“Listen” how many prayers must we stack before the ceiling cracks? how many babies must we bury before the ground refuses us? stop calling it tragedy when it’s policy. stop calling it freedom when our children are the collateral. we deserve a country that loves them enough to keep them alive.

Family, Here’s a clip from my upcoming film Clearing the Air:The War on Smog—a powerful reminder that when crisis strikes, we can come together and solve it. I hope you will watch the premiere Tonight, August 26, 2025, at 9:00 p.m. on PBS. #ClearingTheAirPBS #ProudBlue www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...

Here's some good news: Catelin Drey won a special election this week to flip a seat blue in the Iowa Senate and break Republicans' supermajority.

As the EPA works to reverse the Endangerment Finding, gutting the legal basis for addressing climate change, @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social warns Black, Brown, and poor communities will pay the price. wordinblack.com/2025/07/the-...

Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and other deep-red states are leading the pack in rural hospital closures. This is what happens when you gut Medicaid, reject federal dollars, and treat healthcare like a luxury. You can’t blame “woke” when there’s no ER for 100 miles.

The Bill Moyers that obituaries missed

It's July 4, and Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams.com is done with performative patriotism. DEI is not the problem. Erasing the truth is. America's birthday warrants a reckoning, so now is the time to show up, speak out, and remember who we are. wordinblack.com/2025/07/amer...

Few people have embodied the best of journalism—its ability to cut through BS, its capacity to uplift those who’ve been wronged, its burning appetite to tell the stories people need to know—like Bill Moyers. We’ve never needed him more, writes @monikab.bsky.social.

Extreme weather is real.

freer because of us —july 4th, with memory in my mouth— i don’t light fireworks i light candles for crispus & kin— Black breath blown into battles they weren’t meant to win. they called it revolution but asked us to wait told us freedom was coming just show up late. but we were there— boots muddy

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is the Big Lie wrapped in a flag, handed to you with a smile, and signed in ink that looks suspiciously like blood. It’s not policy—it’s a death sentence in red, white & blue. Patriotic theater with real-life casualties. Listen and Read👇🏾 wordinblack.com/2025/07/big-...

"The proposed changes (to the clean energy tax credits) would likely disincentivize investment in renewable energy, potentially slowing the transition to a cleaner energy grid & impacting the economic viability of solar & wind projects, while providing tax breaks for the coal and oil industries."

“this too shall pass,” auntie said, stirring truth into her tea— but not without us. not without feet in the street, mouths wide with no more, hearts loud as drums that won’t stop beating ‘til justice opens the door. ©️MustafaSantiagoAli #WritersCommunity #Poetry #Resister

“There is a myth we tell ourselves about #Juneteenth, as if #freedom arrived suddenly, like a thunderclap, on June 19, 1865, with General Granger reading General Order No. 3 to the enslaved people in Galveston, Texas.” @wordinblacknews.bsky.social @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world won’t just know peace— it’ll breathe again. No more boots on necks, bombs in skies, or borders drawn in blood. Just humanity, finally choosing heart over empire.” #Peace #Truth #Resistance #RevolutionOfLove

“Honoring The Original Patriots and Roots of #MemorialDay” On that May day, the shadows danced In Charleston’s aftermath, where chains had broken. The sun’s light pierced through history’s trance, As freedom’s first sighs in silence were spoken. African hands, calloused by the past, Gathered bones

#GeorgeFloyd 5 Years later. @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social imagines what he might say now…

Tornadoes decimated parts of Kentucky, Missouri, and Virginia, killing at least 25 people this weekend. A FEMA staffer says recent federal cuts will hamper the agency’s “ability to reach vulnerable people." wordinblack.com/2025/05/fema...

The Black Arts Movement began one day after Malcolm X’s assassination. Since then, the icon’s spirit of power & pride has influenced generations of Black artists — from poet Gwendolyn Brooks to hip-hop legends Public Enemy &, most recently, sculptor Nathan Murray. wordinblack.com/2025/05/malc...

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

Energy Star doesn't just help protect our environment—it keeps money in families' wallets. Documents obtained exclusively by EPW reveal that Trump and his EPA chief, Lee Zeldin, plan to eliminate this money-saving program.

Toxic air doesn’t wait—pollution harms babies before they even take their first breath. Let’s learn how we can protect future generations. 🗓️ May 8 | 9:00–11:30am ET 📲 Livestream on Moms Clean Air Force channels

More than 200 flights from and into Newark Airport had been delayed as of Monday morning. Disruptions have prompted United Airlines to cut nearly three dozen round-trip flights per day at the New Jersey airport. We explain what's going on. nyti.ms/42L2aKE

Ridiculous. Energy Star program is on the chopping block, sources say | CNN www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/c...

"Repealing these protections requires blatant disregard for the urgent and very real suffering of the millions of Americans who have already had their lives destroyed by dangerous air pollution and climate change-fueled extreme weather" Read more here ⬇️ www.actonclimate.com/post/cac-tru...

President Biden left Trump a strong economy that was growing at a 2.4% rate in the fourth quarter of 2024. Trump ruined it in just 100 days, shrinking the economy (-0.3%) in the first quarter of 2025 and sparking fears of recession.

Hey EPA, we fixed this for you. In Trump's first 100 days, the EPA has rolled back climate and environmental justice programs and removed standards keeping our air and water clean. Here's what ACTUALLY has been happening to our climate: www.actonclimate.com/trumptracker/ #100Days100Harms

Learn more in this new report, "The Green Gender Gap: How Women are Shaping the Climate Vote" during next week's webinar, which will feature Moms Co-founder and Director Dominique Browning as a panelist. Register here: www.environmentalvoter.org/get-involved...

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

DAKOTA GANT: “I pursued my passion for music and opera in college at Bethune-Cookman University in Florida, where I trained to be an opera singer... However, the heat, humidity, and pollen were too much. My lungs couldn’t keep up with my dreams. So, I pivoted.” #climatechange #earthday

Mother Nature’s weeping. . . Change the climate—before it changes us. Climate Can’t Wait. #climatechange #EarthDay

“As damaging as Trump’s actions have been, the #climate fight isn’t over…Trump’s actions might delay our efforts to confront climate change…but progress might actually be unstoppable…economics & technology of clean energy have gathered enough momentum that not even the politics of 2025 can halt it.”

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The Trump administration has canceled a Biden-era agreement requiring the state of Alabama to clean up raw sewage in poor, Black, rural communities where filthy toilet water has been flowing directly into the yards of homes where children play.

CEO Noelle Trent said Thursday “the #museum was told that its grant was ‘no longer consistent with the agency’s priorities & no longer serves the interest of the United States.’ The news wasn’t shocking, based off of things that have happened with cuts to federal agencies in recent weeks.” #FundsCut

Protect Your Community from Pollution! 🏭💨❌ join us - RSVP: us02web.zoom.us/j/89453733429

Even Trump’s fossil fuel gangsters can’t stop progress.

Apple’s CEO on why they produce products in China is related to the skills sets of the people. #skills #Apple #workforce

On this day Justice Jackson was confirmed by the US Senate ❤️❤️❤️. She was sworn in and became an associate justice at noon on June 30, 2022, when Breyer's retirement went into effect. #momsky

This is the new opening page no longer simply Harriet Tubman.

Kevin Young, the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, stepped down on Friday after 4 years in the role, the museum said. Mr. Young said he wanted to focus on his writing. He remains the poetry editor of The New Yorker.

So proud of American Resisters today! #Handsoff

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump admin violated a court order by halting FEMA's disbursement of millions of dollars in grant funding to states.

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Trump administration officials have fired workers for the main American aid agency who were sent to Myanmar to assess how the U.S. could help with earthquake relief efforts, people with knowledge of the actions said.

The Trump administration is planning to cancel FEMA grants that helped communities prepare for flooding, tornadoes, and other extreme weather days after severe thunderstorms bringing tornadoes and flooding hit wide swaths of the U.S. tinyurl.com/5n8a3ap6

China announced that it will impose a 34% tariff on imports of all U.S. products beginning April 10