Happy to have served as a poll observer in @PinalCounty . The staff including @CopperElections and @RecorderDana explained procedures-much transparency!
NEW: Arizona voters will decide in November whether to keep Republicans in power at the immensely influential Arizona Corporation Commission after two years of rate hikes, deregulation measures, and unresolved ethical complaints. @12NEWS
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On this day in 1944, George Stinney Jr., a 90-pound 14-year-old boy, was executed in the electric chair in Columbia, SC. He remains the youngest person executed in the U.S. in the 20th century. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/HmGMqKVzHI
On this day in 1958, St. Petersburg, Florida, ordered the closure of a public indoor swimming pool because a Black 19-year-old named David Isom used the facility. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/pBjqlfJuwW
EJI has opened a new health clinic that will provide free health screenings and services to people released from jail or prison and services to other vulnerable populations in Alabama. https://t.co/G2nZAJx1co
On this day in 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin forcefully pinned George Floyd to the ground and held his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes until he died. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/Dj8BQOzoDb
On this day in 1963, hundreds of Black children began peacefully protesting segregation in Birmingham as part of the Children's Crusade and faced intense police brutality. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/fz95K82plH
Thrilled to announce @PARCinc will be joining SRI, thanks to a donation by @Xerox. SRI & PARC have played central roles in the Silicon Valley innovation ecosystem & will together create the next set of tech breakthroughs that will transform our world: https://t.co/yqVuCWFUDW
Lance Woods is the co-founder of We Run 313, which is the premier run club of Detroit and the largest run club in the state of Michigan. They create a space for people to come together, socialize, and run as a community. 🎬 Detroit 60 🎬
On this day in 1908, an Alabama congressman shot a Black man for cursing in front of a white woman on a street car in Washington, D.C. His fellow representatives commended his actions. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/4gZKFJDuXB
The award recognizes EJI's legal work on behalf of people sentenced to death and children prosecuted as adults as well as EJI's public history work, which teaches people about our nation’s history of racial injustice and its legacy today. https://t.co/RTphi1M6dJ
Curious to know how the pom pom crab got its name? It's all thanks to their unique behavior of carrying a living sea anemone around (note the little tentacles in center of this crab). This may seem like a silly thing to do, but these anemones actually help the crab to catch food.
On this day in 1924, Virginia passed the Eugenical Sterilization Act authorizing forced sterilization and enacted a prohibition on interracial marriage in an effort to "purify the white race." To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/aoVBFP8jkb
On this day in 1901, after a Black man accused of stealing a white man’s wallet escaped lynching in Rome, TN, the mob of white men instead seized and lynched Ballie Crutchfield, his sister. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/e0YfBNIbpV
Today, alongside tribal leaders, I signed an Executive Order establishing the Task Force on Missing and Murdered Indigenous People. For too long, our state has ignored tribal leaders’ pleas for help addressing the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People. Today we are taking the first of many steps to stop the abuse, exploitation, and violence against Indigenous Peoples.