Happy Black Music Month🤎
President Jimmy Carter officially designated June as Black Music Month on June 7, 1979, hosting a historic reception on the White House lawn with performances from Chuck Berry, Billy Eckstine, & more.
BREAKING: In a humiliating move, Donald Trump's Chief of Staff just asked JD Vance to get off of Twitter because he was behaving beneath the office of the Vice Presidency. MAGA is in extreme disarray. Good.
"I'm not going to Washington to fight @POTUS . I'm not going up there to have this shouting match with individuals. I'm going to Washington to bring back resources back to this district for people who look like me, who I care about." @unclelukereal1
On run for Congress #Florida
Stephen Colbert was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power. A fitting honor for a champion of our democracy.
RETWEET to congratulate Colbert on this honor!
The 1965 Voting Rights Act was landmark legislation to stop states from diluting the vote of minorities - most notably Black voters in the South who had been systematically disenfranchised.
Last month, the US Supreme Court gutted it.
Today, Michigan became the first state in the country since that ruling to hold a legislative hearing on state level legislation to enshrine those rights. I was proud to cosponsor these bills and vote them out of committee.
The NAACP launches a campaign calling on Black student-athletes to boycott Southern colleges in the wake of a Supreme Court decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act. https://t.co/6y460EsrjN
The President just used his power to exempt himself and his family from audits on every tax return they've ever filed.
If that is not corruption to the highest degree, then what is?
The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”
Today, we re-launch our campaign to take on billionaires and the political status quo.
Whether you live in the new TN-09, the old TN-09, or anywhere that our systems have failed you, I’m running for Congress for all of US.
We are still here. And we’re going to WIN!
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you". Wise words that still ring true today spoken by an upstanding Texan, LBJ in 1964… let it sink in that it’s now 2026.
What happened in the State of Tennessee was the largest and swiftest disenfranchisement of Black people that we've seen in at least a century.
It's on all of us to organize, mobilize, and participate in bigger numbers than their maps account for.