"I say that with great respect, but when I hear them talk about rolling back our IMPACT evaluation system, it makes me nuts," Bowser said. (Lewis George has the WTU endorsement and her platform says she would work "reform DC Public Schools teacher evaluation to focus on growth.")
On the matter of HER endorsement, she dodged but said she thinks she's made her position plain. She said on schools, "we wouldn't want to see somebody who was overly influenced by unions over families."
Daniel Nwaekwe just leveled all the way up.
This king finished #3 in his class at McKinney High School, dripping in honors (yellow stole, cords, sashes, medals) as he celebrates getting Princeton bound (accepted into THREE Ivies)!!!
He earned AP Scholar with Distinction, National Merit Commended, 17 AP classes, Black Student Union President, Mr. MHS, Distinguished Student Award, and building his own business (Starstruck World LLC) as a producer & audio engineer.
From the nonstop grind to the Ivy League stage��� this is Black excellence in full motion.
Let’s gooooo, Daniel! The world is yours, king! 👏🏽🔥
White phosphorus ignites instantly on contact with oxygen. It burns at over 800°C. It melts through clothing, skin, muscle — and bone.
In the bloodstream, it becomes a systemic poison. It attacks the heart, liver, and kidneys leading to multi‑organ failure and death.
Monsters.
🚨 DAMN.
Ruby Bridges said the moment she finally understood what was happening during school integration was when a little white boy told her:
“My mom said I can’t play with you because you’re a nigger.”
She was SIX.
And she said hearing that felt like “a huge weight lifted,” because suddenly everything made sense.
Why the classrooms were empty.
Why adults were screaming.
Why U.S. Marshals had to escort her to school.
Not because of anything she did.
Just because of the color of her skin.
A six-year-old child realizing an entire country was angry at her for existing.
🚨BREAKING: There is NO water in The Rio Grande?!
I’m standing here in New Mexico and the river is completely DRY.
Nearby AI data centers are consuming massive amounts of water to keep their systems cool.
Meta’s Los Lunas facility alone has reportedly been tied to roughly 75 million gallons of water usage per year connected to Rio Grande resources and it’s only ONE of many projects expanding across the state.
People can argue over the exact numbers, but one thing is undeniable… these facilities require enormous amounts of water and there are more data centers across the country being built as we speak.
This is starting to look like an environmental disaster in plain sight.
We need to put pressure on local representatives and the President to examine this environmental crisis before it’s too late.
On this day in 1956, Althea Gibson became the first Black athlete to win the French Open.
The following year she became the first Black athlete to win Wimbledon.
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Un inventor africano originario de Zimbabue ha inventado el primer televisor autosuficiente del mundo que funciona sin necesidad de conectarse a un enchufe. Este televisor opera mediante un generador de energía inalámbrica microacústica montado en su parte trasera, que utiliza frecuencias de radio. En otras palabras, diversos aparatos, empezando por el televisor, pueden funcionar sin requerir electricidad, solo con éter.
No solo inventó un televisor que no necesita electricidad, sino también un automóvil que solo requiere correr, sin necesidad de electricidad, agua, gas, combustible ni nada por el estilo. Este es, hasta donde sabemos, el primer vehículo autosuficiente del mundo, y se llama «SAITH».
The sister put on her all black party for black tennis player in Paris and then folks went crazy. They can have separate his party all day long. but when we do it, it’s a problem. Naomi Osaka.
Leaked video from inside ICE detention center in Louisiana—shows starving men begging for "Food! Please, now!"
"I was there! No matter what you do nobody pays attention to you," said Victor Nery.
"They say 'food' because they made us endure hunger with only potato puree," said Chris originally from El Salvador.
"It's Louisiana low level... that cell was in front of mine and each one has 90 - 110 detainees."
Kentucky mother hides a camera in her nonverbal autistic son's hair after suspecting he was being abused at elementary school.
Tiphanee Lee says she suspected something was off when she received complaints about her son's behavior at school.
Lee decided to take matters into her own hands and put a small camera in her son's dreads.
When Lee reviewed the footage, she heard noises while her son's head moved around as a staff member accosted him.
"While this was happening there was adults in the room who did nothing to stop it. This is unacceptable," Tiphanee said.
The incident is reportedly under investigation.
A Black neighborhood once stood where the Pentagon sits today. It was called Queen City.
Families lived there for years before the government seized the land and cleared the community to build the Pentagon. This is the story of what happened?‼️🤔
#ErasedHistories #pentagonHistory #ArlingtonVA #Pentagon
More people need to know that ancient Roman engineering was so precise, their aqueducts still produce clear water to this very day - 2,000 years later.
Naomi Osaka on why she chose to host a party for the black tennis players:
“You know I'm seeing a little bit of-
‘Why can't you love everyone for all skin tones?’ and ‘what if someone had an all white party?! First of all I do love everyone for who they are no matter their race + ethnicity, (I'm literally half Japanese lol). I can only speak from my experiences in my own life though, growing up as a tennis player I didn't see many people that looked like ME and I feel like it's important to celebrate them.
Secondly I feel like it's important to note that there have been all white dinners/parties. I don't know how else to tell you this, I literally seen them all the time and never had an issue with it at all. To the people who ask this question I want to ask you this question too, ‘What is it about POC getting together that unsettles you so much?’
I want to end this by saying I grew up watching my dad get discriminated against, having the cops called on him multiple times at the tennis court. There are multiple things I will apologize for in my life but celebrating being black and appreciating who we are will never be something I would consider saying sorry for. Thanks.
Actually I lied, I am sorry. I'm sorry for the people who cannot comprehend in their brains that this is not about exclusion, this is a celebration about how far we have come 🖤”
(via Naomi on Threads)