Twin Cities Coalition for Justice
tcc4j.bsky.social
Twin Cities Coalition for Justice
@tcc4j.bsky.social
Fighting for police accountability and community control of the police. We stand with victims of police violence and all victims of oppression
Marsha P. Johnson was a black transwoman and a prominent figure in the Stonewall rebellion of 1969. Johnson was a member of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and co-founded the radical activist group Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), alongside close friend Sylvia Rivera.
February 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
February 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder, really, unless the victim is white. And it was only when the newspapers and magazines started carrying pictures and stories of white demonstrators being beaten and maimed by mobs and police that the public protested
February 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Whatever your personal opinions and your insecurities about homosexuality and the various liberation movements among homosexuals and women (and I speak of the homosexuals and women as oppressed groups), we should try to unite with them in a revolutionary fashion.
February 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"Racism and ethnic differences allow the power structure to exploit the masses of workers in this country, because that’s the key by which they maintain their control.” - Bobby Seale
February 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
In January 1969, the Free Breakfast for School Children Program was initiated at St. Augustine's Church in Oakland by the Black Panther Party. Pictured is Nancy Thompson a member of The Panthers who would cook and serve food to the poor inner city youth of the area.
February 19, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Harry Belafonte was a great artist who blossomed in an era that also spawned Paul Robeson, Lena Horne, Josephine Baker, and Sidney Poitier of the silver screen and stage.
February 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The history of TCC4J began in the ingenious mind of Mel Reeves. Following the murder of Jamar Clark by MPD, it was Mel who had the idea to form a coalition. He had the foresight to see the torch would need to be carried for Jamar Clark long after the occupation of the 4th Precinct.
February 19, 2025 at 2:11 AM
“We think [The George Floyd Rebellion] is deeper, we think it is the youth sounding the death knell of the racist police repression that stands like a blockade in the road to Black liberation.
February 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In 1955, June Bacon-Bercey was the 1st African-American woman to get a degree in meteorology; she was America’s 1st woman TV meteorologist & the first woman & African-American given the American Meteorological Society’s Seal of Approval for tv weathercasting. #BlackHistoryMonth
February 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The Green Book: In the mid-20th century, Victor Hugo Green published the Negro Motorist Green Book, a travel guide that helped Black travelers find safe accommodations, restaurants, and services during the era of segregation. #BlackHistoryMonth
February 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
"Our country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob."
February 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Syl Davis was a prominent organizer and activist in the Near North neighborhood of Minneapolis in the 1960s and 70s. In 1966, The Way, a non profit community center that centered Black Power and Black Liberation ideals, was founded, with Syl Davis as its first executive director.
February 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave, a leader of the anti-slavery movement in the North, editor of the abolitionist newspaper The North Star and, after the Civil War, a diplomat for the U.S. government.
February 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
James Baldwin and Steve Shapiro, in “The Fire Next Time,” Baldwin wrote a short letter to his 14 y.o. nephew on the 100 yr anniversary of the signing of the emancipation proclamation:
February 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Angela Davis and Toni Morrison (1931-2019).Toni released her novel ‘Beloved’ in 1987. Based on the true story of a Black enslaved woman, the book was a Bestseller for 25 weeks and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
February 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
February 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The Owls Club was a Black women's softball team formed in the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first women's Washington State Softball Championship in 1938, playing at Sick's Stadium (later the site of the Kingdome). #BlackHistoryMonth
February 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Join us on January 20th to honor MLK and protest Trump and Musk's agenda. We need to protect immigrant, Black, Brown, Indiginous, queer folk. We need to hold violent, racist cops accountabile.
January 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
December 11, 2024 at 1:30 AM