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BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY On this day, Jun 09, 1963 Fannie Lou Hamer Arrested and Beaten in Winona, Mississippi On June 9, 1963, Fannie Lou Hamer and other civil rights activists were arrested in Winona, Mississippi, while returning from a voter education workshop in South Carolina. Mrs. Hamer and the other activists had been traveling in the "white" section of a Greyhound bus despite threats from the driver that he planned to notify local police at the next stop. When the bus arrived at the Winona bus depot, some of the activists attempted to eat at Staley's Cafe but were refused service. Mrs. Hamer, who had stayed on the bus, soon saw police officers arresting some of the activists. She got off the bus and was seized by a white police officer who began kicking her and arrested her. In August 1964, while testifying at the Democratic National Convention to urge party bosses to seat a group of Black Mississippi voters as delegates, Mrs. Hamer recalled the abuse she endured that night at the county jail. "It wasn't too long before three white men came to my cell," she said. "One of these men was a state highway patrolman and he asked me where I was from. I told him Ruleville and he said, 'We are going to check this.' They left my cell and it wasn't too long before they came back. He said, 'You are from Ruleville all right,' and he used a curse word. And he said, 'We are going to make you wish you was dead.'" The white officers then forced two African American prisoners to brutally beat Mrs. Hamer with loaded blackjacks; she was nearly killed. As Mrs. Hamer regained consciousness, she overheard one of the white officers propose, "We could put them SOBs in [the] Big Black [River] and nobody would ever find them." Mrs. Hamer suffered from life-long injuries following the attack, including permanent kidney damage. Mrs. Hamer died in 1977 at age 59. Lawyers with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) filed suit against the Winona police who brutalized the activists, but an all-white jury acquitted them. Despite the trauma she experienced, Mrs. Hamer returned to Mississippi to continue organizing and remained active in civil rights causes until her death. calendar.eji.org/racial-inju…

Today we remember James Byrd Jr., dragged to his death by white supremacists because he was Black. His murder gave us the Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Sadly, laws aren't enough. As the Trump regime ignores hate-fueled violence, we must demand it enforce them. #JamesByrdJr

NEVER FORGET: The Philadelphia police bombed the headquarters of the Black liberation group MOVE on May 13, 1985. ~ PBS

It’s not enough to fight to maintain Black Congressional seats, we must also fight against the gatekeepers and strategically placed leading Blacks. They’re not the leaders, they’re the chosen. Know the difference.

🚨 Zohran Mamdani announces the launch of 5 city-run grocery stores in NYC. Experts predict this will significantly increase access to nutritious food in low-income areas.

“Give Me the Night” by George Benson was released on this day in 1980.

Legendary soul group Sounds of Blackness surprised a store worker with a live performance after hearing their music playing throughout her store. Happy Black Music Month! ✊🏿🇺🇸

Her name was Hazel Bryan (now Massery) She’s still alive today. It was not that long ago. Always act righteously. Regardless of the time.

Together they were the first Black married couple to host a network TV series. They won Grammy’s for “Up, Up & Away” with 5th Dimension, and “You Don’t Have to Be a Star”. Also Fancy’s parents on ‘The Jamie Foxx Show’

They have arrested a BLACK man for protecting a white underage girl from a WHITE pedO, they are always against us 🤡

James Baldwin with activist James Meredith, Jackson, Mississippi, in 1963, a year after Meredith became the first African American student admitted to the University of Mississippi. ❤️🖤💚

Send emails to Texas legislators & Press for Karmelo Anthony. According to the 6th amendment he is being denied a jury of his peers. Demand justice by way of a special prosecutor by going to BreuckCallToAction.com #KarmeloAnthony #innocent

New York Reparations Hearing Erupts As Descendants Of African Slaves Clash With Liberal Organizations blackenterprise.com/new-york…

I'm not endorsing Manley because I haven't researched him (he may be great) BUT I am saying to the Blacks in Florida's 20th Debbie has never been a friend to us she's only been able to fly under the radar all these years. Her attempt to come into your community and take this seat is the classic okie doke-don't fall for it. You may say, "what's it to you?" Glad you asked, Congressional seats are national and impacts us all and that's what it is to me.

Voices That Shaped Us: A Legacy That Guides Us open.substack.com/pub/drdebo… #SabbathReflection

The Colorado Court of Appeals reversed the convictions of two former Aurora paramedics, who were convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old unarmed Black man who was walking home from a convenience store. abcnews.visitlink.me/5am4ei

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, a black cardiologist, performed the very first sucessful open-heart surgery and also founded the first non-segragated hospital.

On this date in 1893, Mary Ann Shadd died. She was an anti-slavery, pro-suffrage publisher & journalist, taught in DC Public Schools for 15 years, & graduated from Howard Law School at age 60, only the second Black woman in the US to do so. She died & is buried here in DC.