Women & Children First marks its 45th anniversary wct.bz/3JdEDam

'A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It’s finally changing'

14,000 Black kidney transplant candidates have been moved up in priority on the transplant list after a biased race-correction factor was eliminated.

apnews.com/article/kidney…

The branding of corporate profit making off our basic needs as 'inflation' that just magically happens has been so effective it's astounding.

Let me just point out, the motivations are the same as when some Northern cities and states barred Black children from attending public schools in the 1800s. They believed if Black people knew their kids would be denied an education, they wouldn’t migrate to those states.

Digging into Speaker Johnson--a staunch evangelical, and the other MAGA Christian nationalists blocking aid to Ukraine in the House, I discovered that Ukraine plays a role in their demented 'end times' world view 🧵

NEW INVESTIGATION: a California prison sergeant sexually abused an incarcerated woman for months, then harassed/stalked her for yrs after her release, records show.

🧵on Nilda Palacios' long fight to be believed + how Sgt Tony Ormonde evaded consequences: theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

hiya youse!
i'm doin fundraising for Brave Space Alliance, this cool and essential org here in Chicago! if you got some spare dollars burning a hole in your pocket, maybe throw a couple in this here link?
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classy.org/fundraiser/543…

I've been waiting 29 years to tell this story about OJ and his days at USC. Now that he's dead (may he burn in hell) I have a story that I signed an NDA for that is no longer valid. I was a junior at USC working in Topping Student Center on campus in 1995. I was an administrative…

I can't help but think of the parallels between Laquan McDonald and Dexter Reed. I examined the Johnson administration's response so far and explored how it is focusing its efforts toward healing, accountability, transparency, and justice. The TRiiBE

thetriibe.com/2024/04/mayor-…

I’ve been on Knock LA’s admin team since 2022. I’ve coordinated skills building workshops w/ journalism orgs, overseen award winning reporting & secured major funders. Last night Ground Game LA maliciously deleted all of my @knockdotLA accounts. Pls read our newsroom’s open letter

As Chicago discusses the shooting death of Dexter Reed, the details of which are known only because COPA released video, a bill is pending in the General Assembly that could make it difficult or impossible to obtain these videos in the future under #FOIA .

UPDATE: Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik said on March 28 that 'it's about to get worse for Planet Fitness' and since then, at least 43 locations of the fitness chain have reported bomb threats - 26 new public incidents since just last Friday.

As we see the backlash against the trans and nonbinary communities, Chicago's BraveSpaceAlliance is a beacon for the trans and nonbinary communities. As board chair, my role is to help where I can. Will you help? See classy.org/fundraiser/543…

Are you fucking kidding me? Here are the abortion laws in Texas:

1. No exceptions for rape or incest
2. No exceptions for fatal fetal abnormalities
3. Doctors could face life in prison for providing care
4. Anyone who helps facilitate an abortion is subject to a civil lawsuit…

Police fired 96 shots in 41 seconds at Dexter Reed. It's long been documented that Chicago Police use pretextual traffic stops as the new stop-and-frisk. How many Black and brown youth will die before we meaningfully reform the Chicago Police Department?
chicago.suntimes.com/police-reform/…

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows the federal government to spy on Russians. So, of course, Donald Trump demanded today that Moscow Mike and friends in the House kill it. And they did.
Putin is running the American House of Representatives!

On the left is Mike Rogers’s 4,751 sq ft, $1.5M waterfront mansion in Cape Coral.

On the right is the 728 sq ft “home” he bought last July so he could claim residency in Michigan.

Where do we think he actually lives? 🤔 #MISen

📢‼️After some careful reviewing and collation of information we now feel we can respond to the Cass Review

Please see our response below 🧵

My latest piece The Nation is about the great Dawn Staley's defense of trans athletes, what she models, and why it matters thenation.com/article/societ…