‘The Pill’ EP is now streaming on my Bandcamp page.
rrisns.bandcamp.com/album/the-pill
Wrote a book report on Wilma Rudolph and I was just amazed!
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Showed him the way out. He did the Great Migration North. Used that service to add those additional points to those government job applications. Wound up working for the VA where he would retire from with full benefits. Those government jobs helped him put three daughters thru college.
🏳️🌈 Remembering the 49 souls lost to an act of terrorism at the Pulse nightclub ten years ago today. 🏳️🌈
My father was born poor in the rural Jim Crow South.
He enlisted at 19 before Pearl Harbor.
Even though he put on the uniform and spent 5 years in the Army.
Even though he was part of that ONE MILLION BLACK VETERANS DENIED THEIR GI BILL BENEFITS.
He never regretted his service.
As a child, Wilma Rudolph survived polio and spent years wearing a leg brace.
At the 1960 Olympics in Rome, she became the first American woman and the first Black woman to win three gold medals at a single Olympic Games.
#SheShed
Rusty Redenbacher Is Nasty Slim
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Spencer Pratt appears to concede election in aggressive video threatening Bass and Raman
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And yes, it was an act of terrorism.
www.fbi.gov/history/case...
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But now, we have a Secretary of Defense (I won't call it the other) who wants Black people, if not out of the military completely, limited. Promotions capped. Careers stalled. Families impacted. Backward steps.
But white people, left and right, don't care. Silence is complicity.
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Despite the discrimination rampant when they joined, they proudly wore their uniforms. They were proud Americans. They believed in service and duty.
Black people have served in every war and conflict, including the Revolutionary War.
They believed in the promise of what America could be.
Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗
Three of my dad's brothers served. First-generation Americans of West Indian parents. The military was both a way to give back to the country, establish their own families, and see their children go even further with education, professions, etc. 1/
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