Kwame Rose

Incredibly thankful to @SonjaSohn and @HBODocs for providing a platform to tell my story. Check out #BaltimoreRising November 20th on @HBO

1 of the greatest photos of all time

Americans need to earn about $8500 per week full time minimum wage to have the same spending power as a car wash kid in 1971 earning $64 a week This happens when your govt destroys a currency

Notice how the cops did the landlord’s bidding, even though they had no legal justification for doing so.

Jackie Robinson was venerated for the abuse he silently withstood while breaking baseball’s color line. Frank Robinson, whose rookie year overlapped Jackie Robinson’s last season, was not a turn-the-other-cheek ballplayer. baltimoremagazine.com/section/sports…

Raised in Oakland, Frank Robinson was never a go-along-to-get-along type. Neither were two guys he played ball with growing up—Bill Russell, the NBA's first Black head coach—and Curt Flood, the Black centerfielder who challenged baseball’s reserve clause. baltimoremagazine.com/section/sports…

Maxx Crosby jerseys about to go quadruple platinum in Dundalk

A judge ruled that groups representing residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley can proceed with their landmark lawsuit seeking a pause on toxic industrial plants in two majority‑Black districts capitalbnews.org/cancer-alley-r…

Dads returning to their families after football season ends tonight

Nine years ago this week there in Minnesota, locals loudly balked at a proposal that protesters who were arrested at protests should pay for the police that arrested them. This man yelled that the blood of recent murder victim Philando Castile (who was shot and killed by officer Jeronimo Yanez at a traffic stop after Castile calmly informed the officer that he was legally carrying a firearm) was on the hands of the politicians passing the bill. Prophetically he yelled, “wait until your grandson gets murdered by the police!” Nine years later, indeed, young white Minnesotans are being gunned down by masked men with Police written on their jackets. The city of St Anthony paid the family of Castile $3 million. And it paid Yanez $135k to resign from the police dept.

Your @MyBGE bill has definitely gone up, and the increase this month is only the first of three to come in the first three months of the year. Gas rates have tripled since @Exelon acquired the company. @briaovers breaks down what's going on: thebanner.com/economy/bge-bi…

I am SO pumped that my bill, the three-year extension of the ACA tax credits, passed the House. The time is always right to do the right thing.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell, 1984

Renee Nicole Good is the second person who has been killed by ICE this week. In LA, ICE killed Keith Porter in his own home as he celebrated on New Year’s Eve.

Renee Nicole Good, the woman shot & killed by an ICE agent, had a young son whose father died in 2023, according to the Star Tribune “There’s nobody else in his life,” the boy’s grandfather said. “I’ll drive. I’ll fly. To come get my grandchild.” huffpost.com/entry/latest-n…

Harbaugh deciding to keep playing Cooper Rush and not Huntley earlier in the season cost us a few wins, the division and ultimately his job.

Stop telling people that their life is getting worse. They know. Tell people your plan to make their lives better.

In order for any race not to be “prioritized”, you must address the atrocities done to the race that built this country and had to fight for inclusion into law. It’s time to Pay Up!

far too many white liberals seem to have willfully forgotten that Marjorie Taylor Green was literally a Klansman 6 months ago

BREAKING: ICE just tried to deport this woman, but there was just one problem — she was Native American. You read that right: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — the agency supposedly tasked with deporting undocumented immigrants — just tried to deport an Indigenous woman whose ancestors have been here for thousands of years. Leticia Jacobo, a 24-year-old member of Arizona’s Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, was born in Phoenix — but that didn’t stop ICE from trying to ship her “back” to a country she doesn’t even belong to. Here’s how this jaw-dropping injustice unfolded: Jacobo was sitting in a Polk County, Iowa jail after being booked for allegedly driving with a suspended license — nothing violent, nothing serious. Her mother, Ericka Burns, was preparing to pick her up and bring her home when jail staff dropped a bombshell: “She’s not being released. ICE is coming to deport her.” Her mom was stunned. “How can you deport her?” she asked. “She’s Native American!” But the jail staff shrugged it off. They said they were “just holding her” for ICE. No one — not a single person — could explain how or why this was happening. Jacobo’s family went into overdrive — calling, emailing, begging officials to stop what was about to become one of the most shameful bureaucratic blunders in modern history. They reached out to tribal leaders, shared pleas on Facebook, and even showed up at the jail with her birth certificate to prove she’s an American citizen. And still, officials hesitated. Hours ticked by while ICE prepared to take her. Finally, after an agonizing all-night standoff, she was released around 4:30 a.m. — barely. And what’s ICE’s excuse? A “clerical error.” Lt. Mark Chance from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office casually dismissed it as “human error.” Just a little mix-up, they said. The detainer was meant for someone else, and they just happened to attach it to the file of a Native American woman born on U.S. soil. “We’ll have some meetings about it,” Chance said. “This is silly.” Silly? This wasn’t “silly.” This was an attempted deportation of a woman whose people are the original inhabitants of this land, by a government agency that has no idea whose land it’s even on. Let that sink in: the United States government almost deported an Indigenous woman from her own country. This is what happens when an agency like ICE is given unchecked power — where “clerical errors” can destroy lives, and where systemic racism and dehumanization are written into the paperwork. If her family hadn’t fought like hell, Leticia Jacobo could have been vanished into ICE custody — another name lost in a broken, brutal system. It’s time to abolish this corrupt and incompetent agency that can’t even tell the difference between an immigrant and an Indigenous citizen. Because if ICE can come for Native Americans, they can come for anyone. Please like and share if you’re as outraged by this as we are!

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s greatest stumbling block in stride toward freedom is not the KKK, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to order than to justice. Dr. King