This Pennsylvania barbershop boosts kids' confidence by paying young customers $3 to read stories aloud during haircuts, deserving endless retweets.

On this day in 1951, Florida’s NAACP President Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette Moore, were killed on Christmas Day when their house was bombed by racist terrorists in Florida. The Moores were the first NAACP members to be murdered for their civil rights activism.

“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” John 1:5

Let’s tell the truth. - President Trump’s claim that the 1964 Civil Rights Act caused harm to white people is a false narrative that distorts history and obscures reality. My father, Fannie Lou Hamer, John Lewis, Amelia Boynton and many others did not work for racial and

Don’t listen to “I Have a Dream” today… Listen to this instead.

Dr. Gladys West, the Black mathematician whose brilliance made GPS possible, has passed at 95. Born on a Dinwiddie County farm during the Great Depression, she overcame segregation to become a scientist and map the world—literally. May we never forget her legacy or the path she

Whatever we think slavery was, it was far worse and more dehumanizing than we can possibly imagine

In 1921 Bessie Coleman received her pilot's license becoming the first black licensed pilot. Women & people of color had no training opportunities in the US so she learnt French and moved to Paris to earn her license. Denied. Defied. Soared. Before Amelia Earhart ever took

LET THE WORLD KNOW THAT SOME MEMORIES REFUSE TO BE BURIED. How can you tell his children to forget this?

THE GOLDEN THIRTEEN In 1944, the Navy gave 16 Black men 8 weeks to complete 16 weeks of training. All 16 passed with some of the highest scores recorded in Navy training. The Navy commissioned only 13. Three men who passed were denied commissions—no reason given. This is their

“The most disrespected person in America, is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America, is the Black woman. The most neglected person in America, is the Black woman.” —Malcolm X

Trump ordered troops to bomb Black people on Christmas. And ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter on New Years Eve. Last week, they threw tear gas into a car with 6 Black kids. Yet, people rarely acknowledge state sanctioned violence when the victims are Black

Philando Castile was executed in his car in front of his daughter and girlfriend outside of Minneapolis in 2016. He had a concealed carry permit and informed the officer. He was brutally murdered. This terror is not new.

Erin Jackson the first Black Woman to win Olympic Gold Medal in Speed Skating

I also see Assata Shakur, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Harriet Tubman, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois 🖤

RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson

“It gets dark sometimes But the morning comes Suffering breeds character Character breeds faith In the end, faith will not disappoint… We must never surrender! Keep hope alive.” RIP Jesse Jackson 🕊️