Jaye White

@hollyrpeete That’s a good man! Get him some lemonheads!

Random question: does anybody else have a grown *ss husband who is addicted to old timey candy?? …blow pops, Mike and Ikes, hot tamales, now and laters, jawbreakers— you name it! 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️ #randompeetetweet

“They gave every white athlete a bus ticket. They told him Black runners didn’t qualify. So he walked 1,765 miles to prove them wrong.” In 1928, after winning the Rocky Mountain Olympic qualifier in the 5,000 meters, Kelley Dolphus Stroud was denied a bus ticket to the U.S. Olympic trials in Boston—a ticket every white qualifier received. Officials invented a rule on the spot: he hadn't "approached the previous record." Stroud, a 20-year-old Black college student from Colorado, recognized the racism dressed as paperwork. He had a choice: accept the theft of his opportunity, or chase it down on foot. With ten dollars, a golf club for protection, and a cardboard sign reading “Denver to Olympia,” he set out on Highway 40. For 12 grueling days, he walked, ran, and hitchhiked across 1,765 miles of America—sleeping in fields, surviving storms, and facing hunger and hostility. When his story reached the press, small acts of kindness helped carry him the final miles. He arrived at Harvard Stadium with just six hours before his race—exhausted, underfed, his feet bloodied. He lined up anyway. For five laps, he held on. On the sixth, his body gave out. He collapsed on the track to the sound of some spectators laughing. They didn’t see the journey. They didn’t see the courage. They only saw a fall. Stroud didn’t make the Olympic team. But he never broke. He returned to Colorado College as one of its few Black students, graduated with honors, became the first Black student elected to Phi Beta Kappa there, and later outran a 1928 Olympian in a fair rematch. He built a life of dignity, scholarship, and quiet influence. Decades later, his legacy is finally receiving its due: an arena named in his honor, a scholars program, a documentary, even an opera in the works. His story is no longer a buried footnote—it’s a testament to what happens when someone refuses to let injustice define their limits. “The true measure of a champion isn’t just how fast they run, but how far they’re willing to walk when the road is made impossibly long.” © Tales of Past #drthehistories

@FriscoDaSnake @KevOnStage No that sounds like a plan

@KevOnStage Toasted Hawaiian bread Pb&J = LIFE

Wha adult out here still eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches?

@KevOnStage D.A.R.E.!!!!!

On this day in 1956, civil rights activists, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jo Ann Robinson, Rosa Parks and the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, were arrested for organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Auburn’s Sophia Bell wasn't playing any games when she said she wanted to leave a legacy at Neville Arena 🤸🏾‍♀️ She's the first in Auburn history to land the Yurchenko double full, a complex vault that's rarely seen in collegiate spaces. But this milestone isn't just for herself. Sophia chatted with Black Joy founder @StarrDunigan about how her history-making moment was a message to other Black and brown girls who want to take up space in gymnastics. This story is part of Black Joy's "History is Now" series, a project exploring how Black history inspires us to be a better society. @AuburnGym #WarEagle Read more: al.com/news/birmingha…

—How Sidney Poitier And Harry Belafonte Escaped The KKK To Help Save Freedom Summer— In 1964, America was shaken by the discovery of the bodies of three civil rights workers who had disappeared weeks earlier in Mississippi. Their murders exposed the deadly reality facing those trying to secure voting rights for Black citizens during Freedom Summer. When news reached singer Harry Belafonte that the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was running out of money and might not survive the campaign, he moved quickly. Funds were raised in New York, and his friend, actor Sidney Poitier, helped ensure the support reached the front lines. Together, they transported $70,000 into Mississippi to keep organizers working in one of the most dangerous environments in the country. They arrived after dark at the Greenwood airport. Soon after leaving, their car was pursued by a pickup truck filled with white men. The vehicle rammed them, and for a moment it appeared the situation could turn deadly. They managed to escape and reach their destination, successfully delivering the money that helped keep Freedom Summer alive. For Belafonte, the moment stayed with him for the rest of his life. As he later said, even if he and Poitier never did anything else together, this was something he would always cherish. Their trip never became the headline. But without that money, the movement in Mississippi might have stalled at a critical moment. Sometimes the turning points of history happen quietly — carried in envelopes, driven down dark roads, and delivered by people willing to take the risk.

The brutality of Jim Crow. And today we are dealing with those grandkids.

In 1946 WWII veteran Maceo Snipes was shot in his back by the KKK the day after he became the first Black person to cast a vote in Taylor County, Georgia. After he was shot, Mr. Snipes walked three miles to the hospital with his mother. For six hours doctors left him waiting and bleeding. By the time he was seen, he needed a blood transfusion. The doctors said the hospital had no “black blood.” Snipes died two days later. This is why I will vote in every election. The day I stop voting is the day I stop breathing. #DemsUnited #BlackHistoryWithLana

On March 5th, 1945, Lena Baker, a maid, mother of three and former cotton-picker, was the first woman to be executed in the state of Georgia. She was wrongly convicted for killing her white employer, Ernest Knight, after he held her captive for days and threatened to kill her if she went back home to her family. Knight promised to kill Lena Baker with an iron bar. She took his gun in self defense and shot Knight. She immediately reported the incident to the authorities and told them exactly what happened and how she shot him in self defense. She was charged with Capital Murder at trial by an all-white male jury. Baker was the only woman executed by electrocution in Georgia. 60 years later in 2005, Baker was granted an unconditional pardon by the state of Georgia. Don’t forget Lena Baker!! She’s just like all of the innocent black lives lost today and desired to be forgotten and thrown away.

The Peoples Grocery was opened by 11 Black men to provide good quality goods at fair prices to Black people. The store became a symbol of Black economic independence. A white grocer named William Barrett found his business shrinking because of the Peoples Grocery. Rumors and trumped up charges sent a large group of armed white men into the store. Gunshots were traded and several white men were injured. Three black grocers, all family men, were arrested and jailed.  Three days later the jail was stormed and the men were dragged out and taken to the nearby Chesapeake and Ohio rail yards. The three men were lynched and shot. The Peoples Grocery lynching is one of the most important lynchings in American history. It caused a large proportion of the Black community to flee Memphis. The lynching made Ida B. Wells, a fearless anti-lynching crusader, suffragist, women's rights advocate, journalist, and speaker, conduct a census of lynchings which systemically researched, catalogued, categorized, and analyzed lynchings in America. #DemsUnited #BlackHistoryMonth

@CoachDanCasey @BZSEC The more I watch the more it doesn’t look real.

@BZSEC That's another good one. I loved Byron Jones Broad Jump too ⚡️

The most impressive 40yd Dash Performances at the NFL Combine: 1. Chris Johnson running a 4.24 in a T-Shirt 😂 2. Dontari Poe running a 4.98 at 346 pounds 3. Aaron Donald running a 4.68 at 285 pounds 🧵Here are 8 guys I expect to run FAST this year:

💙 @vinijr 💙

@rodimusprime Today years old.

One thing about Black people we gone call this man "Walter Goggins."

@ONobreGuardiao @hlovo_ This! THIS!

She deserves an Oscar award for this 😭😭😭😭

BAILA @vinijr and please never stop. They will never tell us what we have to do or not. ✊🏽

@KevOnStage I’m sorry bro

For lunch I had a raw vegan pizza.

@charise_lee I’m a proud father of a beautiful little dop pusher. And we are pushing the finest product!

I’m a former pusher‼️ 😂

@KevOnStage Congratulations! That chinstrap is buns though.

Seahawks

I asked world champ Ohio State Buckeye Jaxon Smith-Njigba if he could tell the world why his name means so much to him. Just take a listen and make this go as viral as when they make a joke out of it #SuperBowl