Nebraska Poor People's Campaign

movement to end systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy, and the false moral narrative of religious nationalism. @unitethepoor @tsdirt

[Mississippi Today @MSTODAYnews]

A major legal win for Black Mississippians that was supposed to lead to new elections for the state Supreme Court was wiped away.

via @MarshallProj

https://t.co/rDQUaXt1JU

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

As protests inside and outside of Newark’s Delaney Hall continue, federal, state, and local officials are vying over the future of the privately-run ICE detention center in New Jersey.

The converted prison “should be closed because of health and human safety,” Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said. https://t.co/xUm1LJ6sIu

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: Democrats criticized SCOTUS for allowing Alabama to use a gerrymander it previously found was discriminatory against Black voters.

The historic ruling allows states to discriminate and leaves minorities with virtually no protections, which advocates stress will set the nation back decades. https://t.co/bk3li9MAGG

[The Nation @thenation]

If the Intro. 175-B proposal passes, students could fear possible arrest, disciplinary action, or even consequences in the college admissions process as a result of joining protests. Instead, “we should be encouraging our students to be standing up to participate in our multi-faceted, complex democracy.”
https://t.co/Ehq5Ak2JKf

[Brennan Center @BrennanCenter]

Congress cannot stand by as the Supreme Court dismantles the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. It can — and must — codify an enforceable right to vote and set baseline national standards for voting access. https://t.co/TjRW0Bagf9

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

White voters in Louisiana want to eliminate the state's only remaining majority-Black congressional district — and a federal court has agreed to hear their arguments.

State lawmakers just passed a new congressional map, dismantling one of two majority-Black districts.

Soon, both could be gone. https://t.co/ATrDf34CMD

[PinkNews @PinkNews]

Trans man's prison death linked to 'a number of failings', report finds https://t.co/Vp8YJVwIpa

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

For the second time in three weeks, the Roberts Court on Tuesday night green-lit an Alabama congressional map that a lower court has repeatedly found intentionally discriminates against Black voters. https://t.co/fdWdL8nAys

[Aaron Sanderford @asanderford]

ICYMI: Nebraska Public Media is expanding its radio and news reach more directly into the state's largest city.

From @PaulHammelNE:

https://t.co/sPc2GJg2gG

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

With majority-Black voting districts being eliminated across the country, now is the time to recognize that none of us can afford to stay politically asleep, Anneshia Hardy writes.

“Attacks on Black voting power are often the testing ground for broader attacks on democracy.” https://t.co/FLxEsjdcud

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

📬 USPS is planning to radically crack down on mail voting, according to a yet-to-be-published proposed rule.

The agency is taking steps towards implementing Trump’s sweeping attack on mail voting ahead of the midterms – despite legal experts warning that it is blatantly unconstitutional. https://t.co/zoC5rmW8qI

[Nebraska Poor People's Campaign @NebraskaPPC]

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[Be A King @BerniceKing]

This is what Greenwood looked like before it was attacked and destroyed. Before the smoke and flames, before the killing, there was a thriving Black community known as Black Wall Street, filled with Black owned businesses, homes, faith, dignity, and possibility.

What began on May 31, 1921 was an assault on one of the most prosperous Black communities in the nation, a place where Black enterprise, excellence, and self determination were visible in every block. The violence would continue into June 1 and leave that community devastated. More than 35 blocks were destroyed, hundreds were killed, and thousands were left homeless.

We must remember not only how Greenwood was destroyed, but what was stolen.

#TulsaRaceMassacre #BlackWallStreet #BelovedCommunity #Nonviolence365 #MLK

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: This week a court declined to block Trump's anti-mail voting exec order, with the USPS sharing plans for how it'll help implement it.

Also, GOP gerrymandering was halted in S. Carolina & Ala., but will commence in Fla, despite a constitutional ban.
https://t.co/m0iuVRoMjx

[PinkNews @PinkNews]

Kim Petras has opened up about the treatment of transgender children in America.

Speaking to The Fader, the singer said: "Now that I’m in America, there’s so much shame around sex, sexual education is such a taboo, and it’s such a weird climate right now, especially about trans kids in particular. They’re the enemy right now."

Petras also opened up about publicly transitioning at a young age: "I was 12 talking about it, which I kind of regret because privacy was really blurred, [but] I was really unashamed of talking about it because I was a kid and I was like, 'This is the way it is."

On people making comments about her transition, Petras said: "I have people saying I ruined my body and I ruined my life. They don’t know me at all,"

"They don’t know my history, that I went to so many psychologists and so many doctors and that it was a real thing that had an assessment and [they gave me] an answer [about] why I got to [get hormone treatment]. It saved my life and then there’s people who are like, 'This saved your life, but you ruined everything.'"

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Civil War-era Congressman Thaddeus Stevens was a fierce abolitionist and advocate for racial equality. His life and legacy are now being celebrated in a new museum in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Liz McKenna of our journalism training program, PBS News Student Reporting Labs, has the story.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

ICYMI: The DOJ cannot begin distributing payments from the $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” while litigation is pending, a federal judge ruled.

As part of the settlement that created the slush fund, the IRS was permanently barred from auditing Trump — essentially exempting him from tax law. https://t.co/q1WhVHW8og

[Nebraska Public Media News @NebPubMediaNews]

A national nutrition incentive program that matches what SNAP participants spend on fresh fruits and vegetables has grown to over 25 sites across Nebraska.
https://t.co/Y2rHAsUqfl

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

⚠️ White voters in Louisiana are clear: they want an electoral map in the state with no majority-Black districts.

Louisiana already suspended an ongoing election to draw a new map, eliminating one of the state’s two majority-Black districts.

Now, they want to take it even further. https://t.co/XLpqK3SAHf

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

“For vulnerable groups without access to cooling…these temperatures are quite simply dangerous and potentially fatal.” https://t.co/7Y5xvfTwkO