Maya Angelou Presidential Chair @WakeForest. Founder & President @AJCCenter. Leader of Girl Scout Troop 10116. Wife of @JamesHPerry. Mom of Parker & Anna.
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Water been wet a long time. You won't catch me being shocked, sad, or disappointed about it.
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19 Nov 2024
Hey @SankofaFarms! Thank you for sending videos for our @wakeForest class on Race, Land and Power today. Hearing from you was perfect for our discussion of #BlackLand loss and resilience in NC. Syllabus link is here. docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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For most people it's birthdays & holidays when they send & receive messages with all the far flung friends, colleagues, relatives, and others.
Apparently for me it's #electionday that leads to all the calls, texts, nudges, photos, memories & sharing.
Kinda loving it.
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5 Nov 2024
Let’s do this!
3 Nov 2020
I vote because it took Joe Ella Moore seven tries before she finally got onto the Prentiss, Mississippi voter rolls in 1965.
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Love this.
5 Nov 2024
Remember, Democracy is Indigenous. Our ancestors showed us what true democracy looks like - respect, reciprocity & collective decision-making. Let's honor them by voting for Tribal Sovereignty, Climate Justice, Healthcare & Reproductive Rights, and Education! #NativesVote2024
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In order to vote in his first election, my father paid a poll tax. My dad. Not my great great grandfather, my father. He is very much still alive. He voted today. No poll tax required. I am so proud to his daughter.
5 Nov 2024
Something to ponder as you head out to vote today, for free. In the Library's Rosa Parks Papers collection, there's a receipt for the poll tax she had to pay to vote in Alabama in 1956. Poll taxes, a Jim Crow-era voter suppression tool, were not abolished federally until 1964.
ALT From the Library's Rosa Parks Papers, a Poll Tax Receipt from the county of Montgomery, Alabama from 1956. It was paid in the amount of $1.50 and signed by Rosa Louise Parks.
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5 Nov 2024
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3 Nov 2020
I vote because twice on Election Day eve in the 1920s, the KKK marched into the grounds of Mary McLeod Bethune’s school for Black girls in Daytona to intimidate her away from the polls. The next day, she showed up anyway.
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5 Nov 2024
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3 Nov 2020
I vote because ca. 1890 white Democrats in Greensboro, NC, conspired to drive my great grandfather Dallas Jones and all Black men there away from the polls.
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I am still feeling 12 feet tall from listening to you tell this story at @ncatsuaggies
5 Nov 2024
Let’s do this!
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5 Nov 2024
9 Indigenous candidates are running for the US House of Representatives! Including incumbent Mary Peltola, the first Alaskan Native Congressperson and Jonathan Nez who would be the 1st Native representative for AZ.
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On this day I am feeling "full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, and full of the hope that the present has brought us." poets.org/poem/lift-every-vo…
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15 Oct 2024
The Invest in Louisiana Policy Conference is Thursday, Oct. 24! Don’t miss your chance to hear from state and national experts, including keynote speaker @MHarrisPerry.
Learn more and purchase tickets: eventbrite.com/e/2024-invest…
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4 Oct 2024
Happy 100th birthday to us! On Wednesday I turned 51. Today, hubby @jameshperry achieved 49 years. So WE are 100!
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24 Sep 2024
The Invest in Louisiana Policy Conference is one month away! Don’t miss your chance to hear from @MHarrisPerry - professor and award-winning author and journalist.
Register today: eventbrite.com/e/2024-invest…
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13 Sep 2024
When you stop by @HowardU to see your niece, who is a senior, but stumble on a Black Feminist Theory class and end up giving an impromptu lecture.
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13 Sep 2024
Such a joy to celebrate the 30th anniversary of #VAWA with my sister Rolisa Harris Tutwyler of @CcmntSpeakers and my cousin Zelda Harris, Dean of Law at @WNEUniversity. The original Harris Girls at @WhiteHouse 🖤❤️
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10 Sep 2024
I got my copy this week and I've already read half of it. I am teaching your brilliant podcast This Land today in my course on Race, Land, and Power issuu.com/mharrisperry/docs/…
10 Sep 2024
Today is the pub date of #ByTheFireWeCarry. I’m thinking a lot about the shoulders I stand on. My parents who have always had faith in me. The friend who celebrated milestones and coaxed me through the overwhelm. The incredible staff @HarperCollins who guided this book into being
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7 Sep 2024
I didn't need another reason to love the @DemonDeacons basketball team of @WakeForest -- but they gave me one on Friday night when playing egg toss with the kids at @summitschoolws. Even my not -so-athletically-inclined kiddo felt fully included and seen. Appreciative of the joy & fun. #GoDeacs
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Congratulations!
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5 Sep 2024
Absolutely thrilled to announce that @LaSharah S. Bunting will be @19thnews’ first Vice President!
She’s a veteran journalist, a distinguished news industry executive, and deeply committed to gender and racial equity in our coverage and our field.
This is a hire I've only dreamed of, and I’m beyond excited to have her as a partner in this work!
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