BW/RN

01/19/2026

In a 2023 interview, a ninety-one-year-old Ms. Margaret Burch (née Margaret Johnson) speaks about the day Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955... ❤️‍🔥📖❤️‍🔥

Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture
National Civil Rights Museum
The King Center
Black Lives Matter
Blacklivesmatter757
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

HYPE+ (Official YouTube):

https://www.hypeplustv.com/ - For this special HYPE+ interview, we speak with Margaret Johnson Burch who was on a segregated Montgomery bus when a 15 year o...

01/14/2026

"The motorman [bus driver] yelled again, louder: 'Why are you still sittin' there?' I didn't get up, and I didn't answer him. It got real quiet on the bus. A white rider yelled from the front, 'You got to get up!' A girl named Margaret Johnson answered from the back, 'She ain't got to do nothin' but stay black and die.'

The white woman kept standing over my seat. The driver shouted, 'Gimme the seat!' then 'Get up, gal!' I stayed in my seat, and I didn't say a word.

[...]

One of [the white passengers] said to the bus driver in a very angry tone, 'Who is it [causing the problem]?' The motorman pointed at me. I heard the [white passenger] say, 'That's nothing new...I've had trouble with that "thing" before.'

He called me a 'thing'.

[More white passengers] came to me and stood over me and one said, 'Aren't you going to get up?' I said, 'No, sir.' He shouted 'Get up' again. I started crying, but I felt even more defiant.

I kept saying over and over again in my high-pitched voice, 'It's my Constitutional right to sit here as much as that lady. I paid my fare, it's my Constitutional right!'

I knew I was talking back to a white policeman, but I had had enough."

- Claudette Colvin, as quoted in Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, by Phillip Hoose, New York: Square Fish (Farrar Straus Giroux), 2009, pgs. 32-34.

❤️‍🔥 ❤️‍🔥 ❤️‍🔥 ❤️‍🔥 ❤️‍🔥

THANK YOU, MISS CLAUDETTE.

WE APPRECIATE YOU DEARLY, AND WE WILL REMEMBER YOU.

MAY YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS BE COMFORTED FROM HEAVEN.

MAY YOUR SOUL BE ELEVATED.

📿 🙏🏾 🤲🏾

📸 Photograph Courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0). Edit and Graphic Design by Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham, © 2026.

Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture

National Civil Rights Museum

The King Center

Black Lives Matter

Blacklivesmatter757

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

12/11/2025

❧ Pictured:

Gardens Behind Old Brompton Road
London, England

Summer 1991

❧ Original Photo:

Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham
(née Yvonne Michele Anderson)

Copyright (Original Photo) © Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham (née Yvonne Michele Anderson), 1991-2025.

All Rights Reserved.

09/10/2024

"With James Earl Jones, there was always the voice. It rumbled. It poured over you, thick as molasses. Yet when given the chance to play men rather than symbols, the illustrious EGOT winner was a wonder to behold..."

💎 James Earl Jones 💎 is an artist whom I have looked up to and admired since childhood; Hashem blessed him with a long and wonderful life. ❤️

May his memory also be a blessing. 🪽🪽

May his family and friends be comforted 🤲🏾📿🙏🏾 from Heaven.

He will be sorely missed.

~ Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham
10 September 2024 / 7-8 Eloul 5784

Rolling Stone
(Official page; article in English):
https://www.facebook.com/RollingStone/posts/pfbid02krpMrAG2qDhGwW2Kmyhu525C2GjTAs6ZPJcGwQkjpjwUVo22uAcZDp2d76g4BMwkl

With James Earl Jones, there was always the voice. It rumbled. It sounded regal, even when he was playing a humble ex-ballplayer instead of a king.

09/10/2024

Paralympics in Paris: The Movie 🍿

Enjoy! ❤️

Paralympic Games
(Official page; video in English and French):
https://fb.watch/uwywKLibc4

06/23/2024

Sutherland

Donald Sutherland was truly one of the great artists of our time, who helped shape my love of cinema and the art of the story. ❤️

He will be sorely missed around the world.

May you, his family, and his friends and colleagues be comforted from Heaven...IYH, Insha'allah, G-dwilling.

With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that. A life well lived.

06/17/2024

🎭 "The Outsiders wins at the for Best Musical!" 🎶

"Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay..."

("Nothing Gold Can Stay", by Robert Frost)

👉🏾 "Stay gold."

CBS (Official page; video in English):
https://www.facebook.com/CBS/videos/500204862583682

06/17/2024

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

Crisis on Campus (2024)
produced by Frontline and Retro Report for PBS

"A firestorm has been raging on many American college campuses. Ignited by the devastating October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and the catastrophic war in Gaza, the outrage deeply divided American campuses and in some places devolved into hate-filled rhetoric and arrests. FRONTLINE and Retro Report have been following the escalating turmoil since the war began — talking to people on all sides of the divide, investigating how universities have responded, how powerful interests joined the fray, and how the conflict over the conflict ultimately spiraled out of control.

From director James Jacoby (Netanyahu, America & the Road to War in Gaza, Amazon Empire, Age of Easy Money) and Retro Report producers Scott Michels and Joseph Hogan, Crisis on Campus examines how the debate over one of the world’s most intractable and complex conflicts has gripped American college campuses."

PBS (Official Website; entire film in English):
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/crisis-on-campus

Frontline | PBS (Official page; post in English):
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=839119121404905&set=a.395508449099310

The inside story of the protests dividing college campuses over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. “Crisis on Campus” premieres tonight on PBS.

06/16/2024

This Father's Day 2024, sweet memories of making homemade 🍻 and 🥥 comfort me in your absence.

Thank You, Abba! We miss you! ❤️

~ Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham

Copyright © Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham,
10 Sivan 5784 / 16 June 2024

~ ❧ ~

❧ Pictured:

Ginger Beer Recipes (various)
recorded by Abraham S. Anderson, MD c. 2015

❧ Original Photo:

© 2024 Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham (née Yvonne Michele Anderson) | Courtesy of Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham

(In Honor of Abraham S. Anderson, MD, 1935-2019.)

05/28/2024

🏆 Photo finish ! 📸

"Tous les lauréats du 77e Festival de Cannes sur la scène du Grand Théâtre Lumière."

► https://i.mtr.cool/snhtnpxlkq

"The 77th Festival de Cannes award winners on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière."

► https://i.mtr.cool/mypvuyhcna



Festival de Cannes
(Official page; post in French and English):
https://www.facebook.com/festivaldecannes/posts/pfbid031fFwAQgHCmC4gUZVrStYLeZBFvp9AQWKXcfWWNdQoPSrnAYBhrhyHzm2rHaeGPdBl

🏆 Photo finish !
Tous les lauréats du 77e Festival de Cannes sur la scène du Grand Théâtre Lumière.
► https://i.mtr.cool/snhtnpxlkq
—
The 77th Festival de Cannes award winners on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière
► https://i.mtr.cool/mypvuyhcna

05/28/2024

Vogue

"Best Looks", Festival de Cannes 2024



As Laura Blajman-Kadar wore Yellow and urged us to 🎗️,

Cate Blanchett wore Black ⚫, White ⚪, Green 🟢, and Red 🔴

Bella Hadid wore Red and White Keffiyehs 🧣
..and Greta Gerwig wore Pink 🎀

Vogue
(Official page; article in English):
https://www.facebook.com/Vogue/posts/pfbid06KSrbVL8hDcUxw63NykEX7EkKmRnvV3XDmGpay2AE19anYCJNuq9C48ujBrDPdFul

See what your favorite A-listers are wearing to one of the year's most glamorous film festivals.