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    1 Oct 2020

    Had Harriet Tubman compared the 70 slaves she freed to 4 million enslaved , she might have given up. Her hope and leadership were not based on the dire math of reality, but on a calculation of faith . Hope is not empirically demonstrated, it is morally chosen.

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    2 hours ago

    This photo video of Frederick Douglass is fascinating and a little frightening...

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    Frederick Douglass, the mighty abolitionist, was the single most photographed person in the United States during the nineteenth century. Here's how he might've looked in motion. Brace yourself and press play.
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    This photo video of Frederick Douglass is fascinating and a little frightening...

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    Frederick Douglass, the mighty abolitionist, was the single most photographed person in the United States during the nineteenth century. Here's how he might've looked in motion. Brace yourself and press play.
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    Feb 26

    Justifying the need for the 2nd Amendment with the threat of BLM “rioters” is not only insulting to Black people, it is incitement to violence on Black bodies. Dangerous rhetoric .

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  5. 11 hours ago

    BREAKING: Police kill Kurt Reinhold while jaywalking. If police are justified in killing people for jaywalking, Harvard Square would be a cemetery. Oops, the rule only applies when . Is this why police homicide is a leading cause of death for Black men?

    'Walking while Black?': Shocking video has police under fire for killing unarmed Black man
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    15 hours ago

    PICTURE PERFECT: This powerful pic from photographer, Keith Myers, beautifully captured the dejection & resolve of Buck O’Neil as he left the NLBM after learning he didn’t get enough votes for HOF induction OTD in ‘06!

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  7. 13 hours ago

    As CHILLING as two teens destroying memorial statues in Tulsa may be, it is even MORE FRIGHTENING to know there are MANY MORE youth who DON’T KNOW the stories, lives and history memorialized.

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    Feb 27

    4 August 1944, Anne Frank and the other people in hiding were arrested. After the Westerbork and Auschwitz camps, she ended up in Bergen-Belsen. The conditions in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were horrible. Anne died in February 1945, 76 years ago, she was 15 years old.

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    Feb 27

    Telling global athlete “stick to sports,” but ignore activism is like telling world renown orator Frederick Douglass stick to talking, but ignore . We must use the platforms we’re standing on—especially those built with our own blood, sweat & tears.

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    Feb 27

    The of some Christians would alarm Jesus. Were antiSemites to meet Jesus on the street—outside of red letter King James Bibles—they would pronounce Jesus a candidate for a and call him anything but a child of God. SMH via

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  11. Feb 27

    The of some Christians would alarm Jesus. Were antiSemites to meet Jesus on the street—outside of red letter King James Bibles—they would pronounce Jesus a candidate for a and call him anything but a child of God. SMH via

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  12. Feb 27

    Telling global athlete “stick to sports,” but ignore activism is like telling world renown orator Frederick Douglass stick to talking, but ignore . We must use the platforms we’re standing on—especially those built with our own blood, sweat & tears.

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  13. Feb 27

    Physically beating & verbally assaulting Asians because of means you need prosecution, not vaccination. & aren’t cures for , they’re symptoms of racism —including who viralized the vulgarity, “China flue.”

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    Feb 27

    Physically beating & verbally assaulting Asians because of means you need prosecution, not vaccination. & aren’t cures for , they’re symptoms of racism. —including who viralized the vulgarity, “China flue.”

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  15. Feb 27

    Physically beating & verbally assaulting Asians because of means you need prosecution, not vaccination. & aren’t cures for , they’re symptoms of racism. —including who viralized the vulgarity, “China flue.”

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    1 Oct 2020

    Had Harriet Tubman compared the 70 slaves she freed to 4 million enslaved , she might have given up. Her hope and leadership were not based on the dire math of reality, but on a calculation of faith . Hope is not empirically demonstrated, it is morally chosen.

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  17. Feb 26

    Justifying the need for the 2nd Amendment with the threat of BLM “rioters” is not only insulting to Black people, it is incitement to violence on Black bodies. Dangerous rhetoric .

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    Feb 26

    Nine years. It’s been 9 years since George Zimmerman, a wannabe cop, stalked and killed a Black teenager returning home from a run to the store. Trayvon Martin’s killing sparked a revolution. Let us never forget his humanity, the sacrifice that made movements possible.

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    Feb 25

    Democratic lawmakers to revive a proposal for a federal commission tasked with examining America's history of racism: "We have to help people understand and bring forth this body of evidence so we can move forward"

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    Feb 25

    In 2021, ‘s. hate colored, transphobic ONLY TWO GENDERS sign is as morally ugly as a COLORED ONLY sign from 1951. IMAGINE being trans or ANY morally sentient human being having to walk by her segregative sign in our Capital.

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  21. Feb 25

    In 2021, ‘s. hate colored, transphobic ONLY TWO GENDERS sign is as morally ugly as a COLORED ONLY sign from 1951. IMAGINE being trans or ANY morally sentient human being having to walk by her segregative sign in our Capital.

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