#onthisday

On this day in 2014, Tamir Rice was shot and killed by a police officer outside a recreation center in Cleveland, Ohio.

Tamir was only 12-years-old. Black boys deserve to make it to and through adulthood.

On July 7, 1865, four conspirators involved in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln were executed at the Fort Lesley J. McNair. Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt were hanged after being convicted by a military tribunal for their roles in the plot to kill the president.

Happy birthday Oscar Wilde!

Irish writer Oscar would be 170 today, the 16th of October. Here’s a few fun facts to celebrate:

When Oscar wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1889, it was censored before publication because it was Too Gay. The uncensored version was only published in 2011.

Also in 2011, Oscar’s tomb was surrounded by perspex, to protect it from being eroded by the thousands of kisses left on the stone by admirers.

Oscar was a great fan of queer American poet Walt Whitman. They met in 1882, and Oscar later wrote to his friend George Ives: “I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips.”

Unsolved Murder Of:

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