Rest in peace, Patricia Routledge 🙏🏻
In memory of her, I encourage everyone to read these words of hers from February last year.
Whether young or old, you're bound to get something out of it.
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"I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often
Happy birthday to Black Thought, born on this day in 1973!
A Philadelphia rap luminary whose love for music, forged through early street cyphers and the Five Percent Nation’s wisdom, birthed lyrical mastery as The Roots’ co-founder with Questlove.
His dense, incisive flows on
The state of Israel invites Tommy Robinson on an official visit.
I hope that makes it clear that this is an international fascist project in full flow.
I'm both Palestinian and Iraqi.
The thought of the man who destroyed my mother's homeland, ruling my father's homeland, makes me sick to my core.
Tony Blair is a mass murderer, a war criminal and should be locked up for the rest of his life.
We should have learned our lesson with Obama. Black face imperialism is still imperialism. White supremacy works perfectly fine with a Black president like Harris but you'll feel better about your oppression.
Today would’ve been Fannie Lou Hamer’s birthday. In 1964, she asked a question that still echoes:
“Is this America… where our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings?”
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"I will never comprehend how humans can be so evil that you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades and decades of suffocation, oppression, apartheid, and occupation."
The British victory at Gaza, which brought with it the occupation of Palestine, and the thirty year-long British Mandate, would prove a huge opportunity for the Zionist movement... but usher in a catastrophe for the 90% of Palestinians who in 1917 were Christian or Muslim, and
The way to honor King: Don’t just quote #MLK. Work to eradicate racism, poverty, and militarism. That’s on the path to true peace, which, as my father said, “is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
Be a #ChampionForChange: king100.org