With so many folks getting together with family and friends, there’s a lot to celebrate this summer. Here’s a playlist of songs I’ve been listening to lately—it's a mix of old and new, household names and emerging artists, and a whole lot in between.
My daddy couldn’t work for a while after his heart attack. The bills piled up. One day, I walked into my parents’ bedroom. My mother’s face was red and puffy. A black dress was laid out over the bedspread—the dress that only came out for weddings, graduations, and funerals.
If anyone had a right to question whether our democracy was worth redeeming, it was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Because in the face of billy clubs and lynchings, poll taxes and literacy tests, he never gave in to violence, never waved a traitorous flag or gave up on our country.
This @washingtonpost story is a remarkable piece of journalism. It chronicles Mr. Trump's descent into madness. America is fortunate to have survived this man -- so broken and tortured, so damaged and dangerous, so cruel and detached from reality.
https://t.co/FDYRt59J4s
Can we please get people stimulus checks and mortgage relief and rent forgiveness and small business support and free testing and hazard pay and healthcare for the uninsured (& underinsured) in the middle of a pandemic or is that too socialist too?
Let’s remember this moment in the history of the world for Women, African and Indian Americans... The first woman VP, the first Black VP and the first Indian Vice President of the United States of America took 244 years. #Equality