CheStyle

CheStyle

@chestyle.bsky.social

Loving the Motherland /ΔΣΘ/ GS Mom / Gatekeeper/ Luther Vandross fan / My ancestors are proud ✊🏾 **No DM’s**

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context from history.com “In 1947, only 2 of the more than 3,200 VA-guaranteed home loans in 13 Mississippi cities went to Black borrowers.“ “In New York and the northern New Jersey suburbs, fewer than 100 of the 67,000 mortgages insured by the GI bill supported home purchases by non-whites.”

Xela Hart@xelahart.bsky.social

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It has been 100 days since Nolan Wells went missing, and his family and community are still fighting for basic transparency. The U.S. legal system isn’t designed to deliver justice to Black, working class families.

colonizers re named this amazingly beautiful bird victoria indigenous people called her mam-bruk, imitating the sound she speaks into the environment

🌈Marlena🕊️@marlena-love.bsky.social

Victoria Crowned Pigeon (Goura victoria) the largest pigeon species in the world is native to New Guinea region. #bluesky #love

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Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

stop playing with Black women

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

was it lost?

Matthew Dowd@matthewjdowd.bsky.social

on this day in 1799 the "Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign." This Stone was a key to translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs, "unlocking 3,000 years of lost history and culture."

i need some Black history truth tellers to show up and create chaos #goodtrouble

Save the date! Our 12th Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses will convene at St. Edward's University, Sept. 25–26. Join us for thought-provoking discussions about introductory history courses and student success in Texas.

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In other "excellent news from religious bodies", the US Presbyterian General Assembly has formally voted to start the process to (correctly) declare white Christian nationalism a theological error incompatible with the teachings of Jesus: pres-outlook.org/2026/07/pcus...

pres-outlook.orgPC(USA) labels White Christian nationalism "Theological Error"Calling White Christian nationalism incompatible with the teachings of Jesus, commissioners approved a proposed constitutional amendment and a new policy statement opposing the ideology.

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Michelle Obama: You were doing the people's work, rescuing our economy, expanding health care, ending a war, ordering the bin laden raid, saving an auto industry, winning a peace prize.

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Michelle Obama: "No one has the right to sit in judgment of who is American enough. And that's why, folks, we simply don't have the luxury or time to be cynical or complacent."

"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time" -James Baldwin

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but what’s going on in the south right now with voting rights and erasure, is a “kitchen table issue” — for Black families. And it should be for everyone.

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State supreme court justices play a critical role in defending your rights and freedoms, which is why the election happening in Georgia right now is so important. Make sure you have a plan to vote for Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin.

i love us especially the young ones

SiriusXM Urban View@urbanviewradio.bsky.social

Congratulations to Kameirah Johnson for her art making Google's homepage. She's truly Black & Proud. #UrbanViewMornings www.opb.org/article/2026...