I'm not Dead yet.

I have no reason to lie about anything but people still don't believe me.

[gspenco]

(via On Jun 10, 1954: Southern Governors and Representatives Organize Resistance to Racial Integration)

On June 10, 1954, governors and representatives from 12 Southern states met in Richmond, Virginia, and resolved to defiantly resist the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Virginia Gov. Thomas Stanley called the Richmond meeting to discuss the Southern states' options for responding to Brown. The governors of Georgia, South Carolina, and Mississippi had already publicly stated their intent to maintain the separation of white and Black students, even if it required dissolving the public education systems in their respective states. The governors of Louisiana, North Carolina, and Virginia had been less radical in their public comments but still expressed interest in exploring legal methods of avoiding integration.

[gspenco]

(via On 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.

[gspenco]

[gspenco]

Movies government funny writers actor news television social comedy food music sex news theatre race insurance music comics america religion

[gspenco]

Security, Officers, Work, Las Vegas, union, National, United States

[gspenco]

(via France’s parliament votes to repeal slavery-era Black Code | News | Jamaica Gleaner)

After 200 years, they finally said, "let's get rid of that law". Don't places have someone to go over laws to see if there is a "problem" in keeping it on the books? Damn. "For nearly two centuries after France abolished slavery, the colonial-era law that classified humans as property has remained quietly on the books. On Thursday, the lower house of Parliament voted to wipe it from French law. The National Assembly voted 254-0 — a rare show of unanimity — to adopt a bill repealing Code Noir, or Black Code, the 1685 decree King Louis XIV signed to govern slaves across France’s colonies. The law turned human beings into chattel, allowing them to be worked, beaten, sold, raped and murdered. And the realisation that France never formally did away with it left many aghast."

[gspenco]

(via On May 25, 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin forcefully pinned 46-year-old George Floyd to the ground and held his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck until he died.)

On May 25, 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin forcefully pinned 46-year-old George Floyd to the ground and held his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck until he died.

[gspenco]

(via On May 23, 1796, a newspaper ad was placed seeking the return of Ona “Oney” Judge, an enslaved Black woman who had “absconded from the household of the President of the United States,” George Washington. Ms. Judge had successfully escaped enslavement two days earlier, fleeing Philadelphia and settling in freedom in New Hampshire.)

[gspenco]

Movies government funny writers actor news television social comedy food music sex news theatre race insurance music comics america religion

[gspenco]

To all the parties at the house in the 80s (if I can remember them all). R.I.P. Schlitz

[gspenco]

Security, Officers, Work, Las Vegas, union, National, United States

[gspenco]

Movies government funny writers actor news television social comedy food music sex news theatre race insurance music comics america religion

[gspenco]

Security, Officers, Work, Las Vegas, union, National, United States

[gspenco]

Security, Officers, Work, Las Vegas, union, National, United States

[gspenco]

(via 2026-2028 Next Generation Leadership Institute Fellowship Application In Our Own Voice: National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda The Next Generation Leadership Institute Fellowship is a paid two-year fellowship that trains HBCU students to become Reproductive Justice Leaders. Fellows will receive training in Reproductive Justice, advocacy, leadership skill building, strategic communications, effective organizing, and the public policy process.)

2026-2028 Next Generation Leadership Institute Fellowship Application

In Our Own Voice: National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda

The Next Generation Leadership Institute Fellowship is a paid two-year fellowship that trains HBCU students to become Reproductive Justice Leaders. Fellows will receive training in Reproductive Justice, advocacy, leadership skill building, strategic communications, effective organizing, and the public policy process.

[gspenco]

(via On May 10, 1740: South Carolina Passes Negro Act of 1740, Codifying White Supremacy)

On May 10, 1740, the South Carolina General Assembly enacted the “Bill for the better ordering and governing of Negroes and other slaves in this province,” also known as the Negro Act of 1740. The law prohibited enslaved African people from growing their own food, learning to read, moving freely, assembling in groups, and earning money. It also authorized white enslavers to whip and kill enslaved Africans for being "rebellious."

[gspenco]

Comic book ads 1967