Honored to co-host this thought-provoking evening discussing racial wealth gaps with 'Fifteen Cents on the Dollar' authors Louise Story Ebony Reed and Dr. Peniel E. Joseph 🇭🇹🇺🇸. 4/29 at the Carver Library. RSVP now! cc: Texas Book Festival eventbrite.com/e/wealth-is-wh…

Congrats to South Carolina Women's Basketball and Coach @DawnStaley on a perfect season and their third title! It's been an incredible year for women's basketball, and this team was so disciplined and talented. Well deserved.

Conversation with my brilliant friend and colleague ⁦P. Gabrielle Foreman⁩ on the ⁦Colored Conventions⁩ digital history project that is transforming our understanding about the role of Black women in strengthening democracy. We need this now more than ever. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rac…

Travis Scott at UT football practice and have licensed Texas gear does not offset the closing of DEI department, firing of 60 employees and disbanding and dismantling campus programs designed to help students of color at the University of Texas.
Don’t fall for the trap.

#OnThisDay 56 years ago, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was fatally shot while staying at the Lorraine Motel (NatCivilRightsMuseum) in Memphis, TN. Learn more from author James Swanson and professor Dr. Peniel E. Joseph 🇭🇹🇺🇸: c-span.org/classroom/docu….

#MLK #CivilRights #OTD H #OTD

On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a final sermon in Memphis, a day before his assassination.

'I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.' theatlantic.com/photo/2018/04/…

No one will lose their jobs, they said... We will simply rename divisions and move staff to other positions, they said... We didn't believe them and we were right not to.

After DEI Ban, UT-Austin Eliminates a Division and Fires Dozens of Its Staff chronicle.com/article/after-…

Today was an extremely emotional day as I had to inform my students that I will not be returning to the University of Texas at Austin. This decision was not one I made myself and having that power stripped from you is such a humiliating experience.

From Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳: “In the worst conditions, after the worst terrorist attack in its history, it’s time for the best of Israel to show up. You cannot save the hostages by bombing every building in Gaza. You cannot win this war by starving an entire population.”…

This is an absolute disgrace. A moral tragedy that returns Texas back to a dark past. This is how Reconstruction ends once again, with assaults on the very aspirations of Black dignity and citizenship.

A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing apnews.com/article/kidney…

THIS TUESAY! April 2 at 7:00pm ET - THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SECOND AMERICAN REPUBLIC with author
Manisha Sinha and Dr. Peniel E. Joseph 🇭🇹🇺🇸 (Virtual)

Choose your own price for non-members. Free for members. Learn more & REGISTER HERE: marktwainhouse.org/event/the-rise…

Today, on Transgender Day of Visibility, I have a simple message to all trans Americans:

I see you.

You are made in the image of God, and you're worthy of respect and dignity.

Encourage everyone to read Ida Bae Wells’ incredible piece about how conservative groups are hijacking the civil rights language/movement to bring lawsuits to undo many of the gains made by the movement under the umbrella of promoting “colorblindness.”

Here’s the piece —>…

From our family to yours, we hope you have a wonderful and blessed Easter!

.Maya Wiley on Alex Wagner Tonight:

“That is exactly what is happening to people: The weaponization of division…We're seeing the racism. We're seeing the tropes. We're seeing the sexism. And at the end of the day, this democracy is about whether or not we're going to come together.”

Inaugural Tuskegee Airmen Day celebrated in Gulfport, MS. The Roberts family is grateful that our dear father and fellow brave Tuskegee Airmen are being honored in our home state of MS. wlox.com/video/2024/03/…

A Texas appeals court tossed out a woman's five-year prison sentence for voting illegally Thursday, ending a yearslong saga that garnered national attention. nbcnews.com/politics/elect…

Republicans in Tennessee just voted 66-25 to vacate the entire board of Tennessee State University, a historically Black college that has been underfunded by the state for decades.

Watch Genius: MLK/X TV Show - Streaming Online | Nat Geo TV The meeting that inspired this series occurred 60 Years Ago Today. ⁦Reggie R. Bythewood⁩ ⁦The LBJ School⁩ ⁦UT History Department⁩ ⁦Center for the Study of Race and Democracy⁩ nationalgeographic.com/tv/shows/geniu…