Sometimes it’s better to adjust than address. #TeachTheBabies

Talk about a tense conversation... #UrbanViewMornings economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...

"While the enslaved were enslaved, the entire society was enslaved." Dr. Marcus A. Hunter reframes who slavery harmed—and it's everyone forced to participate. The 1808 argument. Watch the clip. What if slavery is a diagnosis? open.spotify.com/episode/3OrA... #TeachTheBabies #Reparations #EquityWeek

The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted 381 days. Discomfort is by design — always has been. Many are in the arena. The question is who joins them. #VotingRights #AllBlackLivesMatter open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... This is not a backdrop. This is the war. #LetsALLGetFree #VotingRights

The CBC sent a letter to 300+ corporations asking whether their 2021 voting rights commitments still hold. After Louisiana v. Callais, silence isn't neutral — it's complicity. drdavidjjohns.substack.com #LetsALLGetFree

5 Takeaways From a Kennedy Center Ruling That Angered Felon 47 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/a...

Greenwood was the deadliest race massacre in American history. Nobody told him — and he grew up there. / Now Damario Solomon-Simmons is the attorney fighting for the last living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... / #TeachTheBabies #RedeemANation #Greenwood

New opportunities roundup is live—leadership roles, fellowships, & student positions across education, civil rights, and global policy. If it's not for you, it might be for someone you’re rooting for. open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...

"Proud Boys, stand back and stand by." Not a disavowal. A military command. He said it on national television & pardoned 1,500+ January 6th participants on day one. These are his private sworn militia. 🎧 Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... #TeachTheBabies #Democracy #Accountability

Seven %. Black voter registration in Mississippi before the VRA. Two years after the law passed: sixty. VRA was the guardrail. They spent sixty years tearing it down. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 📖 drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p/the-klan-n... #TeachTheBabies #VotingRights #Democracy

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is gone. Not weakened. Gone.   New episode of Teach the Babies: The Klan Never Left. They Just Changed Their Clothes.   18 minutes. Solo episode. Listen and share. open.spotify.com/episode/3ru7...

Beyoncé or Solange? Toni Morrison or Angela Davis? Hot girl summer or healing girl autumn? @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social Not one pause. Watch the clip — no spoilers. Full conversation on Teach the Babies. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/3SVl... #TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux

The culture decides which Black mothers get dignity & which get destroyed — and the criteria have nothing to do with parenting or character. Jamilah Lemieux names what it's actually about. #TeachtheBabies. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/3SVl... #TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux

This book opened a real conversation between my sister and me about her experience as a Black single mother. That's what the best books do. Go listen. Read the Stack. Get the book. 📖 Substack: open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... #TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux #LetsALLGetFree

Our conversation on Teach the Babies goes deep—the Moynihan Report, who gets protected and who gets punished & what every-other-weekend costs, and what the culture owes Black women. 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3SVl... #TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux #LetsALLGetFree

Jamilah Lemieux wrote the book Toni Morrison told us to write. Black. Single. Mother. Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging is out now. Go listen. Go get it. 🎧 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... #TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux #LetsALLGetFree

Education policy breaks down when proximity breaks down. I joined Code for America CEO Amanda Renteria on The Government Fix to talk about what it actually takes to build systems that serve Black children left out of every room where their futures get decided. Episode: hubs.ly/Q04ftcWJ0

YOU no longer have to pontificate, imagine, or wax poetic about what you would have done if you were asked to join the children’s crusade by Dr. King, organize alongside Ella Baker, or otherwise engage in the Civil Rights struggles. What will YOU do? Yes, YOU. allroadsleadtothesouth.com ✊🏾✊🏼✊🏿

The Supreme Court modernized Jim Crow. This was coordinated. The moment was prepared for. They are betting we will get overwhelmed and pull back. That is part of the strategy. We ride this to 2026. Read. Share. Act. substack.com/@drdavidjjoh...

The SPLC bankrupted the Klan. Shut down White Aryan Resistance. Seized the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho. Fellon 47 just indicted them. Effectiveness is the crime. And we are not going to pretend otherwise. Full breakdown 🔗 drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p/they-came-...

A man who kills his wife doesn't get to be called her husband anymore. He is her murderer. - @karenattiah.bsky.social I wrote about femicide, and what it costs Black women, and what eight children in Shreveport deserve from all of us right now. open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...

The Oval Office occupant posted an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus. The head of the global Catholic Church—whose institution's imagery was being co-opted—looked at it & said: Not on my watch. The Pope of Rome is out here being braver than Congress. Stack: open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Brothers. Before posting another pic of you and Justin read this. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt... thank you, @karenattiah

"Pro-family" is either a value or it's a talking point. 11,000 citizen children separated from detained parents—some in foster care right now—will tell you the answer. The policy that could change this exists. 11 states are moving. Full piece on my Stack: open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...

AI should make you faster. Make you better. Help you do things you've never been able to do before. That's not for tech people. That's for all of us. Dee C. Marshall on Teach the Babies. May 6th is Global AI Adoption Day 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1QDO... #TeachTheBabies #AIAdoptionDay

Hungary just took down a 16-year authoritarian government. Not diplomats. Not elite pressure. Women who refused to believe their issues were "too niche" to build a coalition around. This fall disrupts the whole template. New Stack: drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p/they-said-...

He fires up-passionate. She does it-aggressive. That is misogynoir. Ora Washington. Lusia Harris. Pearl Moore. The Federal City Pantherettes. Black women built this house. You cannot run up on the woman who built your house. Full Stack: open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... #DawnStaley #IBGA

Did you know your public library offers: ✅ Free computers & laptops ✅ Free books ✅ Free college application support ✅ Free tutoring resources Full episode: open.spotify.com/episode/22tJ... The babies are watching. What are we teaching them? #TeachTheBabies

$51 billion could be drained from public schools under the new federal voucher program. Fred Jones (SouthernEdFound) traces the direct line from Brown v. Board to now. Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/22tJ... Read: open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... #TeachTheBabies

"We have no kings in America." "Allegedly." Zakiya Smith Ellis—former White House education advisor—on what an executive order is, what it isn't, and why the courts keep saying no. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 📖 open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... #TeachTheBabies #NoKings #InSpiteOf

"They like to put DEI in quotation marks as if it's some boogeyman word." @zakiyasmithellis—on what they want you to think is illegal. Spoiler: Diversity. Equity. Inclusion. None of it is. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 📖 open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... #TeachTheBabies #DEI #InSpiteOf

📣 UNDISTRACTED with @mspackyetti.bsky.social is in 2nd place and so close to joining the #Webbys Winners Circle. RT + VOTE: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

The Supreme Court struck down Colorado's conversion therapy ban. What that DOESN'T mean: ❌ Conversion therapy is safe ❌ Conversion therapy is legal ❌ Survivors can't sue It's still malpractice. It's still consumer fraud. The fight continues. Full breakdown open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...

"The best way to renovate your house is not to set it on fire." @zakiyasmithellis.bsky.social on the privatization of public education. New Teach the Babies episode. In spite of everything. 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1Jir... #TeachTheBabies #PublicEducation #InSpiteOf

Compiled a whole roundup of jobs, scholarships & resources that are actively circulating—because opportunity should move through us, not past us. drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p/opportunit...

"You can be called a racist and become president." @mayarupert.bsky.social said it plainly. The label has never been the harm. The harm is the harm. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 📖 open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... #TeachTheBabies #TheRealOnes #StormTheGates

Read the full post: open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... Pick up Radical Reparations by Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter. Name it. Own it. Repair it. We will not wait. #ReparationsNow #WhyWeCantWait #NameItOwnItRepairIt

Shoutout to Dreisen Heath, one of the most visionary leaders in this fight. Her work bridges the UN accountability framework to domestic policy. She is the connective tissue. Engage with her. Follow the work. reparationscantwait.org

Yesterday @attorneycrump.bsky.social —NBJC board member and Black America's attorney general—stood at the UN alongside President Mahama to advance reparatory justice on the world stage. The movement is credentialed and showing up at every table that matters.

The wealth gap. The health gap. The education gap. The employment gap. The housing gap. These aren't historical remnants. They are living consequences. The debt is real and it has compounded.

The wealth gap. The health gap. The education gap. The employment gap. The housing gap. These aren't historical remnants. They are living consequences. The debt is real and it has compounded.

Every word in that title is load-bearing. Trafficking. Racialized. Chattel. Gravest. This is not diplomatic language hedged for comfort. It is moral clarity—backed by all 55 AU member states, CARICOM, and CELAC.

Today, Ghana's President introduced a resolution at the UN General Assembly declaring the transatlantic trafficking and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity. For the first time in UN history. On this day. This is the shift from remembrance to reckoning. 🧵

The ‘White Genocide’ Story Shaped US Policy. Now It’s quietly falling apart as white ‘refugees’ return to South Africa
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Mayor Mamdani signs executive order establishing the Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs
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Watch the clip. Listen to the episode. Then ask yourself: What do I need to work on? 🎧 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6hso... 📝 open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... #TeachTheBabies #TessHolliday #HealingWork #DoTheWork #TakeUpSpace

"Put the mirror back on yourself and ask: What do I need to work on?" This is what protecting our babies actually looks like. Doing the work ourselves so we stop causing harm.

The more you heal, the more you realize how many unhealed people there are. 🤎 @TessHolliday said this and it's been echoing ever since. How much of the harm in our communities is coming from people who haven't done the healing work?

Some students will be trained to BUILD AI tools and build generational wealth. Other students will be USED by the tools. Dr. Christina Grant is not being dramatic. She's being a researcher. New clip from #TeachTheBabies #Podcast open.spotify.com/episode/4m5X...

Democratic Socialism explained by someone actually governing with these principles. Housing, healthcare, & education as public goods—not profit centers.Watch Minneapolis City Council Member @Robin4MPLS break it down youtube.com/shorts/wKATP... #TeachTheBabies #DemocraticSocialism #TheMoreYouKnow