On this day in 1965, former President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, outlawing racial discrimination in voting practices. This April, The Supreme Court gutted the act. But, Black women across the country continue to fight for voting rights.⬇️ 19thnews.org/2026/04/supr...
Supreme Court decision could undo decades of gains by Black women lawmakers
In a scathing dissent, Justice Elena Kagan said the court's conservative majority has completed its "demolition" of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Happy 65th Birthday to @barackobama.bsky.social! I am honored to work alongside you in this fight for our democracy and affordable health care!
In the photo, Miles Davis is staring directly at the camera with his arms akimbo as if to say "Aint't this some bulls**t?" alt-text: a young Miles Davis is wearing a dress shirt covered in blood, a tie, and a jacket while standing next to a white police officer and a Black man in a suit
Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine.bsky.social · last wk.1959, Miles Davis beaten, arrested by NYPD for walking a white girl to a cab and having a cigarette
Nashville’s Historic Sites Reckon With Their History of Slavery www.nashvillescene.com/news/coverst...
Nashville’s Historic Sites Reckon With Their History of Slavery
How historians at sites like The Hermitage, Belmont Mansion and Belle Meade fight the ‘good slave owner’ and ‘happy slave’ myth
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Happy Birthday, Chuck D 🥳🎂🎈 🗣What we need is awareness, we can't get careless.... #FightThePower
“Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean— so get yourself a little loving in between.” “Advice”, 1959, Poem by Langston Hughes
“Hope is an element of struggle, is it not?” he said. “As we used to say in the old days, ‘A luta continua’.”
Imprisoned writer Mumia Abu-Jamal seeks UN intervention after 44 years behind bars
The former Black Panther’s lawyers ask a UN panel to review his detention after US legal avenues were exhausted
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“The department's online tariff tracker hosted a detailed list of goods the two nations apparently traded, including ducks, donkeys and dairy cows.”
US government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner
Officials say it was an error to add the fictional nation from Black Panther to the list.
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“ With recent pushes from Washington, D.C., from some leaders to minimize Black history and limit Black voices, among other things, Brown feels like it is more important than ever to push progressive art.”
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 2w ago“Some of the art in my place would never go up in the galleries around here, and that’s art that I think people should see because art is always gonna tell us some type of story,” Patton House owner Garry Brown said. buff.ly/BbrDHQE
One of her most important legacies. The "woke" effort to to dismantle the Aunt Jemima stereotype did not begin in 2020. It goes back decades. Although people still think it's about pancakes www.artsy.net/article/arts...
How Betye Saar Transformed Aunt Jemima into a Symbol of Black Power
It would become Betye Saar’s most iconic work, and a symbol of black liberation that famous activist Angela Davis credited with launching the black women’s movement.
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four murders in two months
Marisa Demarco@papermarisa.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Shelby County DA released three brief videos from inside a Burger King where a federal agent assigned to the Memphis Safe Task Force fatally shot Darrin Pigram while he was working in May. via @tennesseelookout.com / @statesnewsroom.com tennesseelookout.com/2026/07/23/s...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2w ago#OtD 23 Jul 1967 one of the biggest rebellions in US history began in Detroit after a police raid on a bar in a poor, mostly Black area. Black and white residents fought back, looted goods and shot at officers. Afterwards, radical Black workers organised: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e61-...
“George Pullman…understood that he could pay low wages to people who had previously been forced to provide free labor. Pullman also purported that formerly enslaved men would make the best servants, as they were already expected to be obedient.“
Citizen.Coping@propcazhpm.bsky.social · 2w agoMany know how, under the leadership of A. Philip Randolph, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) fought for 12 years for recognition as a union, decades after white railroaders were unionized. Porters made up 44% of the Pullman workforce, yet were excluded. That fight was a blueprint. 🌱
On this day in 1919, a mob of white men moved through a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., gathering weapons and beating Black residents, starting a campaign of terror that would continue for days.
Jul. 19, 1919 | White Mob Terrorizes Black D.C. Residents During Red Summer
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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On this day in 1946, Maceo Snipes was lynched in Taylor County, Georgia, for voting in a recent election. His relatives later faced threats and fled the region in fear.
Jul. 18, 1946 | Black Veteran Maceo Snipes Fatally Shot After Voting in Georgia Primary
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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@duvernay.bsky.social is bringing the 14th Amendment to @netflix.com. 14th. a documentary on birthright citizenship and equal protection, arrives this fall and our Director @sifill.bsky.social is featured in the film. Who gets counted in America? We're about to find out deadline.com/2026/07/ava-...
Ava DuVernay & Netflix Reteam For Constitutional Documentary '14th'
A decade after Ava DuVernay's award-winning 13th debuted on Netflix, the filmmaker & streamer have reteamed for Constitutional documentary '14th'.
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Suzanne Jackson is an artist who has experimented with materials for decades. Now in her 80s, she's having her first major museum retrospective in an exhibition titled “What is Love.” https://to.pbs.org/4gHMvTN
Experimental artist Suzanne Jackson celebrates decades of work in new exhibition
Suzanne Jackson is an artist who has experimented with materials for decades. Now in her 80s, she's having her first major museum retrospective in an exhibition titled “What is Love.” Senior Arts Corr...
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#OtD 16 Jul 1862 feminist, writer, and anti-racist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells was born. Wells' investigative journalism documented lynchings in the American south, and she was one of the founders of the @NAACP stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8788...
Trump mobilized 12+ federal agencies and the National Guard for the stated purpose of reducing “tremendous levels of violent crime” in Memphis mind you, that directive came 6 days after Memphis PD announced crime in the city had dropped to a historic 25-year low ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Judges Paved the Way For the Killing of Tyrin Johnson In Memphis
The shooting death of Tyrin Johnson is the predictable consequence of the legal system letting Trump turn the American military against Americans.
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Dr. Edward Bouchet (born in New Haven, CT in 1852) was among the first Americans in U.S. history to earn a Ph.D. in physics. The son of a formerly enslaved father, Dr. Bouchet earned his doctorate from Yale in 1876.
“When a Black child disappears, police are more likely to record them as a runaway, which removes the urgency to search during the first 72 hours, when a missing person is most likely to be found alive. A white child in the same circumstances is more often logged as missing and endangered.” 💔
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Five facts that you should know about the current Cyclospora outbreak.