Reposted by @blerdceejay.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/03/2025A reminder for these times. 6458207217561 82.1K
Reposted by @blerdceejay.bsky.socialChris Jackson X ✊🏾 @realchrisjackson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025 0431 43
Reposted by @blerdceejay.bsky.socialHoward French @hofrench.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I'm sorry, but this is quietly amazing—and just. Lots of Garvey in my frthcoming book, The Second Emancipation: apnews.com/article/bide...apnews.comBiden pardons the late Black nationalist Marcus Garvey as well as 4 others and commutes 2 sentencesPresident Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other Black civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. 0192 19
Reposted by @blerdceejay.bsky.socialVirgo Blade @virgoblade.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Storm, Blue Marvel, Miles Morales Spider-Man, Blade, Luke Cage, Monica Rambeau, and more at a cookout. I needed to see these Black superheroes hanging out, and Sam brought Steve Rogers, lol. Sam Wilson: Captain America Issue 1 is my favorite comic of the week. @gregpak.net @evnarc.bsky.social 613025 130
Reposted by @blerdceejay.bsky.socialThe TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 04/12/2024On Dec. 4, 1969, Illinois Black Panther Party chapter Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton was assassinated in a coordinated effort by the FBI, Chicago police and Cook County State’s Attorney Office. This mural in Chicago honors him and Mark Clark, also killed in the raid. thetriibe.com/2023/06/in-c...thetriibe.comIn Chicago, Black history is everywhere • The TRiiBEResidents, family, and volunteers preserve Black history by creating public art, museums, and fighting for landmark status. 6524242 524
Reposted by @blerdceejay.bsky.socialHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 04/12/2024On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI 101121559 1.1K
Reposted by @blerdceejay.bsky.socialIsaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024South Korea showed today what happens when people with a backbone stand up to a tyrant and do something about it. Strength, unity, and outright defiance of autocracy. Powerful to watch!!! 12497103 497
Reposted by @blerdceejay.bsky.socialPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Illinois has put an end to the injustice of cash bail. And it’s working better than anyone expected.thenation.comIllinois Has Put an End to the Injustice of Cash BailAmid a national backlash against criminal justice reform, Illinois has achieved something extraordinary. It’s working better than anyone expected. 9858931693 5.9K
Reposted by @blerdceejay.bsky.socialThe MAGA Trigger @magatrigger.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Religion does NOT belong in our schools! Agreed? ✋ 24377363310760 73.6K
Reposted by @blerdceejay.bsky.socialSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 29/11/2024The meme I didn't know I needed 9745839111304 58.4K
Reposted by @blerdceejay.bsky.socialSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 26/11/2024I think about this often. “In 2008, Drake appeared in blackface in a photo shoot for the Canadian fashion label Too Black Guys. The photos, taken by David Leyes, were for a line released that year called Jim Crow Couture.” www.businessinsider.com/drake-blackf... 108574111 574
Reposted by @blerdceejay.bsky.socialAnnaische 🇮🇪 🏳️🌈📚 @annaische.bsky.social · 21/11/2024 21879155 879
Reposted by @blerdceejay.bsky.socialChris Jackson X ✊🏾 @realchrisjackson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Black Panther Party Publication: June 14th 1969 📌 Capitalism + Racism = Fascism 🧵 #BlackSky #BVM #BlackBookSky #USPOL www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ugnuy... 411431 114
Reposted by @blerdceejay.bsky.socialRead With Mama K @readwithmanak.bsky.social · 21/11/2024OMG S.A. Cosby is dropping a new book on June 10, 2025. Mark your calendar and gather your coins y’all! #BlackBookSky #BlackReadersSky #BookSky 512727 127
Reposted by @blerdceejay.bsky.socialBird (he/him) @birdobserver.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever. #books #reading #booksky #poetry 467358667613 35.9K
Reposted by @blerdceejay.bsky.socialSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Strikingly, the only group that responded en mass and IMMEDIATELY to the neo-Nazi march this weekend in Columbus was a group of black men. Everyone else? Oh, they put out statements. Black men linked arms and marched the NEXT day. And this is why I say “Godspeed” to everyone who ain’t us.matternews.orgThe only weekend march that mattered – Matter NewsLess than 24 hours after a dozen or so masked Nazis walked the streets of the Short North on Saturday, Brian Winston, president of 100 Black Men of Central Ohio, helped lead a counterdemonstration mea... 6351261114 5.1K