Happy bicentennial, GW! Today, February 9, 2021, is the 200th anniversary of when the United States Congress established our university charter in 1821.
President LeBlanc shares his remarks with the GW community as we celebrate this historic milestone. #GW200
This is minuscule in the grand scheme of things, but seeing @KamalaHarris campaign in Converse makes me smile.
Women were not allowed to wear pants on the Senate floor until 1993. We’re taught to push through the pain of wearing heels.
Now our VP candidate is rocking sneakers.
This Juneteenth, learn more about Black queer history in DC and how we’re all connected in this fight for liberation.
Shout out to the homies at @byp100 DC for this beautiful resource. 😭🙏🏾
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The legacy of American highways is that many of them tore through African American neighborhoods.
In city after city, the black residents who were left behind in their cut-up neighborhood were now walled off by these highways in "border vacuums." https://t.co/BswqAE4Isr
It shouldn't take 190 videos to see what the problem is. It's not protesting. It's not looting. It's not damage to buildings.
It's policing, and it's systemic.
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The Office for Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement: Letter to the GW Community • We are sad. We are suffering. Our hearts are heavy. And, we will not forget the Black lives and names of those taken from us too soon due to racism.
Full letter: https://t.co/BY83WJensM
This photo says it all. Be a part of America that steps up to #ProtectBlackLives, that works to dismantle the systems that continue to oppress and kill black people.
Use your voice. Use your body. Educate yourself.
Just do more than this, white America.
#BlackLivesMatter
If the police can't restrain themselves and are shooting reporters, kicking protesters, punching protesters, and engaging in violence - how can anyone expect the people to restrain themselves?
People are done being brutalized and murdered.
"My twists have become such a synonymous & a conflated part of not only my personal identity & how I show up in the world, but my political brand. And that's why I think it's important that I'm transparent about this new normal & living with alopecia." — @AyannaPressley
NJ Gov. Murphy signs legislation mandating that every school in the state teach students about "the political, economic, and social contributions" of LGBTQ people and people with disabilities. https://t.co/D1QLPeCOFs - @NBCOUT