If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions.

King understood racial equality was inextricably linked to economics. He asked, ​“What good does it do to be able to eat at a lunch counter if you can’t buy a hamburger?”

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''The First Amendment protects speech and peaceful assembly–not rioting,"

People are assembling peacefully

Then ICE shows up with teargas,smashing car windows and shooting unarmed women in the face

www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...

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There’s a lot not to like about this administration, but I really appreciate its bursts of incompetence

This column is titled “Out With Woke. In With Rage. There’s no reason for Carville to say anything about “woke” except as a signal to other white centrists that it’s ok to move left, but still leave Black people behind just like the New Deal did after the Great Depression.

Mr.Mutong aka my teaching assistant 😊

I want to start a Crip & Disability Scholars starter pack.
Let me know who you think needs to be included or if you want to be in it!

“I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too."

― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio (1919)

Okay. If I did this correctly, this link will take you some of Black BookTok’s BEST and BRIGHTEST! I’ll continue to add more as I find them and/or as they join. 💛 #BlackBooksSky

go.bsky.app/A6micpn

“We’ve been duped for over 2 decades into believing that what we get online is unfettered truth or unfettered access to information when in fact what we’ve been getting is what power always wants, which is to reproduce itself and to increase its hold over the people.” 👏🏼 @maryannefranks.bsky.social

The most fearless women of America (in no particular order) are:
Letitia James
Katie Porter
VP Harris
Fani Willis
AOC
Sarah Longwell
Michelle Obama
Jasmine Crockett
Nancy Pelosi
Liz Cheney
Judge Chutkan
Caitlin Clark
E. Jean Carroll
Hilary Clinton
Ketanji Brown-Jackson

I had to really fix it!😂😂😂😂

Happy Saturday, bitches.

The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.