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Cayden Brown

@thecaydenbrown

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17-year-old Child Rights Lawyer and Speaker. Founder

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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
1 year
My goodness. I am so humbled.
@Phil_Lewis_
philip lewis
1 year
Many high school students spend their time doing homework and stressing about upcoming exams. 16-year-old Cayden Brown does all that — and he works as a part-time juvenile defense attorney
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@LolOverruled She did not stutter once.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
7 months
@juliethardt This scene specifically.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
9 months
Millionaires like Mr. Beast fund their fans 'for fun' and escape the desperate pleas for clean water from a 16-year-old enduring systemic neglect for eight years. @LittleMissFlint
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
7 months
Award-winning Activist. I never imagined this to be in my bio at 17. I am deeply humbled to receive the 2024 'Youth Justice Advocate' Award, presented by The Michigan Center for Youth Justice, in recognition of my advocacy in juvenile justice. This distinction makes me the
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
8 months
That last sentence.
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Mari Copeny
8 months
I wish politicians would stop making water political. And I wish politicians cared about water on non-election years as much as they care about it during election year.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
9 months
Normalize preserving integrity at all costs—even if that means dismantling the entire system.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
9 months
Please contribute in your capacity. I am so tired of seeing kids struggle for basic necessities.
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Mari Copeny
9 months
Now, some may ask how can you help. I’ve been trying to raise a million dollars for my filters for almost 5 years. I’m only 16, I started this at 12. I have filters in homes from coast to coast giving people clean water. Help me reach my goal. You can
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
9 months
I’ve just turned 17-years-old. I have now officially been advocating for justice for half of my lifetime. Within the last year, I’ve been defending the rights of youth across Oakland County. Now, I have an opportunity to be honored for the impact I’ve made so far.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
1 year
I am 16-years-old. Politics should not boil my blood the way it does.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
9 months
Being an activist at this age is lonely space
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
1 year
Mm. That last line. They have their own narrative.
@LittleMissFlint
Mari Copeny
1 year
And media wonders why I don’t jump to do interviews. Y’all so quick to remove me from my own projects.
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@thecaydenbrown
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9 months
@LittleMissFlint I cannot believe what I’m witnessing.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
8 months
My grandmother always said that l would be in "the history books." I give thanks that she was able to see my writing turn into an artifact. This morning, I was filled with honor as my now colleagues, @GenZforChange , @AMarch4OurLives , @SunriseMvmt , and @UnitedWeDream , held a
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
9 months
@acebenji This is the first positive tweet I’ve seen on my feed all day
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
8 months
A Mantra: I am not my age; I am my energy.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
11 months
@LittleMissFlint has been single-handedly making Christmas happen for the children of Flint for the past eight years. She should not be struggling to further this movement. Please amplify her efforts in any capacity you can.
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Mari Copeny
11 months
I started my Christmas event 8 years ago. Since then we have been able to impact over 5k local kids. This year we are preparing for another 1k kids. We started prepping for this in January. Help me bring Christmas to local kids. Fundraiser: Target
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
9 months
@deb_fillman Collect yourself.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
9 months
Perhaps you haven’t yet disabused your childhood so you recycle the trauma to your kin.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
1 year
@zzptie @jordnsworld Yes 🤲🏽 My connection to the rain has always been ineffible. Thank you for spelling this out.
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7 months
@Phil_Lewis_ My boy has been STANDING on it! @MayorBMScott
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
1 year
Someone just asked me how I find the words for my interviews… I told them that I answer with the echoes of my ancestors.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
7 months
@AfricanHub_ Swahili and/ or Xhosa.
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Cayden Brown
1 year
@Phil_Lewis_ Asante sana for introducing me to this beautiful community 🖤
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
8 months
The only way to dress when you’re about to meet your hero in Black liberation. @AttorneyCrump
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
11 months
Proud to grace the pages of Perception Magazine, sharing my path as an advocate of youth justice. “He is passionate about representing young people in the courtroom and has found fulfillment in doing so. He shared that “sacrificing pieces of himself allows others to be free.”
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
8 months
This is what I fight against.
@ProjectTrespass
Trespass Project
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This Teenager Was Denied His Medication in Juvie, Now He’s Dead.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
8 months
Nominations close this Friday. If you haven’t already, please support me. Winning would place me among the youngest to ever receive this award.
@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
9 months
Please nominate me for the ‘Youth Justice Advocate Award’. Your support means the world.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
9 months
Black excellence is an embodied energy; it cannot be created nor destroyed, only reformed.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
8 months
Get on it.
@LittleMissFlint
Mari Copeny
8 months
Ok ya'll for 2 months I've been focused on the filter fund. Time to focus on a project that brings me joy by bringing joy to the kids here. This year's goal is 300 baskets and 10,000 eggs. Cashapp: $LittleMissFlint
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
10 months
I'm about to put the juvenile justice system through a complete dialysis.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
1 year
Witnessing my own face on the front cover of @MIChronicle left me wordless. My friend just sent me this… 🥹
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
10 months
Last year, against all odds, we pioneered the first Black History Month performance to ever be held in our entire district—which was established in 1955. The time has come to continue the fight. Please stand with us and support in any way you can.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
10 months
Not holding a reference as to what justice looks like is constant war. We become its blueprint in every vacancy.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
1 year
@whereisvonna What if the floors were made of sand and our bare feet absorbed healing energy from the root up
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
9 months
Love and gratitude, @skillmanfound
@skillmanfound
Skillman Foundation
9 months
We believe that youth power is essential! Learn how one teen is changing the youth justice system from the inside.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
1 year
@whereisvonna Dearest Auntie, This echoes ancestral wisdom and the sound is a stranger to my physical ear yet so familiar. Thank you for bathing ‘baby liberation’ in true understanding. My little cousin is going to be a RIOT.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
1 year
@whereisvonna taught me.
@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
1 year
Someone just asked me how I find the words for my interviews… I told them that I answer with the echoes of my ancestors.
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@whereisvonna 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Cayden Brown
1 year
@whereisvonna Oh, we can tell.. ✍🏽 Birth gift.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
1 year
Emancipate your authenticity.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
1 year
History has witnessed Black resilience in all its forms
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@thecaydenbrown
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1 year
@whereisvonna AUNTIE!!!!!! 🙋🏽‍♂️
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
7 months
Then I’m psychotic.
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Max the VC 👨‍🚀
2 years
People crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
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1 year
Oppression besieges every square inch of this earth. We have work to do.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
8 months
Today is the last day to nominate me! Your support could make me the youngest person ever to receive this award.
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Cayden Brown
9 months
Please nominate me for the ‘Youth Justice Advocate Award’. Your support means the world.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
11 months
Exchanging the essence of my purpose with my hero was liberating. #YourFutureLawyer Onward!
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
1 year
@whereisvonna You know where to pull up!
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
8 months
Silence should never be a condition of freedom.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
1 year
Interviewer: "What keeps you going?" Me: The red liquid that ran from my ancestors wounds.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
9 months
Bless you
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Mitch the Infovore (he/him/his)
9 months
@thecaydenbrown You, sir, get it. "Legal literacy equals liberation." — Cayden Brown I have a big mouth. So though as a cishet white guy I can mostly get away with that, legal literacy, and self-defense, are major reasons I went to law school. I wish you much success!
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
10 months
Peace. An irrevocable birthright.
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Cayden Brown
11 months
My ancestors speak through me each time I step foot into the courtroom.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
9 months
🖤
@ProjectTrespass
Trespass Project
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Cayden Brown turns 17 today.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
9 months
Comprising morals for results is a conflicting ideology.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
1 year
I am merely a custodian of our culture
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
9 months
@LittleMissFlint As a sixteen-year-old child fighting for THEM. Idiots.
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Cayden Brown
1 year
@whereisvonna AUNTIE.. 🥹
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
7 months
Giving thanks on this Resurrection Sunday. Find joy with loved ones and eat well!
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7 months
@theportiabrown @LolOverruled I’ve never followed someone so fast lol
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
7 months
Giving thanks on this Resurrection Sunday. Find joy with loved ones and eat well!
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1 year
@whereisvonna Cremated.
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1 year
@whereisvonna 🙋🏽‍♂️🤲🏽 Spirit, have your WAY!
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
9 months
When I write on My People’s behalf, there are remnants of blood in each word.
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9 months
@LittleMissFlint @LittleMissFlint just called me amazing…
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8 months
@NicsNation Peace to you
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
1 year
@whereisvonna I TOLD HER THIS TOO It was just heartbreaking to see this breakdown from my kin
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Cayden Brown
1 year
@whereisvonna I am crying
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
9 months
I will not stop until the juvenile justice system lives up to its name.
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Cayden Brown
10 months
Leadership is lonely space.
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Cayden Brown
1 year
@whereisvonna Why is he like this? 🥹 I need to hear his voice again
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
9 months
@LittleMissFlint Tag their fan pages. That will get the message where it needs to go.
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Cayden Brown
11 months
Wakandan all over me… 🙅🏽‍♂️
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
1 year
This was an honor
@Detroitisit
Detroitisit
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We rounded up an inspiring list of young change-makers in Detroit that amplify the voices of Black youth: ✅ Cayden Brown, founder of The Trespass Project, and Teen Court Defense Attorney ✅ Keyaira Johnson (pictured), community worker, @GSSEM and St. Cecilia Girl Scout Troop
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Cayden Brown
1 year
Why did someone I DON’T KNOW just come up to me and say my presence sets it off daily….. 🥹
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
11 months
Racial Healing.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
8 months
“I come from a long line of activists, educators, and people who are always working towards change”
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
9 months
Does anyone have a connect at @Wikipedia who could help create my page?
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Cayden Brown
10 months
Umoja (unity)
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
10 months
Personify truth. Embody justice.
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Cayden Brown
1 year
Release urgency with your art.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
1 year
Huge huge huge shoutout to @SaMyaOverall for hearing me and amplifying this impact for our Detroit youth. You were such an amazing human to collaborate with. Her art:
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
9 months
@LittleMissFlint Oh, you’d be arrested. The standard has been and remains different.
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Cayden Brown
11 months
Knowing whose I am and acting like it.
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@thecaydenbrown
Cayden Brown
1 year
Headed to @spillthehoney_ ’s fundraising event to honor Dr. Clarence B. Jones.
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