"Heat kills about 350 New Yorkers each year. But the risk is not shared equally. Black New Yorkers are more than twice as likely to die from heat as white residents, city data show." Fewer trees, inadequate pools, fewer neighborhood parks, etc. make it worse. #ClimateJustice
The show is sold out but you can join me live @JoesPub channel on @Youtube See you there!
Feb 23rd, 7:00pm ET - Kendall Thomas: A Queer Jazz Songbook https://t.co/u7cuR10pXs via @YouTube
“The right-wing weaponization of critical race theory aims to shut down a difficult but necessary conversation about race, racism, and the future of democracy in America,” says Professor Kendall Thomas, a noted scholar on race and the law. https://t.co/pzpR0esPzI @Ill_Legitimacy
New Yorkers: Attacks on Asian Americans are up 800+% this year. Have you signed up for bystander intervention training? @iHollaback is adding more slots https://t.co/C1LmpSOBmv. #StopAsianHate
Trump’s 1776 Commission says historians pointing out the paradox of a nation founded on the idea of freedom denying freedom to Black people “has done enormous damage” to “our civic unity and social fabric.”
Last month, Professor Kendall Thomas (@Ill_Legitimacy) discussed critical race theory and the Trump administration’s denouncement of anti-bias trainings as part of @OxfordLawFac‘s annual Equality and Diversity Lecture.
Watch the full event ➡️ https://t.co/LHn2zAjHTx
“The idea of democracy has been used as a talking point to validate a government of superiority, of American exceptionalism. The actual value of democracy, the majority of white America does not believe in it.” - @MsLaToshaBrown, BVM Co-Founder
https://t.co/7mmhj1YY1C
The Republican party (this is bigger than Trump) is weaponizing the entire federal govt. to either (a) undo the election, or (b) raze the whole thing to the ground.
James Clyburn: ‘defund the police’ slogan may have hurt Democrats at polls https://t.co/N2prxdK3Ny
There's a lot of daylight between Defund the Police and "Burn, Baby Burn" and Mr. Clyburn knows it.