#Decades

Mayor Lori Lightfoot

chicagosmayor

65 years ago today, Emmett Till—a 14-year-old Chicagoan—was kidnapped, tortured, and brutally murdered by two white men while visiting family in Mississippi. His body was dumped in a local river,

Eric M. Black

eb4prez

This thing is REALLY hurting the R&B/gospel OGs. Most of them make the majority of their bread (if not all of it) from touring. Many are older with compromised immune

Retired Golden Girl ✨ (black parents but biracial)

Girlgoldened

Powerful? Which other demographic of men celebrates putting their women on the front lines? You are the weakest links on this planet.https://twitter.com/IamJohnBurnett/status/1259905862501650440 And like dummies, Black Women play along with

Andy Conway Morris 😷🧼🇬🇧🇪🇺

andymoz78

Thanks to science we have gone from identification of a novel, lethal virus to effective vaccines, falling mortality and at least one effective treatment in under a year.This was not

Ezelle Sanford III, PhD

Ezellesanford3

Is racism more like climate change? (Thread)*thinking out loud, reflections appreciated* - acknowledge and accept the existential crisis, its history, structures, systems- human engineered; no matter how "good" the individual,

Matt DeLong

mattdelong

Readers are probably noticing the lightest Sunday @StarTribune print editions in decades, if not ever. You can count the inserts on one hand, and even those are much thinner than

Kyle Clark

KyleClark

The racism isn’t surprising anymore but it still gives me pause to see the sheer number of Americans willing to be captured on camera cheering racism.https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1311481175689568256 The lasting memory I

Carl Beijer

CarlBeijer

Americans are being forced to confront our utter lack of political power - our complete inability to get the government to do anything - in a way that we haven't

Jamie Vickery

JamieVickery

I just listened to a webinar presentation by @HazCenter Director Lori Peek titled, "Understanding the Societal Impacts of COVID-19." In it, she highlighted 7 key lessons learned from decades of

Red

thedreadvampy

I was thinking just now about how I've never seen a piece of fiction about queer community and activism set in the 80s and 90s that centres lesbians - there's

ANGUSRAZE

ANGUSRAZE

A message to some of you transphobic and racist white gays by me The comments towards people like Arca and Sophie I have seen boil my fucking blood. So many

Simon Evans

DrSimEvans

THREADThe world is still falling short on climate and CO2 will continue to rise for decades, despite "profound shifts" in the energy system, says @IEA World Energy Outlook.My in-depth coverage

Chris Tuthill

MisterCooger

The scholarly trappings of this inherently ridiculous idea are almost beyond parody. The name 'originalism' sounds like they're trying so hard to make something totally dumb sound profound. They treat

What The Trans!?

WhatTheTrans

Reminder: 1.7 billion people on the planet (in Ireland, Denmark, Malta, India, Argentina, Greece, Portugal, Canada, Mexico, Bolivia, Chile, Columbia, Equador, Uraguay...) have let trans people change their legal gender

Joshua Leifer

joshualeifer

Like countless American Jews, I grew up celebrating "Jerusalem Day" in school. The violence of this day was always just below the surface, but we were taught to venerate the

Eric Sipple

saalon

This so profoundly absurd. If we don’t continue to use the same distribution method that was the only technologically feasible one at its time of creation, it is no longer