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The Black Wave: Four African-American candidates seek political office in central Arkansas county

By Adena J. WhiteSeptember 20, 2018September 20, 2018

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🚨 NEW POST [link in profile] 🚨 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Blackness is on display at @target! And we have so many feelings about it. The retail giant has an assortment of items dedicated to #BlackHistoryMonth. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Of course, we encourage you to #buyBlack and support Black-owned, independent retailers who sell Afrocentric merchandise year-round. But we’re here for Target’s celebration and acknowledgement of Black History Month. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Now if only they’d sell Louisiana Hot Sauce and the big jars of Palmer’s Cocoa Butter… ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #BHM #BlackHistory #BlackHistory365 #Tarjay #Blackness #BlackandProud #targetdoesitagain #targetstyle

We’re a day late, but every day is #NationalSouthernFoodDay when you live in the South. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ What’s your favorite Southern dish? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #southernfood #chickenandwaffles #friedchicken #southerngoodness #comfortfood

“...And when white Americans tell the Negro to lift himself by his own bootstraps, they don’t look over the legacy of slavery and segregation. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “Now I believe we ought to do all we can and seek to lift ourselves by our own bootstraps, but it’s a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “And many Negroes, by the thousands and millions have been left bootless as a result of all of these years of oppression and as the result of a society that deliberately made his color a stigma and something worthless and degrading.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ —Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #mlk #mlkday #mlkquotes #mlk90 #martinlutherkingjr #martinlutherking #martinlutherkingday #reclaimmlk #blackbeltvoices #blackhistory #blackhistory365 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Watch the full 26-minute video at nbcnews.to/2GRn0yN.

”Even as a kid, I understood innately that the South was knit into me, part of my heritage that was meaningful enough for my father to make return visits to see his people there. It was powerful enough that Dandy wanted to move back to Georgetown, even though as a young man he’d needed to escape it. ... The South wasn’t paradise, but it meant something to us. There was a push and pull to our history, a deep familiarity that sat atop a deeper and uglier legacy.” —Michelle Obama, “Becoming” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #IAmBecoming #becoming #becomingmichelleobama #michelleobama #foreverflotus

Across the nation, a growing number of Black candidates are running for political office – and winning. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Justice of the Peace candidates Rene Henderson, Jackie Wright, and Wefus Tyus could bring the "Black wave" momentum to Faulkner County, Arkansas, diversifying the 13-member, all-white-male Quorum Court. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ At the municipal level, experienced alderwoman Shelia Isby is seeking a sixth term on the city council in Conway, the county seat and largest city. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Read more at blackbeltvoices.com. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #arpx #conwayarkansas #faulknercountyarkansas #bluewave #blackwave #thewrightchoice2018 #jackie4jp #ar2 #ar02 #renehenderson4jp #wefustyus4jp #sheliaisbyforconwaycitycouncil #blackbeltvoices #arvotescount

Congratulations to @andrewgillum, the Democratic nominee for #Florida governor! #bringithome #gillumforgovernor #andrewgillum

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