Black History Database

On May 29 in Shelby, North Carolina, a doorbell camera captured a Shelby police officer throwing 34-year-old Cherrie Moore to the ground and punching her repeatedly in the head during an arrest. 🧵

Senator Bernie Sanders confirms tech oligarchs like Bezos and Zuckerberg are secretly investing hundreds of billions into AI and robotics for one sinister reason. He reveals their ultimate goal is to permanently replace and eliminate human labor.

The historic Alfred Street Baptist Church announced it would fund the Black student government whose funding was cut at Mizzou over DEI restrictions “We take care of our own people,” said Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley.

Republican House candidate Bobby Berger performed in Blackface for 38 years. He didn’t stop until the year 2016. Campaign website says he’s “100% Trump, MAGA Republican.” 🧵

Graham Platner: “They want you to own nothing. They want you to rent your car, your house, your entire life from them, from a billionaire class that owns everything around you. That's their ideal future, and we can't let them have it.”

NEW: Florida teacher fired after hanging a black doll with a cord wrapped around the doll’s neck in class. The incident happened at Barrington Middle School in Hillsborough County. 🧵

On May 19, 2026, Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “This is an unprecedented moment with an attack on Black political representation, and it requires an unprecedented response.”

(Full audio) On May 19, 2026, NAACP President Derrick Johnson: “The NAACP is calling on athletes coming out of high school not to attend any state-funded schools of states that have moved to minimize our right to vote.” 🧵

During his Thursday press conference on California’s state budget, Democratic governor Gavin Newsom criticized recent redistricting efforts across several states, calling them “Jim Crow 2.0” and “sick.” 🧵

Kamala Harris is calling for an “expanded playbook” to strengthen democracy — including Electoral College reform, Supreme Court expansion, rules for SCOTUS including consequences for lying to the Senate, multi-member districts, and D.C./Puerto Rico statehood.

SOUTH CAROLINA — @RepJamesClyburn: “Why is it when you have a 75% white district that’s not racial, but you have a 45% Black district that is racial? There’s no way the numbers bear this out… I never thought I’d see the day the Supreme Court would be so openly partisan.”

Kevin Roberts, from the state of Louisiana, got his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD in the Kinship of African Americans, then became the Mastermind behind Project 2025. 🧵

The 14th Amendment, the one that made Black people citizens after 250 years of enslavement. This is not hypothetical. This is a man in power telling you exactly what they want. Share this before they bury it. #conversationswithangel #14thamendment (Credit to @angelcarnell on IG)

Civil rights lawyer @sherrilynifill on John Roberts's decades-long history of opposing the Voting Rights Act (Credit to @thedailyshow.com )

Antoine Caliste Domino Jr. (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017), known as Fats Domino, was an African American singer-songwriter and pianist. One of the pioneers of Rock and Roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records. 🧵

Houston Police Officer Ashley Gonzalez caught on video repeatedly dropping the N-word, calling Black people “chimps” and declaring “I hate n*ggers” while bragging she used it on a Black suspect during an arrest then saying it left her “feeling at peace.” 🧵

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶 The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end. (Credit to NASA)

WATCH: Florida Gubernatorial Candidate James Fishback threatens to LYNCH a black man for asking him to stop having sex with teenage girls from the afterschool "Debate Club" he owned.

On April 1, 2026, NASA Astronaut Victor Glover became the first Black Man to pilot a flight around the moon on the Artemis II Mission. Victor J. Glover, Jr. was selected as an astronaut in 2013 while serving as a Legislative Fellow in the United States Senate. 🧵

Racist Assault At Mac & Frankie’s Bar - Black Woman Grabbed By The Hair & Beaten! 📍 Bradley, Illinois A Black woman was enjoying a drink at Mac & Frankie’s when her GF and friend came in. The white man next to her told her to “take that N-Word shit somewhere else.” 🧵

This woman is U.S. citizen traveling with her young daughter—according to witness who filmed video. She could not prove her citizenship to satisfaction of the agents—and was violently taken into ICE custody. San Francisco Airport, 3/22/26 at 10pm

ICE detain mother at airport—traveling with young daughter. First reported kidnapping at airport since Trump ordered ICE agents to report—refuse to show ID. "I don't know who you are!" witness yells. "You could be someone kidnapping her!" 🧵

Columbus Police Officers GRAB Black Woman by the NECK & FLIP Her HEAD FIRST onto Pavement While She Stood With Hands Behind Her Back, NOT RESISTING!! And then Handcuffed!! 🧵

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, a DOGE staffer assigned to the General Services Administration who, alongside another DOGE member named Justin Fox, was tasked with identifying grants for review for termination at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). 🧵

DOGE took funding from a holocaust documentary because apparently the holocaust is DEI.

Justin Fox — one of Elon’s DOGE guys saying a documentary is “DEI” if it’s about how historical events impact led Black civil rights because it’s “not for the betterment of humankind”

Yoruba Yemoja float with 10,000 Litres of water by Mocidade Alegre Won the São Paulo Carnival 2026 in Brazil!

President Barack Obama: “Bad Bunny's halftime show... This is what a community is. People who did not speak Spanish and have never been to Puerto Rico, they saw that elderly woman serving a drink and the kids dancing with their grandmas. It was intergenerational…. 🧵

Don Lemon speaks outside of the courtroom after release: "I have spent my entire life covering the news. I will not stop now ... I will not be silenced."

US Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) believes that MAGA Republicans “absolutely” want to reinstitute Jim Crow. “They wish to get us back as close to slavery as they can possibly get us to” without violating the Constitution, Clyburn tells Margaret Hoover. (Video courtesy of @pbs.org )

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore talks about what gives him hope for the future and making Harriet Tubman a General on the Higher Learning Podcast: Video courtesy of IG @higherlearning @higherlearning24.bsky.social 🧵

The end of an era. The Alabama delegation paid our respects to Lt. Col. George Hardy, the last surviving Tuskegee Airman to fly combat missions in WWII. We owe him—and all the Tuskegee Airmen—an enormous debt of gratitude. May he rest in peace and power 🙏🏾 (Repost from Rep. Sewell)

4/ “Any criminal statistic that you could look at almost pretty much without exception, they excel at them, Black culture,” Sauvé said. ⁠

3/ Sauvé linked Old Testament passage, specifically Deuteronomy 21, to "Black culture," which he described as "evil, murderous, violent, and bestial."⁠

2/ During a recent episode of "The King's Hall" podcast, Brian Sauvé, a pastor at the Refuge Church in Utah, argued that the U.S. government should adopt "just laws" from the Bible, including those that call for the death penalty for disobedient sons. ⁠

A Utah pastor has sparked outrage after calling for the execution of "rebellious" young Black men.⁠ 🧵 ⁠ Repost via IG @blackinfonet.bsky.social ⁠ (📷: Refuge Utah website; 🎥: X/RightWingWatch)

Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon has a message for Black people who decry America's history of oppression: "Stop being a little boy. You're whining and crying about something that's ultimately your fault."

4/ May the family of #treyreed be covered and held close in this time of despair❤️

Body found hanging at Delta State University Delta State University police chief Michael L. Peeler said during a press conference that 21-year-old student Demartravion "Trey" Reed was found hanging from a tree on the Cleveland campus Mon, Sept. 15th 🧵

BREAKING: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore just announced he refuses to authorize National Guard deployment in Maryland. 🧵

MUST-WATCH: “And that’s why it’s important to teach ALL history, Jillian — not just cherry-pick certain % when they work for your argument.”

Van Lathan Jr: “Before you absolve your ancestors of their role in American Slavery. Understand the totality of the enterprise.”

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson gives a great answer to a question about billionaires and millionaires potentially leaving Chicago

Van Lathan Jr: “Confederate monuments, the usage of the battle flag and the KKK all came around the same time to terrorize Black people. We’re not scared.”