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Out Now: "The Spirit of Justice" bit.ly/spiritofjustice | NYTimes bestselling author | PhD in History | HBCU professor @scky_1879

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It's not simply that Ruby Bridges is still alive and school desegregation wasn't that long ago. It's also that her parents made the agonizing decision for their daughter, at the age of 6, to be a trailblazer. They were forced to choose the common good over their child's comfort.

It's not simply that Ruby Bridges is still alive and school desegregation wasn't that long ago. It's also that her parents made the agonizing decision for their daughter, at the age of 6, to be a trailblazer. They were forced to choose the common good over their child's comfort.
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Lisa Blunt Rochester won election to the U.S. Senate from Delaware, becoming the state's first Black and first woman to serve in the role. She is the fourth-ever Black woman to serve in the Senate.

Lisa Blunt Rochester won election to the U.S. Senate from Delaware, becoming the state's first Black and first woman to serve in the role. 

She is the fourth-ever Black woman to serve in the Senate.
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Russia calling in bomb threats to polling places in liberal districts across the country should be bigger news right now. They’re interfering for Trump right in the open, right in front of our faces

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Russia wants Vice President Kamala Harris to lose, largely because of the Biden administration's policy in support of Ukraine, but also to instill and exploit division in the United States, Margaret Brennan reports. Russia is "trying to be agents of chaos, and the threat doesn't

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Given Trump’s and Musk’s calls with Putin how is this not the story of the century? Of at least the decade? Foreign powers calling in bomb threats to scare votes from voting SHOULD be a national emergency.

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Monroe Nichols claims victory in Tulsa Mayoral Election as first Black mayor in the city’s history 103 years after the Tulsa Race Massacre.

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No matter what happens tonight, the fascist movement in the United States is powerful and growing, and we all have to gird ourselves to fight it.

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His supporters don't fear him, because they don't believe government can accomplish anything (good or bad). All they really want is someone to blame for their problems, and he gives them plenty of names.

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If Mitch McConnell had used his power to lobby Republicans to convict Trump on impeachment charges after Jan 6 he never would have been able to run for president again

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TONIGHT at 7:30p ET 📺: Stephen Henderson talks with author and historian JemarTisby.Substack.com. about his book "The Spirit of Justice." Plus, September is Black Reading Month co-founder Malik Yakini discusses the observance and its history. Watch it on Detroit PBS or AmericanBlackJournal.org.