⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵On February 3, 1893, Henry Smith was lynched in Paris, Texas. He was brutally tortured before being set on fire in one of the most grotesque lynchings in American history. Pull up a 🪑.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.thoughtco.com/1893-lynchin...
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“THE CONFEDERATE FLAG AIN’T RACIST—IT REFLECTS OUR DARN HERITAGE!!!”
Eddie Smith⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵On February 3, 1893, Henry Smith was lynched in Paris, Texas. He was brutally tortured before being set on fire in one of the most grotesque lynchings in American history. Pull up a 🪑.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.thoughtco.com/1893-lynchin...
Furious fucking furious. ICE has to end those fucking bastards . One by one needs to face justice. Just incredible furious
Today in 1944, 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank was arrested with her sister, parents and four others by the Gestapo after hiding for two years inside a building in Amsterdam. (Anne and her sister, Margot, died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.) #EndGenocide #FreePalestine
We rightfully talk about Ruby Bridges being the first Black child to integrate an all-white school in the South at 6-years-old. But we don’t talk nearly enough about Lucille Bridges, her mom ✨
Scottish activist Flora Drummond was a fearless operational leader of the British militant suffragette movement. Nicknamed "The General," she famously marshaled massive #WomensRights parades thru London & Edinburgh on horseback & wearing a military-style uniform. She was born #OTD in 1878.
Gaza mourns as 112 members of one family are buried after their bodies were retrieved from the ruins.
The world still weeps...now due to the resurgence of fascism in our nation... On this day in 1944 Anne Frank was arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police following a tip-off from an informer who was never identified... Her entire family except her father would be dead in less than a year...
Historian of science Margaret Rossiter (d #OTD in 2025) coined the term #MatildaEffect (1993). Named after suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage, the Matilda Effect describes a systemic bias where women's scientific achievements are ignored, minimized, or directly attributed to their male colleagues. 1/3
Treat incels as the violent extremists they are: “Misogynistic incel subculture — elements of which have become disturbingly mainstream — is a serious public safety threat.” An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Brownie McGhee during the Blues and Gospel tour of England, 1964.
Proud to support @francescahongwi.bsky.social for Wisconsin Governor. Medicare for All. Universal childcare. No corporate PAC money. Moratorium on AI data centers. This is the future Wisconsin deserves—a state where every single resident can thrive.
Ophthalmologist Dr. Agatha Aboe led the medical campaign in Ghana to eliminate trachoma (leading infectious cause of preventable blindness globally). It worked. Ghana became the 1st country in sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate the disease, 2018. Now she's helping other countries do it. #WomenInSTEM
Video shows worm-like creatures in drinking water at ICE detention center in California - Los Angeles Times #HumanRights #ICE www.latimes.com/california/s...
Thank you for your work as a shipyard welder during #WWII --for being one of the “Rosie the Riveters” -- and for spending your final years telling your story each Friday at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Homefront National Historical Park. Goodnight & godspeed, Jeanne Gibson.🕯️