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Award-winning activist. influencer. @FwrdAxisLive staff writer. organizer. #WaterThePlanet
Oct 22, 2021 16 tweets 8 min read
Together we are making a difference. Please consider opening your hearts, to support #SaveFlintChallenge's Water The Planet campaign.

Your donation or RT helps provide clean water to families struggling with toxic water. #WaterThePlanet gofundme.com/f/SaveFlintCha… In America, we don’t turn our backs on our neighbors when they need help. After witnessing so many people ignore Flint and other areas in the U.S. struggling with unreliable water, I created my own campaign to provide safe drinking water. #SaveFlintChallenge #WaterThePlanet
Sep 24, 2021 10 tweets 2 min read
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine Black high-school students who challenged racial segregation in the public schools of Little Rock, Arkansas. These students became the center of the struggle to desegregate public schools in the United States, especially in the South. During the summer of 1957, Melba Pattillo, Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Minnijean Brown, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls, Jefferson Thomas, Gloria Ray, and Thelma Mothershed, enrolled at Little Rock Central High School, which until then had been all white.
Feb 17, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
The first bombs that ever fell on America fell on 'Black Wall Street' in Tulsa. During the Tulsa Race Massacre (Tulsa Race Riot), May 31-June 1, 1921, a white mob attacked residents, homes, and businesses in the predominantly Black Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Groups of white Tulsans—some of whom were deputized and "given weapons by city officials" committed numerous acts of violence against Black people, including shooting an unarmed man in a theater. They lied about an insurrection among Black Tulsans so White people could kill.