(((BLACK LIVES MATTER)))

Don Lemon: “Every time a black person names a racist thing, somebody accuses them of making it about race as if it was not already about race. As if the people who drew these maps were not thinking about race every single second they were drawing them. What is happening to Black voters in this country, it is a crime”

@IsaacHayes3 @GhanaGirlLove 1MBVR.org We have a national initiative to register 1 million Black Voters. Please help disseminate this link as much as possible.✨️

Respectability politics has never worked for Black people — and it never will with people who don’t respect you to begin with. For years I’ve been told to change my approach. Today I challenge those in leadership to consider that the approach they’ve been using got our s*** stolen. The strategy now has to be to take something back from them — power. I’ve been doing this work for over a decade. Folks didn’t partner with me or support me when I ran because I was considered “radical” — as if demanding equity is radical. It’s time for a different approach. A different posture. One with some fight in it. I’m leaning in regardless — I’m just wondering how many of us are ready now. Share if you care 🦾

We gotta confront and correct the misinformation like this comment on the video

“Voting won’t get us out of this” That’s strange because voting is exactly what got us into this… republican votes!

If you’re in Louisiana join the movement! .#RecallJeffLandry

We’re the FIRST state to ban dynamic pricing in grocery stores. Here’s why:

People let’s pray for him to be found safely in Jesus name God bring him Back to his family I can’t imagine the pain they are going through . I pray he will Be found in Jesus name Amen 🙏🏾 Pls share

Black Ballerinas 🩰🩰 #representationmatters #niaballerina #ballet #balletblack #blackballett

This is getting wild now 👀 So I started looking at the ballroom after digging into the Reflecting Pool yesterday. I’m starting to see some patterns. The playbook works like this. Pick your contractor personally. Invoke “Unusual and Compelling Urgency” to skip competition. Use the 250th anniversary as the justification. Inflate the price. Don’t disclose who’s actually doing the work. Repeat. Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. $13.1M. No bid. No competition. Justification: “Unusual and Compelling Urgency” 250th anniversary. Contractor: Atlantic Industrial. Zero prior federal contracts. No pool or monument experience. The subcontractor doing the actual work doesn’t appear anywhere in the justification documents. Now the ballroom. Trump personally selected Clark Construction to build his $400M White House ballroom. Clark is already on site with people and equipment. Then NPS quietly awards Clark a separate $17.4M no-bid contract to fix two fountains in Lafayette Park directly across the street. Never posted publicly. Never competitively bid. The justification? Clark was already nearby. That’s it. The original estimate for those fountains in 2022 was $3.3M. The consultant who wrote that estimate said the administration literally took his cover page and added millions with no itemization. Final price: $17.4M. Same urgency exemption. Same 250th anniversary justification. Both contracts bypassed competitive bidding. Both used the same urgency exemption. Both cited the same 250th anniversary. Both awarded to contractors with direct Trump connections. The Lafayette Park contract was never posted in public federal spending databases. The Reflecting Pool contract was posted but the subcontractor doing the primary work appears nowhere in the paperwork. Combined taxpayer bill: over $30 million. Combined competitive bids received: zero. This urgency exemption has been used in less than 1% of NPS contracts over the past decade. They used it twice in the same year. For birthday decorations. Senator Blumenthal is already demanding answers on the Lafayette Park contract by May 15th. The Reflecting Pool has a Cabinet secretary photographed on site and a subcontractor with an expired federal registration that isn’t mentioned anywhere in the contract documents. This isn’t two separate stories. This is one story. The 250th anniversary isn’t just a celebration. It’s a billing mechanism. And taxpayers are footing the bill with zero say in who got the work or why..

OLIVER: “It was a 6-3 decision in the case of White People vs. Everybody — and you’ll never guess who they ruled in favor of.”

On this day in 1898, Louisiana adopted a new constitution that excluded Black voters and jurors using restrictions like a poll tax and discriminatory literacy and property requirements. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

People keep framing this as a Black issue. It was never just a Black issue. The dismantling of civil rights protections doesn’t stop at the color line, it fractures democracy for everyone. When they normalize stripping rights from one group, they’ve already written the blueprint to do it to the next. The same forces tearing down civil rights protections are coming for the voters, the values, and the democracy that white progressives say they believe in. You cannot vote blue and stay silent while the foundation is being torn down. Your rights are next. This isn’t a warning, this is what’s happening right now 🎥: nikolehannahjones

1955. 19….55. They were killing Black people for voting and organizing to vote as recently as 1955.

One day, Republicans are going to catch their karma, and by karma I mean incarceration.

.@Sen_JoeManchin and @kyrstensinema will go down in history as two of the people who stood at the doorway and blocked the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act when democracy and Black political power were under assault. History teaches us what happens when leaders choose political comfort over moral courage. The Hayes Tilden Compromise ended Reconstruction and unleashed nearly a century of disenfranchisement, terror, and the systematic destruction of Black political power across the South. Different era. Different names. Same devastating consequences. When people ask how we got here, their failure to lead and act in that moment will be part of the answer.

The Brothers Johnson Strawberry Letter 23 - 1977

Welcome to the best history master class on voter suppression in Black communities. No spin. Just facts.

This is VA Supreme Court judge D. Arthur Kelsey. He's up for re-election in January and one of the 4 judges who struck down the people's will of redistricting to counter republican gerrymandering. VOTE HIM OUT!

@PatrickJnmarie @jwats716 If I can use it(I can), I'm taking that shit, fr fr. 😂😂😂

@CarolDright @jwats716 🤣🤣🤣That’s how I’ve gotten most of mine. Especially thru Facebook