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Positive Black Content @miiriya.com · 13d

From Oaxaca, one of the Mexican cities with the highest percentage of Afro-Mexicans. Their ancestors were brought as slaves by the Spaniards during the colonial period, and they later integrated with Mexican society.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 13d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25d

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died

Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

www.whatimreading.net

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Rellyy Rell @rellyyrell.bsky.social · Sep 10

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 11

One teen is dead after a student fired on schoolmates at Evergreen High School in Colorado, injuring two before shooting himself

1 dead after student shoots 2 schoolmates, himself at Evergreen High School

One teenager is dead after a student fired on schoolmates at Evergreen High School in the Jefferson County foothills Wednesday, injuring two before shooting himself, authorities said.

www.denverpost.com

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · Sep 10

And that political violence never ended, it just morphed

———► @ojadeu.bsky.social · Sep 10

Slavery was 400 years of political violence.

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · Sep 10

Does it seems a little odd that the party that violently attacked our capitol is suddenly outraged with political violence?

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Agitator Supreme ✨ @loudmoufpisces.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Miss MeMe, Baby @phenomenalme.blacksky.app · Sep 10

Fred, Nat, and Malcolm did not die for you coons to do this shit out loud where we can see you.

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Sep 6

🔔 🔔 🔔

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Agitator Supreme ✨ @loudmoufpisces.bsky.social · Sep 3

Crime is at a 30-year low in DC. We’re just as baffled as our Chicago kin

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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · Sep 2

Black history is only jolting to those who’ve grown accustomed to white lies

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Agitator Supreme ✨ @loudmoufpisces.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thank you! 😊

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Agitator Supreme ✨ @loudmoufpisces.bsky.social · Sep 1

reskeet the spectacles, nerds 🤓

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Agitator Supreme ✨ @loudmoufpisces.bsky.social · Aug 30

But I will say I responded from a place where I see these two ideals pitted against each other — nonviolent approach vs a more confrontational approach.

The passive that I’m talking about is “passive action” that movements still need for success. Boycotts are a passive activity vs mass protest

Agitator Supreme ✨ @loudmoufpisces.bsky.social · Aug 30

I don’t think I was confusing the meaning but I will say I watched this and responded before I fully woke up. I will give it another listen when I’m in a grounded headspace.

Agitator Supreme ✨ @loudmoufpisces.bsky.social · Aug 30

Everyone cannot take to the streets whether it be physical, legal, immigration status, etc. We still need that “passive support” to create social change.

If a boycott is the only thing that some folks can currently do, I’m not poo pooing folks who can’t be on the street with me

Agitator Supreme ✨ @loudmoufpisces.bsky.social · Aug 30

I agree with Kwame Ture on most fronts but I also believe that boycotts still have a place in movement. Folks often forget that the Montgomery Bus Boycott was 381 days of sacrifice, mutual aid networks, and shifting narratives and personal politics.

Boycotts *can* and *do* work.

Sheba @shebatiti.bsky.social · Aug 30

youtube.com/shorts/pdIxR...

Kwame Ture Exposes America’s “No Conscience” Problem'' #america#blackhistory #shorts #blackamerica

YouTube video by BWBH

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Agitator Supreme ✨ @loudmoufpisces.bsky.social · Aug 30

The finesse. Folks either do too much or do too little

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · Aug 29

What is a lost art?

a woman is crying while singing into a microphone .

Alt: Beyoncé holding the microphone out to the audience.

media.tenor.com

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Agitator Supreme ✨ @loudmoufpisces.bsky.social · Aug 30

“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” — Dr. King
#BlackBookSky #BookSky

“Letters from Birmingham Jail” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Agitator Supreme ✨ @loudmoufpisces.bsky.social · Aug 29

“We must use our haunting to see how Black life truly is and see how it could be otherwise. We must live in an alternative Black temporality where we reach into the past to ‘reimagine a future otherwise.’” #BlackBookSky

“Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts” - Rebecca Hall

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Agitator Supreme ✨ @loudmoufpisces.bsky.social · Aug 29

“The quantitative historians couldn’t find a clear pattern, other than captives tried to revolt whenever they could. But one thing did stand out: The more women onboard a slave ship, the more likely a revolt.” #BlackBookSky

“Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts” by Rebecca Hall

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · Aug 27

So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning

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Agitator Supreme ✨ @loudmoufpisces.bsky.social · Aug 22

Yeah but don’t wanna do that shit again. Had two for a few months a couple years back and I ain’t got it in me lol

(And yes — they were aware of each other)

ELITE SIDE NICKGUR @bryantm.blacksky.app · Aug 22

Can you really handle two boyfriends????