Innocence Project board member Yusef Abdus Salaam of the Exonerated Five said that his new council office has heard from hundreds of individuals who said that they are in prison for a crime that they didn’t commit. bit.ly/3IJ2r5K

Breaking news: Crystal Mason, the Texas woman who was sentenced to five years in prison for trying to submit a provisional ballot in 2016 that was rejected, has been acquitted on appeal. Story TK. Background: theguardian.com/us-news/2022/m…

Republicans in Tennessee just voted 66-25 to vacate the entire board of Tennessee State University, a historically Black college that has been underfunded by the state for decades.

Four straight Final Fours is just crazy. Congrats to South Carolina. This is going to be one helluva Final Four.

Two election cycles in a row, LDF challenged racially discriminatory maps b4 the Supreme Court only to have 1 decision issued aft the 2020 elections and 1 pending now. Watch All In with Chris Hayes explain how these delays undermine justice & our elections & disenfranchise Black voters.

As malnutrition weakens the immune systems of starving children in Gaza, 'this horror show for children becomes just as lethal on the ground as it currently is from the skies,' says UNICEF spokesperson James Elder. bit.ly/3PGByDy

For more than four decades, Louis Gossett Jr. has been a much-loved and respected actor among the television and film-watching public. Bringing a sense of race pride and masculinity to roles like “Fiddler” in the acclaimed television mini-series Roots (1977)

On this day in 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led civil rights demonstrators on their 3rd march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Today, as we struggle against voter suppression, we must always honor those who came before us and fought for progress! apnews.com/article/today-…

On this day in 1981, two members of the United Klans of America beat, strangled, hanged, and slashed the throat of a 19-year-old Black man named Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

After the civil war, Gullah Geechee people living in Hilton Head, South Carolina owned the majority of the land, and the area was about 98% Black in 1880. Now, Hilton Head is about 77% white. theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…

Ida B. Wells was one of our nation’s foremost critics of racial injustice through her journalistic and philanthropic endeavors.

She co-founded the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago in 1913 to educate Black women on how to cultivate Black candidates and ensure their votes. #WMH

Alabama has passed a bill seeking to ban state funding for diversity, equity and inclusion programs in state institutions

The bill bans any program that “advocates for a divisive concept”

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On this day in 1939, a young Black man named Lloyd Gaines disappeared just months after winning a desegregation case allowing him into an all-white law school. He was never seen again. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

#OnThisDay in 1970, Dana Elaine Owens — known professionally as Queen Latifah — was born in Newark, New Jersey. She broke barriers and set standards as a rapper, a singer, and an actress. #WomensHistoryMonth #NMAAHCHipHop

10 years after the Flint water crisis, residents have yet to see a penny from a $626.25 million legal settlement freep.com/story/news/loc…

BLACK UTOPIA?
The story of Buxton, Iowa, the multi-racial town that promoted racial equality in the late 1800s/1900s – and THRIVED, told by historian Rachelle Chase.
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BREAKING Philadelphia mass shooting: EIGHT students shot at a bus stop; 3 shooters, driver sought: FOX 5 DC article👇🏽
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'More than 6,000 voters in a newly formed congressional district drawn to heighten Black voting power in Alabama received postcards with incorrect voting information ahead of Tuesday’s primary' apnews.com/article/alabam…

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Give the queen her flowers (again): Dawn Staley is SEC Coach of the Year for the fourth time in five seasons.

Kamilla Cardoso is SEC Defensive Player of the Year.
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ʻThe most revolutionary thing one can do always is to proclaim loudly what is happeningʼ

- Rosa Luxemburg, born on this day in 1871