Why have Americans become so mean, sad, and alienated? The answer is simple, @nytdavidbrooks argues. People no longer grow up learning how to be decent to one another: https://t.co/Lr6seNcD00
In LAUSD where about 80% of students come from low-income backgrounds, one music repair shop is helping create equitable access to quality instruments.
This shop fixes student instruments for free. Now, a music legend is chipping in
https://t.co/lRkRWf3nbJ
Columbia canceled my class on Race and Media. But I decided to teach it anyway.
So I built a school, instead.
500+ students online and in person.
My first independently operated course and lecture begins TONIGHT! WE MOVE!!
https://t.co/DXaGePEw5K
Announcing the release of the new book Voice for the Voiceless: Decades of Struggle with China for My Land and My People will be available on March 11. “In my role as the Dalai Lama, there is no issue more important than what I describe in these pages. My hope is that the book will stimulate fresh thoughts and conversations today and provide a framework for the future of Tibet even after I am gone.” For more information, visit https://t.co/ckXqXJlPAp
"I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems, are complicated. But to me, there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality."
Today would have been the 140th birthday of Alice Paul, suffragist and author of the Equal Rights Amendment. In 1923, she introduced it in Congress, and fought for its ratification until her death in July 1977.
The current ERA has met the necessary thresholds, and we await its certification.