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A Beautiful Revolution Pt. 2 out now! found.ee/Common_LinkInB…
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If your vote didn’t matter so much, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to keep you from voting.
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It’s almost like his talent wasn’t ever the issue here? 🙃
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Look at this deep bomb. Question answered. Kaepernick still has his arm. twitter.com/mrroscoes/stat
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If your vote didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to keep you from voting.
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Wishing a Happy Birthday to our Brother Trayvon Martin who would’ve turned 24 today. RIP.
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ARREST 👏🏽 THE 👏🏽 COPS 👏🏽 WHO 👏🏽 MURDERED 👏🏽 BREONNA 👏🏽 TAYLOR
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I talked about being molested because, as a Black man, many men have hidden that. Many people have hidden that. And you carry that weight with you. But at some point, you’ve got to let it go.
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Exclusive: Common on why he reveals his childhood trauma in new memoir share.ew.com/8E8ole3
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Puerto 👏🏿 Rico 👏🏿 Still 👏🏿 Doesn't 👏🏿 Have 👏🏿 Electricity 👏🏿 Or 👏🏿 Water!
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"If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made" Malcolm X
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Regina. Been. King.
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Regina King! 2015 - Emmy for American Crime 2016 - Emmy for American Crime 2018 - Emmy for Seven Seconds 2019 - Oscar for If Beale Street Could Talk 2020 - Emmy for Watchmen!! #Emmys
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"If you stick a knife in my back 9 in and pull it out 6 in, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They won’t even admit the knife is there" Malcolm X
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“She’s the best cup of tea I’ve ever had." Luther Younger, 99 years old, on his wife of 55 years who he walks 6 miles everyday to visit in the hospital. #LetLove
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#SayHerName: On this day three years ago, our beloved sister Sandra Bland died in police custody three days after she was stopped, arrested and jailed for a broken tail light.
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Black Is Beautiful Black Is Beautifu Black Is Beautif Black Is Beauti Black Is Beaut Black Is Beau Black Is Bea Black Is Be Black Is B Black Is Black Is P Black Is Po Black Is Pow Black Is Powe Black Is Power Black Is Powerf Black Is Powerfu Black Is Powerful
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"If you stick a knife in my back 9 in and pull it out 6 in, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They won’t even admit the knife is there" Malcolm X
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“Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.” Nina Simone.
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New York is making its own hand sanitizer using inmate labor to fight the coronavirus outbreak on.forbes.com/60171qXOU
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"If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made.. And they won’t even admit the knife is there" Malcolm X
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"If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made.. And they won't even admit the knife is there." Malcolm X.
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"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced" James Baldwin. On this day in 1987, James Baldwin passed away at the age of 63. While he may be gone, his work continues to influence and inspire millions of people including myself.
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Not only did John make movies for us and our culture, he made one of the most iconic videos ever! It showed the world what Egyptians really looked like! Again I say, THANK YOU! May God bless the soul of John Singleton.
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"If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power" Stokely Carmichael
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Immigrants are People. Immigrants are People. Immigrants are People. Immigrants are People. Immigrants are People. Immigrants are People. Immigrants are People. Immigrants are People. Immigrants are People. Immigrants are People. Immigrants are People. Immigrants are People.
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“If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power” Stokely Carmichael
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This was devastating to watch. I was not ready for this.
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Reminder: The consequences of family separation will far out-last this administration. Watch one family's reunion after months of separation. #FamiliesBelongTogether
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BLACK. LIVES. MATTER. BLACK. LIVES. MATTER. BLACK. LIVES. MATTER. BLACK. LIVES. MATTER. BLACK. LIVES. MATTER. BLACK. LIVES. MATTER. BLACK. LIVES. MATTER. BLACK. LIVES. MATTER. BLACK. LIVES. MATTER. BLACK. LIVES. MATTER. BLACK. LIVES. MATTER. BLACK. LIVES. MATTER.
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“If we were white — if we were Irish, Jews, Poles — Nat Turner would be a hero. If a white man stands up and says, ‘Give me liberty or give me death,’ the whole world applauds. If a black man says the exact same thing, he is treated as a criminal” James Baldwin
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Breonna Taylor’s name is no longer trending and the police that murdered her are still free. If you see this please reply/quote/tweet on your own. ARREST BRETT HANKISON, JONATHAN MATTINGLY & MYLES COSGROVE FOR THE MURDER OF #BREONNATAYLOR.
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Breonna Taylor’s name is no longer trending and the police that murdered her are still free. If you see this please reply/quote/tweet on your own. ARREST BRETT HANKISON, JONATHAN MATTINGLY & MYLES COSGROVE FOR THE MURDER OF #BREONNATAYLOR. twitter.com/DaveedDiggs/st…
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"Of course girl! Did you see that check that the lady handed me!?" Sloane Stephens. If you need a laugh, watch this clip + RT!
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“I gave a little blood on that bridge in Selma, 53 years ago. I almost died. I’m not asking any of you to give any blood. I’m just asking you to go and vote like you never voted before. We have to vote" John Lewis
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"If you stick a knife in my back 9 in and pull it out 6 in, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They won’t even admit the knife is there." Malcolm X. #BreonnaTaylor
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Reminder: if your vote truly didn’t matter, they would not be trying this hard to suppress your vote.
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Ari Berman
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Kentucky cutting number of polling places for Tuesday’s primary from 3700 to 200 There will be one polling place for 616,000 registered voters in Louisville’s Jefferson County, where half state’s black voters live This is going to be a disaster washingtonpost.com/politics/kentu
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"I think there’s nothing in the world more beautiful than falling in love. But falling in love for the right reason, falling in love for the right purpose" Eartha Kitt
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"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have" James Baldwin
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“She’s the best cup of tea I’ve ever had" Luther Younger, 99 years old, on his wife of 55 years who he walks 6 miles everyday to visit in the hospital.
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"The things that make us different, those are our superpowers." Lena Waithe. She made history as the 1st Black Woman to win a writing #Emmy
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On this day three years ago, Bree Newsome courageously scaled the flag pole outside the Columbia, South Carolina statehouse and took down the Confederate flag.
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On this day three years ago, our Brother Kalief Browder took his own life after being locked away at Rikers for three years without ever being convicted for a crime.
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Thousands of immigrant families are still separated. #Flint still doesn’t have clean water. Puerto Rico still doesn’t have full power. Tamir Rice still doesn’t have justice.
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Queen Recognizing Queen. This is truly beautiful. The Youth will change the World.
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“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant" Martin Luther King Jr. #MLKDay
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#SAYHERNAME: JUSTICE FOR BREONNA TAYLOR. JUSTICE FOR BREONNA TAYLOR. JUSTICE FOR BREONNA TAYLOR. JUSTICE FOR BREONNA TAYLOR. JUSTICE FOR BREONNA TAYLOR. JUSTICE FOR BREONNA TAYLOR. JUSTICE FOR BREONNA TAYLOR. JUSTICE FOR BREONNA TAYLOR. JUSTICE FOR BREONNA TAYLOR.
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"You don’t have to say anything to the haters. You don’t have to acknowledge them at all. You just wake up every morning and be the best you you can be. And that tends to shut them up" Michelle Obama
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