Congratulations @Beyonce for making history. Thank you for blessing us all with the music we live our lives to—the songs that keep us singing and dancing and talking. You deserve all this and more! 💕👑 https://t.co/ZdQotKIpwB
For nine years, My Brother's Keeper Alliance has been helping address opportunity gaps boys and young men of color face in America. We caught up with Chris Crater, a senior associate with @MBK_Alliance, to reflect on #MBK's anniversary: pic.twitter.com/e6Uk3D7I7y
Gabrielle Union-Wade and Dwyane Wade Fight for Justice for Black Trans People at 2023 NAACP Image Awards
The former NBA player shared a sweet sentiment to his daughter at the ceremony: “As your father, my job is not to create a version of myself or direct your future. My role is to be a facilitator to your hopes, your wishes and your dreams.”
imho,
As the fmr spouse,
constant friend and protector of a brilliant trans woman,
and as Mother of a non-binary sweetness,
thank you for your sincere words and love.
I’m deeply honored and humbled that @Netflix’s “CIVIL” — which follows my life and work in the aftermath of the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery in 2020 — won the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary. pic.twitter.com/LovkrR2SdB
The NAACP Social Impact Award recognizes people who impact civil and social justice. Crump joins journalist Nikole Hannah Jones, who won in 2022, and voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams, who won in 2021.
“And so, in conclusion, as I get ready to rest my case. We are prepared to fight for Black history in and outside of the courtrooms just as hard as we will continue to fight for the George Floyds of the world, for the Breonna Taylors of the world, for the Ahmaud Arberys, for the Trayvon Martins of the world and now, for the Tyre Nichols of the world, and all of our children that have been taken from this Earth far too soon,” the attorney concluded his speech.
“We have to stand up for our children’s future, we have to speak up for our children’s future and we have to fight for our children’s future. Because if we don’t fight, we can’t expect anybody else to fight for our children’s futures. We have to be prepared to fight for our children’s future until Hell freezes over…and then we have to be ready to fight on the ice.”
Alaska legislator argued child abuse deaths are a ‘benefit to society’
The Alaska House of Representatives censured Republican Rep. David Eastman after he argued fatal child abuse is a financial “benefit to society.”
Not even sure what to say here. Rep. Eastman says it’s a benefit to society when children who are victims of abuse die “because there aren’t needs for government services over the course of that child’s life” when they die as a results of abuse. #aklegpic.twitter.com/0hV4o7AzTY
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that gives him control of Walt Disney World's self-governing district, punishing the company over its opposition to the so-called “Don't Say Gay” law. https://t.co/6wy0T9LHbK
Real change happens one person, one community, one connection at a time. If you’re an emerging leader in Chicago, Detroit, or Jackson — I hope you’ll check out this new initiative to bring people from different backgrounds together to help solve local problems. https://t.co/vhLKKxt1UN
Today, I announced more than $175 million to bring high-speed internet access and affordability to 61 HBCUs and Minority-Serving Institutions.
Because of this investment, campuses and their communities can upgrade the wifi, expand laptop loan programs, and invest in training. pic.twitter.com/sPPO91a8a3
VP Harris: “We will not build a better future by trying to erase America’s past. During Black History Month, we recognize the full arc of our nation’s history.”
Here in the Horn of Africa, a prolonged drought has left communities with devastating consequences in its wake.
As our world has become more connected, we have seen how hunger and violence, poverty and natural disasters, aren’t contained by borders. pic.twitter.com/LnVJIGIQ2r
🧵 11 years ago today, #TrayvonMartin, was killed by George Zimmerman for being Black in the ‘wrong place’ and at the ‘wrong time’. Trayvon, a 17-year-old child, was vilified, criminalized and dehumanized. He was unjustly killed and unfairly labeled as a problem child by those… pic.twitter.com/XrZgx7oyPM
— The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center (@TheKingCenter) February 26, 2023
#Maddow on how one person can make a difference, "If you look around, there's always these instances we've got to report and learn from right now of people finding a way, some way to get at them, to take them on, to make a difference at an individual human level." pic.twitter.com/6q8EU6sEpZ
Maddow said, “You take big, overwhelming, scary situations, and we’re in the middle of a lot of them right now in this news cycle. What do you do about it?
Well, if you look around, there’s always these instances we’ve got to report and learn from right now of people finding a way, some way to get at them, to take them on, to make a difference at an individual human level. It can feel small but it really is the only way on all of this stuff. Whether you are a senator, an activist,
or just a random citizen. It is the only way.”
Jason Easley: (https://www.politicususa.com/2023/02/27/rachel-maddow-shows-how-one-person-can-make-a-difference.html)
Rachel #Maddow on white supremacists and conservative media claiming that the East Palestine train derailment is a war on white people. pic.twitter.com/PDwSYI4NCV
A must read about mass voter challenges in Georgia, the complicity of the GOP, and how @fairfightaction is working to stop it in court.https://t.co/7bLjz3uL3m
Nebraska State Senator Machaela Cavanaugh about her plan to filibuster the rest of the state legislative session unless her Republican colleagues move on from their anti-trans legislation to more relevant governmental matters.
“I will make sure they have to make a choice.”
“Is our job to leg hate or govern?…so I’m forcing their hand.”
“I don’t care how sick and tired I am (unbeknownst to her State Sen Cavanaugh was filibustering with strep) doing everything I possibly can to protect our children.”
To her gop colleagues “I want you to be frustrated as all get out with me .“
“I hope that it gives people hope…i really want to give our LGBTQIA community… there are people fighting for them.”
(NB State Senator Michaela Cavanaugh)
Newspapers Drop ‘Dilbert’ After Creator’s Rant About Black ‘Hate Group’
Scott Adams, who created the syndicated comic strip, also said that white people should “get the hell away from Black people,” prompting criticism from editors across the country.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/us/dilbert-newspapers-racism.html)
How proud and happy we are to introduce you to Pistis Ghana Limited. The husband and wife team of Kabutey and Sumaiya who spent 1000 hours constructing this gown of beaded royal Kente cloth for me @naacpimageaward Their website is https://t.co/ZgxMOz0eh0 instagram-@pistisghpic.twitter.com/kOM0rofulK
Street of Russia’s London embassy renamed for Kyiv, painted in Ukraine’s colors
By Karla Adam
Sure enough, the volunteers tipped the wheelbarrows filled with paint onto the road and spread it with brooms before the London traffic did the rest, smearing it out to make a giant Ukrainian flag directly in front of the embassy. A day later, Westminster City Council said in a statement that it was renaming a stretch of Bayswater Road to Kyiv Road to “show the people of Ukraine that their struggle has a visible place in our City.”
Sonia Sotomayor Just Nailed the Problem With the Student Debt Cancellation Challenge
It starts with generational wealth.
Hanna Levintova
“But in the first argument of the day, Justice Sonia Sotomayor managed to cut through the legal complexity to handily summarize the problems with the case: It ignores the vast advantages of generational wealth when it comes to paying for education and the hardship that borrowers without financial help will face if Biden’s program is cancelled—and, to top it off, cancellation’s opponents are asking the high court to engage in judicial overreach to shut off a program that they simply don’t like.
“That really has us, the third branch of government, changing Congress’s words,” Sotomayor said. Among the millions of borrowers who would be helped by debt cancellation, “many of them don’t have assets sufficient to bail them out after the pandemic. They don’t have friends or families or others who can help them make these payments. The evidence is clear that many of them will have to default.”
IRONY ALERT
Justice Thomas’ 10K student loan debt in 1989
“When he was first nominated to be a federal judge in 1989, Thomas reported $10,000 in outstanding student loans, according to a news report at the time. The Biden administration has picked the same number as the amount of debt relief most borrowers would get under its plan.” (wate.com)
Today in Tehran alone, there have been 4 new chemical attacks on girls' schools. Islamic Republic is creating care of tactic to drive girls out of streets and prevent them from removing their hijab and protesting against Islamic republic. #MahsaAminipic.twitter.com/XQ8QTrAFoC
Elly Schlein, a 37-year-old U.S.-Italian dual national who proved her mettle in two U.S. presidential campaigns, has become the first woman to head Italy’s second biggest party, the center-left Democratic party, making her Italy’s de-facto political opposition leader. Schlein, also the youngest ever to lead the party, is not only a now-accomplished Italian politician, but a veteran of two American presidential campaigns.
(https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elly-schlein-italy-primary-democratic-party-leader-giorgia-meloni-obama-operativ(/)
Joanna McClinton was sworn in yesterday as 1st woman to be the Speaker of the PA House of Representatives. Champion of criminal justice and women’s rights, she is the 2nd African American to become Speaker.
From the American Rescue Plan to the Inflation Reduction Act, Democratic policies have allowed the U.S. to absorb the shock of rising global inflation. A message to the GOP: Making government work for the common good yields historic job growth and unprecedented economic recovery. pic.twitter.com/qObsg3mj2w
The U.S. House of Representatives has had 435 seats for more than 100 years.
Danielle Allen, discusses with Lawrence O’Donnell her argument in favor of expanding the size of the House of Representatives to better reflect the nation’s population changes.
OUR COMMON PURPOSE
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Enlarge the House of Representatives
Substantially enlarge the House of Representatives through federal legislation to make it and the Electoral College more representative of the nation’s population.
“Initially, delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention set the representation ratio at one representative for every 40,000 people. Upon the suggestion of George Washington, the ratio was changed to one representative for every 30,000 people. “(wiki)
In 2018:
Ratio was 747,000 people to one representative.
(pew)
The Obama Diary 
Thank you NW for being here.
FM and #BlackHistoryMonth art
MBK Alliance
The Wade’s Praise Zaya Wade For Her Bravery In The Fight For Human Rights! | NAACP Image Awards ‘
Gabrielle Union-Wade and Dwyane Wade Fight for Justice for Black Trans People at 2023 NAACP Image Awards
The former NBA player shared a sweet sentiment to his daughter at the ceremony: “As your father, my job is not to create a version of myself or direct your future. My role is to be a facilitator to your hopes, your wishes and your dreams.”
(https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/gabrielle-union-wade-dwyane-wade-speech-2023-naacp-image-awards-justice-black-trans-people-1235334525/)
imho,
As the fmr spouse,
constant friend and protector of a brilliant trans woman,
and as Mother of a non-binary sweetness,
thank you for your sincere words and love.
The NAACP Social Impact Award recognizes people who impact civil and social justice. Crump joins journalist Nikole Hannah Jones, who won in 2022, and voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams, who won in 2021.
“And so, in conclusion, as I get ready to rest my case. We are prepared to fight for Black history in and outside of the courtrooms just as hard as we will continue to fight for the George Floyds of the world, for the Breonna Taylors of the world, for the Ahmaud Arberys, for the Trayvon Martins of the world and now, for the Tyre Nichols of the world, and all of our children that have been taken from this Earth far too soon,” the attorney concluded his speech.
“We have to stand up for our children’s future, we have to speak up for our children’s future and we have to fight for our children’s future. Because if we don’t fight, we can’t expect anybody else to fight for our children’s futures. We have to be prepared to fight for our children’s future until Hell freezes over…and then we have to be ready to fight on the ice.”
Serena
NAACP Image Awards 2023: See complete list of winners
Lisa Respers France: (https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/25/entertainment/naacp-image-award-winners-list/index.html)
ICYMI: Defense Secretaries Panetta and Hagel: “Debt-ceiling brinksmanship weakens US national security”
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/02/24/icymi-defense-secretaries-panetta-and-hagel-debt-ceiling-brinksmanship-weakens-us-national-security/)
Alaska legislator argued child abuse deaths are a ‘benefit to society’
The Alaska House of Representatives censured Republican Rep. David Eastman after he argued fatal child abuse is a financial “benefit to society.”
Danielle Campoamor: (https://www.today.com/parents/family/alaska-legislator-child-abuse-deaths-benefit-society-rcna71978)
(imo made a note after hearing a few words about this: “Find this a-hole”.
pls don’t miss.
—phew
—yesss Joe !!
Joe on 🔥
–sending love and virtual flowers to President Carter and family 🌹🌹🌹
Readout of White House Meeting with Black Speakers of the House
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/02/27/readout-of-white-house-meeting-with-black-speakers-of-the-house/)
High speed internet access
Black history is American history.
President Biden and VP Harris host White House reception celebrating Black History Month
VP Harris: “We will not build a better future by trying to erase America’s past. During Black History Month, we recognize the full arc of our nation’s history.”
FACT SHEET: The Biden-Harris Administration Advances Equity and Opportunity for Black Americans and Communities Across the Country
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/02/27/fact-sheet-the-biden-%E2%81%A0harris-administration-advances-equity-and-opportunity-for-black-americans-and-communities-across-the-country/)
FL Biden in Africa
TRAYVON
Maddow said, “You take big, overwhelming, scary situations, and we’re in the middle of a lot of them right now in this news cycle. What do you do about it?
Well, if you look around, there’s always these instances we’ve got to report and learn from right now of people finding a way, some way to get at them, to take them on, to make a difference at an individual human level. It can feel small but it really is the only way on all of this stuff. Whether you are a senator, an activist,
or just a random citizen. It is the only way.”
Jason Easley: (https://www.politicususa.com/2023/02/27/rachel-maddow-shows-how-one-person-can-make-a-difference.html)
“In the state of New York there is no cap to punitive damages for this.”
Good! Take it all!
delusional sickness
Republicans Hint at Why They Are Restricting Ballot Measures in These States
By Mac Brower
(https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/republicans-hint-at-why-they-are-restricting-ballot-measures-in-these-states/)
92,000
Thank God for Fair Fight Action, Democracy Docket and Super Hero, Marc Elias.
The Future of Redistricting Rests on These Two U.S. Supreme Court Cases
By Nick Seabrook
(https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-future-of-redistricting-rests-on-these-two-u-s-supreme-court-cases/)
State Democrat stands up to Republican fixation on anti-trans restrictions
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=UDa0hsVSNxU)
Nebraska State Senator Machaela Cavanaugh about her plan to filibuster the rest of the state legislative session unless her Republican colleagues move on from their anti-trans legislation to more relevant governmental matters.
“I will make sure they have to make a choice.”
“Is our job to leg hate or govern?…so I’m forcing their hand.”
“I don’t care how sick and tired I am (unbeknownst to her State Sen Cavanaugh was filibustering with strep) doing everything I possibly can to protect our children.”
To her gop colleagues “I want you to be frustrated as all get out with me .“
“I hope that it gives people hope…i really want to give our LGBTQIA community… there are people fighting for them.”
(NB State Senator Michaela Cavanaugh)
Brava, brava to the stars and back !!!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nearly 70 Bills Introduced To Restore Voting Rights After Felony Conviction
By Caroline Sullivan
(https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/nearly-70-bills-introduced-to-restore-voting-rights-after-felony-conviction/)
Murdoch Acknowledges Fox News Hosts Endorsed Election Fraud Falsehoods
Rupert Murdoch, the conservative media mogul, spoke under oath last month in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/27/business/media/fox-news-dominion-rupert-murdoch.html)
Busted!
Newspapers Drop ‘Dilbert’ After Creator’s Rant About Black ‘Hate Group’
Scott Adams, who created the syndicated comic strip, also said that white people should “get the hell away from Black people,” prompting criticism from editors across the country.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/us/dilbert-newspapers-racism.html)
Better late than never. He didn’t just start being racist this week.
Black Mississippi capital distrusts plans by white officials
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Random gunfire, repeated break-ins and a decaying city water system are constant challenges at Mom’s Dream Kitchen, the soul food restaurant Timothy Norris’ mother opened 35 years ago in Mississippi’s capital.
(https://apnews.com/article/jackson-mississippi-government-judges-local-control-15ced19f16f22c454c505704ef7d943c)
what words…
Gorgeous! 😄
WOW! 🙂
Street of Russia’s London embassy renamed for Kyiv, painted in Ukraine’s colors
By Karla Adam
Sure enough, the volunteers tipped the wheelbarrows filled with paint onto the road and spread it with brooms before the London traffic did the rest, smearing it out to make a giant Ukrainian flag directly in front of the embassy. A day later, Westminster City Council said in a statement that it was renaming a stretch of Bayswater Road to Kyiv Road to “show the people of Ukraine that their struggle has a visible place in our City.”
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/23/russian-embassy-london-ukraine-flag/)
—beauty and love to President and Mrs. Carter.
Black history matters.
A Proclamation on Women’s History Month, 2023
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/02/28/a-proclamation-on-womens-history-month-2023/)
Statement from Vice President Harris on Nomination of Julie Su for Secretary of the Department of Labor
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/02/28/statement-from-vice-president-harris-on-nomination-of-julie-su-for-secretary-of-the-department-of-labor/
Julie Su nomination
President Biden’s 3rd budget March 9
“Jackson has been selected by former President Barack Obama’s Change Collective as one of three cities nationally to participate in a new leadership community “to connect, elevate and train local changemakers.”
(https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2023/02/28/barack-obama-names-jackson-ms-one-of-three-cities-to-lead-new-movement-obama-change-collective/69953266007/)
Sonia Sotomayor Just Nailed the Problem With the Student Debt Cancellation Challenge
It starts with generational wealth.
Hanna Levintova
“But in the first argument of the day, Justice Sonia Sotomayor managed to cut through the legal complexity to handily summarize the problems with the case: It ignores the vast advantages of generational wealth when it comes to paying for education and the hardship that borrowers without financial help will face if Biden’s program is cancelled—and, to top it off, cancellation’s opponents are asking the high court to engage in judicial overreach to shut off a program that they simply don’t like.
“That really has us, the third branch of government, changing Congress’s words,” Sotomayor said. Among the millions of borrowers who would be helped by debt cancellation, “many of them don’t have assets sufficient to bail them out after the pandemic. They don’t have friends or families or others who can help them make these payments. The evidence is clear that many of them will have to default.”
(https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/sonia-sotomayor-student-debt-cancellation-supreme-court-scotus/)
Ayanna Pressley on Reidout
Congresswoman Pressley on student loan forgiveness:
“The President clearly has the authority and we just need the Supreme Court to uphold the law.”
IRONY ALERT
Justice Thomas’ 10K student loan debt in 1989
“When he was first nominated to be a federal judge in 1989, Thomas reported $10,000 in outstanding student loans, according to a news report at the time. The Biden administration has picked the same number as the amount of debt relief most borrowers would get under its plan.” (wate.com)
“Of the seven justices on the court who are parents, four have signaled through their investments that they don’t want their own children to be saddled with onerous college debt, and have piled money into tax-free college savings accounts that might limit any need for loans.”
(https://www.wate.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-justice-thomas-wrote-of-crushing-weight-of-student-loans/)
imho, College used to cost hundreds of dollars per semester — now look how much at that same College.
Very interesting. Hypocrisy on steroids.
Adding I was surprised when I saw the source. wate.com is our local ABC station.
Republicans keep forgetting who the U.S. president was in 2020
Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t the only Republican who’s under the false impression that Joe Biden was president in 2020. She has quite a bit of GOP company.
Steve Benen:
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republicans-keep-forgetting-us-president-was-2020-rcna72870)
Masih Alinejad
Chemical Attacks on Girls’ Schools
Iranian officials to investigate ‘revenge’ poisoning of schoolgirls
The attacks on female students – called an act of ‘biological terrorism’ – are thought to be retaliation for protests against hijabs in the country
(https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/feb/27/iranian-authorities-investigate-the-poisoning-of-schoolgirls-said-to-be-revenge-for-hijab-protests)
House GOP moving to let Jan. 6 defendants access Capitol security footage
The Republican plan follows Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to grant Fox News’ Tucker Carlson exclusive access to internal film from the day of the attack.
(https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/28/house-gop-moving-to-let-jan-6-defendants-access-capitol-security-footage-00084763)
Rupert Murdoch on stopping the Election Lies: “I could have but I didn’t.”
Elly Schlein, a 37-year-old U.S.-Italian dual national who proved her mettle in two U.S. presidential campaigns, has become the first woman to head Italy’s second biggest party, the center-left Democratic party, making her Italy’s de-facto political opposition leader. Schlein, also the youngest ever to lead the party, is not only a now-accomplished Italian politician, but a veteran of two American presidential campaigns.
(https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elly-schlein-italy-primary-democratic-party-leader-giorgia-meloni-obama-operativ(/)
Joanna McClinton
Joanna McClinton was sworn in yesterday as 1st woman to be the Speaker of the PA House of Representatives. Champion of criminal justice and women’s rights, she is the 2nd African American to become Speaker.
Opinion 5 good points the right is making about the Ohio train disaster
Paul Waldman and Greg Sargent
“The derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals in eastern Ohio has led to calls for an examination of the government’s disaster response, new regulation to safeguard public health and safety, and better working conditions for railroad workers. ”
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/27/ohio-train-derailment-republicans/)
Expand the House of Representatives
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSUNLFrLe0U)
The U.S. House of Representatives has had 435 seats for more than 100 years.
Danielle Allen, discusses with Lawrence O’Donnell her argument in favor of expanding the size of the House of Representatives to better reflect the nation’s population changes.
OUR COMMON PURPOSE
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Enlarge the House of Representatives
Substantially enlarge the House of Representatives through federal legislation to make it and the Electoral College more representative of the nation’s population.
Strategy 1: Achieve Equality of Voice and Representation
(8 sections)
(https://www.amacad.org/ourcommonpurpose/report/section/6#_1)
Well?
“Initially, delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention set the representation ratio at one representative for every 40,000 people. Upon the suggestion of George Washington, the ratio was changed to one representative for every 30,000 people. “(wiki)
In 2018:
Ratio was 747,000 people to one representative.
(pew)
Celebrating Women’s History Month !!
New post.