Vice President Harris: A lot of my work has been to increase federal funding to HBCUs. They are centers of academic excellence. Since I have been Vice President we have given $16 billion more to our HBCUs

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The term “middle class” is frequently invoked on the U.S. campaign trail. But who is the middle class? Andre M. Perry, Hannah Stephens, and Farah Khan explore how middle-class households vary by race, ethnicity, and place. brookings.edu/articles/harri…

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Saw this last night at the opening of the exhibit hall CSWE APM and was thinking wow they have our book displayed. Came Back this morning after thinking I’ll go back and ask them if I can sign all the copies in case anyone buys them and there was just the one left!

The voices of people incarcerated in Illinois are rarely heard outside their institutions’ walls. Students in the Northwestern Prison Education Program (Northwestern Prison Education Program (NPEP)) are changing that with the "Northwestern Insider" magazine. spr.ly/6013QwRoL

I am deeply honored by and grateful for MacArthur Foundation’s recognition of my work in the struggle to end family policing and to reimagine family support & child safety.

Mobile Alabama, 1956 Photo by Gordon Parks

On this day in 1946, Isaac Woodard, WWII veteran, hours after being honorably discharged, was attacked by South Carolina police while still in uniform when taking the bus home & left permanently BLIND The officers were acquitted by an all white jury. —Isaac enlisted in the U.S.

🚨NEW: Federal Judge James Boasberg has blocked the Department of Justice from removing January 6th videos from a public database. RETWEET to thank Judge Boasberg for standing up for our democracy!

The family of Sonya Massey and Sangamon County officials reached a settlement in which the county agreed to pay Massey’s family $10 million theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f…

Portrait of Formerly Enslaved Person Alabama, 1937

A 6th grader in Texas took her life because she was getting bullied by kids telling her that they're going to call ICE on her parents and that she would end up alone. Ya'll are raising hateful children.

A Texas lawmaker introduced a bill that would make it illegal in the state to perform medical research on a corpse without explicit consent, following an NBC News investigation into a medical school that profited from the bodies of the poor and vulnerable. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/t…

Our “arrogants” is just getting started

Emmanuel “Manno” Bernoon, a former slave, opened one of the first restaurants in Rhode Island with his wife in the 1700s — and America may owe its love for oysters to their efforts bostonglobe.com/2025/02/20/met…

“When you see yourself in the story, you have a powerful sense of who you are. So I because of a Black educator named Ray Dial, who in high school introduced me to “Before The Mayflower” I became the child who would go on to create The 1619 Project” ~Nikole Hanna Jones

"Poverty, by America" author Matthew Desmond (Matthew Desmond) shares how the US could end poverty if the top 1% of Americans just paid the taxes they owed

#BreonnaTaylor…We #SayHerName, as we pray for those who loved her before her name became a hashtag.. Breonna Taylor…We Say Her Name as a devastating reminder that racial injustice is not “un-American,” but it should be. Breonna Taylor…We Say Her Name as a call for and

Five years ago, Breonna Taylor—an EMT who dedicated her life to others—was killed in her own home. We say her name in reverence and restitution. The fight to end police brutality continues.