enters the Hall: 1996 US Olympic team, Parker, Delle Donne, Holdsclaw

Dawn Staley and the 1996 Olympic women’s basketball team paved the way for the WNBA and players such as Candace Parker, Elena Delle Donne and Chamique Holdsclaw.

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Genuinely shocking news. It's hard to see the closing of the oldest & most influential African Studies Center (at a historically white university) as anything other than an ominous sign of the times.

Lynda Lopez@lyndab08.bsky.social · 2d ago

“Northwestern plans to remove its flagship Program of African Studies’ status as a university research center, effectively closing the program at the end of the month, according to two sources familiar with the matter.”

NEVER FORGET: Most of the people who wear a mask & now work for ICE are the same people who refused to wear a mask during the height of Covid because they "claimed" they could NOT breathe

I love how the government’s like, “Stop eating ultra-processed foods! We have to make America healthy again!” And then they make it unsafe to eat anything other than cheetos and ramen.

Prince Harry was 100% right to go after the press. And he was right to get Meghan out of there. Jason Arday is yet another casualty of the press’s cruelty.