Shelly Hammonds

Black people started Memorial Day. It was originally called Decoration Day and it included a parade, but the most remarkable detail to me is that the newly freed dug up bodies of Union soldiers from mass graves, identified them and gave proper burials. 👇🏽

Naomi Osaka on why she chose to host a party for the black tennis players: “You know I'm seeing a little bit of- ‘Why can't you love everyone for all skin tones?’ and ‘what if someone had an all white party?! First of all I do love everyone for who they are no matter their race + ethnicity, (I'm literally half Japanese lol). I can only speak from my experiences in my own life though, growing up as a tennis player I didn't see many people that looked like ME and I feel like it's important to celebrate them. Secondly I feel like it's important to note that there have been all white dinners/parties. I don't know how else to tell you this, I literally seen them all the time and never had an issue with it at all. To the people who ask this question I want to ask you this question too, ‘What is it about POC getting together that unsettles you so much?’ I want to end this by saying I grew up watching my dad get discriminated against, having the cops called on him multiple times at the tennis court. There are multiple things I will apologize for in my life but celebrating being black and appreciating who we are will never be something I would consider saying sorry for. Thanks. Actually I lied, I am sorry. I'm sorry for the people who cannot comprehend in their brains that this is not about exclusion, this is a celebration about how far we have come 🖤” (via Naomi on Threads)

In Atlanta, a lawn care crew found a disabled veteran’s home buried under 2 feet of weeds. His HOA had been fining him $50 daily for the unkempt yard. The team offered to mow and clean the entire property for free. As they worked, the HOA president called police, claiming the volunteers needed a vendor permit and were trespassing. Officers arrived, heard the full story, told the HOA to stand down, and let the crew finish. The yard was fully transformed — a clear win for kindness over bureaucracy.

So Y’all Wanna Act Like Y’all More Mad At The NAACP Telling Some Black Student Athletes To Use They Power!! Than Y’all Are The MTFer Robbing The Country Blind Right Now At Gun Point!!!!!! 🙄🤡

Oh he worded this so beautifully 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 @kendricklamar

Told yall goofies all of this before you chose 🤡 supremacy. You tried to hurt us with your antiBlackness so FAFO 🖕🏾👿 tiktok.com/t/ZP8pMkH4t/

Young 💃🏽 embracing an openly racist streamer. Thoughts 💭 ⁉️

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These are all young black boys that have all mysteriously gone missing in different States recently.

The best 🙏

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Black people in America need to be registered to vote, all of us. Full Fk’n Stop. In states like Georgia, Maryland, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, turning to vote can shift outcomes in House, Senate, and gubernatorial races. Look at Georgia. About 3.5 million Black residents live here. Roughly 2.5 million of us are eligible to vote, yet only around 1.4 million of us actually do. That leaves between 900,000 and 1.1 million eligible Black voters not participating. Now compare that to the margins of the last two Ga: governor’s races. In 2018, the race was decided by about 54,000 votes. In 2022, about 191,000 votes. The number of eligible Black voters not participating is between 7 and 10x larger than those margins. This isn’t about theory, it’s about MATH. If we show up consistently, outcomes change. The shift starts with registration, and it is sustained by turnout. Register and VOTE.

After this week, this whole lesser of two evils talk from Black men about voting democrat is shut the f*** down. Nah. Bruh. Zip it. Hillary was right. Kamala was right and you ALL were wrong.

#BREAKING: Psaki: “Some Republicans have come up with a bold new solution to deal with the rising cost of gas we are all witnessing—revising history…That was the Republican Majority Leader in the House, @SteveScalise, LYING through his teeth, making up historical facts about gas prices, and getting called out on it by one CNBC’s most Trump-friendly hosts…”😂

Black Couple, Latanya and Michael Allen , Debuts New Gullah Geechee Seasoning Line and Barbecue Sauces a family-owned business in Charleston, South Carolina.

🗣️ LT GOVERNOR PAMELA EVETTE FUCKED AROUND AND FOUND OUT!! Calling Black Folks a WOKE MOB!!

Fed Chair Powell: I'm literally staying because of the actions that have been taken. I had long planned to be retiring. The things that have happened in the last 3 months have left me no choice but to stay until I see them through

Tia and Jasmin Criss, seniors at Cheyney University, the oldest historically Black university in the country, are less than two weeks away from graduating as valedictorian and salutatorian. Just three minutes older than Jasmine, Tia said the honors of being named class valedictorian and salutatorian "just happened." The twin sisters are graduates of Philadelphia High School for Girls. They credit their parents for giving them the discipline to aim high.

Bruh It’s 2026 & Y’all Still F*ckin With Us About Voting!!!!!!! Let That Sink In!!!!!! #Plies

White MAGA evangelicals have found a new gaslight. Now they want to blame civil rights organizations for manufacturing racism. As if America was not racist before the NAACP existed. As if white supremacy needed a nonprofit grant to build slave ships. As if the Klan was waiting on a donation from the SPLC before it burned crosses. As if Jim Crow needed a press release. As if lynch mobs needed a fundraising campaign before they burned down Tulsa and Rosewood. Who funded the transatlantic slave trade? Who funded American chattel slavery? Who funded the genocide of Indigenous people? Who funded the rape and breeding of enslaved Black women? Who funded lynching? Who funded segregation? Who funded redlining? Who funded convict leasing? Who funded mass incarceration? Who funded police brutality? Who funded the theft of Black land? Who funded the erasure of Black history? It was not civil rights organizations. It was America, the government, banks, white churches, corporations, courts, universities, white mobs, white politicians, and white pulpits preaching a slaveholder’s gospel. Civil rights organizations did not create racism, they documented it, challenged it, exposed it, sued it, organized against it, and forced America to look in the mirror. And that is what MAGA cannot stand. They don’t hate the so called manufacture of racism, they hate the exposure of racism. Because if racism is made up, nobody owes repair, nobody owes repentance, nobody owes justice, nobody has to return stolen land, nobody has to pay reparations, and nobody has to dismantle the systems that still reward whiteness and punish Blackness. This is not a serious argument. It is white grievance propaganda with a church fan in its hand. America was racist before civil rights organizations existed. America was racist when Black people were property. America was racist when Black people were lynched for voting. America was racist when Black children needed federal troops to enter schools. America is still racist when they try to ban the books that tell the truth. You do not get to burn the house down for 400 years and then blame the smoke alarm for making noise. Talbert Swan