Susanne/AJ
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Grown. Black (Ethnic-ly, Culturally, 92%-ly) Woman. 🏳️🌈. Pragmatist. I don't live a single issue life. Not Churchy. I 🚫 stupid and/or fascist. Here for BW resting, and not doing it.
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
On this day in 1961, a white man brutally beat civil rights leader Bob Moses as he accompanied Black residents of Amite County, Mississippi, to the county courthouse to register to vote.
Aug. 29, 1961 | Bob Moses Brutally Beaten While Registering Black Voters in Mississippi
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On this day in 1955, two white men abducted and murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi.
Aug. 28, 1955 | Emmett Till Abducted and Murdered in Mississippi Delta
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She was a "computer" before computers. When Alan Shepard became the 1st American in space, it was her genius that got him there. She's the "hidden figure" awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015. At the age of 98, they made a movie about her. Katherine Johnson was born 108yrs ago today
On this day in 1960, hundreds of white people armed with baseball bats and ax handles attacked Black activists after they staged a peaceful sit-in at a "white-only" restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida.
Aug. 27, 1960 | Sit-In Demonstrators Attacked in Jacksonville, Florida
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🧵 You've heard this tune before: "A Black guy did it!" What happens when White people weaponize their whiteness—especially in criminal matters? Black people get harassed, or worse—until the truth comes out. You might want to bring a 🥃when you pull up your seat🪑. (cont)
On this day in 1874, a mob of 400 to 500 white men seized 16 Black men from the Gibson County Jail in Trenton, Tennessee, and lynched them.
Aug. 26, 1874 | White Mob in Tennessee Kidnaps and Lynches 16 Black Men
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Tim Curry, the versatile performer of screen and stage, who made his name as the flamboyant Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, has died aged 80. Read more: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
They drug that man for filth…especially the larger white “progressive” accounts but didn’t bother to highlight this TODAY. Hell yeah we see their fake ally asses. When the base tunes them out…don’t pretend it wasn’t because of bs like this🤷🏾♀️
Miss Aja@brat2381.bsky.social · 5d ago🧵 Lawd have mercy… If you’re going to talk about not trusting Leader Jeffries voting record I’m going to need you to actually KNOW what it is first😭🫠 He has 1 of the top Progressive voting records of anyone in the House. Y’all are just mad he won’t be bullied about Israel or spew antisemitic BS
Dolly Parton, country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80 www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
Dolly Parton, country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80
Songwriter of I Will Always Love You, Jolene and 9 to 5 also invested millions in child literacy, Covid-19 vaccine development and other causes
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Weeping. 😭 people.com/dolly-parton...
Dolly Parton, Country Music Legend, Dies at 80, Just 4 Days After Saying, ‘I Still Have so Many Things I Want to Achieve’
Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. The country music legend was known for songs including “Jolene,” “I Will Always Love You” and “9 to 5.” She also starred in movies like ‘Steel Magnolias’ and ‘T...
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RIP❤️ There’ll never be another Dolly. She was a real one. From Civil Rights to literacy to the empowerment of women…she always stood in the gap. The world lost an angel today. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Dolly Parton, country music icon, dies at 80
Her death came after in May 2026 she announced she was canceling a Las Vegas show and said she’d been undergoing treatment for kidney stones for several years.
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Trauma can distort how memories are stored and retrieved in the brain.
Why trauma changes how our memory engages with our conscious experience
Trauma can distort how memories are stored and retrieved in the brain
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⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 When Black people were not allowed to compete in professional racing leagues, they created their own. In the 1920s, William Rucker created the Colored Speedway Association in Indiana. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.aaaassoc.com/hall-of-fame
On this day in 1956, the home of Montgomery Pastor Robert Graetz was bombed. Pastor Graetz, a white man, had been an outspoken supporter of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Aug. 25, 1956 | Home of Another Bus Boycott Supporter Bombed
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All the big accounts shit talking Democrats are white people. All the big accounts shit talking Leader Jeffries are white people. Most are white men & a lot are never trumpers. That doesn't seem suspicious? Shady? Like something you shouldn't just accept at face value?
William Zabka Says 'Use This'
ALT: William Zabka Says 'Use This'
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Target took a stand. They took away 'DEI products,' to make way for racist products. They don't want Black folks' business. Let them keep losing billons every year. It's what they deserve 🤷🏽♀️
TheValuesVoter@thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 6d agoClearly, they did not learn much from the boycott. www.tmz.com/2026/08/24/t...
Yep! "I’ve heard more than enough from you." I'll also add, from those who jump in with "Don't criticize them...they're our 'allies' now," then dictate how Dems should move. 1/ www.alternet.org/famous-never...
Hypocritical Never-Trumpers have no right to lecture the rest of us
The brutal truth about the GOP elites trying to advise the Left
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On this day in 1989, a group of white teenagers killed a 16-year-old Black boy named Yusef Hawkins after he walked into a predominantly white neighborhood in Brooklyn to inquire about a used car.
Aug. 23, 1989 | White Mob Murders Black Teen in Brooklyn, New York
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This account rides with Hakeem Jeffries, the CBC and the NAACP..I want to make that known now. I don't give a fuck about AIPAC, CAIR or any other PAC. They aren't my priority. YOU people fucked up way back and Citizens United is the issue.
On this day in 1956, the governor of Virginia pledged to withhold funding from any local government that integrated its schools, saying, "If we accept admission of one Negro child into a white school, it's all over.”
Aug. 24, 1956 | Virginia Governor Vows to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate
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Allegations of sexual misconduct against AAU coaches are handled by a board whose names are not made public. Asked about written guidelines for when to ban coaches, a former board member said the group “just decided on our feelings.” with @washingtonpost.com
A Youth Sports Giant Promised Reforms to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse. Most Never Happened.
More than a decade after the Amateur Athletic Union promised to implement “historic child protection measures,” it still hasn’t done so, leaving hundreds of thousands of kids at risk. Some AAU athlete...
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Michael Wright, a talented actor known for his roles in “The Five Heartbeats” and “Sugar Hill,” has died at 70
Michael Wright, actor known for his roles in ‘The Five Heartbeats’ and ‘Sugar Hill,’ has died
Michael Wright, a talented actor known for his roles in the 1991 musical “The Five Heartbeats” and the 1994 crime drama “Sugar Hill,” has died.
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On this day in 1959, Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Jim Johnson told a statewide segregationist rally to “do what needs to be done” to fight the proposed integration of schools in the state.
Aug. 21, 1959 | Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Urges Resistance to Integration
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Make no mistake, America will be poorer, less competitive and more ignorant for relentlessly pursuing this white nattonalist ethnic cleansing campaign. But they cannot tell you this isn't who they are ever again.
On this day in 1619, traffickers brought the first enslaved Africans to a Virginia colony on the James River. They sold some enslaved people for food and sold others to white enslavers in Jamestown.
Aug. 20, 1619 | Traffickers Bring First Enslaved Africans to Jamestown, Virginia
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