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Charles Preston

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Charles Preston

@_CharlesPreston

Community Engagement for @InjusticeWatch. Co-Host of @hoodoisie. Member of TEMBO. #SaveCSU. I collect things.

Chicago, IL

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Joined March 2011

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Charles Preston
@_CharlesPreston
Apr 15
I've been collecting radical ephemera, vinyl, and books, and keeping an online archive via Substack (link in bio). I acquired a press photo showing Gray Panther co-founder Maggie Kuhn at a 1974 demonstration in Chicago, outside an American Medical Association meeting at the
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Charles Preston
@_CharlesPreston
Apr 1, 2025
Jason Van Dyke, a former cop, did 39 months of his 81-month sentence after killing teenager Laquan McDonald. He shot him 16 times.
Pop Base
@PopBase
Apr 1, 2025
U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi directs prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione.
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Charles Preston
@_CharlesPreston
Feb 22, 2025
Look at what Kwame Ture told a brother who admittedly says he doesn’t use “philosophical words”:
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Jemele Hill
@jemelehill
Feb 22, 2025
Not trying to be funny, but this isn’t a good title for the tour. A lot of the people you’re trying to reach don’t know what oligarchy means, and certainly not within the context of their everyday life.
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Charles Preston
@_CharlesPreston
Jul 30, 2025
No statement from the NAACP. No statement from a lot of Black organizations. No statement from the Congressional Black Caucus. No statement from the two corporate political parties. Pay attention.
Charles Preston
@_CharlesPreston
Jul 30, 2025
A Black American being detained and beaten by the State of Israel should be at the top of every Black American news outlet. But that's not the culture.
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Charles Preston
@_CharlesPreston
Dec 10, 2024
That Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin conversation will do numbers this week but I beg you to please engage her work. Please engage her work. Nikki mastered the ability to use a sword for revolution and tenderness towards the revolutionary.
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Charles Preston
@_CharlesPreston
Feb 10, 2025
Do you understand how wild it is that people are breaking down the symbolism in Kendrick’s performance while a Black man literally got arrested for unfurling Palestine’s and Sudan’s flag during it?! The display of solidarity was clearly the more powerful piece of art!
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Charles Preston
@_CharlesPreston
Feb 10, 2025
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Charles Preston
@_CharlesPreston
Feb 10, 2025
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Charles Preston
@_CharlesPreston
Jun 10, 2025
You don't know about shit in Chicago, so don't open your mouth about Fred Hampton. There's been cross racial solidarity long after Fred Hampton was assassinated in this city. You're a fucking clown with a podcast. Podcasters ain't on the ground. They talk generalizations.
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Charles Preston
@_CharlesPreston
Oct 5, 2025
This is the greatest video I've seen all week.
Pablo Manríquez
@PabloReports
Oct 5, 2025
SOUTHSIDE CHICAGO — Windy City residents run off immigration agents to save a man mid-abduction at 63rd and Kostner Ave.
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Charles Preston
@_CharlesPreston
Apr 1, 2025
Replying to @_CharlesPreston
Former CPD officer Robert Rialmo responded to Quintonio Legrier's mental health call and wound up killing Legrier and his neighbor Bettie Jones. Rialmo was fired.
Pop Base
@PopBase
Apr 1, 2025
U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi directs prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione.
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Charles Preston
@_CharlesPreston
Jan 12, 2025
This gofundme was organized by Chris Hollis. His grandma lost her home that housed and raised two generations of Black people. Chris works with student-athletes at the Pasadena city colleges. His gofundme is currently sitting $325/$11K
Donate to Support The Lives of Fannie, Evette and Family (Eaton Fire), organized by Christopher...
From gofundme.com
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Charles Preston
@_CharlesPreston
Oct 1, 2025
ICE, FBI, and other federal agents had raids in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago and detained some Black folks. Video: @ABC7
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Charles Preston
@_CharlesPreston
Oct 14, 2025
Feds moving through Chicago with a Mexican flag sticker on their car and Kentucky plates is some of the nastiest work I've seen.
Laura N. Rodríguez Presa
@LAURA_N_ROD
Oct 14, 2025
Agents questioning a Latina woman at a bus stop in East Chicago. The unmarked vehicle they drive has a Mexican sticker on the back.
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