@NYCMayor I voted for you and am disappointed that you did not appoint Angela Burton as the next ACS Commissioner, The 1st major mistake of your administration. ACS ha always been racist agency and it will continue to be racist under your administration.Please reconsider your decision.
.@ZohranKMamdani is absolutely is correct that mayoral control is NOT working and we can find a better system to embody the needs of our @NYCSchools that includes the voices of parents, students and teachers!
Trump officials are weighing a plan to sell $1.6 trillion in federal student loans to private investors, stripping the government of its power to cancel debt & putting millions at risk. Education should empower, not exploit. We must demand a stop to this! https://t.co/3ETyLujG5l
JASMINE CROCKETT: "To be clear: undocumented folk contributed approximately a hundred billion dollars in taxes. They pay into Social Security, and they don't get to draw down on it. So stop allowing them to divide us and demonize them."
There’s a BEAST in the @RealDonaldTrump White House Named Ms. @AliceMarieFree:
Bold. Empowering. Advocate. Seeking. Transformation.
"She saved the life and family of @CarlosWatson. She has saved countless others. She is straight Harriet Tubman 2.0, navigating the underground railroad of mass incarceration, guiding people from the depths of injustice to the light of freedom."
Read More:
https://t.co/iUNh2w9MFb
Half of all Americans have an immediate family member who has been incarcerated – that's millions and millions of people who have been plagued by the wide-reaching effects of mass incarceration.
On this day in 1956, Ku Klux Klan members in Alabama bombed the home of civil rights activist the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth while he was celebrating Christmas with family.
https://t.co/3qADa1kmSq
Trailblazer Barrington Irving, the first Black man to fly solo around the world, is launching a tech training school at Pompano Airpark. This program will inspire and empower the next generation in aviation. Representation and opportunity take flight in Broward County!
I have been a lawyer for 30 years. There is a lot more to the Luigi Mangione story than we are being told so far.
I am highly concerned about his claim that evidence was planted on him.
Will be looking into this and continuing to report on the case impartially as all suspects are innocent until proven guilty.
Thrilled that my book, “Afterlives of the Plantation" will be published @ColumbiaUP in May 2025 & is AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER. It establishes the rural US South & Caribbean as sites of agricultural innovation & cultural/intellectual sophistication. For more, click the link below.
He was 30 years old.
Black men deserve to grow old—not be lynched on a Subway because they were having a mental health crisis.
Jordan deserved better. Accountability now.
He was 30 years old.
Black men deserve to grow old—not be lynched on a Subway because they were having a mental health crisis.
Jordan deserved better. Accountability now.
On this day in 1958, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Alabama's School Placement Law, which was designed to maintain segregation and allowed school boards to assign students to schools at their own discretion.
https://t.co/BzOtqN2vCn