Gina Murrell

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest survivor of The Tulsa Race Massacre passed away. Let’s honor her memory by remembering her story

Local nonprofit's senior gardening program shut down - The Sacramento Observer

A successful Sacramento program helping Black seniors gain access to fresh, affordable produce through gardening and EBT matching is abruptly shut down due to federal funding cuts. To read the full story click the link in comments.

Black Residents in West Tennessee Just Won Fairer Districts. Now Comes SCOTUS. The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide.

Black sharecroppers in West Tennessee in 1959 were evicted by white landowners when they registered to vote, sparking the encampment known as Freedom Village. Decades later, the battle for fair political power and representation continues in the county.

Coming soon! January 2026

Dec. 2, 1859: John Brown Executed Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia for leading the infamous Harpers Ferry Raid.

"I believe that to have interfered as I have done — as I have always freely admitted I have done — in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right." -- abolitionist John Brown, executed #tdih 1859

Read about Brown + the other Harpers Ferry Raiders ⬇️
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On a more personal level, I'm an optimist. I'm hopeful. I believe that no matter how bad things get, we'll make it to the other side. Even if it's not clear how, knowing we'll survive this. Hope is crucial to survival.

My ability to explain complex ideas in simple language so that everyone can understand. I also do well as a mediator. And I'm good at ongoing communication.

Our country is better because of immigrants.

ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and do nothing to serve public safety.

My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.

Upstander Legal Observer basics How to respond Take pictures/video Step back if asked Name and phone of people detained Ask detainee who to call 612-441-2881 Do not Give legal advice beyond basic rights Livestream Post on social media w/o talking to immigrants rights group Escalate

Is anyone in Chicago still stocking whistle kits right now? I am trying to find a home for some we’ve got completed and to see if we should schedule another assembly event in December.

I’ve also got a journalist reaching out about photos of zine folding events and I took no pictures ever.

To our Minneapolis community: we’re seeing increased ICE activity across Minneapolis yesterday and today, driven by Trump’s attacks on our Somali friends and neighbors.

Denial of racism only perpetuates a racist system

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

The charges here mattered, because the arresting officers admitted that she was arrested for violating the segregation ordinance and not for some ostensibly race-neutral charge like "disturbing the peace"

Jamil Al-Amin was more than an organizer — he was a truth-teller.

From Howard’s NAG to SNCC Chairman, he exposed America’s violence against Black and Brown communities.

May his memory push us to keep fighting injustice in all its forms. 🕊️

Free DC and CapitalBop Team for a Music Zine - Washingtonian “It's an opportunity to show how radically jazz musicians think.”

The intriguing new zine Jazz as Resistance looks at how music and protest are entwined in DC.

Bonus tracks:

1. A Day in Ocean City
2. Marlow Heights
3. Len Bias (which could be a folk ballad)

#Maryland

More for Maryland:

1. Old Branch Avenue
2. Frederick Douglass
3. The Day They Shot George Wallace
4. Old Bay Seasoning
5. WTOP in the Morning
6. Sam's Car Wash

Sufjan, any of these would make for a great song! Just sayin'...

Happy Heavenly Birthday to actor Nelsan Ellis 🕊️🕊️

I'm sorry ... but this is INSANE

An advert for vaseline products, illustrated in warm tones.

Next up in #ExploreYourArchives week, we have just a few of the #beauty products available on the market at the end of the 19th century, found in the J.C. Sawer archive (MS/485/4). #EYABeauty

Cab Calloway’s “Hepster Dictionary,” a 1939 Glossary of the Lingo (the “Jive”) of the Harlem Renaissance The lists are in. By overwhelming consensus, the buzzword of 2014 was “vape.” Apparently, that’s the verb that enables you to smoke an e-cig. Left to its own devices, my computer will still autocorrec...

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It’s finally “white boy wearing shorts when it’s too cold out” season where I live

Echoes of the Earth Anthology Submissions We welcome Black writers to submit essays on climate justice and ecology for the Echoes of the Earth anthology. Make your submissions today!

I’m editing a collection 'Echoes of the Earth: Black Voices Reclaiming Ecology and Justice.' I’m looking for contribution from Black thinkers, scientists, writers and activists in climate and ecology from across the Black world. Please share with your network.

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Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

A woman says он, SHIT. IT'S DECEMBER 1st?

What happened?

Mad Men: “All seven seasons of AMC’s acclaimed period ad agency drama will be available on HBO Max in 4K starting December 1.”

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Megan Thee Stallion wins defamation civil suit against blogger The rapper accused Milagro Gramz of being a “mouthpiece,” “puppet” and “paid surrogate” for Tory Lanez, who shot Megan on July 15, 2020, in Los Angeles.

Megan Thee Stallion wins defamation civil suit against blogger

It seems ... dumb? Ill-advised? Unserious? To buy a doc series about a convicted abuser from ... another notoriously abusive misogynist who has been more successful at evading the law.

But maybe I'm nuts.