An elderly Iranian man using a walker joins protestors in Iran.

He chants “Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!”

The younger women protestors chant the same thing in return!

#MahsaAmini #ZhinaAmini

A Nicki Minaj course will be taught at The University of California Berkeley.

The course titled ‘Nicki Minaj: The Black Barbie Femmecee & Hip Hop Feminisms’ will go into her impact in the context of broader historical-social structures & Hip-Hop feminisms.

After Crystal Mason cast a provisional ballot in 2016, the Texas woman was sentenced to 5 years in prison for illegal voting. (She's appealing). My latest for 19thnews looks at how some of the harshest punishments over voter fraud involve women of color: bit.ly/3MbN2vK

DACA is a 'racial equity issue,' says Jessie Hernández-Reyes of The Education Trust. While about half of DACA recipients are Latinx, 24% are AAPI and 13% are Black. Dismantling the program may lower the numbers of these groups in college and the teaching workforce.
19thnews.org/2022/10/daca-p…

Fannie Lou Hamer was born #OTD in 1917. Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper & civil rights activist helped found the Mississippi Freedom Party. She developed strategies to secure equal rights for Black Americans.

More: bit.ly/2E0GxfM

📽️: WORLD Channel

NEW: After last month's water crisis, Jackson is on the verge of a garbage crisis.

The company that handles trash pick up in the city announced today that it will end trash pick up *indefinitely* in two days.

That's no trash pickup for 150,000 people.
mississippifreepress.org/28154/jackson-…

An ex-cop is behind Thailand’s deadliest mass shooting. Here's what we know so far: ti.me/3V8D0iZ

DACA has faced repeated threats since its 2012 inception, but an appeals court's ruling that the policy was implemented illegally has placed its future in jeopardy. Women, teachers and students could all be affected if the Obama-era program disappears. 19thnews.org/2022/10/daca-p…

#BREAKING : Four Central California family members, including infant, found dead after kidnapping, sheriff says abc7.la/3rzwgx7

Kudos to Daja E. Henry 🌸, one of our Frances Ellen Watkins Harper fellows, on her first story for 19thnews!!! 19thnews.org/2022/10/tobacc…

'My mother, who was a school principal in Iran, was visited by a secret police agent who asked her to remove books from the school library & I watch in horror the same thing happening in this country.' - Prof. Nasrin Rahimieh on U.S. bans of Persepolis. 19thnews.org/2022/10/mahsa-…

A conservative group filed a lawsuit, alleging BIden’s plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student loan debt violates federal law by intentionally seeking to narrow the racial wealth gap and help Black borrowers

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In Iran, students, teachers and professors have led protests following #MahsaAmini 's death. With the largest Iranian population outside Iran, California students and scholars are mobilizing to support the demonstrators abroad putting their lives at risk. 19thnews.org/2022/10/mahsa-…

Practical Magic (1998)

Wow!!!

School girls without their hijabs confront and chase off a director of education.

They chant “Bisharaf!” towards the end which is a harsh insult in Persian meaning dishonorable and unethical.

#MahsaAmini #ZhinaAmini

So I was the only WH pool print reporter in the room on Friday at the DNC Women's Leadership Forum and heard the remarks from Vice President Kamala Harris on climate change and Hurricane Ian, which I see are being deliberately distorted. Here is what she said.

rest in peace sacheen littlefeather 🤍

Kermit the Frog chats with Vincent Price during The Muppet Show

When a kiss becomes revolutionary! If you check out 'Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971' at the @academymuseum, take a moment to enjoy 'Something Good — A Negro Kiss.' via KCET-TV
#AfricanAmerican #History #cinema

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