As the Apostle Paul exhorts, I encourage you to rejoice in hope, endure in affliction, persevere in prayer, and contribute to the needs of your brothers and sisters (Rom 12:12-13). #GeneralAudience

Student Loan Borrowers, Do These 7 Things As The Department Of Education Faces Uncertain Future trib.al/N6fp3lf trib.al/N6fp3lf

Thank you TIME for naming "Great Migrations: A People on the Move" one of the best new TV Shows of January 2025! Watch #GreatMigrationsPBS on Tuesdays at 9/8c on PBS or streaming on the PBS App.

I ask you to be vigilant against the temptation to cultivate a warlike spirit. Be vigilant lest you be poisoned by propaganda that instils hatred, divides the world into friends to be defended and foes to be fought.

Monday, February 10, I’ll be in Philly at the National Constitution Center with some of our great thinkers on the Reconstruction amendment, then and now: Pamela Brandwein, Sherrilyn Ifill, Ilan Wurman, Kate Masur, and Dylan Penningroth. constitutioncenter.org/calendar/recon…

In 1936, FDR appointed Mary McLeod Bethune as Director of the Division of Negro Affairs in the National Youth Administration (NYA). She served there from 1936 until the agency’s demise in 1943. #BlackHistoryMonth

Happy book birthday— The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made is published today by Yale University Press a 400-year history of Black families’ striving against inequality #racialwealthgap #BlackHistoryMonth yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030025…

#OnThisDay in 1909, the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was founded by an interracial group including W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Mary White Ovington, and Moorfield Storey. #BlackHistoryMonth #APeoplesJourney #ANationsStory

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

In celebration of #BlackHistoryMonth, we are providing free access to select book chapters and journal articles for the month. Don’t miss out. 📚 cup.org/40TwdxE #BlackHistoryMonth2025

Watch all four episodes of Great Migrations on the PBS website! pbs.org/show/great-mig…

Women’s Work: From Protest to Power —The Evolution of Black Political Influence saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/02/womens…

Since DoD is no longer celebrating Women’s History Month, us retired folks will do it for them. Jeanne Holm was the USAF’s first female Brig Gen. She advocated strongly for opening more roles to women, including pilots & combat. She lived long enough to see women fly in combat.

#FindingYourRoots is back with an all-new episode! Join us tomorrow night as we uncover the long-lost roots of actor Sheryl Lee Ralph and historian Lonnie Bunch. Tune in tomorrow night at 8/7c to watch this new episode of #FindingYourRoots only on PBS!

Excited to see you Lonnie G. Bunch III

Been seeing lots of conflicted feelings about the burning of #NottowayPlantation. From "It's a monument to slavery. Burn it down!" to "Black people built those mansions, so it's our history too!" My new book, AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION, grapples with this very dilemma.

"If you're a history buff, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library could make for the ideal road trip destination. The museum features 'special interactives, immersive audio-visuals, and rarely seen artifacts' that take visitors through the Roosevelt era." ow.ly/xlrK50WAcOZ

Designer Ann Lowe became the quintessential style maven and influencer of the fashion industry. Her Madison Avenue boutique showcased exceptional design and tailoring, welcoming prominent clients including Jacqueline Kennedy and the Rockefellers during her 50-year career.

From motherhood to beauty standards to access to capital, women entrepreneurs face hidden costs at every turn. Roosevelt Fellow Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman reveals the invisible “taxes” holding women entrepreneurs back—and the tools we need to change it. ⤵️ player.fm/episodes/50232…

Workers are hard at work in CAs San Joaquin Valley. Roma tomatoes are tougher to pick and take longer to fill then standard tomatoes. Workers earn $0.89 per 25 lb bucket. These pickers are working the edges of the field to get every last bit of the yield. #WeFeedYou