Stephanie B. 💗💚

Teach your kids about Winnie Mandela, teach your kids about Funmilayo Kuti. Teach you your kids about Assata Shakur. Teach your kids about black women who fight for freedom.

Judith Ann Jamison (1943 - 2024) was an American dancer and choreographer, best known as a ballet dancer and as the Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre ❤️🖤💚.

SC State students thoughtfully expressed concerns to Pres. Alexander, who’s administration failed them here. No one who vows to target the Black community via “DEI scams” should give a commencement address at an HBCU. They worked hard and deserve to celebrate.

Madge Sinclair (28 Apr 1938 – 20 Dec 1995) #Jamaican schoolteacher turned Emmy Award-Winning Hollywood actress, born 88 years ago today, in #Kingston. Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975), Convoy (1978), Coming to America (1988), Trapper John, M.D. (1980–86), Roots (1977); voiced the character of Sarabi, Mufasa's wife and Simba's mother in The Lion King (1994). A five-time Emmy Award nominee, Sinclair won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Drama Series for her role as Empress Josephine in Gabriel's Fire in 1991. #Jamaica #Caribbean en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Sin…

You, Me & Tuscany, starring Halle Bailey and Regé-Jean Page, has surpassed the $20.5 million mark at the global box office🍷🍿💕

99 years is the amount of prison time a doctor in Alabama will receive if they perform an abortion. 6 months is the amount of prison time you will receive if you rape an unconscious girl next to a dumpster. Wake up.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court voids majority Black congressional district in Louisiana, boosting Republican chances.

Congratulations Dylan Djete! 🐝 Dylan becomes the first in school history to be drafted to the Canadian Football League, selected by the @sskroughriders ! 🇨🇦 #SWARMAS1 x #ENDURE x #SWAC x #HBCUFootball x #CFL

Speaking about black book stores please go visit Sisters Uptown Bookstore in NYC 1942 Amsterdam Ave

You don’t need Harvard degrees to figure this out…

“Calling Trump a fascist incites political violence” Here’s a compilation of Trump calling his opponents fascists

Did you know that @dixonmcmakin, who is pushing bills to eliminate the seat of @calvin4clerk, is the announcer for @lsu sports? Dixon is from Baton Rouge, but he’s working to take away the clerk’s office in New Orleans and, in turn, nullify the votes of thousands of Black people. During debate, Dixon invoked language that echoed George Wallace, the segregationist former governor of Alabama. That history matters, especially while legislation is being used to overturn the will of voters in New Orleans. I’m curious how the Black Student Union and former Black athletes feel about Dixon being the voice of the Tigers. President Rousse, you have thousands of Black alumni in New Orleans being impacted by your sports announcer’s actions in his day job. I’m just wondering if y’all have connected the dots on Rep. McMakin yet. Share if you care 🦾

Damn these motherfuckers are dumb

With deep sorrow, we say farewell to one of the final sentinels of the Tuskegee Airmen. George E. Hardy, who once danced across the skies of Europe in his Mustang has taken his final flight at the age of 100. Leaving behind a legacy forged in courage, resilience, and unwavering dignity. It began in a quiet room in Philadelphia. A 16-year-old boy hunched over his homework as the radio crackled with the news of Pearl Harbor. In that instant, the world fractured, and George’s childhood evaporated. He didn't wait for history to call; he went to meet it. Denied entry because of the color of his skin, he didn't retreat. He leaned into the wind. He joined the U.S. Army Air Forces, arriving at Tuskegee not just to learn the mechanics of flight, but to dismantle the mechanics of prejudice. By 19, George was a "Red Tail," a guardian of the clouds. While the world below was segregated, the flak in the European theater was indifferent. He flew 21 combat missions over Nazi-occupied territory, a teenager in a cockpit proving that valor has no pedigree. Most men would have seen enough of war. George was not most men. - World War II: 21 combat missions in the P-51 Mustang. - Korea: 45 combat missions, braving the dawn of the jet age. - Vietnam: 70 combat missions, a veteran hand guiding a new generation. For nearly thirty years, he wore the uniform of a country that didn't always love him back, yet he protected it with a devotion that shames the very idea of hate. When he finally climbed out of the cockpit, he didn't stop serving. As a Lieutenant Colonel, he helped architect the military’s first global communication systems. He spent his sunset years ensuring that those who followed him would never be out of reach, never be truly alone in the dark. "He rose above the clouds so we could finally see the light." Today, we don't just salute a pilot. We salute a man who endured the sting of Jim Crow to earn the silver wings of a hero. He was the quiet defiance in the face of "no," the steady hand in the cockpit, and the humble heart in the room. The "Red Tails" are thinning now, their formation heading into the eternal sunset. But as George E. Hardy crosses the ultimate horizon, he leaves behind a legacy etched not in ink, but in the very air we breathe. Rest well, Colonel. The watch is ours. The sky is yours.

Remembering Madge Sinclair. wikiwand.com/en/Madge_Sincl…

If you’ve got a student in the Baltimore area or in the DMV, make sure they check out this HBCU college fair on May 16th!! 21 schools have confirmed attendance including NCAT, Howard, Morehouse, Spelman, Hampton, FAMU, AAMU, & Tenn State! Register here: forms.gle/N4QLVaGTUm7GCR…

BREAKINGNEWS Republicans are trying to state President Obama or Biden never had assassination attempts. President Biden had 3 and Obama had up to 8 assassination attempts. Here they are. . 2008 Denver Plot: Three men were arrested for plotting to kill then-candidate Obama with a high-powered rifle during the Democratic National Convention. 2008 Tennessee Plot: Two white supremacists planned to kill Obama during his 2008 campaign. 2009 Istanbul Plot: A man was arrested with forged press credentials as part of a plot to kill Obama with a knife. 2011 White House Shooting: Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez fired shots at the White House in an attempt to kill President Obama, resulting in a 25-year prison sentence. 2011-2012 FEAR Plot: Members of a domestic terrorist group formed within the U.S. Army were arrested for conspiring to kill the president. 2013 Ricin Letters: Letters containing the deadly toxin ricin were mailed to President Obama. 2013 "Death Ray" Plot: White supremacists plotted to kill President Obama with a homemade radiation gun. 2018 Pipe Bomb: A pipe bomb was mailed to Obama and intercepted by the Secret Service President Biden. 2020 Campaign Plot: In October 2020, before he took office, federal officials investigated a man, Alexander Hillel Treisman, who had plotted to kill Joe Biden and had traveled to within four miles of his Delaware home. 2023 Armed Threat: In August 2023, a Utah man suspected of threatening President Biden was shot and killed by FBI agents while they were serving a warrant. 2024 Travel Plot: In early 2026, it was reported that an Alabama man was accused of traveling to Atlanta with the intent to kill President Biden when he was in town for a debate in 2024.  President Obama had far more attempts of assassinations on his life then Trump. 🚨

Whether with pen, paint, or pencil—young artists really showed up and showed out in this year’s #FightingFifth art competition 🎨✨ Huge congrats to our 1st Place winner, Mariyah Thompson from Frederick Douglass High School, for her incredible piece Destined for Greatness! I can’t wait to showcase our winners’ work in my district office and at the U.S. Capitol!

Hey GEORGIA, early VOTING starts today!!

On March 21, 1981, a 19-year-old Black man named Michael Donald was kidnapped, beaten, and lynched in Mobile, Alabama, by members of the United Klans of America. The SPLC sued the Klan on behalf of Donald's mother. They won. She was awarded $7 million. The SPLC executed the judgment aggressively, forcing the Klan to exhaust their resources and turn over their national headquarters. They broke the Klan. That is who the DOJ indicted yesterday. Vance, a former US Attorney, walks through the charges carefully. Six counts of wire fraud, all occurring on a single day - April 25, 2023. Four counts of false statements to a federally insured bank. One count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. When Todd Blanche was asked how a group that dismantled racist organizations could be accused of supporting them, he said: "That's what the grand jury found." When pressed further, he explained the theory: the SPLC is a 501(c)(3) and has to disclose what it does with donor money, and because they didn't tell donors "we're going to give a million bucks to the Ku Klux Klan," that's wire fraud. Vance's legal assessment: the same logic would apply to every law enforcement agency that pays cooperating witnesses inside white supremacist groups. The federal government does this routinely. The FBI did this until Patel severed ties with the SPLC last October. The indictment charges the organization only. No individuals are named. Vance reads that as a signal about evidentiary weakness - if they had a specific individual who committed a specific criminal act with sufficient evidence to convict, they would charge that person. They did not. Every active federal district judge in the Middle District of Alabama is a Trump appointee. The case lands there. The same week the SPLC is indicted for tracking white supremacists, the seditious conspiracy convictions of the people who stormed the Capitol are being vacated. The symmetry is the message.