Hokie Alum/Fan Extraordinaire, MBA, Teacher, Mom of Lu (passed 10/28/20) and Sam, ex-Po-Po. My views are my own, Always.

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Never too late for Secret Santa celebration! Go Generals! #WLGBB #WLHSAthletics
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RETWEET if you stand with Michelle Obama!
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The difference between whom to date and whom to marry.. 😂
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Happy Birthday, Jeff Allen!! 🎉🎂🎈🎊🎁🎉🎂🎈🎊🎁 Jeff Allen was the first player in ACC history with over 1500 points, 1000 rebounds, 200 steals and 150 blocked shots. #HokieLegend 🦃🏀
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🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ And just like that, Epstein / Trump completely VANISHED from the media. But a sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump RAPED and threatened to KILL children. Lets make this viral again & again 👇👇👇
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July 6, 1936, Route 66, New Mexico. This is Martha Evans, 32. She had been walking for three days. Her husband died of tuberculosis in Oklahoma in May. The farm was foreclosed. She took the six kids and a Radio Flyer wagon and started west for California. The twins in the wagon were 11 months old. The boys walking were 6, 5, 4, and 3. Her dress was torn on barbed wire. Her leg was cut and infected. She wrapped it with a feed sack. She had $1.60 in her pocket. A photographer from the Resettlement Administration saw them and pulled over. He offered her a ride. She said no. She said if she took a ride now, the kids would expect one every time they were tired. She gave him her name and kept walking. The photo ran in newspapers across the country. Donations came to a PO box in Barstow. She got $200 and a bus ticket. She made it to Bakersfield and picked grapes. All six kids lived. Three went to college. Martha died in 1978. The wagon is in the Smithsonian.
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This story and image are fabricated. The image is AI-generated, and the story of "Martha Evans" is a fictional mashup of real Dust Bowl-era photographs, such as Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" and Arthur Rothstein's photos of the Vernon Evans family. melpine.substack.com/p/the-fable-of…
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Viola Fletcher, the last living witness of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has passed away at 111. Her legacy of strength and survival will never be forgotten. 🕊️🙏🏾
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Viola Ford Fletcher pasted away November 24, 2025. This post is misleading and likely created for engagement. pbs.org/newshour/natio…
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Shaquille O'Neal explains why he agreed with his ex-wife when she said she never loved him “She didn't think she ever really loved me and my response was I wouldn't have loved me either” “As a man I was failing. A man has three jobs with a woman. Protect, provide and love. At that point in my life, I failed her in all three areas” “I was an asshole. I was an idiot. She was 1000% correct. I failed her as a husband, as a protector and as a provider” “She's not my wife anymore but she gave me five beautiful children. I'll always protect her”
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DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN DO NOT BE DISTRACTED.
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Are you fucking kidding me?
Yeah. Gotta make sure those minorities aren’t recognized for their contributions to the country.
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Set your Calendars 💙💙💙
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NEWS: Governor Wes Moore, along with Baltimore’s Mayor Brandon Scott, have overseen an over 40% decrease in homicides in Maryland putting the state on pace for its lowest homicide rate in over 40 years. That’s huge.
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They never forget who helped them. After being rescued and treated, this beautiful Snow Leopard was finally released back into the wild. But before heading into the mountains, it stopped to say one last, unforgettable goodbye to the man who saved its life.….
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Floyd Norman will receive an honorary Oscar. He was the first black animator at Disney and had a 65-year run at the studio working on films such as ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘The Jungle Book’, ‘Mulan’ and ‘Toy Story 2’.
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My son has Down syndrome and this happened last week at his school. I cannot stop thinking about it. Y’all, the world is going to be ok. Marcus didn’t want to come in from recess today; it’s one of his Achilles heels at school. But today some 5th grade boys banded together and convinced Marcus that he was a King and needed to be carried inside on a throne. If you see this and you know these kids and/or their parents, please tell them that this means the world to me. And that their kindness and leadership will take them far. I’m so touched by this; there are beautiful things happening all the time. We just need to keep our eyes open. Folwell Elementary School, thank you for creating this amazing and inclusive space. Credit: Casie Nauman
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In 1945, a sixteen-year-old girl in New Orleans sat in a classroom and listened to teachers describe Black people as inferior, ignorant, and dangerous. She knew it was a lie. And she decided, then and there, that she would spend her life proving it. That girl was Gwendolyn Midlo Hall. By the time she was seventeen, she had already helped organize the New Orleans Youth Council — a bold, interracial group fighting for African American voter registration in the heart of the segregated South. She marched, she organized, she was arrested. She did not stop. But her most extraordinary act of defiance came decades later — not in the streets, but in a courthouse. While conducting research in Louisiana in the 1980s, Hall opened an old ledger written by 18th-century notaries. Inside were names. Hundreds of them. Names of enslaved Africans — their origins, their skills, their families, their rebellions. Details that English colonists almost never recorded. Details the world had assumed were lost forever. Hall was astounded. She spent years traveling between archives in Louisiana, France, and Spain, piecing together fragments of stolen lives. With the help of five dedicated assistants, she built something the world had never seen: the Louisiana Slave Database — a searchable record of over 107,000 enslaved individuals, documenting their names, ethnicities, occupations, family relationships, and places of origin. What she found also shattered a long-held assumption in academic circles. Scholars had believed colonial Louisiana was shaped primarily by Haiti and the French Caribbean. Hall's database revealed the truth: most enslaved Africans brought to Louisiana came from Senegal and Gambia — a finding that forever changed how historians understand the roots of Creole culture. But perhaps the most profound impact of her work is the most personal. Families — for generations separated from their history by the deliberate erasure of slavery — could now search a database and find an ancestor. A name. A face in the darkness of history, finally brought to light. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall passed away on August 29, 2022, at the age of 93. She is remembered at Whitney Plantation in Louisiana, where two long walls bear the names of every person she found — 107,000 lives, no longer forgotten. She gave them back their names. And in doing so, she gave us all a more honest history.
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😱😱😱 And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Lets make this viral again 👇

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Two Black boys running a lemonade stand received an unexpected show of support after someone called 911 on them. Instead of shutting them down, Kansas City police officers and firefighters showed up to support them, helping them earn hundreds of dollars. This is what community should look like! Investing in our youth instead off discouraging their entrepreneurship. ✊🏿
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A little girl in Boston went home one day and asked her Nigerian mother if she could change her name to Zoe. Nobody at school could say Uzoamaka. Her mother was cooking. She didn't even turn around. "If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky, Michelangelo, and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka." That girl kept her name. Then she went to Hollywood and won three Emmy Awards. And now the whole world knows exactly how to say Uzoamaka Aduba. Your name is not a burden. It's a prophecy.
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