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Elizabeth Warren
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#BlackHistoryMonth starts today: a time to honor African Americans and their powerfully important contributions to our country. All month, we’ll be celebrating black women & the barriers they've broken – often in the face of systemic racism.
Let’s start #BlackHistoryMonth by honoring Fannie Lou Hamer: a fierce civil rights leader. Fannie Lou championed women’s rights, voting rights & workers' rights. She endured violence to help thousands of people register to vote & fight illegal segregation. washingtonpost.com/news/retropoli…
Today on her birthday, we celebrate a powerfully important voice in the fight for racial justice: #RosaParks. Her courageous act on a Montgomery bus changed the civil rights movement & showed our country the power of protest. cnn.com/2018/12/01/us/… #BlackHistoryMonth
Coretta Scott King was a civil rights hero, dedicating her life to the fight for racial & economic justice. Nobody can silence her powerful legacy. #ShePersisted theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… #BlackHistoryMonth
At Stonewall and through decades of activism, Marsha P. Johnson helped light the spark for LGBTQ+ rights and lead the charge for a more equal America. We won't stop fighting until everyone is free to be who they are & live without fear. #BlackHistoryMonth nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Melnea Cass, the “First Lady of Roxbury," was a beloved leader of MA's civil rights fight – registering voters, protesting racist hiring practices, fighting education inequality, & leading the @BostonNAACP1911. boston.cbslocal.com/video/4016611-… #BlackHistoryMonth
Joycelyn Elders served as our country’s first African American Surgeon General. She grew up attending a segregated school, before joining the Army & earning her MD. She is a groundbreaking advocate for women’s health & access to health care. statnews.com/2016/09/07/joy… #BHM
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Dear Howard Schultz: if you’re looking for bold ideas with broad bipartisan appeal for your “centrist” presidential campaign, may I suggest my #UltraMillionaireTax? vox.com/2019/2/4/18210…
With the revenue from the #UltraMillionaireTax, we could provide universal childcare for working parents across America. A path to student debt relief for those who need it. Down payments on a Green New Deal & Medicare for All. Schultz might not need those things. America does.
Middle-class families are sick of stagnant wages & exploding costs. They're sick of a Washington that works only for the wealthy & the well-connected. They don't want to replace a self-absorbed billionaire President with another one. Americans want real change. We should listen.
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Elizabeth Warren
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While @realDonaldTrump brags about his "nuclear button," his admin keeps increasing the risk of nuclear war. The White House wants billions to upgrade nukes, the national security advisor hates arms control treaties, & we just began withdrawing from one. nytimes.com/2019/02/01/us/…
Yes, Russia has violated the INF Treaty. But our response shouldn't be to walk away, let Russia deploy as many missiles as it wants, & put our European allies back in the crosshairs of conflict.
Here's how we prevent a nuclear conflict:

1. Don't build new nukes.
2. Don't undermine arms control treaties that protect America & our allies.
3. Commit to never using a nuke first.

@realDonaldTrump is doing the opposite on all three. And that makes America less safe.
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Elizabeth Warren
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It turns out the big bank CEOs & the executives on Wall Street are scared that we want to hold them accountable & make them pay their fair share. Good. They should be. And here’s why: politico.com/story/2019/01/…
CEOs should be held personally accountable when they cheat & bring the economy to its knees. No bank should be too big to fail. And if you’re among the top 0.1% of America's richest households, you should pay your fair share in taxes so we can rebuild our middle class.
Our economy is rigged against working people – & especially rigged against people of color. The wealthy & well-connected have enormous power in Washington. It’s time to make real, structural change to our economy, our govt & our politics to fix it.
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Big Blue
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do you know about elaine phillips?

people from #Louisiana, #Mississippi, #Tennessee, #Alabama & #Missouri might know

just so you know elaine phillips was not a:
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man
human

elaine phillips was an horrific event which happened in #Arkansas
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black sharecroppers worked in fields w/o fair share of profits

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whites also enacted a system designed to keep blacks in debt to keep control of the community
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so, black farmers gathered at church to unionize

white security guards circled building, shots were fired & a white security officer was killed
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Nikki Nice
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#blackhistorymonth “Losing that first race (1989) for City Council years ago was probably the best thing that could have happened. It motivated me to work harder to become a force for change."
Willa Johnson was the first AA Woman elected to Oklahoma City Council in 1993
and the sixth woman since the city incorporated in 1890. Willa Johnson really wanted to be a jazz singer when she was growing up. City and county politics was the last thing on her mind, politics didn’t come into the picture until she retired. Then a whole new career took off.
As a councilmember Ms. Johnson was instrumental in the redevelopment of the Eastern Golf Course, now known as the James E. Stewart Golf Course, in providing for expanded public transportation in far Northeast OKC, the rehabilitation of most northeast community centers,
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Razan Idris
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#BlackHistoryMonth is a great time for Arabic teachers in the US to stop venerating "The Yacoubian Building" and to start

a) assigning Arabic novels that interrogate racism,

b) teaching books written by black Arabic-speakers,

c) reading Arabic translations of black writers.
Check out this 1970s Sudanese translation of African American (male) writers:
Idris Ali in Egypt has written several stories about the experience of Nubians across Egypt and Sudan. alfaisalmag.com/?p=3826
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Judith Weisenfeld
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Since a lot of the recent #AmRel discussion on here with reference to Phillis Wheatley didn't seem to be about her or Black women and religion in antebellum America, I offer a brief (and in no way comprehensive) bibliography for those areinterested in some good reads.
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Complete Writings by Phillis Wheatley
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/332905/c…
2/
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture's online library of Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers
digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writ…
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Alright ayo it's @Claystanman here and for #BlackHistoryMonth we're thinking it'll be a good idea to try and spread knowledge of the history of Black American/African solidarity with and black folks' presence in #SouthAsian resistance.
Bayard Rustin, a gay black man who worked in movements for civil rights, socialism, and gay rights (later known as one of MLK's foremost organizers) organized the Free India Committee & was often arrested for protesting against British colonialism in Africa and India in the 40s.
Bayard's work in supporting the Indian independence movement was reflective of his internationalist approach.

He also participated in the March for Survival at the Thai-Cambodian border in 1980, and in 1982 founded the National Emergency Coalition for Haitian Rights.
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Today marks the start of #BlackHistoryMonth, and we will be honoring historic black LGBTQ activists, writers, politicians, entertainers and thinkers all month long.
1/ Audre Lorde was a black lesbian feminist, scholar and activist whose work powerfully speaks to the intersections of racism, sexism, and homophobia.

In the words of Lorde, "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own."
2/ Lorde's legacy lives on in The Audre Lorde Project -- an LGBTQ Community Organizing Center based out of NYC that serves the most vulnerable members of the queer community with a commitment to community wellness and racial and economic justice. @audrelorde
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