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Children and schools should not be targets. With that agreed Israel destroyed or damaged 97% of schools in Gaza. Gaza the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world. Over the first 23 months of the genocide, a child was killed by Israel at a rate one per hour.

When Dorothy Height showed up at Barnard College in 1929 with her admission letter in hand, a dean looked at her and told her they had already reached their quota of "two Negro students per year." Height had just graduated with honors from an integrated high school in Rankin, Pennsylvania, a small steel town outside Pittsburgh. She had won a national oratorical contest and a $1,000 scholarship. None of it mattered. "It was such a shock to me," she later recalled. "I never thought there would be a racial quota. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep for days." Unwilling to give up on her dreams, she walked into New York University with her Barnard acceptance letter in hand -- and they admitted her on the spot. She earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees in four years. Years later, Height said the rejection at Barnard taught her the most important lesson of her life: "That there is no advantage in bitterness, that I needed to go into action, which is something I have tried to follow since." Born on this day in 1912, Dorothy Height would become what President Barack Obama called "the godmother of the Civil Rights Movement," observing that she was "the only woman at the highest level of the Civil Rights Movement -- witnessing every march and milestone along the way." Yet for decades, sexism ensured that her name was rarely mentioned alongside the men she worked beside as an equal. In 1933, Height graduated from NYU with a master's degree in educational psychology and began working as a caseworker with the New York City Welfare Department. But it was a chance encounter four years later, in 1937, that set her on the path of her life's work. The 25-year-old Height was assigned to escort First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt into a meeting of the National Council of Negro Women. The organization's founder, the legendary Mary McLeod Bethune -- the daughter of former slaves who had built a college for Black women and become one of the most powerful figures of the New Deal era -- noticed the young woman's poise and ability. "What is your name?" Bethune asked. "Dorothy Height," she whispered. "We need you," Bethune said. By the time Height returned from walking Roosevelt to her car, Bethune had already appointed her to a committee. "On that fall day," Height later wrote in her memoir, "the redoubtable Mary McLeod Bethune put her hand on me. She drew me into her dazzling orbit of people in power and people in poverty." Height joined Bethune's crusade to end poll taxes, lynching, and unfair employment practices. "I don't think that outside of my mother and my church," she reflected, "there's been anything of greater influence than Mary McLeod Bethune." In 1957, two years after Bethune's death, Height was named president of the National Council of Negro Women -- a position she would hold for the next forty years. She advised presidents from Eisenhower to Obama, pushing Eisenhower on desegregating schools and Johnson on appointing Black women to government positions. And she became the only woman working directly alongside the leaders who would come to be known as the "Big Six" of the Civil Rights Movement: Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, James Farmer, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young. On August 28, 1963, Height sat an arm's length from King as he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington. But she was not allowed to speak. Height had helped organize the march. She mobilized thousands of women volunteers and arranged transportation. When it came time to set the program, the male leaders refused to include a single woman as a speaker. Height pushed back. #archaeohistories

I'm starting to think that our death toll isn't still 13.

“You’ve got us tickets for the next Ipswich Town home game? Excellent.”

BREAKING : 🇮🇷 Iran has sent more shockwaves to Trump 🍿 “The Strait of Hormuz will not be the same as it was before the war. We have set new rules & those who want access need to follow them” Thanks to Trump, Iran will now earn $100 BILLION a year via toll 😂🔥

Absolute bombshell. Congressman Massie reveals that top law enforcement officer Pam Bondi was initially ready to release the Epstein files, but someone got to her and ordered her to cover it up. The deep state is actively protecting the elite pedophile ring.

Everyone should be pushing to shut down all detention centers

@reformexposed As one dodgy income stream is switched off, he lays the groundwork for another

Captain u-turn strikes again Farage’s Reform UK drops pledge to nationalise water and energy companies ft.com/content/be4b6c…

The people who raped and trafficked little kids and then blackmailed the shit out of each other to dictate global policies in their favour ARE STILL RUNNING EVERYTHING. Nothing is being done to put these fuckers behind bars, everything is being done to hide the evidence. FFS.

Gordon Rodney Horn, from Liverpool, was born on this day in 1969. He was 20 years old when he lost his life at Hillsborough in 1989. RIP Gordon,🙏❤️ Never Forgotten, JFT97

They really expect us to believe that an Iran-backed terror group came into existence on 9 March, that couldn't even spell its own name on its logo as it began a wave of attacks on Jewish targets across Europe that have left zero casualties but helped Israel push a narrative?

We shouldn't forget that Trump's blockade of Cuba is an act of war too, even without the missiles and bombs he has unleashed on Iran. trib.al/uIuqdFh

Torturing a toddler to make his father "confess" is absolutely an IDF tactic. We've seen the evidence.

We're paying people because they were upset for being prosecuted for crimes they admitted to committing.

As a historian, I've always been careful with the word "fascism." We've all seen how it shuts down debate when everyone throws it at everything they don't like. But at some point, being careful with the word starts to mean being blind to the thing itself.

Murder is effectively legal in Palestine, including live-streamed murder, so long as the murderer is Jewish, and the victim is Palestinian.

A beautiful picture . We need more beautiful-more human-pictures. #Humanity #HumanBeings

One outcome of this war is now the whole world is learning that Iranians are extremely good at posting.

He does love a good stunt doesn’t he ? Ooooo get me I led my little band of MPS out of the chamber (Ps to avoid being in there for a statement on Russian funding of Farage UK I suspect