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A lil bit of education goes a long way! Happy Juneteenth❤️🖤💚

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Today marks 1 year since the death of George Floyd. The death that made the whole world stop and pay attention. Derek Chauvin’s actions towards George Floyd were senseless, horrifying, and unnecessary. Although Chauvin has been found guilty, there is still so much work to be done. There needs to be policies in place to protect and support the Black community. We challenge you to hold your elective officials accountable, get involved in your community, attend county and city meetings, and engage in uncomfortable conversations. The work is far from over.

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Say their names: Ma’Khia Bryant (16 years-old), Anthony J. Thompson Jr. (17 years-old), Isaiah Brown (32 years-old). They should be here today. No matter the circumstance, they should be here.

The verdict is in, Derek Chauvin has been found guilty on all three counts. This case is but a stepping stone in the grand scheme of work that needs to be done. The brutal murder of George Floyd was the spark that ignited the fury of a nation, and it’s also the reason we decided to start our nonprofit, Ready Set Reform. The path to justice must be forged, not just passively taken. We hope you will continue to join us on our journey.

Rest in Power forever and always, George.

The hateful crimes against the AAPI (Asian-American Pacific Islander) community are extremely heartbreaking. Since the rise of the pandemic the AAPI community has experienced even more racism and discrimination across the globe. We see you, we hear you, and we support you.

Today’s goes out to Harry and Harriet T. Moore. The Moore’s were the first couple to be killed in the Civil Rights era.

The Moore’s were teachers and actively fought for equal pay for Black teachers. In 1934, Harry Moore started the Brevard County NAACP, and steadily built it into a formidable organization. In 1937, in conjunction with the all-black Florida State Teacher’s Association, and backed by the NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall in New York, Moore filed the first lawsuit in the Deep South to equalize black and white teacher salaries. The Moore’s eventually began to investigate every single lunching Florida. Due to their political activism both Harry and Harriett were fired from their teaching jobs.

On Christmas Day, 1951, the Moore’s were killed when a bomb was placed beneath the floor joists directly under their bed. Harry died on the way to the hospital and Harriette died nine days later.

In 1952 the FBI launched a massive investigation of their deaths and Ku Klux Klan activity in Central Florida. The investigation pointed toward three Klan members, one of whom committed su***de the day after a FBI interview. The investigation slowed down Klan activity, but led to no arrests. Four dead Klansmen were implicated in the murders. After three investigations, the most recent review having been closed August 2006, the case is closed but remains unsolved.

The Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore Memorial Park in Mims, Florida honors the legacy and contributions of the Moore’s of the couple

Today’s goes out to the one and only Billie Holiday! She is a legend and an icon that will be remembered forever. Billie Holiday is known for singing “Strange Fruit. She was introduced to the poem “Strange Fruit,” a horrific depiction of lynching in the Southern United States. The music was written just for Billie and it became the hallmark of her concerts. It’s considered by scholars to be the first protest song of the civil rights era. The lyric was so controversial that her record label wouldn’t record it. Being the queen she is, she moved over to the independent Commodore Records where she could record and sing as she pleased. “Strange Fruit” immediately became a cultural spark-point and a hit record too.

Angela Davis is an educator and activist, well known for her involvement in a politically charged murder case in the early 1970s. She was charged with aiding the escape attempt of imprisoned Black radical George Jackson. Due to this, she served roughly 18 months in jail before her acquittal in 1972. Davis was involved with the Black Panthers and became a professor at UCLA.

Today, she is a Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Davis is the author of several books, including Women, Race, and Class (1980), Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (1999), Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003), Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (2005), The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues (2012) and Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (2016).

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