🧵🧵Below are the Black candidates for US House and US Senate. These are new candidates* Please follow all of these candidates! 🧵🧵🧵

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Alabama/Arizona
Will Boyd- US Senate @willboydforAL
Phyllis Harvey-Hall AL-02 @PhyllisDHHall
Kathy Warner-Stanton AL-05 @Kathy_Congress
Jevin Hodges AZ-01 @JevinHodge

🧵🧵🧵 Here is the Black candidate list for primaries that have not taken place yet! As you will see, a few primaries are crowded with Black folks. I will note those who are not in a competitive primary as well as those who are moving ahead after 6/28!
🔽🔽🔽🔽 AZ-01 Jevin Hodge

FL-04 Anthony Hill
FL-04 Lashonda Holloway
FL-07 Karen Green
FL-10 Jeffrey Boone
FL-10 Randolph Bracy
FL-10 Corinne Brown
FL-10 Terence Gray
FL-10 Natalie Jackson
FL-11 Shante Munns ***
FL-23 Allen Ellison
FL-26 Christine Alexandria Olivo***
Val Demings Sen

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This is an historic year for new Black candidates! Below is a list of nominees. Please show these candidates some love and uplift them. These are Black Democrats. Most are in red areas that need flipping! They are given little to NO media. If you have family or friends in these areas please inform them and spread the word! I will keep updating this list as the primaries happen 🔽🔽🔽

AL
Phyllis Harvey-Hall AL-02
Kathy Warner Stanton AL-05
Will Boyd-Senate
Yolanda Flowers- Governor

On May 19, 1918, Mary Turner, a Black woman who was eight months pregnant, was lynched by a white mob from Brooks County, Georgia, at Folsom’s Bridge 16 miles north of Valdosta for speaking publicly against the lynching of her husband the day before. A white mob bound her feet /1 hanged her from a tree with her head facing down, threw gasoline on her, and burned the clothes off her body. Mrs. Turner was still alive when the mob took a large butcher’s knife to her abdomen, cutting the unborn baby from her body. When the baby fell from Mary Turner, a member

The Election Massacre of 1874, or Coup of 1874, took place on election day, November 3, 1874, near Eufaula, Alabama in Barbour County. Freedmen comprised a majority of the population and had been electing Republican candidates to office. 1/13 Members of an Alabama chapter of the White League, a paramilitary group supporting the Democratic Party's drive to regain political power in the county and state, used firearms to ambush black Republicans at the polls. In Eufaula, members of the White League killed an estimated

The Opelousas Massacre occurred on September 28, 1868 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. The event is also referred to as The Opelousas Riot by some historians. There is debate as to how many people were killed.  1/11 Conservative estimates made by contemporary observers indicated about 30 people died from the political violence.  Later historians have placed the total as closer to 150 or more.
While most Reconstruction-era violence was sparked by conflicts between black Republicans and white

The city of East St. Louis, Illinois was the scene of one of the bloodiest race riots in the 20th century.  Racial tensions began to increase in February, 1917 when 470 African American workers were hired to replace white workers who had gone on strike against the Aluminum Ore Company.

The violence started on May 28th, 1917, shortly after a city council meeting was called.  Angry white workers lodged formal complaints against black migrations to the Mayor of East St. Louis.

On December 7, 1874, raging white mobs bombarded a large number of Black people in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
The Blacks had organized a civic assembly in support of a legitimately elected Black sheriff who was unjustly overthrown. During the Reconstruction Era, which succeeded the Emancipation and Civil War, Black Mississippians made significant race-based progress toward fairness and justice.

The Clinton Riot began on September 4, 1875, in the small town of Clinton, Mississippi at a Republican rally to introduce the party’s candidates who were running for political office in the upcoming November elections. blackpast.org/african-americ… The immediate death toll included five blacks and three white men.  Over the next several days, an estimated fifty blacks were killed in the massacre that followed.