Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 03/02/2025At the 1908 London Olympics, Taylor became the first African American to represent the U.S. in international sports. (4) 000
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Taylor enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 1903 and joined the varsity track team in 1904. He set records in the 440-yard run at the IC4A championships in 1904 and 1907. Despite a hiatus from school, he returned to earn a degree in Veterinary Medicine in 1908. (3) 100
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 03/02/2025He attended Central High School in Philadelphia, where he excelled in track as the only African American on the team. After graduating in 1902, he spent a year at Moses Brown Preparatory School in Rhode Island, running for an undefeated track team. (2) 100
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 03/02/2025In 1836, he became Governor of Maryland County in Liberia and remained in that office until he died on June 9, 1851, at the age of 52. Samuel Eli Cornish died in Brooklyn, New York, on November 6, 1858. He was 63. (12) 000
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 03/02/2025However, that publication survived only for eight months. In 1829, John Brown Russwurm earned a Master of Arts degree from Bowdoin and emigrated to Liberia by November of that year. (11) 100
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 03/02/2025By this time, however, many financial supporters of the newspaper halted their involvement, and on March 28, 1829, Freedom’s Journal ceased publication after releasing only 103 issues. In April 1829, Samuel Cornish revived the newspaper, changing its name to The Rights of All. (10) 100
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Russwurm embraced the controversial American Colonization Society, a predominantly white organization that worked to return free blacks to its West African colony of Liberia, a stand increasingly opposed by many Northern African Americans. (9) 100
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 03/02/2025In September 1827, Cornish resigned as co-editor of Freedom’s Journal because of disputes with cofounder Russwurm, leaving him the sole editor. Russwurm shifted the focus of the paper, which now began promoting the idea of emigration of Black Americans to Africa. (8) 100
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 03/02/2025The paper’s primary focus, however, remained the campaign to end slavery in the South and fight racial discrimination in the North. (7) 100
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 03/02/2025The paper had a classified section that included a listing of schools, jobs, and affordable places to live. There was also a social section that printed information about birth, death, and wedding announcements. (6) 100
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Freedom’s Journal was entertaining and informative. Its pages included articles regarding improving education, health, and living conditions for the over 300,000 free Black women and men living in the northern states of the U.S. (5) 100
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Cofounder Samuel Eli Cornish, born in Sussex County, Delaware, and a graduate of the Free African School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, also founded Shiloh Presbyterian Church, the first Black Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, in 1822. (4) 100
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 03/02/2025The newspaper was founded on March 16, 1827, at 5 Varick Street in Lower Manhattan, New York, by Jamaican-born John Brown Russwurm, Bowdoin College’s first African American graduate and only the third Black person to graduate from an American college. (3) 100
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 03/02/2025In its early years, it distributed more than 800 copies throughout 11 states and the District of Columbia. It reached as far as Canada, Haïti, and the United Kingdom for an annual subscription cost of $3.00. (2) 110
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 21/01/2025For the next four years please remember to not engage!! It’s a thrill for certain people to get off on being ignorant and rude. DO NOT ENGAGE!! Don’t try to prove them wrong, do not try to argue your case, just leave them alone to talk to themselves or you can simply block them. 010
Reposted by SheemikaGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/01/2025No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power. 34436618514882
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Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Either Shou is stroking Trump ego or he kissed the ring. Trump isn’t going to do anything that doesn’t benefit him. 010
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 19/01/2025TikTok is slowly coming back up. This isn’t good, Mr. Shou sold out and it will now be a propaganda social media platform. The government is about to do what they claimed China was doing. They are now about to feed us what they want us to see and spread lies even further. 000
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Trump has to let people know it was him just like he did with those stimulus checks. 000
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 19/01/2025She could have cut his mic and told him to leave. I don’t understand why the msm keep having these idiots on their shows. It’s propaganda and they lie continuously. This is why no one watches the news anymore. Did she challenge him? Did she tell him he was lying? 020
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 19/01/2025How much does he want from Shou? He’s going to want government control and we will be just like China and Russia. I swear I hate that man! 000
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 19/01/2025He owes those three billionaires and they are going to collect. He will enrich them while he also enrich himself and his millionaire friends. We are doomed as long as he is in office. 010
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Trump and other republicans want the U.S. to be so much like the countries they so call hate. China is Russia is who they are trying to make us be like. Trump wants to be a dictator and the idiots on Capitol Hill are going to help him achieve it. 000
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Just the way republicans wanted it to happen. Trump will come in to save it like he wasn’t the one who started the talks to begin with. 000
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 19/01/2025I’m so angry. The millions of people who lost our right to free speech and freedom of expression. The millions of people who lost their livelihood, the resources we no longer have access to. 130
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 20/11/2024You can’t say you’re looking out for women and girls while defending Donald Trump and Matt Gaetz. 020
Sheemika @sheemika.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Here is a list of the MAGA rejects that you can block, they won’t be able to interact with you. Just hit subscribe and block. Anyone who adds the list will automatically be blocked from you. 2168