Stuyvesant admitted 777 students to its incoming ninth-grade class. Just three are Black. The number is down from eight last year, putting NYC’s elite public schools and their persistent racial disparities back under the microscope.
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Big John Thompson had a great clip about how the sports and business world hated educated athletes...Still seeing this issue showing this with how The Celtics dealt with Jaylen Brown
WATCH: @SenJohnStevens LAUGHED AT by the gallery when he blatantly lies that he doesn’t know MEMPHIS — where he went to school — is majority Black.
Sacrificing his integrity at the altar of Trump as they strip Memphis of representation. Aren’t there Bible verses about lying? 🤥
“How are you proposing a map and you don’t know anything about it?” 🤔🤷🏼
WATCH — @SenJohnStevens pathetically ducks all Sen. Lamar’s very valid questions as he pretends not to know Memphis is a majority-Black city + claims this isn’t about race. #Memphis#JimCrow@GovBillLee
La. Rep. Denise Marcelle spoke emotionally about her concerns that La. may end up with no black majority electoral districts as the legislature considers proposed new maps after #SCOTUS’ ruling. @FOX8NOLA#votingrightsact debate @redistricting
Racism Is The Fabric Of 🇺🇸 Always Has & Always Will Be. They Hate Talking About It. B/c It Reminds Them Of How Evil They Really Are!! This Is What Make America Great Again Was All About!! Your President Said & I Quote “These Are The Kinda Rulings I Like” Let That Sink In. 🇺🇸
Unread” by Oliver James is a memoir in which James, a TikTok influencer who grew up functionally illiterate, chronicles his journey learning to read as an adult and discovering a love of books in the process. literacy, framing reading as a path to healing, liberation, & more.
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration argues that mass incarceration especially through the War on Drugs has created a modern “racial caste system” that functions much like the old Jim Crow laws, but under the appearance of colorblind
Brotha Magazine's 10 Black Books | 10
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Book#6
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is Maya Angelou’s autobiographical account of her childhood and teenage years, from about age three to sixteen, growing up as a Black girl in the segregated American South and more.
Trump tapped white-nationalist Jeremy Carl to be Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations.
The same Jeremy Carl who said the Civil Rights Act was an “anti-white weapon,” who claimed “the great replacement is real,” who called Juneteenth a “race hustle” and “white-shaming,” and who compared January 6 defendants to Black defendants in Jim Crow trials.
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“So your belief is white Americans face more discrimination than Black Americans - prior to the Trump administration fixing this?”
Jeremy Carl, Trump’s white nationalist pick for a top state Department spot, is “likely to sink” after today’s performance, per CNN.
🚨 Trump nominated a white nationalist to a top State Department job.
When asked to explain his “erasure of white culture” beliefs, he completely collapsed.
The latest issue of Brotha Magazine is now live! This edition features a powerful cover story on Lucien Metellus, current president of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Also inside: inspiring spotlights on educators and gospel artists Terrence Dooley, Rufus Johnson, & more.
Under Trump, 591 books by Black authors have been banned from Pentagon-run schools and libraries, according to Onyx Impact. @DelanoMassey https://t.co/dt4CuD8EqE