I want us to have a better understanding of what it is the White House is responsible for. I also want us to understand that federal agencies are created for specific tasks for the sole reason of the White House as an entity not being the one people go to for every single thing.
Stevie Wonder's “Happy birthday” isn’t just a song y’all insist on butchering at birthday dinners (find an agreed upon stopping point, Black people!), it was a key part of the decade-plus long fight to get Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday recognized as a national holiday. Coretta Scott King campaigned and lobbied tirelessly, but a National Holiday recognizing a figure who not only was NOT a president but was also Black was difficult for lawmakers get behind. After the bill failed by just 5 votes in 1979, the Black artist community stepped in to help with efforts, among them Stevie Wonder. Stevie’s song is a plea for lawmakers to make the holiday a reality:
“You know it doesn't make much sense
There ought to be a law against
Anyone who takes offense
At a day in your celebration”
“I just never understood
How a man who died for good
Could not have a day that would
Be set aside for his recognition”
Congratulations to the Advanced Career Education Centers at Hermitage and Highland Springs Class of 2022! Tune in at 7 p.m. and watch the livestream at https://t.co/Muuu0cKd2U. #HCPSClassof22
History is made. Vice President Kamala Harris, the nation's first Black woman vice president, presides over the Senate as it confirms Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, 53-47, to be the nation's first Black woman Supreme Court Justice.
Too often elected officials tweet and quote my Dad while standing in the way of progress on voting rights.
Honoring the #MLKLegacy means taking action to pass voting rights legislation. Call your senators.
Spread the word.