Top Tweets for #PassAACWA

Because I am black wherever I go and wherever I go black people matter to me so mind yours!

"Why in the face of such daunting evidence have we not declared that “it is contrary to the welfare” of Black children to remain in the care of America’s foster care system?" https://t.co/JatCG3JOlp

For more than nine years, DREAMers have watched courts and politicians debate whether they’ll be allowed to stay in the only country many of them have ever known. It’s long past time for Congress to act and give them the protection and certainty they deserve.

When I started researching Alabama's habitual offender law 5 years ago, I thought I could write about the terrible impact outsized sentences had on human lives & it would shame lawmakers into fixing it. It still makes me sad that I was wrong. They don't care.

Foster care is a tool of Black oppression and "colorblind" removals will do nothing to address this. Black children will continue to be forcibly separated from their parents and suffer all the consequences. This does nothing to address the root problem. https://t.co/o7Shbai0XX