I first met Clark Reynolds when he was just three years old at our Black History Month reception at the White House.
Over the last ten years, it's been wonderful getting updates about his life through his letters. Check out how he’s doing now:
Patrick Beverly list his facts on why he says James Harden is better than Dwyane Wade:
MVPs: Harden
Scoring titles: Harden
Assist Titles: Harden
All NBA 1st team: Harden
All NBA 2nd team: Harden
Career points: Harden
Career assist: Harden
Career rebounds: Harden
Career steals: Harden
Career blocks: Wade
“I think this argument isn’t a disrespect to Dwyane Wade, I think it’s a disrespect to James Harden”
(Via @patbev21)
Today is a very special day for me as I will be receiving my 18th championship ring tonight at Dodgers Stadium. We will celebrate our back-to-back World Series Championships at ring night - I’m so excited!!! I currently have (1) Everett High School State Championship, (1) Michigan State NCAA Championship, (11) Lakers Championships - (5) as a player, (5) as a co-owner and (1) as an executive, (1) LAFC Major League Soccer Championship , (1) LA Sparks WNBA Championship ,and (3) World Series Championships with the Dodgers! I actually have a total of (20) lol 😂 but I didn’t include my (2) E-Sports Championships as co-owner of Team Liquid!
Michigan State basketball has arrived to Capital One Arena for its practice before the Spartans' Sweet 16 matchup with UConn.
Former Western Michigan coach Dwayne Stephens is officially back in the green and white and arrived with the other MSU assistant coaches. @wilxTV
Today, Michelle and I are proud to announce that we will be hosting the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center on June 18th in Chicago, and welcoming the public on June 19th.
We can’t wait for you to visit. Go to https://t.co/swMRHuB5Y4 to learn more.
🩺 History was made at Johns Hopkins Hospital as five Black surgical residents became the first all-Black team to lead its Trauma & Acute Care Surgery service. Congratulations to Doctors Valentine Alia, Lawrence Brown, Ivy Mannoh, Zachary Enumah, and Ifeoluwa Shoyombo. This is BLACK EXCELLENCE at its finest and a powerful reminder of what becomes possible when doors are opened! ✊🏿
The history books quietly bypassed is that Barack Obama, during the most pressure-saturated nights of his presidency, would retreat alone to the Treaty Room on the second floor of the White House residence — not to strategize, not to take calls, but to handwrite personal letters to ten ordinary American citizens every single night, a practice he maintained with almost monastic devotion across all eight years, selecting the letters himself from the 40,000 that arrived daily at the White House, and his longtime correspondence director Fiona Reese confirmed that Obama would often weep privately while reading certain letters, folding them carefully before writing responses so personally detailed and emotionally present that recipients frequently described the experience of receiving them as the most significant moment of their lives, with one Ohio steelworker writing back to say that Obama's letter had physically stopped him from making a decision that would have permanently altered his family's future. What makes this practice almost unbearably moving is the detail that surfaced later — Obama never used a computer for these letters, always a black felt-tip pen, always legal yellow paper first as a draft, always rewritten onto White House stationery by hand a second time, because he believed, as he told historian Doris Kearns Goodwin in a rare private conversation later recounted in her 2018 work, that the physical act of pressing pen to paper forced a quality of attention that typing simply could not replicate, a philosophy rooted in his years as a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago from 1992 to 2004 where he developed the conviction that democracy only functions when its leaders remain genuinely, uncomfortably close to the specific gravity of individual human suffering rather than processing it from behind the insulating distance of institutions and screens."
Donald Trump has disinvited Maryland Governor Wes Moore, the only Black governor in America, from a so-called bipartisan dinner for the nation’s governors.
Let that sink in.
Not only is Governor Moore the only Black governor, he is also the vice chair of the National Governors Association. His exclusion is not protocol. It is not oversight. It is not accidental. It is a deliberate act of disrespect and racial targeting by a president who has repeatedly shown contempt for Black leadership, Black excellence, and Black presence in spaces of power.
You cannot call something “bipartisan” while singling out and excluding the only Black governor in the country.
You cannot preach unity while practicing segregation.
You cannot demand civility while weaponizing exclusion.
This is the same old playbook, erase Black leadership, marginalize Black voices, then gaslight the nation when it’s called out.
And here is the real test of character: no governor with any moral decency should attend that dinner. Silence is complicity. Attendance is endorsement. Showing up as if nothing happened is participation in the insult.
If one governor can be humiliated today, any governor can be targeted tomorrow. But make no mistake,this move was aimed squarely at Black leadership.
History is watching. The country is watching. And Governor Wes Moore deserves solidarity, not silence.
Racism doesn’t always wear a hood. Sometimes it sends out invitations and decides who’s worthy to receive one.
Tag your governor and tell them not to attend. @maura_healey@MassGovernor