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“Resistance is necessary. You got to make a noise,” civil rights activist Dave Dennis Sr., told me three years ago when I interviewed him for Black History Month. The theme that year was RESISTANCE.
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#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #SocialJustice #Resistance #Change
For Freedom Rider David Dennis, resistance is necessary - Verite News New Orleans
David Dennis knows a little something about resistance. He was one of the original Freedom Riders in the early 1960s
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February 2, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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This photo is of a Martin Luther Jr. Memorial in New Orleans. I pass by it nearly everyday. On this day, an unhoused man is laying on the concrete foundation — sleeping, resting, maybe tired from struggle.
#MLKDay #MartinLutherKingJr. #CivilRights #SocialJustice #History #BlackHistory #freedom
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in New Orleans
January 19, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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“History had me glued to the seat,” Claudette Colvin.
Our #civilrights footsoldiers who fought on the front lines in the struggle for #equality and #justice have entered their last years, passing the torch to a new generation in the continued fight for #freedom.
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Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86
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January 14, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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Thanks @adamhsays.com
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I’ve been trying to find video from the event, but I’ve been scrolling through some of the live tweets from it and this one from @lottiejoiner.bsky.social stuck out:
January 1, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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Mississippi civil rights activist Medgar Evers died fighting for the right to vote. But a conservative Supreme Court is on the verge of upending one of the remaining pillars of the Voting Rights Act.
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#History #Politics #VotingRights #SupremeCourt #MedgarEvers
A Century After Medgar Evers' Birth, the Voting Rights Act Faces a Final Reckoning
The civil rights icon died fighting for the right to vote. But the Supreme Court is on the verge of upending one of the VRA's remaining pillars.
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January 1, 2026 at 11:51 AM
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Wow. This is so important. She talks about the quiet dismantling of the Department of Education and the impact.
#Education
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cjnlegalnurse11/18/25 This isn’t a restructure. It’s a reallocation strategy that weakens a major civil-rights-driven federal agency. Watch the hands, not the headlines. #EducationCrisis #DepartmentOfEducation #FederalPolicy #CivilRightsInSchools #StopTheDismantlingView all 2,824 comments
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November 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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#TulsaRaceRiot #BlackWallStreet #History ##BlackHistory
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Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
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November 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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"We were going to schools with old, torn-down buildings, dilapidated buildings. In the classrooms, we had books with no pages, pages torn and missing,” Gail Etienne said of her parents' decision for her to desegregate a New Orleans elementary school in 1960.

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‘I was just going to school’: legacy of New Orleans’ other desegregation pioneers
Leona Tate has built a center at the former school she and her two six-year-old friends braved angry crowds to attend – the same day as Ruby Bridges’ better-known experience
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November 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Sixty years after federal marshals escorted her into McDonogh 19 elementary school in New Orleans, Leona Tate bought the building that she helped desegregate on November 14, 1960.
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#education #history #BlackHistory #politics #NewOrleans #CivilRights
‘I was just going to school’: legacy of New Orleans’ other desegregation pioneers
Leona Tate has built a center at the former school she and her two six-year-old friends braved angry crowds to attend – the same day as Ruby Bridges’ better-known experience
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November 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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“I’m wondering, at six years old, what could I have done to these people to make them act the way they were acting? What had I done? I was just going to school.” - Gail Etienne
Check out my latest piece for @us.theguardian.com:
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#education #history #politics
‘I was just going to school’: legacy of New Orleans’ other desegregation pioneers
Leona Tate has built a center at the former school she and her two six-year-old friends braved angry crowds to attend – the same day as Ruby Bridges’ better-known experience
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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On November 14, 1960, Gail Etienne, Tessie Prevost and Leona Tate were escorted by federal marshals into McDonogh 19 elementary school in #NewOrleans.
Check out my latest piece for @us.theguardian.com
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#education #history #civilrights #socialjustice #politics
‘I was just going to school’: legacy of New Orleans’ other desegregation pioneers
Leona Tate has built a center at the former school she and her two six-year-old friends braved angry crowds to attend – the same day as Ruby Bridges’ better-known experience
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
lottiejoiner.bsky.social
On November 14, 1960, Gail Etienne, Tessie Prevost and Leona Tate were escorted by federal marshals into McDonogh 19 elementary school in New Orleans.
Check out my latest piece for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#education #history #civilrights #socialjustice #NewOrleans
‘I was just going to school’: legacy of New Orleans’ other desegregation pioneers
Leona Tate has built a center at the former school she and her two six-year-old friends braved angry crowds to attend – the same day as Ruby Bridges’ better-known experience
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Important American history, especially the history of minority communities and the social justice warriors who fought for a more equal and just world, is being eliminated/wiped from classrooms and curriculums, libraries and museums.
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#History #Politics #Justice
How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught
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October 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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"Dance allowed me to flourish. It gave me structure. It gave me discipline. It gave me grace. It gave me a purpose. Once I stepped into the studio, I couldn't imagine my life without it," Misty Copeland
#MistyCopeland #Dance #Ballet #Art #History @mistyonpointe
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Misty Copeland takes her final bow and reflects on her groundbreaking journey
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October 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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The article notes if the Supreme Court strikes down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Republicans could eliminate upward of a dozen Democratic-held districts across the South. Section 2 of the VRS requires the creation of majority-minority districts.
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#Politics
The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans
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October 16, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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On this World Mental Health Day, I'm sharing this important piece about the positive impact of music on mental health.
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#WorldMentalHealthDay #MentalHealth #Music #Healing #HipHop #Health #Trauma #Culture #Art #Therapy
OP-ED: World Mental Health Day: Hip hop culture can be a catharsis in a world of chaos
From DJ Kool Herc dropping the needle on a record at a party in the Bronx more than fifty years ago and then experimenting with mixing beats and scratching records, worldwide legions of rappers, dance...
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October 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donates $70m to HBCUs
The gift, one of Scott’s largest single donations, will help UNCF build a $370m pooled endowment for its 37 HBCUs
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September 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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On this Labor Day, an important piece that looks at how cuts in the federal government have impacted Black women.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
#BlackWomen #LaborDay #Economics #Politics #DEI
In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit
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September 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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On August 29, 2005, #HurricaneKatrina made landfall on the United States Gulf Coast, more than 1,800 died, millions were displaced, and there were billions in damages. The Katrina Memorial site holds the remains of unclaimed and unidentified victims of the storm from the New Orleans area.
#Katrina20
August 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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In June, I wrote a piece for @us.theguardian.com and supported by the @economichardship.bsky.social about how African Americans were boycotting big retail stores because of the companies’ rollback of their #DEI initiatives. Earlier this week, I woke up to this headline.
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Target’s CEO is stepping down as customers turn away | CNN Business
Target CEO Brian Cornell is stepping down after 11 years at the retailer, as the company faces slumping sales and backlash to its retreat on DEI.
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August 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Honor for Robert Smalls, the escaped slave who became a lawmaker
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Escaped slave who became lawmaker will be first individual African American honored with statue at South Carolina State House
Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and South Carolina lawmaker.
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August 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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“We are standing in righteous indignation against racism and sexism in this nation,” said Rev. Jamal Bryant who called for a 40-Day Fast against Target earlier this year. Some boycott participants now shop at small, local, minority and women-owned businesses.

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Why many Black Americans are boycotting big-box retail stores: ‘using my money to resist’
People are shutting their wallets to firms such as Target and Amazon, which followed in Trump’s footsteps to undo DEI
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July 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Beautiful piece by writer Santi Elijah Holley, who writes about the power of #gospelmusic, noting, "I felt the music in my soul before I had even acknowledged the existence of a soul." 
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/m...
#music #healing #art #culture
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I Don’t Know if I Believe in God, but I Believe in Gospel Music
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July 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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@klee4766.bsky.social - Thank you for sharing my piece.
#Retail #Boycott #DEI
July 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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ain’t going back. great reporting by @lottiejoiner.bsky.social
Why many Black Americans are boycotting big-box retail stores: ‘using my money to resist’
People are shutting their wallets to firms such as Target and Amazon, which followed in Trump’s footsteps to undo DEI
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM