Dolores Huerta has spent a lifetime reminding us of something simple. Democracy only survives when people fight for it.
Organizer. Labor leader. Civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers.
She gave the movement its rallying cry: Sí se puede.
#SheShed #V4V #WomensHistoryMonth
Make no mistake: The thousands of new recruits to ICE, driven by a $100 million “wartime recruitment” push, were selected with violence in mind.
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
Even as Trump and his cronies sow chaos and fear, we can and must do everything in our power to protect our communities.
@cmalexaaviles.bsky.social's NYC Know Your Rights Act will equip New Yorkers with information they need to more effectively exercise their rights—let's get it passed.
Six years ago today, police killed Breonna Taylor during a no-knock raid at her home. She wasn’t even the target of the investigation. Now the Trump DOJ is doing away with the rules meant to prevent another tragedy like hers. My latest for @us.theguardian.com.
Rest in peace, Breonna Taylor 🕯️
(Ground mural of #BreonnaTaylor in Chambers Park in Annapolis, Maryland, © Julio Cortez, AP Photo)
TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing is an amazing #documentary (I’d love to own it on DVD). I watched it repeatedly during its virtual screening via DOC NYC. It’d be great to see it in person with other Black women, but TFBWL is not easy for me to get to. Wish there was a FBWL in Queens!
THURS, MARCH 19 @ 7PM: Screening of TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing (2025) at The Free Black Women’s Library, 226 Marcus Garvey Blvd, Bed-Stuy, #Brooklyn. Tickets: $10. Only a few left! www.eventbrite.com/e/tcb-the-to... #documentary #BlackHistory #BlackWomen #WomensHistoryMonth #NYC
Oh wow, I forgot about Ebony Jr.!
𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗧𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗼𝗿
June 5, 1994 -
March 13, 2020
ᴀʀᴛ ʙʏ ᴛᴇᴅᴅʏ ᴡʀɪɢʜᴛ ɪᴠ
Rest in Power Breonna.
You should be here 🖤🖤🖤
Rest in power Breonna Taylor. Today, we mourn six years without her, and six years without justice or accountability.
I hope when I'm old (if I'm lucky enough to grow old), I'll stay connected to the larger world and be in community with young people and all kinds of people so I can continue to be exposed to fresh perspectives and different ideas and political viewpoints. And that I'll continue to think critically.
Once Ebony and Jet's print run ended, typically older Black folks no longer subscribed, thus getting all their news (including on politicians) from mainstream outlets basically in service to those politicians. Add to that their worlds getting smaller due to retirement, mobility issues, illness, etc.
Though there are multiple reasons for this, I think about the discontinuation in print of Jet (in 2014) and Ebony (in 2019) magazines. Our grandparents and parents subscribed to these Black-owned publications, which covered political candidates and events' impact from a trusted Black perspective.
Right before Christmas, I had another emergency dental appointment where I unexpectedly underwent a tooth extraction and a bone graft, adding to my existing dental debt. I chose not to update my #GoFundMe goal. Still, every donation helps. 🦷 www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-er... #MutualAid #FundMeFriday
Good morning yall! We really made it to Friday!
On this day in 1956, 19 Senators and 82 Representatives from the 11 Southern states—almost 20% of Congress—released the Southern Manifesto, opposing the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Photographic souvenir of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Home in Anacostia, D.C. https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2012.46.4
𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: This is a welcome step toward protecting our state’s environment, economic interests, and local infrastructure, while upholding human dignity and the rule of law.
It’s been a wild morning outside of City Hall – we had two HSI vehicles illegally parked on Minneapolis police parking right next to City Hall. The tow was called and had started being put on the car when the HSI agents arrived in shame, and were booed out by the several people, staff, & CMs.
Cities in Vermont and Maine are experiencing some of the same tactics that ICE has been using across Minnesota since December, and facing lots of resistance.
Yes indeedy! Blueberries were part of my lunch, and I incorporated broccoli and avocado into my dinner tonight. 💪🏾🫐🥦🥑
#tdih 1972, Indiana
Gary Convention begins.
Delegates create a “A National Black Agenda.”
"A study of Gary will help [students] recognize vision of a new society that continued to emerge out of all the terrors of the old." -- Vincent Harding
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/na...
March 11, 1926: Ralph Abernathy, a civil rights pioneer who acted as Martin Luther King’s deputy at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and succeeded King after his assassination, is born in Linden, Ala. He and King were jailed together 17 times for acts of disobedience.
“We have found the President of the Association of Black People Who Say What We Want To Hear”
My theory is that Target realized how much they cannot rehab their image so they spent some money for this leader to speak out. But no still not going to Target
“Bryant was not the first to call for a Target boycott.
Nekima Levy Armstrong, founder of the Racial Justice Network, and other civil rights activists in Minnesota, launched a boycott last February over the retailer's DEI rollbacks…”
exactly.
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
So subset of boycott supporters took it upon themselves to declare the Target boycott over but the people who actually started the movement have spoken out today no one talked to them and the boycott lives. 🧵
