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Allie Rougeot
AlienorR2
I saw many Canadians talking about #Juneteenth this year. In Canada, we should talk about August 1st, Emancipation Day. #EmancipationDay marks the anniversary of the Slavery Abolition Act in 1883,
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Dorien
DorienPaul
THREAD: In the spirit of #Juneteenth , my birthday wish this year is for folks to join me by contributing to some of my favorite black candidates that are centering
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Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi
roywoodjr
Black folk, might be time for us to give a statue to the camera phone. Done as much for fighting racism as MLK, Malcom & Farrakhan combined. At minimum, the
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Amanda Marcotte
AmandaMarcotte
This is too wildly specific to be an accident. Like, they did not just happen to use the same symbol to demonize leftists that Nazis used.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/18/trump-campaign-runs-ads-with-marking-once-used-by-n
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Lupe Mendez
thepoetmendez
Yt folks romanticize the founding of Texas: 1)it wasn’t “The South” 2)it was its own nation 3)it was a rebel stateThe truth: broke ass country hick white men didn’t like
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bianca
CHANELFALLS
happy juneteenth everyone, this is an important day so please educate yourselves!!
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Anand Subramanian
asubramanian
COVID-19 is highlighting the failures of a cruel and bloated system — policing@agb4equity and I discuss in this piece and lift up resources and campaigns to invest in community, not
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VP Harris ⚔️⚔️
Lappos
Please report this @gofundme for libel. @ghostoftherepublic is a white supremacist. This white supremacist plotted a plan to “deplatform” a Black woman activist ON JUNETEENTH. @ghostoftherepublic is targeting Black women
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Joe Rivano Barros
jrivanob
Nearby statue of Ulysses S. Grant is also toppled. He was a slave owner too, before the Civil War. That’s three for three this night. A few folks left against
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ctrlgbtq
#juneteenth a thread of different petitions and tweets that help better understand what juneteenth is
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Dorje Gurung, ScD (h.c.)
Dorje_sDooing
Howcomewe in #Nepalaren't callingto #defund the #police?How much more evidencedo we need to conclude thatwe have been & still are a Police State?https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/19/business/ben--jerrys-defund-police-juneteenth/index.
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Jess Nevins
jessnevins
I don't have a good #Juneteenth story, but I did discover some interesting stories from the life of two people who had been enslaved. They weren't freed until the
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The Hoarse Whisperer
TheRealHoarse
I was not taught about Juneteenth in school. And I grew up in New York City’s Washington Heights about 15 blocks past Harlem for the first 2/3 of my schooling.The
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Zadiko Tea Co.
zadiko
Here's a thread of Black owned tea companies you should consider buying from on this day and every day. I'm discovering new ones all the time so please feel free
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Patrice Peck #SupportBlackJournalists
SpeakPatrice
A THREAD: It’s disorienting, the way historically white-staffed media outlets & white editors have overnight developed this thirst for Black writers, esp. those whose pitches and work have always centered
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The Nap Ministry
TheNapMinistry
Emerging from a 3 week Sabbath and one of the things solidified for me is people truly don't want you to rest. There is no model for folks to understand
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