If that's not enough identification to prove that he's a US citizen, imagine what's going to happen in states with voter ID laws during the mid-terms. #TheNewJimCrow #VoterSuppression

Happy Black History Month from the Valley of the Dolls! #BlackHistoryMonth2025 #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #history #the1619project #1619project #uncletomscabin #thenewjimcrow #themythofthenegropast #blackinblues #werefuse #smoketown #blackafhistory #civilrights #equality

Happy Black History Month from the Valley of the Dolls! #dolls #barbie #dollcollector #dollphotographer #BlackHistoryMonth2025 #blackhistorymonth #blacklivesmatter #blackhistory #books #readingbooks #bookclub #bookclubs #the1619project #thesoulsofblackfolk #thenewjimcrow

"Where there is no recognition of another's humanity, there is nothing but a void where possibility starves." -CA67-

#Writing #Quote

Waiting for sunrise - one of us rather impatiently.

#DogsOfBluesky

Until first light, there's #reading & #coffee.

#Booksky
#TheNewJimCrow
#History #Education

This is so fucking gross. A white supremacist from South Africa comes to this country and absolutely thrives…that tells you all you need to know about Amerikkka! #Musk #WhiteSupremacy #Apartheid #TheNewJimCrow

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#TheNewJimCrow
#BlackNonFiction
#BlackskyBookclub
#Blackbooksky
#BookSky📚💫
#BookChallenge #Day17

Just finished the 10th anniversary preface of this book and holy moly Michelle Alexander has already given me so much to think about!

#booksky #thenewjimcrow #michellealexander #nonfiction

What’s it going to be…let’s be real, some nature stuff mixed with social commentary 😝 #magnolia #superfund #creosote #thenewjimcrow #mississipi #drawing #collage #workinprogress #art

"Love those who are accepting. Ignore those who are critical. Walk away from those who are intolerant." -CA67-

#Writing #Quote

Post workouts but pre-walk with Hutch 🐾 there are pages to #read and #coffee to sip.

#Booksky
#History #Education
#TheNewJimCrow

The New Jim Crow review #TheNewJimCrow #MichelleAlexander #books #reading (Read May 2024)

This was informative and infuriating. I learned a lot and it was fascinating about our incarceration system. It's crazy.

#TheNewJimCrow #MichelleAlexander #BookReview

"the fictional glass places on a brutal system of racialized oppression and control" -- #michellealexander from #TheNewJimCrow

www.facebook.com/reel/1155430...

🎓 Mel A., BSc Sociology & Politics of Science student, shares thoughts on The New Jim Crow in conversation with Dr Jenny Bulstrode.

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4pJFnYj

#UCLSTS #StudentVoices #TheNewJimCrow #Sociology #PoliticsOfScience

“The United States has only been genuinely a democracy since 1965. Today the Supreme Court gutted the legislation that made it possible.” ~ Eddie S. Glaude, Jr
#TheNewJimCrow

Pay attention class... The "Ah ha!" moment explained... www.facebook.com/reel/1155430...

Lest We Forget:

"Give the power to the states" was also the pro-slavery argument in the 1850s -- and the pro-segregation argument in the 1950s.

Read that again. PSP
#TheNewJimCrow

Josie West reads "Water" to Chelsea Littlechap during Black History Month in the Valley of the Dolls. #water #BlackHistoryMonth2025 #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #1619project #uncletomscabin #thenewjimcrow #themythofthenegropast #blackinblues #werefuse #civilrights #equality

“When you try to stand up and look the world in the face like you had a right to be here, you have attacked the entire power structure of the Western world.”
- James Baldwin

#ThisISWhoWeAre
#MassIncarceration
#TheNewJimCrow
#JamesBaldwin
#antiracist

#NEWJimCrow
Since I first heard the term, #theNEWJimCrow, I've hated it.
Raises my anxiety.
Makes me #MAD&AshamedAmerica.
The term alone, not-to-mention the book and conversations, make it crystal clear how bad we've been.
How bad, worse really, we continue to be.

Separate Threads: 2 | #TheNewJimCrow #Incarceration 💡📚

This is really egregious.

There's a "poll tax" for people who are low-income ex-convicts. It may even be 900 USD in 2010 dollars. (Applies to: felony)

Predatory, classist debt collection. A poor person can be expected to

Plea deals for felony crimes are absolutely catastrophic for innocent people and must not be done, as hard as it may be.

The details are horrifying about just how many civil rights they lose and how easy it is to become homeless and lose children/family from there.

[2010]

#TheNewJimCrow #Prison

Still thinking about the stories of the dozen wrongfully imprisoned men I met yesterday. Envisioning them as CHILDREN (many were 17 & under when sentenced) sent to an adult prison & forced to pick f-ing cotton! Re-reading #thenewjimcrow now.

#prisonreform #injustice
#booksky

Black people don't hang themselves. And YouTube is Escalante this video.

daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...

#lynching #lynchings #whitesupremacy #whitenationalism #JimCrow #TheNewJimCrow #Americanfascism #racism #ACAB #DefundThePolice #fascism #Americanfascism

Lynching isn't only a thing of the past. This is one of the reasons why we should read Black history.

#lynching #lynchings #whitesupremacy #whitenationalism #JimCrow #TheNewJimCrow #Americanfascism #racism #ACA...
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #usaref="/hashtag/usa" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#usa #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists #fascism"/hashtag/fascism" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascism

👉 Vote 'em Out!