"Smith took various classes but enjoyed learning about the history of Africa and how the past tied to today. There was sports history and other projects Smith became enamored with, making him wish he’d learned the information while he was still playing in the NBA." Go J.R.! 🗃

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where is john roberts to tell us that this is just one of those apolitical, unpopular decisions the court has to make sometimes?

Lots of folks seemed to be unable to understand the reticence of black and marginalized folks to interact with the police outside of what’s absolutely necessary, so I figured this might shed more light on how this all started. naacp.org/find-resourc...

Can confirm

Austin Reaves on LeBron James: “My rookie year, I had no idea what the heck was going on. He took me under his wing and has given me every opportunity that I could ever ask for. He trusted me. We’ve built a real friendship… He’s taught me a lot. I owe him a lot for my career.”

Pam Grier in Coffy (1973).

Tennessee’s congressional gerrymander, which wiped out the state’s only Black-majority district, has drawn another lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Up to 70% of the salt we eat is hidden in processed and packaged foods - such as sauces, canned food, cured meat, breads - not just the salt we add to our meals. NEW: Second ed. of SHAKE the salt habit, WHO technical package for sodium reduction https://bit.ly/3R1zKIR #LessSalt

They are playing for all the marbles. This is their last chance to create the Confederacy. They'll burn it all down.

But he’s going to make some shameless grifters a lot of money and that’s what it’s all about these days.

I don’t turn off the comments when I post something, but some of y’all really need to work on subtext when you see a meme…jeezus.

Jim Crow 2.0 The hoods have been replaced with MAGA hats. www.huffpost.com/entry/southe...

The Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority didn't happen overnight. This is the inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that reshaped the American judiciary and legal system. (Published Oct. 2023)

He will eat his goofy ass legal teams lunch if he tries it.

“Mycotic aneurysm” may be one of the most misleading medical terms Despite the name, most are bacterial—not fungal. William Osler first used the term in 1885 to describe a mushroom-shaped aneurysm in a patient who died with bacterial endocarditis. Today,the preferred term is infected aneurysm #idsky

again, i don’t think any of this is necessary. just say that the court was out of bounds, that it may be correct on the definition of “election” but that this technical matter has no bearing on the results of the referendum, which occurred in a free and fair contest.

The reporter who asked this question is a veteran journalist, Rachel Scott. She is also a Black American. Trump called her question stupid and twice seemed to imply she was comfortable with dirt. Just naked misogyny and racism

At the same time he demands $1B for his gigantic ballroom, Trump is withholding $2 billion in education funding Congress already approved — money for teacher training, research, and community initiatives.

that's the look of a face you normally see resting on a silk pillow just before T H E Y C L O S E T H E L I D

Today marks four years since an Israeli soldier shot and killed US citizen and journalist Shireen Abu Akleh while she was wearing her press vest and covering the news. The IDF has continued to target journalists with impunity. No one has been held accountable for Shireen's killing.

🚨 #SleepyDon branded “UNFIT TO SERVE” after video shows him dozing off in the Oval Office—eyes closed, head drooping during a maternal health briefing on saving moms’ lives. The guy who mocked Biden as “Sleepy Joe” can’t stay awake on the job. America deserves better. mcsp.short.gy/8c38

The rule appears to be that redistricting is always legal when it benefits Republicans and never legal when it benefits Democrats.

I don't really know how else to explain how precarious it feels to be Black in America right now to people who are motivated to misread these moments. It's difficult to trust and even harder to expect solidarity from people still looking for common ground with these Confederates.

QRP with the doctor you'd trust leading the hantavirus response instead of RFK Jr.

It would be about time…

Religion is so obviously fake.

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Louis Armstrong performing for his wife at the Great Sphinx of Giza (1961). 📷 Bettmann/Corbis

“We didn’t have a roof over our heads — we slept in a parking lot.” Now, this South LA student has 65 college acceptance letters and is heading to Columbia University to study industrial engineering. From that parking lot to the Ivy League. His story will move you. 🙌🏽

I 100% think this kid applied to all these schools to personally upset you.

So the people who were in charge of making sure that cruise ships were safe were laid off by the Regime last year. The Regime doesn't care about people, they only care about GREED.

very much of the view that a democratic congress should wield the guarantee clause against ad hoc, mid-decade redistricting, a practice which is an end run against representative government itself

Hollywood is always just rebooting shit instead of creating something new

So weird that women are always coming down with a case of the hysteria

For as progressive as Seattle may seem, it has an underrated ability to produce the most vile right-wing cranks.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

This was so interesting!

Residents in Fayette County, Georgia noticed their water pressure was unusually low. Turns out that a data center 20 miles away had been drawing 30 million gallons of water in secret through connections the county didn't know existed. Is it any wonder why so many are opposed to data centers?