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✨ Ancestors Speak brings historical voices into today’s biggest conversations. We're exploring how past leaders, artists, and revolutionaries would respond to our world today. ✨ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBsJ_SLNL1ltDiqCKNRoyHw

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Ancestors Speak @ancestorsspeak.bsky.social · May 5

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." – Steve Biko

Steve Biko stands and speaks while smiling

Ancestors Speak @ancestorsspeak.bsky.social · Apr 25

"When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty." – Thomas Jefferson

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Ancestors Speak @ancestorsspeak.bsky.social · Apr 22

"Power concedes nothing without a demand." – Frederick Douglass

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Apr 14

BlackPast has a comprehensive list of Black history museums across the country:

African American Museums

Explore African American museums in the U.S. and discover rich history, culture, and contributions on BlackPast.org.

www.blackpast.org

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Ancestors Speak @ancestorsspeak.bsky.social · Apr 14

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." – Desmond Tutu

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · Apr 11

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson

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Ancestors Speak @ancestorsspeak.bsky.social · Apr 11

Why? Why would we listen to this?

Ancestors Speak @ancestorsspeak.bsky.social · Apr 11

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Ancestors Speak @ancestorsspeak.bsky.social · Apr 11

MAGA math: Education + Dissent = Violence

Ancestors Speak @ancestorsspeak.bsky.social · Apr 11

Excellent news. This is the only branch of government that seems to be (kind of) working.

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Ancestors Speak @ancestorsspeak.bsky.social · Apr 11

"Democracy is not a state. It is an act." – John Lewis

Ancestors Speak @ancestorsspeak.bsky.social · Apr 10

They keep out-crazying the crazy. It's unbelievable.

Ancestors Speak @ancestorsspeak.bsky.social · Apr 10

Who’s carrying the legacy of John Lewis in 2025?🤔
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Who Is the Modern-Day John Lewis? #goodtrouble

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Ancestors Speak @ancestorsspeak.bsky.social · Apr 9

Downfall and origin.

Ancestors Speak @ancestorsspeak.bsky.social · Apr 9

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." – Martin Luther King Jr.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Apr 8

Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · Apr 9

to all who celebrate...

description from Huntington library:

"A lithograph printed on heavy paper. Satirical "death certificate" issued for the Southern Confederacy. Mourning border, each line in different typeface, with: Died, Near the South-Side Rail Road, / on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, / The Southern Confederacy, / Aged Four Years, / Conceived in Sin, Born in iniquity, Nurtured by Tyranny, Died of / a Chronic Attack of Punch. / Abraham Lincoln, Attending Physician. / U.S. Grant, Undertaker. / Jeff Davis, Chief Mourner. Below in smaller print an epitaph that ends with: And this one line shall grace your grave-- / Your death gave freedom to the slave."

https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll6/id/5033

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Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · Mar 28

Literally every Black person who comes to DC visits the NMAAHC and it’s a big source of pride among a very broad swathe of people. Censoring the work there won’t be as frictionless as people imagine.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · Mar 27

I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Mar 22

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

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Ancestors Speak @ancestorsspeak.bsky.social · Mar 19

She'd probably say, "I told you so!" But what lessons would Octavia Butler share to help us...survive?
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What Would OCTAVIA BUTLER Say About Trump's America? | Ancestors Speak

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Ancestors Speak @ancestorsspeak.bsky.social · Mar 16

If you could commission one fictional character to fix the current US political problems, who would it be?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Mar 13

Keep this in mind: The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was carried out by executive order—from the President of the United States.
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · Mar 11

An excellent map of pre-colonial Africa in 1880
(just 5 years before the Berlin conference)

*zoom in for details!

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Mar 4

For journalists, writers, artists, historians, photographers and cultural workers -- it's going to be so, so important that we document and bear witness to this moment in history.

It's going to be hard, and many of us will have to move differently. But we must try.

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Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · Mar 2

Choose freely but know that, if you aren’t with us, then by definition, you are against us.

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