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James Baldwin offers my heart this graceful conviction. His words make my face cringe like a child to the taste of medicine, yet the healing is swift once absorbed.
‘You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.’
James Baldwin, born #onthisday in 1924
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Let this sink in.
ALT It is not inclusion if you invite people into a space you are unwilling to change
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Slavery was divisive
Jim Crow was divisive
Unequal schools is divisive
2-tiered justice is divisive
Economic inequality is divisive
Redlining & Reaganomis & Wars on Drugs are divisive
Americas isn’t “becoming more divided”
It’s just getting harder for white people to ignore it
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Happy birthday to the “Mother of Afrofuturism,” Octavia E. Butler, who was born #OTD in 1947 in Pasadena, California! Learn more about her literary and cultural impact in our #NMAAHCFutures exhibition and companion book: s.si.edu/3qMUd6Y
ALT A color photograph of Octavia Butler standing outside by a tree. She wears a black and white floral button up blouse. She is touching the leaves on a branch of the tree with her proper right hand.
ALT A handwritten manuscript from Octavia Butler on a lined piece of notebook paper in blue ink. The date on the top left corner reads, "5-23-76."
ALT A cover of the first edition of Octavia E. Butler's "Kindred." The illustration and design by Laurence Schwinger features a mirror image of two women back to back fusing together with a hourglass in between their bodies. The top of the book reads, "Octavia E. Butler" followed by "Kindred" and "a novel" written underneath.
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She dreamt of living in a beautiful city, so she transformed her neglected Detroit block into a vibrant eco-village. cnn.it/3PmUnfA
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If a Black woman shot and killed a white mother of four in front of the white woman’s 9 year old child, who allegedly had been called racial slurs by the Black woman, would an arrest still not have been made?
Also: According to the latest statistics, in Stand Your Ground states, when a white person kills a Black person, they are 354 percent more likely to have their killings deemed justified.
Calls are growing for an arrest to be made in Florida after a Black mother of four was shot and killed by her White neighbor through the neighbor’s door — apparently over a long-running dispute involving the victim’s children. wapo.st/3OXFLDp
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Say her name. Her name is AJ Owens. A mother of 4 shot and killed by a white woman. A mom doing what a normal mom would do if you took her children's IPad. She went to confront her neighbor, who has not been arrested for murder.
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With gratitude, optimism is sustainable. If you find something to be grateful for, then you find something to look forward to - and you carry on. ~Michael J. Fox – at Marshall, MN
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.@angiecthomas—author of the frequently banned The Hate U Give—responds to a @CBSSunday segment on banned books that featured only white parents from the book banning group Moms for Liberty. #BannedBooks #BlackAuthors #BlackLives
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We need to be very clear about what’s happening.
The ubiquity of guns gives police an excuse to “believe” everyone is armed. It’s a premade defense for murder.
Simultaneously, it creates more shootings, more daily violence—the exact circumstances people use to expand policing.
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Ralph Yarl is home and recovering! How the bullet in his head did not cause more extensive damage is truly a miracle. To God be the glory!
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“We are each other's harvest, we are each other's business: we are each other's magnitude and bond.”
- Gwendolyn Brooks
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On Colbert last week I mentioned my 3rd grade teacher, Ms. Mueller, who after reading a poem I wrote, told me I could be a writer when I grew up. I never forgot those words. So what an utter delight when I looked up from the signing table in New Orleans and saw Ms. Mueller there!
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“This is the first in American history and we are losing our democracy to white supremacy. It is no coincidence that the youngest two Black legislators in the state of Tennessee are on trial today.”
-Rep.Justin Pearson, Tennessee 3 #TheTennesseeThree
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It’s only been 10 days since someone fired over 150 rounds with assault rifles and killed those babies in Nashville… and today TN legislators decided not to ban assault rifles but to ban their fellow legislators for protesting gun violence and advocating for change.
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Look, if this country does not care to protect Black people, fine. But let us make the choices that we can to keep ourselves safe. Don't then turn around and steal our very babies, which is something that harkens back to the days of chattel slavery.
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top NYC hospital, I feared for my life as a Black birthing mom. The stats worked against me. If I were younger and without a chronic med condition, you can be sure I'd have chosen home birth to deliver on MY terms.