Two Black boys running a lemonade stand received an unexpected show of support after someone called 911 on them. Instead of shutting them down, Kansas City police officers and firefighters showed up to support them, helping them earn hundreds of dollars. This is what community should look like! Investing in our youth instead off discouraging their entrepreneurship. ✊🏿
I’ve been thinking a lot about the extraordinary outbursts of the President of the United States against female journalists... well, actually against journalists in general and journalism. But it feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for. It’s stunning to me to witness such behavior from any leader, any CEO, any person of influence or importance. I’ve never witnessed someone like this raging, this weekend with @meetthepress host @kwelkernbc, just last week in the Oval Office with @cnn’s @kaitlancollins, calling women stupid or piggy, telling them to “smile”, calling them darling, demeaning their credibility. Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say “No more.”
Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother... would you stand for it? No, you wouldn’t! And neither should any of us. It’s unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story.
She inherited $100 BILLION from Walmart. Then she gave strangers the key to a world most billionaires lock up. Meet Alice Walton. Daughter of Sam Walton — the guy who built Walmart from one Arkansas store into a global giant.
When Sam died in 1992, Alice and her brothers became some of the richest people alive.
Everyone thought she’d run Walmart. She didn’t.
Her brothers took the boardrooms. Alice chose a different path.
Art.
While the world chased profits, she spent years quietly collecting paintings. Studying American history. Staying out of headlines.
Then 2011. She drops a bomb on the art world.
Alice spends over $1 BILLION to build a world-class museum.
Where? Not NYC. Not LA.
Bentonville, Arkansas. Population: tiny. Known for: Walmart HQ.
Critics lost their minds.
“Warhol in farm country? Georgia O’Keeffe next to truck stops? Waste of money.”
Alice had one answer:
“Why should great art only live in big cities?”
Then she did the unthinkable: She made it 100% FREE.
No tickets. No fees. No velvet rope.
Suddenly, kids from small towns. Families who’d never flown to a museum. Teachers on field trips. They all walk in and see masterpieces for $0.
“I want a child in Arkansas to feel the same awe as a child in Paris,” she said.
Millions have visited since.
But Alice wasn’t done.
She looked at rural America and saw another crisis: No doctors. No hospitals. No hope.
So she built the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine.
Tuition for the first classes? FREE.
“I’ve had every advantage,” she told reporters. “It’s time to turn advantage into access.”
No mega yachts. No private islands. No space rockets.
Instead:
A museum door that never closes.
A med school that doesn’t charge.
A chance for people who usually get told “not for you.”
Here’s the truth:
Alice didn’t earn her billions. She was born into them.
What makes her different is what she did NEXT.
For most people, money is a scoreboard.
For Alice, money became a key.
A key to art.
A key to medicine.
A key to rooms normal people never enter.
“Having wealth is one thing,” she said. “Using it to open doors is another.”
She didn’t just inherit a fortune. She redefined it.
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Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.
The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.
Paulette Jordan just won the Democratic primary for governor in Idaho. Meaning, she's now positioned to become the first female governor of Idaho--and the first Native American governor in the US.
Black History Month is a time to recognize the lived, shared experience of all Black folks who have fundamentally shaped, challenged, and ultimately strengthened America. It’s about taking an unvarnished look at the past so that we can create a better future. As we mark 100 years of celebrating Black history, let’s honor the sacrifices of the leaders who came before us, and recommit ourselves to continuing their work.
Since Trump doesn't want this portrait of President Obama displayed in the White House, let's make this photo of our President go viral here!
RETWEET if you love @BarackObama!
Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela. It should inspire those engaged in similar struggles around the world - and remind those of us lucky enough to live in America that we have a solemn responsibility to constantly preserve and defend our own hard-won democratic traditions.