As we close out #BlackHistoryMonth, let’s make sure our voices are heard loud and clear by going to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) February 27, 2020Posts Tagged ‘common
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Chat Away
THIS PICTURE WILL NOT BE LOST IN HISTORY. RETWEET IT. POST IT. PRINT IT. FRAME IT. SPREAD IT. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 https://t.co/XVgRYnFtsl
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got It Out The Mud 🌱 (@jayherbo910) January 21, 201826
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"Strong men don’t need to put down women to feel powerful" Michelle Obama. https://t.co/L3hxUfJBHe
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COMMON (@common) October 18, 201720
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POTUS 44. Hip Hop 44
Make sure to visit Google today and have fun with the amazing interactive Hip Hop doodle!
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Google: 44th Anniversary of the Birth of Hip Hop
On August 11, 1973, an 18-year-old, Jamaican-American DJ who went by the name of Kool Herc threw a back-to-school jam at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, New York. During his set, he decided to do something different. Instead of playing the songs in full, he played only their instrumental sections, or “breaks” – sections where he noticed the crowd went wild. During these “breaks” his friend Coke La Rock hyped up the crowd with a microphone. And with that, Hip Hop was born.
Today, we celebrate the 44th anniversary of that very moment with a first-of-its-kind Doodle featuring a custom logo graphic by famed graffiti artist Cey Adams, interactive turntables on which users can mix samples from legendary tracks, and a serving of Hip Hop history – with an emphasis on its founding pioneers. What’s more, the whole experience is narrated by Hip Hop icon Fab 5 Freddy, former host of “Yo! MTV Raps.”
More here
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A Tweet Or Two
“Happy Saint Patrick's Day, everybody!” —President Obama: go.wh.gov/qMY3Zw http://t.co/80hbeYM1T6
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 17, 2015Happy St. Patrick's Day from the Vice President's residence, where he hosted Irish Prime Minister Kenny for breakfast http://t.co/ebE1yqyr2M
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Vice President Biden (@VP) March 17, 2015****
✈ Wheels up! ✈
Follow along with the First Lady's trip to Japan and Cambodia: go.wh.gov/GA8WC2 #LetGirlsLearn http://t.co/lAdlJbCwhL
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The First Lady (@FLOTUS) March 17, 2015“The First Lady’s Travel Journal: A Journey That Began Decades Ago” by @FLOTUS FLOTUS/the-first-lady-s-travel-journal-a-journey-that-began-decades-ago-d8237d74aeef?source=tw-504c7870fdb6-1426615680875&utm_source=TwitterAccount&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=TwitterAccount"> medium.com@FLOTUS/the-fi…
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(@Medium) March 17, 2015****
WATCH: President Obama discusses #CollegeOpportunity with students from across the country. ofa.bo/g3xM
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 17, 2015Thanks to the ACA:
16.4 million more Americans have health coverage ✓
The uninsured rate = ↓ 35% since October 2013 http://t.co/0k0phjyyTu
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 17, 2015****
Note: GOP holds off confirming 1st African-American woman AG to vote on denying health services for human trafficking victims. #ConfirmLynch
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Sen. Tammy Baldwin (@SenatorBaldwin) March 17, 2015Loretta Lynch has waited 129 days for Senate to vote on her nom as AG, despite having bipartisan support. Long past time to #confirmLynch.
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Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) March 17, 2015****
Epic Fail, Starbucks. You don’t force your baristas who you pay $7-$10 an hour to talk about race, when your practices don’t reflect what you speak. Corporate should lead the discussion
Not sure what @Starbucks was thinking. I don't have time to explain 400 years of oppression to you & still make my train. #RaceTogether
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April (@ReignOfApril) March 17, 2015honest to God, if you start to engage me in a race conversation before I've had my morning coffee, it will not end well.
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gwen ifill (@gwenifill) March 17, 2015****
I am 100% interested in engaging with Starbucks employees in a conversation about race. Let's start with anyone _but_ the baristas. VPs! HR!
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Anil Dash (@anildash) March 17, 2015It took my barista 45 minutes to draw this on my cup. 
http://t.co/WJDFUvjF80
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Anil Dash (@anildash) March 17, 2015****
Hey Starbucks: Instead of badgering your customers about race, what about serving non-burnt coffee? #RaceTogether
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Imani ABL (@AngryBlackLady) March 17, 2015We cannot #RaceTogether when our starting line is 500m behind yours.
And our line comes with dogs.
And tear gas.
And you have cars.
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5'7 Black Male (@absurdistwords) March 17, 2015****
Starbucks says let’s talk about race. People say okay, tell us about your hiring practices, wages and salaries, who sits at the power table, etc. Their corporate dude deletes his Twitter account and locks his Instagram account. That’s how Starbucks talks about race. Congratulations, cowards
Corporate White Dude: Let's talk about race! 😃 #RaceTogether
POC: Uh...ok. *talks about race
CWD: NOT LIKE THAT! 😭 *deletes account
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Ryan Dalton (@capetownbrown) March 17, 2015y'all realize there are no coloured hands in the press photos right @Starbucks #RaceTogether http://t.co/Epd9knTYfz
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black power alt bro (@vidalwuu) March 17, 2015****
Maybe Starbucks should try to actually practice what it's trying to preach and be 100% fair trade to help POC. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #RaceTogether
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Wagatwe Wanjuki (@wagatwe) March 17, 2015@NerdyWonka @Starbucks And how they tried to screw Ethiopian coffee growers out of right to patent their own coffee. And they lost.
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diane sheehy (@dsheehy100) March 17, 2015****
The. Day. Has. Been. Won.
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#ACAPULCO (@MADBLACKTHOT) March 16, 2015
Is @Starbucks in its #RaceTogether convo gonna speak about how their logo was "borrowed" from a black Yoruba Goddess? http://t.co/uusX1mi784
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Brimstone (@bigbrimstone) March 17, 2015****
Starbucks baristas are being told to engage customers about race. I hope Starbucks now feels good about itself. for.tn/1MG1U05
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Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) March 17, 2015#RaceTogether is asking an underclass to make people they are SERVING feel hopeful about race with no Benefit or incentive to themselves
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Sydette (@Blackamazon) March 17, 2015****
So Starbucks both starts to serve alcohol and encourage their baristas to discuss race relations. Nothing about this seems like a bad idea
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DarkSkintDostoyevsky (@daniecal) March 17, 2015So a @Starbucks EXECUTIVE can't handle social media backlash about #RaceTogether but some 19 year old in Iowa has to do it face to face?
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April (@ReignOfApril) March 17, 2015****
@brokeymcpoverty yes & locked his IG. He doesn't want to have a convo abt race but wants us to have one w/ a barista http://t.co/sPriAu1ujQ
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Blanche Devereaux (@TLanzzz) March 17, 2015Starbucks introduces new racially-tinged latte thkpr.gs/3634583 http://t.co/GiMtWDFe4t
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Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 17, 2015****
How does @Starbucks even decide whom to ask about #RaceTogether? Are you engaging in racial profiling to talk about ending racial profiling?
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(@sfpelosi) March 17, 2015@sfpelosi @Starbucks And who in the world wants to begin a loaded convo on race with a perfect stranger? Productive convo requires trust.
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meta (@metaquest) March 17, 2015****
George Zimmerman and now Darren Wilson, are folk heroes + paid motivational speakers after killing unarmed black men: http://t.co/I5Kgqf6yeo
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rebkah howard (@pink_funk) March 16, 2015Darren Wilson spoke at Hunt For Justice event, a group directed by cop who beat assault & burglary conviction in 2009 bit.ly/1AAVvf3
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Danny Wicentowski (@D_Towski) March 17, 2015****
13-year-old baseball phenom Mo'ne Davis launched sneaker line to eradicate poverty for girls buff.ly/1Bt27eA http://t.co/RxsAL5S9XY
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The Root (@TheRoot) March 17, 2015I'm honored amd thrilled that @FLOTUS recommended my forthcoming memoir TheLightoftheWorld! skimmth.is/1DuZEr2 @theSkimm. #TLOTW
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Elizabeth Alexander (@ProfessorEA) March 17, 2015****
By this point in Bush's 7th year in office, Senate Dems had confirmed 13 judicial nominees. Obama has 0. huff.to/19wr6rX
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jennifer bendery (@jbendery) March 17, 2015White House: Attorney general nominee Lynch "has already waited for far too long" ow.ly/Ksr21 http://t.co/iSPrHgzO6J
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The Hill (@thehill) March 17, 2015****
Vile scumbags
Penn State fraternity suspended over nude photos of sleeping women trib.al/OE2fQUe
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(@GuardianUS) March 17, 2015Sen. Mark Kirk on trafficking bill fight: "My wish is that we hadn't junked that bill up with abortion politics."
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jennifer bendery (@jbendery) March 17, 2015****
President Barack Obama stands with Helen Loring Ensign, 85, from Palm Desert, Calif., after awarding the Medal of Honor posthumously to Army First Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing for conspicuous gallantry during a ceremony in the Roosevelt Room of the White House
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President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama arrive at a ceremony to present the Medal of Honor posthumously to Army First Lieutenant Alonzo H. Cushing for conspicuous gallantry in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. First Lieutenant Cushing received the Medal of Honor for his actions during combat operations in the vicinity of Cemetery Ridge, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 3, 1863
President Barack Obama stands with Helen Loring Ensign, 85, from Palm Desert, Calif., after awarding the Medal of Honor posthumously to Army First Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing for conspicuous gallantry during a ceremony in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. With them, from left to right, are Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis., Army Secretary John McHugh and Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald.
U.S. Army First Lieutenant Alonzo Cushing is pictured in a military academy graduation photograph dated 1861, obtained on October 28, 2014. President Barack Obama posthumously awarded the Civil War artillery officer the Medal of Honor, the highest U.S. award for bravery, 151 years after Cushing was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
President Barack Obama stands with Helen Loring Ensign, as the citation for her relative, U.S. Army First Lieutenant Alonzo H. Cushing is read
Margaret Zerwekh of Delafield, Wis. raises her hand as she is acknowledged by President Barack Obama during a ceremony awarding the Medal of Honor posthumously to Army First Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing for conspicuous gallantry. President Obama acknowledged the work of Zerwekh, a 94-year-old amateur historian from Cushing’s hometown who painstakingly researched his story and lobbied Wisconsin’s congressional delegation for decades
First Lady Michelle Obama speaks during a special daytime workshop for high school students from military communities in the greater Washington area
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Willie Nelson, right, and fellow panelist, songwriter Ted Peterson, left, hip hop recording artist Common, second from right, listen as Army Sgt. Christiana Ball responds to a question
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‘no more lies’
Fred Rotondaro (Chairman of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good): … President Obama took more than his share of verbal assaults during his 2008 campaign …. For the first time in history, a major candidate found his birth qualifications to be President questioned, in addition to false claims being made about his religion…
To his everlasting credit, John McCain was not one of those bigots who spread such lies … From what I have seen so far, I hope but do not expect such decency and true patriotism in 2012.
Four major candidates have spoken already about Barack Obama not being born in America or having a Kenyan worldview. The potential Republican candidates seem to be appealing to the worst elements of their own party … they seem terrified of confronting the bigotry that is often directed at the President. When Newt Gingrich calls Obama a “food stamp president,” he is giving a dog whistle to racists. When Michelle Bachmann said she took President Obama at his word regarding his place of birth, she was winking at the birthers. America needs better than this in 2012.
Deceit has worked its way into important debates also …. While the financial regulation bill was being discussed, Mitch McConnell met with Wall Street leaders to discuss strategy and raise campaign funds. Soon, back in Washington, he began pounding the theme that the bill was an attempt to set up bailouts for banks. This was not spinning. This was an out and out lie to the American people.
The debate about health care centered for a time on the theme of non-existent death panels after former Gov. Palin tweeted about them.….
This is where the American religious community can play a vital role by insisting on truth in public policy debates … Politicians campaign dishonestly because they can. Let’s make it difficult and let them know they will pay a price for deceptive campaign tactics. We owe it to ourselves, our children, and our country.
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