Twenty percent of the people Jefferson owned held the self-evident truth that they were endowed with the unalienable right of freedom. So they left. That’s the most potent iteration of freedom emanating from Mr. Jefferson’s property.

👇🏿Add to this a political and illegitimate Supreme Court.

Between 2011 and 2022 alone, Black land-grant universities lost nearly $200 million in resources because states declined to provide them with matching funds while fully funding predominantly white universities, a new report notes. chroni.cl/3KeYze8

I actually read all 216 pages of Florida's new state social studies standards, and the enslaved-people-benefitting-from-slavery is not even the worst part. They basically created a K-12 course in Caucasian Race Theory Here's the top 10 problems I found: thegrio.com/2023/07/27/flo…

Bill Withers '73. 🎶'Use Me'

3/People who choose a career path that involves squaring off against the govt in court tend to see the world—and the law—MUCH differently than people spend their careers representing government officials and agencies in court and defending the exercise of govt power over others.

So proud of my middle son Cannon Fox. Accepted a scholarship to play Div 1 soccer in the Big East. Keep on chasing your dreams and checking things off your list.

👇🏿Hard work and perseverance. The best is yet to come!

Sophomore year!👇🏿

The way, exposed to weather, a body is worn. Velvet threads begin to wither, rapid ripened beyond the burst bloom. —Harryette Mullen #PoemADay poets.org/poem/weatherin…

Straight Down to the Bones 'In this searching interview, legendary Black Arts poet Sonia Sanchez discusses the ancestral influences on her work and how art can give us strength.' bostonreview.net/articles/sonia…

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Al Jarreau “Take Five” live in ‘76 #jazzisdead

We are underway at Wicks Family Field 🚀 Watch the Boys in Blue take on Atlanta on #MLSSeasonPass on Apple TV ⬇️ apple.co/3UEJAOT

👇🏿Very Very impressive. Jamie Graham and Devin Arnold. Men of character and integrity. How Jamie Graham overcame mom's murder to becoming Lipscomb Academy’s first Black football coach tennessean.com/story/sports/h… via @tennessean

A handful of players on this list Jones leading the way AVL only has 51 minutes over the last 5 games I’d love for Grek to get a run of games in goal Scretchen has 191 minutes over the last 4 games

Hate to hear this. James Lawson, the former Freedom Rider who championed the nonviolence tactics used in the civil rights movement, has died. apnews.com/article/james-…

41' | Nathan Trickett scores his second career goal off a pass from Cannon Scretchen! #LetsGoX