Transformative Justice Coalition

Power belongs to the people. ✊🏾 The Black Connections Desk (BCD) is officially LIVE to ensure our community is heard, centered, and powerful in every movement. TONIGHT: No Kings 3 Kick-off Call 🗓 Mar 19 | 8 PM EST - Virtual blackconnectionsdesk.org/NK3March19Kick…

The Save Act will get rid of online voter registration! The Save Act may require you to have a passport to vote. Only 34% of Black Americans have a vaild passport. Call (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to your Senators and urge them to vote NO on the SAVE Act.

Don’t miss today’s episode of Igniting Change: Standing Up for Our Rights! 📢 We’re discussinging: ✅ No Kings 3 (March 28) ✅ Launching the Black Connections Desk ✅ Defeating the SAVE Act ✅ Fighting Voter Purging LISTEN LIVE 🎙️ woldcnews.com/listen-live

At the funeral of Rev. Jesse Jackson. Rep. Jones and I walk in his footsteps. Our story isn’t possible without the work, advocacy, Organizing, and struggle of Rev. Jackson. Rest in power.

They fought for America overseas… but were sentenced to die on American soil. 🇺🇸⚖️ Houston, Texas — August 1917. In the blistering summer heat, white police officers stormed a Black neighborhood and dragged a Black woman from her home, claiming she was drunk in public. A Black soldier from the 24th Infantry — one of the few Black regiments in the U.S. Army — stepped in to help her. For defending a Black woman, he was beaten, arrested, and humiliated. Word spread quickly through the Black unit stationed nearby. These soldiers had enlisted to defend the United States during World War I — only to find the same country wouldn’t defend their basic humanity. White mobs threatened the soldiers. Police harassed them daily. Rumors flew that the arrested soldier had been murdered. The tension snapped. Fearing a violent attack on their camp, over 100 Black soldiers marched into Houston to protect themselves and their community. Gunfire erupted. When it ended, 15 white police officers and civilians were dead. The city didn’t ask why or what pushed those Black soldiers to a breaking point. They wanted someone to blame. So they blamed all of them. The U.S. Army launched the largest murder trial in American history. A trial with: ❌ No legal defense for the soldiers ❌ All-white officers deciding their fate ❌ Confessions beaten out of terrified men ❌ Zero evidence of who fired which shots Within hours—not days, not weeks—the verdict was sealed: ⚠️ 13 Black soldiers sentenced to death ⚠️ 41 sent to life in prison ⚠️ 0 white officers or police held accountable At dawn on December 11, 1917—in secrecy, before appeals could be filed—the U.S. Army hanged the 13 men together on gallows built overnight. Their names were: 📌 Sgt. Videll Carter 📌 Cpl. Jesse Moore 📌 Pvt. James Wheatley 📌 Pvt. Walter Johnson 📌 Pvt. William Nesbit 📌 Pvt. James Divins 📌 Pvt. Charles W. Baltimore 📌 Pvt. Harry W. Bolden 📌 Pvt. Carlos Snodgrass 📌 Pvt. William C. Brackenridge 📌 Pvt. Thomas Hawkins 📌 Pvt. John C. Singleton 📌 Pvt. Frank Johnson Their crime wasn’t murder. It was fighting back in a world designed to break them. These men weren’t rebels. They were soldiers—trained to defend freedom they were never allowed to have. For over 100 years, their names were buried in silence. But we remember them now. ✊🏾 We speak their names now. ✊🏾 We honor the truth now—not the lie history tried to hide. Because justice delayed is NOT justice denied… as long as we refuse to forget.

#OnThisDay in 1965, 600 marchers were attacked on #Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge during a Voting Rights protest. Known as #BloodySunday, this march was one of 3 from Selma to Montgomery. More: s.si.edu/2FvhwZQ #APeoplesJourney #ANationsStory

Next week, I’m headed to Washington, DC for a special conversation at the I@IntlSpyMuseum. Harriet Tubman’s intelligence work deserves this spotlight.

On this day in 1965, police brutally attacked hundreds of civil rights activists during a march in Selma, Alabama, now known as Bloody Sunday. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

Today, flags across the Commonwealth are flying at half-staff in memory of Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. Rev. Jackson touched the lives of countless Virginians. He helped usher in an era of leaders focused on unity and finding common ground. Virginia honors his legacy.

Bernard LaFayette Jr., who helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960 and later laid the groundwork in Selma for the voter registration movement that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died at 85. He endured beatings, arrest, and an assassination attempt the same night Medgar Evers was murdered. Rest in Power to a powerful freedom fighter who endured threats of death for our rights, reminding us that the value of life “lies not in longevity, but in what we do to give it significance.”

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died. to.pbs.org/47ug2uu

Selma remains the ultimate classroom for civil rights strategy—not just a landmark for symbolism. The Transformative Justice Coalition invites you to join us during the Selma Jubilee weekend for a series of high-impact sessions designed to turn momentum into measurable power.

The clock is ticking! We are in the final stretch of Early Voting (ending Feb 27) leading up to Election Day on March 3rd. Join Ashley Shannon, RoShawn Evans, and James Lehman on #IgnitingChange right now for the field report! @TJC_DC

Catch the “Good Trouble” bus on tour as it hits Houston! We are doing big things, be a part of the change!! @TJC_DC

Make sure to vote! These elections are important, take back your vote, and do your part for democracy. @TJC_DC

Big news, Houston! 📢 Our Hey Houston Let's Vote Good Trouble Bus Tour is officially hitting the pavement. Join us for our Kickoff Celebration: 📷Feb. 17th @ 12 PM CST 📷

The great Ancestor speaks: ♥️🖤💚

Erin Jackson the first Black Woman to win Olympic Gold Medal in Speed Skating