Assatta Mann

First they came for the em dash and I did not speak out. Then they came for the Oxford comma…

Egyptian programmer Badr El-Khamisy launched a digital initiative to honor every Palestinian who has been killed in Gaza So far, over 60,000 names have been documented, each represented as a point of light on the screen. Clicking a point reveals their name, age, and birthday.

Slavery in America involved human trafficking, family separation, and sexual exploitation. That's not something to “get over.” It's something to reckon with

The transatlantic slave trade is the gravest crime against humanity, even if America won't acknowledge it.

Black ppl: the cops arent there to protect us Police unions: cops arent there to protect Supreme court: cops dont need to protect people Cops: we dont want to protect you Abolitionists: Okay so maybe we dont need cops... Everybody else: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU SAYING

Pierce Lafayette and Felix Hall are the earliest formerly enslaved men documented as a couple in U.S. records. Enslaved in Georgia, they attempted to escape together in 1857, were captured, and forcibly separated. The archive preserved a trace of their love. #BlackQueerHistory

On February 8, 1968, the Orangeburg Massacre took place on the campus of South Carolina State College. Cops fire at 200 unarmed Black students engaging in a civil rights protest at the college to integrate the local bowling alley. Three Black men were killed, 28 were wounded. This was the first incident of police killing student protesters at a college/university. It’s one of the most violent episodes of the movement, yet remains the least recognized. #BlackHistoryWithLana #DemsUnited

Homelessness should make you uncomfortable, not because someone you don’t know is making you uncomfortable on a train for 20 minutes, but because we exist in a society that is so willing to let people suffer without any support system day after day until they die.

The more I mature, the more I realize that fundamentals matter more than flair, especially in organizing. The basics are simple. Sometimes boring. But they are far more effective than a lot of what passes for movement work right now. One-on-ones. Follow-up. Taking the time to know the people and the history of the community you’re organizing. Deep study. Political education. Discipline. Showing up consistently. It’s building real relationships. It’s learning how to talk to people and more importantly, how to listen. Without the basics, we end up underdeveloped but moving like we’ve achieved mastery and it’s making us less effective.

“The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.” — Malcolm X

Mutual aid is a practice of recognizing someone else’s humanity. In a society that doesn’t recognize everyone’s humanity but instead dehumanizes people, one small act can be transformative.

now imagine what we lost with the Atlantic slave trade that lasted for 366 years.

A person experiencing homelessness dying from hyperthermia while buildings sit empty is the tragedy of living in the land of opportunity. You have the opportunity to die unhoused a few yards from vacant properties.

We Need To Seek The Abolition Of The Oppressive World, Not Inclusion - Angela Davis In this powerful speech, Author and political activist Angela Davis highlights the conflicts of inclusiveness in an oppressive system. Borrowing a leaf from her understanding of mainstream feminism, she dissects how the push for social justice often becomes a struggle for access to privilege rather than the fight for collective liberation. She reminds us that true justice cannot be achieved by merely inserting a few privileged people into structures built on exploitation, racism, and imperialism. Whether in politics, business, academia, or activism, representation without the transformation of the entire system only reinforces the same hierarchies that have long oppressed Africa and its diaspora. For Africans on the continent and in the diaspora, this is a call to understand that there is no real freedom if the lowest and the least privileged in our societies are not accorded full dignity.

Dear Black Folks, We need to detach our ideas of Black historical greatness from Western standards of success rooted in white supremacism. Our historical achievements should not be affixed to assimilation into the norms and benchmarks of systems, governments, institutions, or individuals who have played a role in our multigenerational struggle for liberation. To measure ourselves by their approval is to misunderstand both our history and our struggle.

MY Black, inherited, unsatisfied rage leads me. It was my rage being answered to when i saw those other young black people destroy the capitalist infrastructure that stole their brother and immiserated their lives. 5/5.

A 41 yr old Haitian asylum seeker died within 24 hrs of being taken into ICE custody in Newark & was denied medical care. Haitian migrants are subjected to some of the harshest, punitive immigration policy. Support Jean’s family w/funeral & burial costs: gofundme.com/f/honoring-jea…

Keith Porter, Renee Good & Alex Pretti were murdered by the U.S. government. We don’t just need to Abolish ICE. We need to arrest the ICE agents who murdered them. Allowing their killers to get away with murder will only embolden ICE & the U.S. government to keep murdering us.

Wonder who could’ve predicted this…