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Sherrilyn Ifill
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Like many who were enslaved when they were born, #FrederickDouglass did not know his birthdate. He adopted February 14th as his birthday. He remains among the most brilliant, fierce, eloquent,
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So excited. Starting now, the world premiere of #MyNameIsPauliMurray at @sundancefest. #PauliMurray was another among a litany of women like Ida B Wells, who many don’t know also challenged segregation
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Gentlemen, my problem with this argument is that they were teaching civics in school during Massive Resistance to Brown; during the violent resistance to the Little Rock 9, racist violent
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There’s a section of my book about lynching devoted to the complicity of white church leaders. So let me ask the obvious question: what are white preachers and Catholic priests
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If you now see consequential power of the Black vote this year, then you can begin to understand the desperate zeal & fervor w/which whites imposed grandfather clauses, poll taxes,
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Thinking over the moments that motivated me this year & how powerfully & clearly this country revealed itself. It was confirmation of all I have known, but I also learned
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Recently I spoke w/@AnandWrites about the need for institutions to take responsibility for their own role in America’s democratic decline. Like this. The @KCStar taking responsibility for its failures in
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UPDATE on Barr’s illegal Law Enforcement Commn. Oct 1 a fed ct found the Commn violated FACA. This week the ct issued a ltd use injunction allowing Barr to release
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With respect, this not the time for healing. We have not properly diagnosed the sickness or cleaned the wound. We have not begun to investigate why the illness it was
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It’s back to court in the #USPS suit today. @NAACP_LDF’s @SamSpital & @Public_Citizen at the helm. But first, let me share some of what we’re learning abt the meaning of
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I have a lot of work to do tonight, but this warrants a THREAD. The obscenely distorted narrative that white people embraced civil rights leaders during the Civil Rights Movement,
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I feel like every year I’m compelled to do this thread. But here we go again.https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1299776570463199232 Which days were these? When Muhammad Ali was stripped of his boxing license for
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