#Breaking: Trump wins Florida, with 29 electoral votes. Electoral count: Clinton 131; Trump: 197 https://t.co/qG6ism7MPk pic.twitter.com/VH64FIOnY7
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) November 9, 2016
Some Florida numbers, via npr
Category: history
UNIA in California
UNIA Division 156 of Los Angeles was part of a general spread of Garveyism between 1920 and 1921. According to UNIA parent body records recently uncovered in New York City, by 1926 there were sixteen divisions and chapters of the UNIA in California.
Source: Emory Tolbert, The UNIA and Black Los Angeles: Ideology and Community in the American Garvey Movement (Los Angeles, 1980), pp. 57-58, 53.
Via Dr. Taylor.
Michelle Obama at Democratic National Convention 2016 in Philadelphia
our motto is, when they go low, we go high.
I want a leader who is worthy of that truth, a leader who is worthy of my girls’ promise and all our kids’ promise, a leader who will be guided every day by the love and hope and impossibly big dreams that we all have for our children.
Wandering
Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom by Sarah Jane Cervenak
…the emancipatory potential of philosophical wanderings, “daydreaming, mental and rhetorical ramblings…Kristyl Dawn Tift.
Author, addtl. Book. Text on perfromance.
Brexit is on
Leave – 52% Remain – 48%
NoBillNoBreak
Democrats in The United States House of Representatives sit-in.
NPR. Guardian.
The well of the House is packed with Democrats seated on House floor.
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) June 23, 2016
C-SPAN has no control over the U.S. House TV cameras.
— CSPAN (@cspan) June 22, 2016
The well of the House is packed with Democrats seated on House floor.
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) June 23, 2016
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Congratulations!
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on December 7, 1964, London
Democracy Now! and Pacifica Radio Archives aired a newly discovered recording of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on December 7, 1964. King, invited by Christian Action, spoke at City Temple Hall, London, on his way to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Brian DeShazor of Pacifica Radio narrates its finding from their archive and some context for the recording.