LessonsInAfricanAmericanHistory
@LessonsAfrican
This account is dedicated to teaching and learning from African American History and Culture.
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We have another upcoming candidate forum for Chair of Commissioners and Tax Commissioners. Please join us in Austell at 7PM to learn about these candidates. We will have the virtual link in our bio on the day of event.
On this day in 1960, four black college students staged a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro, NC. They sparked a national movement across the country. Instructions were simple: sit quietly and wait to be served. #BlackHistoryMonth
Shut up. Taraji has the spotlight on her NOW. Ain’t no telling if/when she’ll have it again. So she’s using this moment to highlight what she and other Black Women face in the industry. Applaud her courage instead of critiquing it.
Taraji should have waited until after the Color Purple hype was over to speak publicly on her pay being too low.
Please take the survey titled "Community Priorities and Engagement Survey". Your feedback is important! surveymonkey.com/r/communityciv…
Get ready, Cobb County! 🗳️ Your chance to shape the future is here with the upcoming Municipal elections. 🌟 Don't miss out – let's make a positive impact together!
34 percent of Harvard students are white. 43 percent of those students are either legacies, children of faculty, kin of donors or a recruited athlete. 75 percent of them would not have gotten in if not for special status (National Bureau of Economic Research). But when in doubt,…
Thank you #cobbcounty for hosting the #Juneteenth2023 festival. We showed up and showed out for our community!
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” #JamesBaldwin
"I think it is one of the tragedies of our nation, one of the shameful tragedies, that eleven o’clock on Sunday morning is one of the most segregated hours, if not the most segregated hours, in Christian America." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
If moderates don’t take this country from the extremists, we’re in a lot of trouble. These people are not right, they are just the one’s holding the bullhorn.
#ArethaFranklin…singing to lift the soul of the 1950s-60s Civil Rights Movement and one of the Black women who was the soul of the movement. #WomenSoulOfTheMovement #BlackHistoryMonth
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Jim Crow aren’t “Black History” but European, American and World History. Our history is about a people with roots and hope, who suffered and challenged these evils as multi-faceted, dynamic, diverse beings. + Black History includes Black Joy.
There is no @VP or @staceyabrams without Fannie Lou Hamer and Ella Baker. Good morning.
Today's History Spotlight: Carter G. Woodson, The Father of Black History and founder of what is now Black History Month. biography.com/scholar/carter… upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm…
We need a Voting Rights Amendment to the Constitution. It needs to grant the right to vote to all citizens of the country. Instead of Amendments that state reasons people can’t be denied the right, the Constitution should just guarantee this right. #VotingRights
We all should want it to be “easy to vote, hard to cheat.” Unfortunately, because the voting laws being constructed & passed by many state legislators are in response to an extremely detrimental lie, that is not their authentic goal. Voter suppression is. We can’t allow that.
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