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33 years ago today, we lost Ricky 🏈🕊️🙏

The Hall of Fame sends happy birthday wishes to @HoustonTexans Legend Andre Johnson, who received this special gift earlier this year! The Class of 2024 member turns 43 today. 🎂 🎉 #HBD

@Lane_Kiffin My condolences to you and your family on the loss

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Rest In Peace Coach K

Hall of Famer No. 377 has received his box! Julius Peppers got to see his Gold Jacket created by @HaggarCo for the first time. #PFHOF24

#OnThisDay in 1964, Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn, an assistant superintendent for Washington, D.C., public schools, was driving home with two fellow officers from the U.S. Army Reserves training when he was shot and killed by three Klansmen in a passing car in Colbert, Georgia. Penn had survived World War II, fighting in New Guinea and the Philippines, earning a Bronze Star. But he died in the attack by Klansmen, just nine days after the Civil Rights Act became law. Spotting the Washington, D.C., license plates, Klansman Howard Sims remarked, “That must be one of President Johnson’s boys.” He then said, “I’m going to kill me a n—–,” before he and Klansman Cecil Myers opened fire with their double-barreled shotguns on the car Penn was driving. The blast from the shotgun killed Penn, and the car slammed into the side of the Broad River Bridge. Incredibly, the judge in the case allowed Sims and Myers to take the witness stand without being cross-examined. An all-white Georgia jury found the two Klansmen not guilty, but a federal court jury convicted them. Each served about six years in federal prison. The jury, however, acquitted the other Klansman in the car as well as three other Klansmen identified as taking part in the planning. Years after his release from prison, Sims was killed by a friend with a 12-gauge shotgun — the same kind of gun Sims had used to shoot Penn. The Penn case was instrumental in the creation of a Justice Department task force, which eventually led to the Civil Rights Act of 1968. When Penn’s body arrived at Arlington National Cemetery, his casket was transferred to the same caisson used for President Kennedy with the same white horses. He received full military honors. mississippitoday.org/2024/07/11/on-…

On this day in 1964, Klansmen killed Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn, an assistant school superintendent, as he was driving home from Army Reserves training. buff.ly/3S1NUqR

Dawn Staley had to get this selfie vid with Obama 😅

#OnThisDay in 1964, a group of Black men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, led by Earnest “Chilly Willy” Thomas and Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick, founded The Deacons for Defense and Justice to protect civil rights activists. The deacons, most of them veterans of the Korean War, World War II or both, began providing protection after the Congress of Racial Equality’s freedom house became a target of the Ku Klux Klan. They went on to provide security for civil rights leaders and for events such as the 1966 March Against Fear in Mississippi. Their presence helped deter the KKK’s intimidation and violence against African Americans. Future Black Panther leader Stokely Carmichael drew inspiration from the deacons. “Here is a group which realized that the ‘law’ and law enforcement agencies would not protect people, so they had to do it themselves,” he said. “The deacons and all other blacks who resort to self-defense represent a simple answer to a simple question: What man would not defend his family and home from attack?” By 1968, the deacons had begun to fade from the scene, overshadowed by groups like the Black Panthers. A 2003 TV movie, starring Forest Whitaker and Ossie Davis, depicted the story of the deacons and others in the civil rights movement. mississippitoday.org/2024/07/10/on-…

#OnThisDay in 1905, civil rights leader Myles Horton, whom some called “The Father of the Civil Rights Movement,” was born. Born to a poor family, he saw the value of organizing while working at a sawmill and similar jobs. As a teenager, he became involved in a strike for higher wages while working at a tomato factory. In 1932, he founded the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, to bring together people, white and black, to discuss ideas, problems and possible solutions. “If people have a position on it and you try to argue them into changing it, you’re going to strengthen that position,” he explained. “If you want to change people’s ideas, you shouldn’t try to change them intellectually. What you need to do is get them into a situation where they act on ideas, not argue about them.” Highlander became a center for training those in the civil rights movement, including Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, James Bevel, Bernard Lafayette and Ralph Abernathy. In 1961, the state of Tennessee shut down the school and seized its land. Highlander officials moved the school from Monteagle to Knoxville. Before his death in 1990, he inspired the founding of the Myles Horton Organization at the University of Tennessee, which organized protests of the Ku Klux Klan and encouraged the university to divest from South Africa. mississippitoday.org/2024/07/09/on-…

I respect this man

#OnThisDay in 1961, U.S. Representative John Lewis was released from Mississippi's State Penitentiary at Parchman after 40 days. Lewis was arrested by Jackson police along with other Freedom Riders who entered a whites-only area of a bus station and refused to leave. Lewis, the son of sharecroppers, embraced nonviolence after learning about the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956 and attending the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville. mississippitoday.org/2024/07/07/on-…

Christian? Yeah. Perfect? Nope. Forgiven? Yeah. Worthy? Nope. Accepted? Yeah. Deserving? Nope. Loved? Yeah.

Horrible News: #Vikings 2024 4th round pick CB Khyree Jackson has passed away in a car accident, his agent and former high school coach confirmed. Absolutely devastating.

@PastorMikeJr Amen To That 🙌🏾

You’re life is about to change for the better!

15 years ago the world lost Steve McNair who was one of the best football players ever and a Mississippi legend! RIP to Air McNair @AlcornStateU / @BRAVESSPORTS

#OnThisDay in 1917, one of the worst racial massacres in U.S. history ended after three days in East St. Louis, Illinois. After Black workers were given jobs in a factory that received government contracts, White workers began stabbing, beating and killing them. As many as a hundred or more were killed, hundreds more were injured, and 6,000 were driven from their homes. “My father … witnessed … horrible things: people’s houses being set ablaze, . . . people being shot when they tried to flee, some trying to swim to the other side of the Mississippi while being shot at by white mobs with rifles, others being dragged out of street cars and beaten and hanged from street lamps,” said Dhati Kennedy, whose father was one of the survivors. The Pittsburgh Dispatch wrote, “The picture of wantonness by the savagery of mobs at East St. Louis will be a humiliating display for the Fourth of July sun to look down upon as it rises on our national liberty jubilation with the country just entered upon a war to make democracy safe.” mississippitoday.org/2024/07/03/on-…