Slavery was Legal. Colonialism was Legal. Jim Crow was Legal. Apartheid was Legal. Legality is a matter of Power, NOT Justice.

Can I just say I love working with a team that serves like this??? Connecting newsrooms with election data and graphics from the AP -- yes, please!

The State of Mississippi has shortchanged Alcorn State University $257,807,216 in agricultural funds from the federal government over the last 30 years, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack write. mississippifreepress.org/39807/opinion-…

An article from a south side Chicago paper, written by a journalist from the south side, about a journalist from the south side who wrote a book about the history of south side culture... 💖 Happy Valentine's Day! #blackhistorymonth #nonprofitnews

THREAD. The most effective propaganda is based on true facts. It is simply inaccurate that the best propaganda are lies. This is a phenomenon that is widely misunderstood. A few quick points.

We traveled to Mississippi to meet that 13 yr old rape victim & her mother. She gave birth to a baby boy. She's only in the 7th grade. Her doctor said even though the state has exception for reported rape cases— few doctors are willing to provide an abortion.

As @nikiusher writes, “The research indicates that when it comes to local news and the future of the industry, we may be emphasizing the wrong things... The focus should be on providing quality information that communities need and want.”

Laying off your entire award-winning podcast department and the radio station that actually has the Black and Brown listenership you claim you want to grow, and doing this as a PUBLIC RADIO STATION, is a choice. Frankly, I’m not just disappointed. I’m angry.

So grateful for the time I spent working on WBEZ's podcast team... absolutely heartbreaking news 🥺

Our lame-duck CEO Matt Moog has said the vote to kill podcasts and decimate Vocalo was unanimous. It seems @davemckinney went to fact check that and found a troubling pattern of closed, private meetings at our public news organization.

NAHJ Chicago is disheartened by the recent layoffs at Chicago Public Media. Read our full statement here.

Everyone say hiiii to our fresh new Documenters🤩🤩🤩

I do think it's wild that over the last 365 days almost every non-profit newsroom (including many NPRs and big names everywhere) have lost major funders and each time it's treated as an individual story and no one asks if there is an underlying issue.

Please join us in congratulating INN members In These Times, Inside Climate News, Invisible Institute and City Bureau on their wins for the Park Center for Independent Media Izzy Awards!

Thank you Illinois! I love it when we lead... funding local news strengthens our #democracy 💕 "The concept of public policy to help save local news is no longer an abstraction but a real strategy for creating a better local news system." Steven Waldman

If you've ever wondered about where I work and what I do... it's about these almost 500 nonprofit newsrooms rebuilding local trust in news one community at a time 🗞️📰💕

.U.S. Representative Al Green after being removed from Joint Session of Congress: "I'll accept the punishment. It's worth it to let people know that there's some of us who are going to stand up to against this president's desire to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security."

BREAKING: Jasmine Crockett just walked out of Trump's speech in the middle of it and filmed this: “He is spewing all kinds of nonsense and bullshit let me just be real.” Good Trouble.