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Sarah Mearhoff

sarah_mearhoff

A Minneapolis police officer kneeled on George Floyd's neck for several minutes during a police stop last night, according to a video of the incident. Another officer is seen standing

Greater Ohio Policy Center

GreaterOhio

This weeks #GOPCThread provides highlights from our webinar jointly hosted w/ @landpolicy on our new report "Equitably Developing America’s Smaller Legacy Cities" featuring great examples of #EquitableDevelopment from @DorianAHu

Matta

matta28x

A thread of inspirational black people that make me proud of the colour of my skin: 1 - Isaac Wright Jr was wrongfully convicted for running large drug distribution networks

David French

DavidAFrench

So my former colleagues at @AllianceDefends are under fire. A few things:First, ADF is so "hateful" that it recently joined with the ACLU and NAACP to press for the single-most

Dennis S Brotman 🇺🇸 #DemCast #DemCastGA

DenbrotS

#IDedicateThisWeekTo Ida B. Wells, AfAm investigative journalist, educator, &early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She a founder of the NAACP.Wells investigated lynchings, exposing w/interviews that black men were lynched

CEDR Digital Corps

CEDRdigital

1/n #CEDRdigital is a non-political nonprofit org that provide info/resources on disaster preparedness & relief. The past days have been very difficult for many in our family of volunteers but

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

So much of history has been whitewashed for the sake of making it palatable for white consumption that we are starting to perpetuate things that are not only misconceptions, but

Wyatt, Austere Deplorable

austere1717

Not strictly tied to the KKK, but I think it deserves mention that Democrats have supported gun control for a long, long time -- originally it was explictly race-based: an

Mayowa like Iowa

mayowaaina_

I'd like to share a little story about answering the newsroom tip line. Follow along. When we're in the newsroom, the tip line sort of takes turns ringing on all

kuromi

lilspice666

stans of rbg being like "well the NAACP mourns after her!" as if the naacp wasn't founded by a group of 6 white people and two (2) black people.. the

Zinn Ed Project

ZinnEdProject

"If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one." -- Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, born #tdih 1917 in Montgomery Cty, Miss. Hamer and thousands more Mississippians

Emma Epperly

epperly_emma

Here at the Red Wagon in Riverfront park ahead of the #Spokaneprotest following the shooting of #JamesBlake. People are slowly gathering as a speech from MLK plays over the sound

African American Research

AfAmResearch

1/25 Today with our partners @naacp and @ERIC_Yale we released the findings from our poll of African Americans on COVID-19. You can find slides of the data here: http://www.africanamericanresearch.us The

Legal Defense Fund

NAACP_LDF

BREAKING: Today we released a report detailing the flawed grand jury process in which Attorney General Cameron’s office tailored their presentation, which was rife with bias, to protect law enforcement.

Zaid Jilani

ZaidJilani

Social media is having a similar effect on elected Democrats that talk radio had on elected Republicans starting in the 1990's -- viral bits of information that are misleading or

fuck blue lives

D4RI4N

to white people attending protests: if and when police show up, don’t pull out your phone and start recording. get in between black protestors and cops. your bodies and your