A newspaper ad from 1835 revealed a slave auction larger than any historian had discovered. This is what we know about that auction — who orchestrated it, who profited and what happened to the enslaved people at the center of it. https://t.co/yXXy0tJrra
WATCH THIS: "There is something profoundly cynical about asking God to solve a problem that we're not willing to solve ourselves." - Texas Rep. James Talarico
I have no problem with scientific innovation when it’s not at the expense of caring for people who are suffering or when it’s not to accommodate greed and militarism.
An unprecedented number of people in their 30s and 20s are entering a “peculiar position” in the modern American nuclear family: caring for both their aging parents and their children at the same time. https://t.co/6rocMIpN1C
Two high school seniors who say they have proven Pythagoras’s theorem by using trigonometry – which academics for 2,000 years thought to be impossible – are being encouraged to submit their work to a peer-reviewed journal
https://t.co/ifEXJBRzm4
The Yuchi Tribe of Oklahoma received five bison earlier this month, marking the first time in nearly two centuries.
Tribal members say the new herd will strengthen ceremonial practices — and connect them with other Indigenous nations. https://t.co/RoKRmVMxPr
Honestly, the fact that Florida has become this much of a fascist state this quickly without mass, unruly protests erupting is a bad sign for the future of freedom and liberty in America.
Brother #MalcolmX [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz] was assassinated 58 years ago today.
I encourage you to learn about him from him via ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X.’
Thinking of and praying for the dear daughters of Brother Malcolm and Dr. Betty Shabazz.
If the College Board is going to distort history to appease right-wing activists maybe colleges and universities should think twice about accepting APs as credit
One has to have a pretty strange conception of what “the left” is to believe that “the left is more dominant in Biglaw.”
If “the left” means “to the left of Jones Day,” then fair enoufu. But it takes an awfully skewed view of what “the left” is to think this is generally true.
New Orleans has been trying to warn y’all. The push for charter schools is about funneling public funds into the hands of billionaires & millionaires while gaining greater control over the education of the working class the rich exploit to make their profits.