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This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

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“If we fully lose democracy in this country, it will be because the most privileged among us refused to accept the responsibility to speak out, to say “no more,” and to lead.” @sifill.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

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Grateful to provide the Russel Lectures at Tufts University with @revemmaj.bsky.social we talked about #love and #leadingwithlove in these times, drawing on our traditions and cultures! Follow us at auburnseminary.org to see some exciting updates on how to join our work!

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www.searchablemuseum.com/the-charlest...

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People can believe whatever they want to believe. People cannot force their beliefs on anyone else. Period. www.theintelligencer.net/opinion/loca...

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#blacksky

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Research is recovering the stories of Black women suffragists who fought to expand voting rights to all. Explore the list. Some years ago, I found long forgotten stories of the suffragists who were members of my church. What a blessing… #blackwomen documents.alexanderstreet.com/c/1007600702

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Historic Black Church Ends Longstanding Partnership Alfred Street Baptist Church, a historically Black megachurch in Virginia, has severed ties with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. bit.ly/419bJkx

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About 5 min in, Bannon tells you why the everyday waterhose of chaos, and what they know about what that strategy does to you. youtu.be/4hFVzMP3y-U?...

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102 yrs ago US vs Thind ruled Indians weren't considered white, leading to citizenship nullification of all naturalized South Asian Americans including my own grandfather Vaishno Das Bagai. Betrayed & hopeless, he ended his life. This is why the move to revoke birthright citizenship horrifies me.

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Remember….we’re practiced at messing around with folk: “The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in 1923 barring all Indians from becoming U.S. citizens, even revoked it from folk who already were - like Bhagat Singh Thind who had to claim he was legally “white.” calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

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”L'état, c'est moi." Louis XIV, 1655

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from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

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calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

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“The administration cannot choose which law it will follow or ignore. These are not partisan or political issues. These are rule of law and process issues. We cannot afford to remain silent.“ www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

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Justene Hill Edwards explains — A group of white Americans gambled with, plundered, and stole from Black people as they climbed out of slavery into a new era of freedom.” Free online discussion tonight. www.zinnedproject.org/news/the-ris...

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Are you feeling overwhelmed? Are you looking for a community of other emerging faith leaders? Need skills to navigate this moment in your community? Next cohort for leaders 18-35 is gathering April 21-25. Apply by Feb 15. auburnseminary.org/emerging-lea...

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Every community they are in subsidizes their profits by ensuring a safety net for their underpaid employees. “The Walmart Effect New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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When interacting with law enforcement during protests, staying calm can protect your rights and safety. This week, @aclu-dc.bsky.social's Executive Director joins us to share crucial guidance on what to do (and what not to do) if you’re detained while demonstrating.

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📢 Filmmakers: Our Public Domain Remix Contest is open! 🎥 Create a short film using public domain material from 1929. 🔜 Deadline: Jan 17 🥇 $1,500 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2024/12/16/2025-public-domain-day-remix-contest-the-internet-archive-is-looking-for-creative-short-films-made-by-you/

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Welcome to the public domain, Virginia Woolf's A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN (1929), a pivotal feminist essay by one of modernism’s most innovative writers, advocating for women's creative independence. 🖋️ Learn more. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025 #PublicDomain

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Welcome to the public domain, THE OPRY HOUSE (1929), where #MickeyMouse dons his iconic gloves onscreen for the first time & performs a one-🐭 vaudeville show! 🎞️ 🎭🧤 Learn more. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025 #PublicDomain #InternetArchive

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My pin of the day

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Welcome to the public domain, AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ (1929), the unforgettable jazz standard by Fats Waller, later inspiring a Tony-winning Broadway revue. 🎼🎷🎤 Learn more. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025

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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like: ⚓️ Popeye 🕵️ The Maltese Falcon 📖 The Sound and the Fury 🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms 🏠️ A Room of One's Own 🙌 Hallelujah 🎺 Bolero and many more! 🧵👇

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“During the Transatlantic Slave Trade, which began in the 15th century and continued “legally” until 1808 in North America, nearly two million people died during the brutal voyage due to horrific conditions.” calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

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#Edusky

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If you're looking for a lovely children's picture book about gratitude and community, I highly recommend the great Patricia McKissack's "What Is Given From The Heart" published in 2019. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/112100...

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🎂 SAVE THE DATE: Feb. 14, 2025! 🎂 This year Douglass Day is transcribing Black history with the Library of Congress! 💻 Crowdsourcing project on Black history 📽️ Live Broadcast 🍰 Great Douglass Day Bake Off 📣 Special guests! Join us online or host an event in your community! Info: douglassday.org

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“A selection of letters by formerly enslaved people to enslavers looking for lost family members.” informationwanted.org/exhibits/sho...

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“I undertake to ask from you a great favor; which might give you some trouble; but trusting your kindness I hope you will help me,” Frank Marten wrote in 1874 to his former enslaver who had sold him from his wife, Luci-anne, and his six sons….” storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d388...

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Howard Thurman on Jesus: " Wherever the Spirit appears, the oppressed gather fresh courage; for Jesus announced the good news that fear, hypocrisy and hatred...need have no dominion over them." (Jesus & The Disinherited)

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"She didn’t often hold a newspaper, but these newspapers, the Daily Kansas Tribune and the Western Home Journal, had a notice about her children. She had heard that some people used newspapers to look for missing family members." informationwanted.org/items/show/4...

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"Today, the advertisements are still relevant. They help us understand the importance of family to enslaved people. They show how the slave trade destroyed families all over the country, especially when family members were sold." informationwanted.org/items/show/4...

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We choose what matches our desires.

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Ordered! Looking forward @araujohistorian.bsky.social!

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Born in Birmingham, AL, Erin Leann Mitchell’s art is rooted in Black quilting traditions. Now in Harlem, her politically engaged, imaginative works merge history, culture, & current social currents, reimagining Black southern identity in transformative ways. #BlackArt #QuiltingTraditions

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#tdih 1951 Home of Harry T. & Harriette Moore in Mims, Florida was bombed by Klan — killing them both on their silver wedding anniv. #Terrorism The Moores (parents & teachers) organized with @naacp.bsky.social for voting & labor rights & against lynching. 🧵⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mo...

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I’ve been saying this for years - our taxes subsidize Walmart. Their business model: don’t pay living wages (host employee turkey drives instead). Suck resources from communities & shut down local businesses. But happy shareholders! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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You having holiday company? avoiceinramah.blog/2024/11/28/i...

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Also on this day, December 24, 1854 - Harriet Tubman sent a message to her bothers that the good old ship of Zion was on the way….and she snuck in and led them to freedom. (BTW I imagine her gearing her brothers were to be sold south, saying - I think TF NOT!) (Wesley Wofford, sculpture)

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Born this day December 24, 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee - the Ku Klux Klan - good christian men devoted to white supremacy and ending reconstruction in the South. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

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Turn folk against each other using focus-grouped emotional/wedge issues. The border! The babies! The DEI! Buy the media. The right fights the left. The middle class blames the poor. These guys walk off with the people’s safe, the people’s democracy, and the children’s future./1

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