10 Black leaders you should follow on IG

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Good night 🌙 Just something to sleep on. • Claiming that you’re nice in this country and thinking that’s enough is like walking past a burning house and calling the flames pretty. • In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be antiracist.” — Angela Davis. • Because the truth is, lives are on the line. #dothework • p.s. thank you so much to those who are part of my @thegreatunlearn community who were engaged in last months topic of unlearning America Birth Story. The recording of our live Office Hours with our expert Valerie Wade of @lynnfieldhistorical is available now on our learning platform and the new syllabus for the month (which is simply the accompanying document to my public address) titled Revolution Now has been posted in case you missed it. • If you’re interested in being part of my self priced and self paced online community of (un)learners you can head to the link in my bio or take a peek at the FAQ in my highlights titled #TGU

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#sayhername BLACK WOMEN ARE NOT TO BE LEFT OUT OF THIS NARRATIVE! ✊🏽❤️💪🏽 (via @seethrunikki )

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I've never been as committed to anything as white supremacy has been to the destruction of Black people. Y'all can't stop trying to kill Black people – even in the middle of a pandemic that's already killing us.

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I see there is some confusion around Black Out Tuesday but whatever the confusion I’m ok with a day of rest and solidarity, especially for those of us who are carrying more than usual in this moment. I’m any event, if it’s true that we are to focus on Black folks today I want to share resources for *us* in this moment. Lots floating around for other folks to learn more about Black folks but Black folks actually need all kinds of support in this moment including learning and unpacking, joy and laughter, healing and peace. I already know I’ve forgotten a few like my girl @luvvie on the list so please feel free to share in the comments. If you resting today – I pray your respite is fulfilling. If you you are fighting today – I pray for a moment of respite for you. ❤️🖤💚 #BlackLivesMatter #WeAllWeGot Everyone is tagged! PS – The #BlackLivesMatter hashtag is PRECISELY for a post like this. The request is not to use it on BLACK BOX. Posts so that resources aren’t blocked. These are *resources* for Black people.

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And sometimes the headlines get it right. So grateful for this @hollywoodreporter interview discussing the work I get to do every single day. Such an honor. Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, is not merely an activist — she's a modern-day abolitionist. And as protests over racism, inequality and police brutality have exploded worldwide, Cullors says the answer does not lie in holding police accountable with better training and body cameras. Instead, she demands defunding law enforcement so that black and brown people can be free from what she calls a "well-funded army" that "occupies" them. (In the city of L.A.'s proposed 2020-21 budget, 54 percent of municipal funds would go to the LAPD.) #DefundThePolice Make up: @latoyaadeshaun Dress: @ovonion

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Power to the people‼️‼️‼️Stonewall was a riot. Not a parade or a dance party. It was a RIOT against the POLICE who consistently raided queer establishments, the only safe spaces where our people could gather in community. Our forebears were FED THE FUCK UP. Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera (pictured) and their comrades including Stormé DeLarverie were frankly OVER IT. And because of their RIGHTEOUS OUTRAGE and COURAGE to RESIST policing, surveillance, and brutality many of us benefit today. We cannot forget that the folks who were the first to push back were BLACK and BROWN TRANS and QUEER PEOPLE, and today, BLACK PEOPLE are still having to fight for our right to exist without threat. As you prepare to celebrate and mark pride, remember that equality has not been reached for us, and respectability politics (“doing it the right way”) has rarely worked for those most marginalized, invisibilized and silenced. #happypride #stonewallwasariot I AM CELEBRATING PRIDE BY GIVING TO @transjusticefp which redirects funds directly to grassroots trans justice groups run by and for trans people.

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#StayFocused #blacklivesmatter #GeorgeFloyd

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Black LIFE matters.

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🗣️PER MY PERVIOUS EMAIL, er, post: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🌳If we understand the roots of the tree, we understand the fruits of the tree. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🚔Property has always meant more to America than Black lives. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ‼️We know by how America treated Black lives when we were property. Slave Patrols never protected Black PEOPLE-they protected enslavers’ PROPERTY. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🧠Knowledge is power. Let’s keep learning so we can deepen our power. 📓Keep up the pressure from wherever you are via @colorofchange, fightforbreonna.org, and @CampaignZERO. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ My latest with @MSNBC. Let’s get free. ❤️✊🏾 #GeorgeFloyd #BreonnaTaykor

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