be real black for me

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

points were made.

know what would’ve helped…
not promoting the ceo to board president for his f*ck up…
not promoting a 23yr veteran coo to ceo, you were at the same table when the decision was made 🙄

they really think we’re stupid….

before y’all get too excited:

“[trump] added that noem, who he said ‘has served us well, will take over a new role called ‘envoy for the shield of the americas.’ the president described that position as one that will lead ‘our new security initiative in the western hemisphere.’”

Mar. 5, 1959 | 21 Black Boys Burned to Death While Locked into Neglected “Reform” School Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1959, 21 Black teenagers burned to death in a building fire at a segregated and neglected “reform” school in Arkansas after being left alone and locked inside their dorm.

Reform in reverse at the State’s Attorney’s Office - Chicago Reader Eileen O’Neill Burke promised to protect pretrial justice. One year in, her policies suggest a return to the politics of punishment.

From Rev. Otis Moss, vital facts about Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke's administration. We are at a time nationally when we simply cannot afford this regression.
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‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

To maintain the Montgomery bus boycott for 382 days, Montgomery's Black community organized an elaborate car pool system with 40 pickup stations giving 10,000-15,000 rides a day coordinated by volunteer dispatchers (Rosa Parks was one for a time). It required a tremendous amount of fundraising.

That's it. Nothing a woman could possibly do to cause me to be a deadbeat. ask my oldest about all the lies and deception. And ask her how she figured out it was lies and deception. "What she said just didn't match what i kept seeing as i got older." Show up. For their whole life. That's the job.

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

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BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%

Indiana lawmakers are once again trying to weaken child labor laws: Bill sponsored by business owner would enable employers to hide child labor violations Coordinated, industry-backed campaigns to weaken child labor protections continue to target state legislatures in 2026. Yesterday, the Indiana Senate passed a bill to completely eliminate requirements...

The Indiana House and Senate have both passed a bill to completely eliminate requirements for businesses to document the employment of child workers.

If this bill becomes law it would enable employers to hide child labor violations, according to @epi.org.

Presence without courage isn’t power. 

No more settling for access without real action. 

No more silence for the sake of comfort. 

We’re done acting like being in the room is the reward. 

We’re here to change it.

A strike on a girls' school in Iran has killed at least 175 people.

Investigative journalist Nilo Tabrizy details what is known so far about the massacre.

The approximate cause of death for Anne Frank was the Nazis. The specific cause of death was the outbreak of Typhus at Bergen-Belsen camp, which overtook her (and others) from chronic malnutrition and medical abuse. These conditions are not, in character, unlike our system of immigration camps today

Too Afraid to Leave Home: ICE’s Toll on Latino HIV Care Operation Metro Surge is leading some Latinos to delay or cancel HIV prevention or treatment appointments.

NEW: In Minneapolis, @cameronoakes.bsky.social and Sam Donndelinger report, ICE’s Operation Metro Surge is preventing Latino patients from accessing HIV care. This story was produced in collaboration with @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social, an investigative LGBTQ-focused nonprofit news publication.

Cleveland police say two young girls were found dead in suitcases The girls, believed to be 8 to 14 years old, were found buried in shallow graves, and neither has been identified.

“the bodies of two young Black girls were found stuffed inside suitcases and buried in shallow graves on the east side of cleveland, police said tuesday...no clear indicators of the cause of death of the two young females, don’t know how long the juveniles had been at this location.“

Israeli forces bomb hotel in Beirut, residential building in Lebanon's east Israel hits Comfort Hotel in greater Beirut without warning; more residents displaced across Lebanon.

Israel hits Comfort Hotel in greater Beirut without warning; more residents displaced across Lebanon.

Deeply evil and not at all the case when I began teaching in 1999. You wouldn't have much left over, but you could eat without having a side hustle.

Everyone my age and older needs to call out the ridiculously low wages being paid to PK-12 practitioners these days.

Mar. 4, 1921 | Georgia Mob Lynches Black Man; Later Claims Mistaken Identity Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1921, a white lynch mob hunting a Black man saw a different Black man walking down a road and killed him instead. The mob claimed mistaken identity and faced no punishment.

is he acting like this during the press tour for his “destiny's child: iconic reimagined tribute” tour?

🤣💀

this is my second question for god upon settling into heaven

Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

WARNING: Illinois Is About to Elect a MAGA-Aligned Senator But it's not too late -- here's what we need to do to prevent a catastrophic failure and instead elect someone whose record aligns with our values

IL is on the verge of electing a Senator far more aligned with Trump, MAGA power brokers & ICE infrastructure expansion than the values of a deep-blue state.

Here’s what Raja Krishnamoorthi hopes you don’t know about him & how we elect someone better.

BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has barred the U.S. from using Spanish military bases for attacks on Iran.

DHS admits it deported more than 80 DACA recipients “Dreamers” who came to the U.S. as children are protected under U.S. law, so deportations of them are unusual.

“The Department of Homeland Security admitted to Congress this month that it deported dozens of unauthorized immigrants who are protected under U.S. law because they were brought as children to the United States, according to a letter made public Thursday.” www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

US troops fired on protesters storming consulate in Karachi: Report The Reuters news agency is reporting that US Marines opened fire on Pakistani protesters during the storming of the Karachi consulate over the weekend. The agency cited two US officials and its report marks the first confirmation that Marines were involved in firing at the protestors. The officials told Reuters that it was unclear whether the rounds fired by Marines struck or killed anyone. They also did not know whether shots were also fired by others protecting the mission, including private security guards and local police. At least 10 people were killed during the protest, when demonstrators breached the compound’s outer wall.

OH MY G-D

The top 1% in America now hoard $55.8 trillion — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.