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Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier @losangelista.bsky.social · 2d

This times 10,000.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot believe what we are subjected to, day after day.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6d

An organizer friend says, repeatedly, that if it weren’t for Black women leaders there’d be no organizing. The church, naacp, D9 teach them how to organize, from the ground up in many cases. That and Heritage about the other massive training infrastructures left.

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 6d

While this country has been out here slandering us, calling us DEI... I have to chuckle.

The average Black person raised during or before circa 1990-ish has more than likely led or organized *something.*

If we're outspoken, from home to school to church to the 'hood...

Y'all aren't hearing me.

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Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier @losangelista.bsky.social · 8d

They can’t be serious !!!

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Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier @losangelista.bsky.social · 16d

Does he WANT TYLENOL TO SUE THE U.S. GOVERNMENT???

Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier @losangelista.bsky.social · 17d

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Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier @losangelista.bsky.social · 28d

I'm just writing notes to myself and making a TikTok video about Good King Harry.

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Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier @losangelista.bsky.social · 28d

The narrative is that disagreeing with him and saying he was a white supremacist = "hate."

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Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier @losangelista.bsky.social · 28d

Exactly. And folks go straight to sainthood no matter what.

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Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier @losangelista.bsky.social · 28d

It's like when my brother died by suicide. It was horrible, and I wish it hadn't happened, but I could also be honest about how he was a highly problematic and often awful person who did irreparable harm to many.

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Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier @losangelista.bsky.social · 28d

Guy on MSNBC just said Charlie Kirk is NOT A POLITICAL FIGURE. What in the revisionist history simulation hell is this?

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Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier @losangelista.bsky.social · 28d

SO much revisionist history BS being spouted on cable news right now.

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HealthBegins @healthbegins.bsky.social · Aug 31

Acknowledging the existence of #racism does no good unless we're ready to make systemic changes to improve the situation.

Americans Say Racism Exists, but Shrug at Solutions wordinblack.com/2025/08/amer... by @losangelista.bsky.social via @wordinblacknews.bsky.social

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Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier @losangelista.bsky.social · Jul 29

“Follow the money. Oil companies. Coal barons. Gas conglomerates. They win by weakening science and strengthening silence. They win when no one is watching. They win when the people’s voices are buried beneath lobbying dollars and propaganda.”https://wordinblack.com/2025/07/the-endangerment-is-us/

The Endangerment Is Us

As the EPA guts the legal basis for addressing climate change, Dr. Mustafa Ali warns Black, Brown, and poor communities will pay the price.

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Word In Black @wordinblacknews.bsky.social · Jul 29

Join us on July 30 for a conversation with world-renowned experts Dr. Joy DeGruy & Dr. Bahia Cross about how we support Black youth growing up in a society shaped by anti-Black systems that too often fail to see their full humanity — and can do lasting harm. wordinblack.com/2025/07/word...

TUNE IN: Word In Black With Dr. Joy DeGruy and Dr. Bahia Cross

Join us on Wednesday, July 30, for a must-watch convo on healing Black youth from racial trauma with Dr. Joy DeGruy and Dr. Bahia Cross.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Jul 3

So it’s convict leasing.

Step and fetch @fetchstep.bsky.social · Jul 3

The camp is to filter out workers for Trumps new Slavery policy where he sells them to businesses.
He says so in this video
Make Americans Slaves Again

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Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier @losangelista.bsky.social · Jul 2

Folks still assuming there will be midterms while zooming past the collapse, pain, suffering, and death that can't be taken back between now and Nov. 26. Assuming a retrofit can happen to a building taken down by a 9.0 earthquake.

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Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier @losangelista.bsky.social · Jul 2

loving this so far!

Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · Jul 1

My conversation with @biopic-podcast.bsky.social about Spike’s MALCOLM X is up. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Episode 61: Malcolm X with Guest Star, Filmmaker Brandon Wilson

Podcast Episode · Biopic: A Podcast Story · 07/01/2025 · 2h 19m

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Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier @losangelista.bsky.social · Jul 2

I told someone yesterday that we really don't know what the U.S. will look like by Dec. 31.

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Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier @losangelista.bsky.social · Jun 27

It’s always the WORST possible faith and it’s like, really? Folks just attack and claim you said stuff you didn’t say. It’s exhausting.

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Flo McAfee @soukieg.bsky.social · Jun 19

“There is a myth we tell ourselves about #Juneteenth, as if #freedom arrived suddenly, like a thunderclap, on June 19, 1865, with General Granger reading General Order No. 3 to the enslaved people in Galveston, Texas.” @wordinblacknews.bsky.social @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social