Cat Olson
@mathcat205.bsky.social
I'm an ALC math teacher with a passion for change (not just slope).
@soledadobrien.bsky.social "To be hopeful, you have to do hopeful things."
January 19, 2026 at 3:19 PM
@soledadobrien.bsky.social "To be hopeful, you have to do hopeful things."
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I was lucky enough to hear about her from my uncle when I was younger. She was also subject to defamation by the federal government after her murder. The type of person they pretend they’re doing this to protect! www.washingtoninformer.com/viola-liuzzo...
Remembering My Grandmother, Viola Liuzzo
The 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march and the 60th anniversary of the murder of Viola Liuzzo, a Civil Rights activist and grandmother of Christina Prado, remind us of the ongoing fight...
www.washingtoninformer.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:15 AM
I was lucky enough to hear about her from my uncle when I was younger. She was also subject to defamation by the federal government after her murder. The type of person they pretend they’re doing this to protect! www.washingtoninformer.com/viola-liuzzo...
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Is one of the implications that showing shoulder is a capital crime? I just keep thinking of the murder of Viola Liuzzo, including how J Edgar Hoover framed her as a drug user and adulterer to downplay the FBI agent in the car with the KKK member that shot her: www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/vi...
March 25, 1965: Viola Liuzzo Murdered by KKK After Selma to Montgomery March
Viola Liuzzo (April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965), Civil Rights activist, was murdered in 1965 by the KKK after the Selma to Montgomery March.
www.zinnedproject.org
January 9, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Is one of the implications that showing shoulder is a capital crime? I just keep thinking of the murder of Viola Liuzzo, including how J Edgar Hoover framed her as a drug user and adulterer to downplay the FBI agent in the car with the KKK member that shot her: www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/vi...
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#OTD in 2010, ex-Alabama state trooper James Bonard Fowler pled guilty to killing Jimmie Lee Jackson, a young activist shot during a 1965 voting rights march. Fowler served six months.
#TheMarchContinues #VotingRights
#TheMarchContinues #VotingRights
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
#OTD in 2010, ex-Alabama state trooper James Bonard Fowler pled guilty to killing Jimmie Lee Jackson, a young activist shot during a 1965 voting rights march. Fowler served six months.
#TheMarchContinues #VotingRights
#TheMarchContinues #VotingRights
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Fact — In 2024, 147 people were exonerated of criminal charges across the United States. Of that number, 87 were Black, accounting for nearly 60% of all wrongful conviction reversals that year……...
November 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Fact — In 2024, 147 people were exonerated of criminal charges across the United States. Of that number, 87 were Black, accounting for nearly 60% of all wrongful conviction reversals that year……...
@madonnatribe.com Madonna meets Halloween at my brother's bf's pad!!!
October 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
@madonnatribe.com Madonna meets Halloween at my brother's bf's pad!!!
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The National Memorial for Peace and Justice overlooks a hilltop in Montgomery. It is the nation's first comprehensive memorial dedicated to the legacy of Black Americans who were enslaved, terrorized by lynching, humiliated by racial segregation, and presumed guilty and dangerous.
September 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice overlooks a hilltop in Montgomery. It is the nation's first comprehensive memorial dedicated to the legacy of Black Americans who were enslaved, terrorized by lynching, humiliated by racial segregation, and presumed guilty and dangerous.
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Apprenticeships give workers life-changing earn-while-you-learn opportunities to build a career in the trades with union wages, benefits, retirement security and more.
Start your career in the trades:
aflcio.org/issues/bette...
Start your career in the trades:
aflcio.org/issues/bette...
September 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Apprenticeships give workers life-changing earn-while-you-learn opportunities to build a career in the trades with union wages, benefits, retirement security and more.
Start your career in the trades:
aflcio.org/issues/bette...
Start your career in the trades:
aflcio.org/issues/bette...
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On this day in 1963, local merchants in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, began enforcing an ordinance that denied service to all members of the U.S. military, regardless of their race, to protest integration.
Sep. 7, 1963 | Louisiana Parish Denies Service to All Military to Protest Integration
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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September 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
On this day in 1963, local merchants in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, began enforcing an ordinance that denied service to all members of the U.S. military, regardless of their race, to protest integration.
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The young readers edition of How the Word Is Passed comes out in just 4 weeks and for this book tour I’m focusing primarily on cities in the South, visiting states where people have attempted to ban or challenge the adult version of the book.
Hope to see you out there!
www.clintsmithiii.com/events
Hope to see you out there!
www.clintsmithiii.com/events
September 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The young readers edition of How the Word Is Passed comes out in just 4 weeks and for this book tour I’m focusing primarily on cities in the South, visiting states where people have attempted to ban or challenge the adult version of the book.
Hope to see you out there!
www.clintsmithiii.com/events
Hope to see you out there!
www.clintsmithiii.com/events
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The SPLC denounces the Trump administration’s abhorrent directive to reinstate the death penalty in Washington, D.C.
This announcement is another distraction from actions by the administration that are making all of us less safe and plunging us further toward authoritarian rule. bit.ly/4fUvbZ6
This announcement is another distraction from actions by the administration that are making all of us less safe and plunging us further toward authoritarian rule. bit.ly/4fUvbZ6
August 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The SPLC denounces the Trump administration’s abhorrent directive to reinstate the death penalty in Washington, D.C.
This announcement is another distraction from actions by the administration that are making all of us less safe and plunging us further toward authoritarian rule. bit.ly/4fUvbZ6
This announcement is another distraction from actions by the administration that are making all of us less safe and plunging us further toward authoritarian rule. bit.ly/4fUvbZ6
A reminder that this hate did not end in 1955, 1965, 1975... evidenced by attacks on the markers in Mississippi. This documentation is from Sept. 2, 2021 and I post it in my Minnesota classroom to show that there is still work to be done.
August 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A reminder that this hate did not end in 1955, 1965, 1975... evidenced by attacks on the markers in Mississippi. This documentation is from Sept. 2, 2021 and I post it in my Minnesota classroom to show that there is still work to be done.
Remembering Emmett Till today. Also reminded that the march continues. Thank you to all who do the work to make change.
August 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Remembering Emmett Till today. Also reminded that the march continues. Thank you to all who do the work to make change.
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“I had been pushed around all my life and felt at this moment that I couldn’t take it any more.” - Rosa Parks recalling that she didn't refuse to give up her seat on December 1, 1955 because she was tired. She did it because she was tired of giving in.
August 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
“I had been pushed around all my life and felt at this moment that I couldn’t take it any more.” - Rosa Parks recalling that she didn't refuse to give up her seat on December 1, 1955 because she was tired. She did it because she was tired of giving in.
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In 1921, white supremacists destroyed it, killing hundreds and burning 35 city blocks. The survivors never saw compensation.
But the spirit of Black Wall Street lives on. Today, we continue to fight for the resilience and success of Black entrepreneurs.
#BlackBusinessMonth #BlackWallStreet #Tulsa
But the spirit of Black Wall Street lives on. Today, we continue to fight for the resilience and success of Black entrepreneurs.
#BlackBusinessMonth #BlackWallStreet #Tulsa
August 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
In 1921, white supremacists destroyed it, killing hundreds and burning 35 city blocks. The survivors never saw compensation.
But the spirit of Black Wall Street lives on. Today, we continue to fight for the resilience and success of Black entrepreneurs.
#BlackBusinessMonth #BlackWallStreet #Tulsa
But the spirit of Black Wall Street lives on. Today, we continue to fight for the resilience and success of Black entrepreneurs.
#BlackBusinessMonth #BlackWallStreet #Tulsa
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I was COS to Rep. John Lewis for about a year and a half of my 20 years there and also worked at Wayne State University after my Hill career. Mr. Lewis always spoke of Mrs. Liuzzo in such reverence -- deservedly so. Proud of WSU honoring her legacy with the monument and tree.
August 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I was COS to Rep. John Lewis for about a year and a half of my 20 years there and also worked at Wayne State University after my Hill career. Mr. Lewis always spoke of Mrs. Liuzzo in such reverence -- deservedly so. Proud of WSU honoring her legacy with the monument and tree.
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One year to the day earlier, Reagan signaled his dedication to white supremacy when he launched campaign with a speech lauding “states’ rights” outside Philadelphia, Miss. — the site of the murder of three young men working for voting rights in 1964.
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/re...
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/re...
Aug. 3, 1980: Reagan Gives "State's Rights" Speech at Neshoba County Fair
Reagan appealed to the “George Wallace-inclined voters” and to white supremacy in his stump speech at the Neshoba County Fair, mere miles away from where three civil rights workers were murdered by th...
www.zinnedproject.org
August 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
One year to the day earlier, Reagan signaled his dedication to white supremacy when he launched campaign with a speech lauding “states’ rights” outside Philadelphia, Miss. — the site of the murder of three young men working for voting rights in 1964.
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/re...
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/re...
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Visitors engage with the jars of soil at the Legacy Museum, each one memorializing a Black victim who lost their life to racial terror violence.
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
July 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Visitors engage with the jars of soil at the Legacy Museum, each one memorializing a Black victim who lost their life to racial terror violence.
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
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Statement from the King Family on the Release of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination Files:
July 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Statement from the King Family on the Release of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination Files:
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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My friend John passed away five years ago today. His legacy of Good Trouble continues to inspire my own fight and advocacy against injustice.
Earlier this year, I wrote about John's Selma march and what it can teach us about our country today. I hope you'll give it a read.
Earlier this year, I wrote about John's Selma march and what it can teach us about our country today. I hope you'll give it a read.
Why Selma Matters Today | The Ripon Society
Through sustained action and engagement, things change in our country. They can change much faster than we expect.
riponsociety.org
July 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
My friend John passed away five years ago today. His legacy of Good Trouble continues to inspire my own fight and advocacy against injustice.
Earlier this year, I wrote about John's Selma march and what it can teach us about our country today. I hope you'll give it a read.
Earlier this year, I wrote about John's Selma march and what it can teach us about our country today. I hope you'll give it a read.
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Good news: John Hoffman, the Minnesota state senator who was shot in his home last month, is out of the hospital and is now recovering in a rehab facility. apnews.com/article/minn...
Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman, shot 9 times by a man posing as an officer, leaves the hospital
A Minnesota state senator who was shot nine times during an attack in June has been moved to a rehabilitation facility.
apnews.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Good news: John Hoffman, the Minnesota state senator who was shot in his home last month, is out of the hospital and is now recovering in a rehab facility. apnews.com/article/minn...