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Some names don’t fade because the ground they broke still hasn’t fully healed. Thurgood Marshall was one of those men. Long before he ever sat on the Supreme Court, he stood in courtrooms where the law was never meant to protect him, arguing cases that reshaped the country whether it was ready or not. As lead attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Marshall won 29 of the 32 cases he argued before the Supreme Court. His most famous victory, Brown v. Board of Education, dismantled the legal foundation of school segregation. Not with noise. Not with spectacle. With precision. With receipts. With an understanding of the Constitution sharper than those who claimed to own it. In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first Black Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He didn’t arrive to blend in. He arrived to dissent, to question, to remind the Court who the law had excluded and who it continued to fail. His opinions often stood alone at the time…but history keeps proving he was early, not wrong. Marshall believed the Constitution was unfinished. He rejected the fantasy that America was born just and instead told the truth…it was born flawed, and justice requires work, not worship of the past. That honesty made people uncomfortable. It still does. He died on January 24, 1993, but his voice never left the room. Every argument for equal protection, every challenge to discriminatory systems, every reminder that rights are defended, not gifted…that’s his echo. Gone, yes. Forgotten…never. #GoneButNotForgotten #ThurgoodMarshall #OnThisDay #January24 #SupremeCourtHistory #LegalHistory #AmericanHistory #CivilRightsLegacy #JusticeMatters

Why Black People will NEVER truly achieve "JUSTICE" in America? First and foremost the CONSTITUTION and the LAWS , CODES and "STATUES were rooted in EUROPEAN COLONY evolving into WHITE ETHNOSTATES whose culture was based upon WHITE SUPREMACISTS IDEOLOGY...So "JUSTICE " in essence was based upon WHITE SUPREMACISTS IDEOLOGY and when you look at the first definition of "JUSTICE " you get "the exercise of AUTHORITY in VINDICATION," so in the early "JUSTICE " system in America,based on WHITE SUPREMACISTS IDEOLOGY, THE ONLY "AUTHORITY", in AMERIKKKA, was WHITE MEN! And when you look at the word"VINDICATION" which comes from the Latin "VINDICTA" meaning "REVENGE" , so who ALWAYS CONTROLLED the "JUSTICE " system in America? WHITE MEN, therefore ONLY WHITE MEN can administer REVENGE"Legally" ,even white women have to appeal to white men for "JUSTICE" for only they can UTILIZE VIOLENCE to enforce "JUSTICE"! They have NEVER FREELY GIVEN US A DAMN THING, We always had to FIGHT for it. We are the product of the VICTIMS of the BREEDING FARMS, BRED to be PHYSICALLY SUPERIOR to Our Ancestors, bred to be PHYSICALLY SUPERIOR to even the WHITE MEN who FORCED Our Ancestors to BREED. They ended up needing to RECRUIT Us, to co-op Us to AID in their "JUSTICE" system, either OFFICIALLY or UNOFFICIALLY. They take Our KINDNESS, Our PATIENCE, as WEAKNESS. They NEED OUR COOPERATION for WHITE SUPREMACISTS IDEOLOGY, the "JUSTICE" system that makes it possible. We change Our MINDS, WE CHANGE THE RESULTS! VINDICTA#SystemicRacism #RacialJustice #JusticeMatters #Justice #Injustice #WhatHappenedToJustice #CivilRightsLegacy

Howard Thurman, Born Around This Time In 1899, Became One Of The Quiet Architects Of A Movement

Howard Washington Thurman entered the world in late November of 1899 in Daytona Beach, Florida, during a time when Black spiritual leadership was still fighting for its full voice. He would grow into one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century, guiding generations through a faith rooted in dignity, nonviolence, and moral clarity. Thurman later served as dean of Rankin Chapel at Howard University and Marsh Chapel at Boston University, using both spaces to shape conversations that reached far beyond religion. His writings on nonviolence became essential reading for young seminarians in the 1950s, including Martin Luther King Jr., who carried Thurman’s work into marches, pulpits, and national debates. Thurman rarely sought headlines, but his influence threaded through the movement like a steady hand. His life reminds us that the people who change history are not always the ones at the microphone. Sometimes they are the thinkers whose words steady the crowd. #HistoryMatters #OnThisDay #CulturalHistory #FaithHistory #CivilRightsLegacy #NewsBreakCommunity #LataraSpeaksTruthp