@Regrann from @time - The officer stands calmly as a group of white supremacists act out behind him. The provocative scene one Saturday afternoon in #Charlottesville, shot with an iPhone, was shared online with a modest public following but would attract a wide audience. "A picture worth a thousand words," one commenter wrote on Aug. 12, 2017. "A black police officer protecting a group of men who wish him harm. Incredible,” wrote another, prefacing that remark with a question common during breaking news: “Who took this photo?” And when was it taken?⠀ ⠀ The picture went viral in recent days as the Virginia college town was rocked by unrest over the planned “Unite the Right” rally. As intense images emerged of the street clashes between white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Klansmen who faced off against counterprotesters, this one stood out. But as the retweets entered into the tens of thousands, doubts emerged that this image was from Saturday. In the uncomfortable haze of live breaking news it became the latest in a long line of images to be grabbed and shared online without credit or context.⠀ ⠀ And so began a search for the photographer, a hunt that started on Twitter and wound through Google, Reddit and Facebook until stopping on Instagram, where it appeared on the feed of Jill Mumie (@lil_mooms). That's where the story behind this photo begins.⠀ ⠀ Read an interview with the photographer and the officer in the picture on TIME.com.⠀ ⠀ Photograph by Jill Mumie (@lil_mooms)
I just didn't have it today (at 10 Fitness - Rodney Parham)
The very act of #oppression ....no charges will be filed #whiteprivilege @Regranned from @nowthisnews - Body cam footage shows police fatally shooting Patrick Harmon as he was running away from them (warning: graphic)
@Regrann from @1_christ_loved - Not much of a beer man myself...but cheers to you that are 🍻🍻🍻 @Regrann from @history - It’s #InternationalBeerDay ! A day for beer lovers everywhere to raise a toast and celebrate this historic beverage! Beer has been around for possibly millennia. The world’s first fermented beverages most likely emerged alongside the development of cereal agriculture some 12,000 years ago. In fact, some anthropologists have argued that these early peoples’ insatiable thirst for hooch may have contributed to the Neolithic Revolution by inspiring new agricultural technologies. The earliest known alcoholic beverage is a 9,000-year-old Chinese concoction made from rice, honey and fruit, but the first barley beer was most likely born in the Middle East. While people were no doubt imbibing it much earlier, hard evidence of beer production dates back about 5,000 years to the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia. Beer consumption also flourished under the Babylonian Empire, but few ancient cultures loved knocking back a few as much as the Egyptians. Workers along the Nile were often paid with an allotment of brew, and everyone from pharaohs to peasants and even children drank beer as part of their daily diet. Many of these ancient beers were flavored with unusual additives such as mandrake, dates and olive oil. More modern-tasting libations would not arrive until the Middle Ages, when Christian monks and other artisans began brewing beers seasoned with hops. Drink up! #beer
@Regrann from @spacebutmessier - Thor's Helmet 👨🏻🚀NGC 2359, gets its name from its helmet-like structure and wing like appendages. The hot giant star at the center, known as the Wolf-Rayet star, blows a bright, fast wind that sweeps through the molecular clouds, creating a type of interstellar bubble, fit for a Norse God! 🌌🔭 Credit: Bob & Janice Fera (Fera Photography) #spacebutmessier
@Regrann from @history - On #ThisDayinHistory 1967, Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice. He would remain on the Supreme Court for 24 years before retiring for health reasons, leaving a legacy of upholding the rights of the individual as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. After graduating from Lincoln University in 1930, Marshall sought admission to the University of Maryland School of Law, but was turned away because of the school’s segregation policy, which effectively forbade blacks from studying with whites. Instead, Marshall attended Howard University Law School, from which he graduated magna cum laude in 1933. (Marshall later successfully sued Maryland School of Law for their unfair admissions policy.) As a lawyer, Marshall distinguished himself as one of the country’s leading advocates for individual rights, winning 29 of the 32 cases he argued in front of the Supreme Court, all of which challenged in some way the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine that had been established by the 1896 landmark case Plessy v. Ferguson. The high-water mark of Marshall’s career as a litigator came in 1954 with his victory in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. In that case, Marshall argued that the ‘separate but equal’ principle was unconstitutional, and designed to keep blacks “as near [slavery] as possible.” In 1961, Marshall was appointed by then-President John F. Kennedy to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, a position he held until 1965, when Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, named him solicitor general. Following the retirement of Justice Tom Clark in 1967, President Johnson appointed Marshall to the Supreme Court, a decision confirmed by the Senate with a 69-11 vote. #ThurgoodMarshall #SCOTUS #history #legalhistory #ushistory
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@Regrann from @history - On January 7, 1927, the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team travels 48 miles west from Chicago to play their first game in Hinckley, Illinois. (📷 Getty Images) - #regrann
Regrann from @nasa - What's Up in the night skies this June? First up is Venus. It reaches its highest sunset altitude for the year this month and sets more than two hours after sunset. Then, you can't miss Jupiter, only a month after its opposition--when Earth was directly between Jupiter and the Sun. The best time to observe Jupiter through a telescope is 10:30 p.m. local time at the beginning of the month and as soon as it's dark by the end of the month. Just aim your binoculars at the bright planet for a view including the four Galilean moons. Or just enjoy Jupiter with your unaided eye! Credit: NASA #nasa #space #jupiter #venus #planets #stargazing #astronomy #solarsystem #nightsky #whatsup #lookup #sky #stars #june
I don't have all the answers because I didn't make the test!
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