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WTF Happened to Miss Cleo, the World's Most Famous TV Psychic?
https://youtu.be/C9NtguOPswwWTF Happened to Miss Cleo, the World's Most Famous TV Psychic? https://youtu.be/C9NtguOPsww
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‼️Missing Juvenile Alert‼️
Buffalo, New York --> Rochester, New York
The Buffalo Police Department requests the public's assistance in locating Raquel Castro (17).
Raquel was last seen on July 22, 2026, in the Buffalo, NY area.
She is 4 feet 11 inches tall, weighs around 150 pounds, and has brown eyes and brown-reddish hair.
Raquel is possibly in the Rochester area; the Rochester Police Department has also been notified.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call 911 immediately.
Buffalo Police Department: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Aa4UqJVXQ/
Re: Raquel Castro
NCME Case # 20261645
#RaquelCastro #newyork #buffalo #buffalony #rochesterny #rochester #rochesternewyork #buffalopolicedepartment #ROCHESTERPOLICE #NationalCenterForMissingAndEndangeredInc #NationalMissing‼️Missing Juvenile Alert‼️ Buffalo, New York --> Rochester, New York The Buffalo Police Department requests the public's assistance in locating Raquel Castro (17). Raquel was last seen on July 22, 2026, in the Buffalo, NY area. She is 4 feet 11 inches tall, weighs around 150 pounds, and has brown eyes and brown-reddish hair. Raquel is possibly in the Rochester area; the Rochester Police Department has also been notified. Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call 911 immediately. Buffalo Police Department: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Aa4UqJVXQ/ Re: Raquel Castro NCME Case # 20261645 #RaquelCastro #newyork #buffalo #buffalony #rochesterny #rochester #rochesternewyork #buffalopolicedepartment #ROCHESTERPOLICE #NationalCenterForMissingAndEndangeredInc #NationalMissing
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There was a time when a Black family couldn't just get in the car and drive across Georgia. You needed a book to tell you where it was safe to stop.
The Green Book, started in 1936 by Harlem mail carrier Victor Hugo Green, listed hotels, restaurants, gas stations, salons, and private homes across America that would actually serve Black travelers. Georgia had its own listings — Macon's Douglass Hotel, service stations on Atlanta's Auburn Avenue, and more.
A few things the video didn't have room for: mail carriers were the secret engine of the whole thing. Postmen knew exactly which homes on their routes would take in travelers, and they mailed reams of listings to Green. Readers sent in their own suggestions too — user-generated content decades before the internet. It sold about 15,000 copies a year at its peak, and being listed as a "tourist home" was considered an honor. It stopped publishing in the 1960s after the Civil Rights Act. Most of the buildings are gone now, but a few, like Thomasville's Imperial Hotel, still stand.
Georgia, did your family ever travel with the Green Book?
📚 Sources: Smithsonian NMAAHC; Atlanta History Center; NYPL Green Book Archive
#GreenBook #BlackGeorgiaHistory #JimCrow #BlackTravel #HiddenHistoryThere was a time when a Black family couldn't just get in the car and drive across Georgia. You needed a book to tell you where it was safe to stop. The Green Book, started in 1936 by Harlem mail carrier Victor Hugo Green, listed hotels, restaurants, gas stations, salons, and private homes across America that would actually serve Black travelers. Georgia had its own listings — Macon's Douglass Hotel, service stations on Atlanta's Auburn Avenue, and more. A few things the video didn't have room for: mail carriers were the secret engine of the whole thing. Postmen knew exactly which homes on their routes would take in travelers, and they mailed reams of listings to Green. Readers sent in their own suggestions too — user-generated content decades before the internet. It sold about 15,000 copies a year at its peak, and being listed as a "tourist home" was considered an honor. It stopped publishing in the 1960s after the Civil Rights Act. Most of the buildings are gone now, but a few, like Thomasville's Imperial Hotel, still stand. Georgia, did your family ever travel with the Green Book? 📚 Sources: Smithsonian NMAAHC; Atlanta History Center; NYPL Green Book Archive #GreenBook #BlackGeorgiaHistory #JimCrow #BlackTravel #HiddenHistory0 Comments ·0 Shares ·661 Views ·0 Reviews·1
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On this day in 1834 slavery ended in the British Empire, and the compensation went to the slaveholders
On 1 August 1834, the Slavery Abolition Act came into force across most of the British Empire. On paper, hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants were declared free. It is remembered as one of the great moral corrections in history, and today it is marked as Emancipation Day across Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Guyana, Grenada and beyond.
But read the full title of the law Britain actually passed. An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies, for promoting the Industry of the manumitted Slaves, and for compensating the Persons hitherto entitled to the Services of such Slaves. Compensation. Not for the people who had been owned, worked, whipped and sold. For the people who had owned them.
Britain paid out around £20 million to more than 40,000 slave owners for the loss of what the law called their property. That sum was roughly 40 percent of the entire national budget at the time, one of the largest payouts in British history. The formerly enslaved received nothing at all. Not land, not wages for generations of stolen labour, not a shilling. As one account of the period put it, the prevailing feeling was that their freedom was compensation enough.
And freedom itself was delayed. Everyone over the age of six was reclassified as an apprentice, forced to keep working unpaid for their former owners, up to 45 hours a week. Household workers were bound for four years, field workers for six. Slavery had simply changed its name.
The people it was done to saw through it instantly. On that very first day, 1 August 1834, in Port of Spain, Trinidad, a crowd of mostly elderly formerly enslaved people stood before the Governor as he explained the new arrangement, and drowned him out with a chant. Pas de six ans. Point de six ans. Not six years. No six years. They kept protesting until the system broke. Apprenticeship was abolished early, and full freedom came on 1 August 1838. The enslaved freed themselves from the second trap too.
Now here is the fact that should be taught in every school on this continent and in the diaspora. Because that £20 million was borrowed and partly converted into government annuities, British taxpayers were still repaying the loan used to compensate slave owners until **2015**. Britain spent 180 years paying the families of slaveholders. It has never paid one penny to the descendants of the enslaved.
So when Britain says today that reparations are too complicated, too historical, too expensive to calculate, remember that it already calculated the value of every enslaved African with total precision. It just paid the money to the wrong people, and kept paying for nearly two centuries.
#HistoricalAfrica #EmancipationDay #Reparations #BlackHistory #SlaveryOn this day in 1834 slavery ended in the British Empire, and the compensation went to the slaveholders On 1 August 1834, the Slavery Abolition Act came into force across most of the British Empire. On paper, hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants were declared free. It is remembered as one of the great moral corrections in history, and today it is marked as Emancipation Day across Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Guyana, Grenada and beyond. But read the full title of the law Britain actually passed. An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies, for promoting the Industry of the manumitted Slaves, and for compensating the Persons hitherto entitled to the Services of such Slaves. Compensation. Not for the people who had been owned, worked, whipped and sold. For the people who had owned them. Britain paid out around £20 million to more than 40,000 slave owners for the loss of what the law called their property. That sum was roughly 40 percent of the entire national budget at the time, one of the largest payouts in British history. The formerly enslaved received nothing at all. Not land, not wages for generations of stolen labour, not a shilling. As one account of the period put it, the prevailing feeling was that their freedom was compensation enough. And freedom itself was delayed. Everyone over the age of six was reclassified as an apprentice, forced to keep working unpaid for their former owners, up to 45 hours a week. Household workers were bound for four years, field workers for six. Slavery had simply changed its name. The people it was done to saw through it instantly. On that very first day, 1 August 1834, in Port of Spain, Trinidad, a crowd of mostly elderly formerly enslaved people stood before the Governor as he explained the new arrangement, and drowned him out with a chant. Pas de six ans. Point de six ans. Not six years. No six years. They kept protesting until the system broke. Apprenticeship was abolished early, and full freedom came on 1 August 1838. The enslaved freed themselves from the second trap too. Now here is the fact that should be taught in every school on this continent and in the diaspora. Because that £20 million was borrowed and partly converted into government annuities, British taxpayers were still repaying the loan used to compensate slave owners until **2015**. Britain spent 180 years paying the families of slaveholders. It has never paid one penny to the descendants of the enslaved. So when Britain says today that reparations are too complicated, too historical, too expensive to calculate, remember that it already calculated the value of every enslaved African with total precision. It just paid the money to the wrong people, and kept paying for nearly two centuries. #HistoricalAfrica #EmancipationDay #Reparations #BlackHistory #Slavery
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💔 Help Locate Sophia🚨
Sophia, 16 years old, has been reported missing, and her family is asking the community to help bring her home safely.
📍 Sophia was last seen at approximately 12:45 a.m. on August 1, 2026.
👧 Description:
• Age: 16
• Height: Approximately 5'7"
• Long, straight dark brown hair
📱 Sophia left with her iPhone, but it has since been turned off, and her location is currently unknown. Law enforcement has been notified, and a missing person report has been filed.
🏡 If you live in the area, please check your security cameras, Ring doorbell footage, and any outdoor surveillance cameras for anything that may help investigators. Even the smallest detail could be important.
☎ If you see Sophia or have any information regarding her whereabouts, please call 911 immediately.
🙏 Please share this post to help bring Sophia home safely. Every share could make a difference.💔 Help Locate Sophia🚨 Sophia, 16 years old, has been reported missing, and her family is asking the community to help bring her home safely. 📍 Sophia was last seen at approximately 12:45 a.m. on August 1, 2026. 👧 Description: • Age: 16 • Height: Approximately 5'7" • Long, straight dark brown hair 📱 Sophia left with her iPhone, but it has since been turned off, and her location is currently unknown. Law enforcement has been notified, and a missing person report has been filed. 🏡 If you live in the area, please check your security cameras, Ring doorbell footage, and any outdoor surveillance cameras for anything that may help investigators. Even the smallest detail could be important. ☎ If you see Sophia or have any information regarding her whereabouts, please call 911 immediately. 🙏 Please share this post to help bring Sophia home safely. Every share could make a difference.
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One of the deadliest acts of political violence in American history happened on Easter Sunday and most people have never heard of it.
On April 13, 1873, in Colfax, Louisiana, hundreds of armed white supremacists attacked the Grant Parish courthouse, where Black citizens and members of the state militia had gathered to defend the results of a disputed local election during Reconstruction.
Just five years after the Civil War ended, Black men had gained the right to vote and hold public office. In Grant Parish, they helped elect Republican officials. Many white Democrats refused to accept the outcome.
Determined to seize power by force, an estimated 300 armed men surrounded the courthouse. They fired a cannon into the building and set it ablaze. As the defenders tried to surrender or escape, many were shot where they stood. Others were hunted down and executed after being captured.
Historians estimate that at least 150 Black men were killed in what became known as the Colfax Massacre, making it one of the bloodiest racial massacres of the Reconstruction era.
Federal authorities charged 97 men under the Enforcement Acts, laws designed to protect the civil rights of newly freed African Americans.
But in 1876, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the convictions in United States v. Cruikshank, ruling that the federal government had only limited power to prosecute individuals for violating the civil rights of others. The decision severely weakened federal enforcement against racial terrorism and emboldened white supremacist groups across the South for decades.
No one was ultimately held accountable for the massacre.
The Colfax Massacre remains a powerful reminder of the violent resistance that followed emancipation and of the long struggle to protect the right to vote in the United States.
History should be remembered not forgotten.One of the deadliest acts of political violence in American history happened on Easter Sunday and most people have never heard of it. On April 13, 1873, in Colfax, Louisiana, hundreds of armed white supremacists attacked the Grant Parish courthouse, where Black citizens and members of the state militia had gathered to defend the results of a disputed local election during Reconstruction. Just five years after the Civil War ended, Black men had gained the right to vote and hold public office. In Grant Parish, they helped elect Republican officials. Many white Democrats refused to accept the outcome. Determined to seize power by force, an estimated 300 armed men surrounded the courthouse. They fired a cannon into the building and set it ablaze. As the defenders tried to surrender or escape, many were shot where they stood. Others were hunted down and executed after being captured. Historians estimate that at least 150 Black men were killed in what became known as the Colfax Massacre, making it one of the bloodiest racial massacres of the Reconstruction era. Federal authorities charged 97 men under the Enforcement Acts, laws designed to protect the civil rights of newly freed African Americans. But in 1876, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the convictions in United States v. Cruikshank, ruling that the federal government had only limited power to prosecute individuals for violating the civil rights of others. The decision severely weakened federal enforcement against racial terrorism and emboldened white supremacist groups across the South for decades. No one was ultimately held accountable for the massacre. The Colfax Massacre remains a powerful reminder of the violent resistance that followed emancipation and of the long struggle to protect the right to vote in the United States. History should be remembered not forgotten.
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‼️Missing Siblings Alert‼️
Monroe County, New York
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office requests the public's assistance locating Aalyiha Brooks (13) and Robert Brooks (11).
Aalyiha is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs around 80 pounds.
Robert is 4 feet 6 inches tall and weighs around 60 pounds.
It is not known what each one was last seen wearing.
They were both last seen leaving their home in Penfield on July 29, 2026, around 12 pm.
If you have any information on their whereabouts, please call 911.
Monroe County Sheriff's Office: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1NsXq7UUZB/
Re: Aalyiha Brooks
Re: Robert Brooks
NCME Case # 20261638
#aalyhiabrooks #RobertBrooks #newyork #penfieldny #penfield #MonroeCounty #monroecountyny #MonroeCountySheriffsOffice #NationalCenterForMissingAndEndangeredInc #NationalMissing‼️Missing Siblings Alert‼️ Monroe County, New York The Monroe County Sheriff's Office requests the public's assistance locating Aalyiha Brooks (13) and Robert Brooks (11). Aalyiha is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs around 80 pounds. Robert is 4 feet 6 inches tall and weighs around 60 pounds. It is not known what each one was last seen wearing. They were both last seen leaving their home in Penfield on July 29, 2026, around 12 pm. If you have any information on their whereabouts, please call 911. Monroe County Sheriff's Office: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1NsXq7UUZB/ Re: Aalyiha Brooks Re: Robert Brooks NCME Case # 20261638 #aalyhiabrooks #RobertBrooks #newyork #penfieldny #penfield #MonroeCounty #monroecountyny #MonroeCountySheriffsOffice #NationalCenterForMissingAndEndangeredInc #NationalMissing0 Comments ·0 Shares ·1K Views ·0 Reviews -
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