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Black stuff, history stuff, book stuff, Zelda stuff, human rights stuff, hiphop stuff, funny stuff, revolutionary stuff, ratchet stuff. please dont, "not all white people" me

1st Lt. Tyler Feehan Sgt. Michael Swinton Sgt. Angel Rampersad Pvt. Isabella Gonzales died in action in the Middle East
Atlanta Washer Woman Strike of 1881. Established better pay, respect, autonomy, and uniform base salaries
Trump reveals who he’s rooting for in World Cup final and tells Fox pregame he’s already asking for another The president said, ‘It’s hard to bet against’ the star he’s backing in Sunday’s big game Kevin E G Perry in Los Angeles Sunday 19 July 2026 15:03 EDT
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson by Tara T. Green
Me at the Carter G Woodson Father of Black History memorial in DC.
The 2026 Canadian wildfire season began slowly but at high risk, with over 888 active wildfires across the country in mid-July, primarily in Alberta, British Columbia, Northwestern Ontario and Saskatchewan. Wildfires were reported in at least eight provinces and two territories. https://en.wikipedia.org 2026 Canadian wildfires - Wikipedia
Skyscrapers in the distance obscured by smoke
The smoky air quality
Now the AQI has risen to 396
The Port Chicago 50. Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight For Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin
The Port Chicago Mutiny. The Story of the Largest Mass Mutiny Trial in US Naval History by Robert L. Allen
The Brownsville Raid by John D. Weaver
River Run Red. The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War by Andrew Ward
Black Soldiers, White Laws. The Tragedy of the 24th Infantry in 1917 Houston by John A. Haymond
AQI has risen to 254
Air quality index of 387, which is in the Hazardous range. Sandusky, Ohio
The current air quality of where I am. Says it's 222 which is in the range of very unhealthy
Left: Assata. An Autobiography by Assata Shakur right: Ida. A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings
A photo of me in all black standing next to the Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site in Richmond, Virginia. The Jackson Ward neighborhood was the "Black Wall Street" in the capital of the former Confederacy
So... This Is Why I'm Broke. Money Lessons on Financial Literacy, Passive Income, and Generational Wealth by Melissa Jean-Baptiste
The New York City Draft Riots. Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War by Iver Bernstein
These Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara
screenshot of a book that releases on Tuesday July 14. They Stole A City. Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with its Legacy by Lauren Collins
CNBC Names the 10 worst states to live in for 2026. 1. Tennessee (Worst) 2. Texas 3. Indiana 4. Lousiana 5. Georgia 6. Utah 7. Missouri 8. Alabama 9. Oklahoma 10. Arkansas
Midjourney is a generative artificial intelligence program and service created and hosted by the San Francisco–based "independent research lab" Midjourney, Inc. Midjourney generates images from natural language descriptions, called prompts, similar to OpenAI's DALL-E and Stability AI's Stable Diffusion.[1][2] It is one of the technologies of the AI boom.
Dog Whistle Politics. How Codes Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism & Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney López
Members of the Niagara Movement, established in 1905 on the Canada side of Niagara Falls
Days of Grace. A Memoir by Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad
A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit. The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune by Noliwe Rooks
some bullshit
One Nation Under God. How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin Kruse
Democracy Reborn. The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America by Garrett Epps
Some Of Us Did Not Die by June Jordan
a picture of YesJulz to make a point. In the vein of the Amber Roses, Bhad Barbies, Kim Ks, and Whoa Vickies who like to blackfish and appropriate the Black woman aestethic to ingratiate themselves to hip-hop culture but are more vulture or parasite than anything
The Condemnation of Blackness. Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
An alleged photo of a woman named Bernita, Bowlding....purported to be the same woman on the bus full of Patriot Front members. This picture depicting a mugshot after she'd been arrested for indecent exposure
a photo of an unknown Black woman in a green t-shirt sitting alone on a bus surrounded by Patriot Front members both standing and sitting directly behind and in front of her
The white militia group Patriot Front marching in DC on July 4, 2026...on the nation's 250th holding various flags including the American flag and the Confederate Battle Flag
Pitchfork Ben Tillman. South Carolinian by Francis Butler Simkins
A post I accidentally came across from Tammy Laurence today: I haven’t seen many headlines about this today but it’s important we never forget the Dallas Massacre of July 7th, 2016 wherein 5 law enforcement officers were ambushed and slaughtered at a BLM protest in Dallas. It was the deadliest incident for US law enforcement since 9/11. Never forget.