The Diva Weava (she/her)
@divaweava.bsky.social
I am historian and crazy crafter from the Alabama Black Belt.
It’s been concerning to me how so many non-Black people around me are going through life like nothing’s happening. I feel sick. I’m ended relationships over how people react who claim to be friend and/or ally. Nonnegotiable
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoKhanna: "This is a Dred Scott court. They have engaged in the fastest rollback of Black political rights since Rutherford Hayes ended Reconstruction in 1877. One-third of African American seats are threatened. We are not speaking up strongly enough against a court that's rolling back civil rights"
Why would Gov. MeeMaw need barricades around the state capital if she thinks that everything she does is on the up and up?
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, reports The Guardian. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
SCOTUS used faulty racial voter turnout data to shred Voting Rights Act in recent ruling
The ruling that upended the Voting Rights Act was based in part on a false data analysis about Black and white voter turnout.
democracydocket.com
Thousands in downtown Tucson AZ today walk out of work and school...
"The Gun Lobby's interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest pieces of fraud - I repeat the word fraud - on the American people by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.” Conservative Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger
I bought these at the Two Mississippi Museums gift shop. They have a set for Fannie Lou Hamer as well.
On this day in 1891, Ellen Martin went to the polls in Lombard, IL & demanded to vote. Martin noted that the town’s charter did not explicitly limit voting in town elections to men. The election judges reluctantly agreed with Martin, who reportedly became the 1st woman to vote in Illinois. #WeTheMen
A very good friend of mine posted this today
Fiber artist and storyteller Diane Williams did the portraits of the civil rights icons. The mural is on Jackson’s famed Farish Street where Mr. Medgar Evers had his first NAACP office just above the Big Apple Inn where they still sell pig ear sandwiches and hot links.
Darrell, James Van, and Reena Evers talking to a friend in front of their family home in Jackson, Mississippi. They all look like both Mr. Medgar and Miss Myrlie.
