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March 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin
February 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
February 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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GREENE COUNTY: “A deep red county in Tennessee calls on Trump to reconsider his order to stop producing pennies. Greene County, home to Artazn LLC—the maker of all of the country’s unstamped pennies, warned there will be significant job losses…” www.thedailybeast.com/deep-red-cou...
February 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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“I think that it's important that we take pride in where we live whether we’re renting or buying, we should care what it looks like,” Georgetown Community Neighborhood Association President Norma Michael.

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February 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
Black History Month is not only a celebration of the rich history of Black life, politics, culture, and struggle. It is also a reminder to engage every day with that history as we ...
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February 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.
February 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Did you know?

In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine.

The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.
February 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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historyfacts.com/us-history/a... Trump may not want to celebrate but all of us should lift up Black History month.
The Story of the Harlem Renaissance, in 6 Facts
Throughout the 1920s, New York City’s Harlem neighborhood served as the vibrant headquarters of a transformative period in African American art, literature, music, and social justice leadership.
historyfacts.com
February 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Although most other racist sections of Mississippi’s 1890 constitution were erased by the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, one part of the plan continues to stalk Black voters today.

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January 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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You know what's scarier than the Pentagon having a secret drone program?

A blackout drunk in charge of the Pentagon having a drone program.
December 19, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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this aged well given the news and it’s only been two days.
The president-elect can’t pass a background check. Did anyone expect the people he was going to hire to be able to?
November 15, 2024 at 9:37 PM