“You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away….a man is not a piece of fruit”

Emmy-Award Winner Carrie Preston

ELSBETH is on the case! Thursdays on @CBS

Working on 4 roles: a cop, a trainer, a general, and a spy.

United Airlines 2024 profits: $3.1 billion American Airlines 2024 profits: $1 billion Delta Airlinea 2024 profits: $3.5 billion Southwest Airlines 2024 profits; $465 million About $8 billion in all. Air traffic controllers aren’t getting to work - and the entire U.S. aviation sector is teetering - because they can’t put gas in their cars or pay for daycare. How hard would it be for airlines to create a $500 million air traffic controllers emergency fund and just send these guys a weekly stipend based on local costs of living so they can actually get to work and meet their obligations at home and keep the industry working in full? But at least Elon Musk is being generous and doing his part for America by…oh, wait, never mind.

Notice how he’s articulate, ANSWERS the questions, doesn’t stutter and actually makes sense‼️ He’s in his prime and will be working hard for THE AVERAGE AMERICAN PEOPLE for a long time‼️ So hopeful and refreshing‼️

For almost four decades, Nancy Pelosi has served the American people and worked to make our country better. No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed – and I will always be grateful for her support of the Affordable Care Act. She made us proud to be Democrats, and will go down in history as one of the best speakers the House of Representatives has ever had. Nancy, thank you for your leadership and your friendship. Michelle and I wish you and Paul the best in this next chapter.

On this day in 1862, the U.S. government sentenced 303 members of the Dakota people to death for participating in the U.S.-Dakota War. calendar.eji.org/racial-inju…

On this day in 1968, Shirley Chisholm became first black woman elected to the United States Congress.

African Americans should stop looking at a return trip to the motherland as a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage! Go Now! Go Often! For me it’s not how much we lost in the middle passage, but how much we held onto! Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the father of Pan Africanism, understood that.

LETTER FROM FREDERICK DOUGLASS TO HARRIET TUBMAN Rochester, August 29, 1868 Dear Harriet, I am glad to know that the story of your eventful life has been written by a kind lady, and that the same is soon to be published. You ask for what you do not need when you call upon me for a word of commendation. I need such words from you far more than you can need them from me, especially where your superior labors and devotion to the cause of the lately enslaved of our land are known as I know them. The difference between us is very marked. Most that I have done and suffered in the service of our cause has been in public, and I have received much encouragement at every step of the way. You, on the other hand, have labored in a private way. I have wrought in the day – you in the night. I have had the applause of the crowd and the satisfaction that comes of being approved by the multitude, while the most that you have done has been witnessed by a few trembling, scarred, and foot-sore bondmen and women, whom you have led out of the house of bondage, and whose heartfelt, “God bless you,” has been your only reward. The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witnesses of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism. Excepting John Brown – of sacred memory – I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than you have. Much that you have done would seem improbable to those who do not know you as I know you. It is to me a great pleasure and a great privilege to bear testimony for your character and your works, and to say to those to whom you may come, that I regard you in every way truthful and trustworthy. Your friend, Frederick Douglass.

“If you can’t get a vote on your record, don’t play us against each other.” I’m grateful for @TheRevAl’s powerful words of unity at @NationalAction this morning and against the cynical politics of fear and division.

Roy Clay Sr. is recognized as the Godfather of Silicon Valley. A key inventor at Hewlett-Packard (HP), he developed significant technologies, like the first integrated circuits for computers. He led the development of the HP 2116A minicomputer—the first computer sold by HP.

Rep Neguse talking to the press the way Democrats should talk to the feckless media. He handled that question spectacularly.

George was kidnapped and subject to undue punishment by the US government‼️

"You don't get freedom peacefully. Anyone who is depriving you of freedom isn't deserving of a peaceful approach." —Malcolm X These words that still resonate today.

The Black Narratives 1619-2143, a film making its NY Premiere 10/31. Innovation on 🔥 pilot.latakoo.com/asset/2214…

James Baldwin: When any white man in the world says "Give me liberty or give me death", the entire white world applauds When a black man says exactly the same thing, word for word, he's a criminal & treated like one and everything possible is done to make an example of him