What are we even talking about here?? When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me. VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!

I’m really nervous about tomorrow, and beyond. Maybe you are too. But I can assure you that no matter what happens, there is still so much love in the world, even if it doesn’t look like it. Take care of yourselves, and go vote. #Election2024 💙

Something to ponder as you head out to vote today, for free. In the Library's Rosa Parks Papers collection, there's a receipt for the poll tax she had to pay to vote in Alabama in 1956. Poll taxes, a Jim Crow-era voter suppression tool, were not abolished federally until 1964.

#OTD in 1968, Shirley Chisholm made history as the 1st Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress. Serving as a Congresswoman from 1969 to 1983, she represented NY's 12th District with unwavering dedication and a commitment to representing the voices of those often overlooked.

Megan Thee Stallion does an autocomplete interview with WIRED.

✊🏾 O recado no Dia da #ConsciênciaNegra é titulação já! Por todo o Brasil, as comunidades quilombolas seguem resistindo e reivindicando a titulação de seus territórios, medida fundamental para a garantia de direitos, da regulação do clima e do futuro do planeta.

Just call BEYONCÉ the internet because she’s undefeated….oh like us South Carolina Women's Basketball last season 🤭🤭🤭….slight flex! Go head Bey!!

More than 3,100 Indigenous students died at boarding schools in the United States between 1828 and 1970 — three times the number of deaths reported earlier this year by the Department of Interior, according to a new investigation by Dana Hedgpeth and the The Washington Post team.

Happy New Year!!!! I hope everybody has an amazing year! There’s nothing you cnt do! We have the power to create the life we want & there’s NOTHING anyone can do to take that away from you!!!

Society peaked when you could hear this on the radio all the time in the car as a kid tbh

Today we made history. For the first time ever, soca music has graced the iconic NPR Music #TinyDesk stage. And I am filled with gratitude, and an overwhelming sense of pride, to represent our culture on this global platform. Watch here: youtu.be/Y1f0WK9lsb0?si…

Historic change: Trinidad and Tobago removes Columbus’ ships from its Coat of Arms A new law replacing the ships with #TrinidadandTobago national instrument, the Steelpan, on the coat of arms was unanimously passed by the country's Lower House voice-online.co.uk/news/world-new…

Frances Thompson Thread: Formerly enslaved Black trans woman and anti-rape activist 📚

“Here Today” (work in progress)

Le 16 fevrier 1985 disparaissait Paulette Nardal, intellectuelle et militante martiniquaise qui fut la 1ère étudiante noire de La Sorbonne, et une pionnière de la Négritude.

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Today is the 34th Anniversary of my film THE 5 HEARTBEATS. Thanks to my friend, co-writer @KeenenIvoryWayans Thanks to Cast and Crew.And the fans,who have supported this film. Please check out the documentary, “Making the Five Heartbeats”available on iTunes, Amazon and YouTube.

“Patwa is not “broken English”. While English was the lexifier (base language), Patwa finds much of its structure and vocabulary in the west and central African languages of the people who formed the majority Black population of the island.” #Jamaica theguardian.com/news/ng-intera…

Forever in Columbia.

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