#Segregation

Peggy Bailey

PeggyBaileyDC

Thread: Today, a new HUD rule that unravels federal #housing anti-discrimination efforts goes into effect. Here’s why that’s damaging to millions It largely reverses a 2015 regulation that advanced

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️

realchrisrufo

The president is denouncing critical race theory on national television—and elevating this intellectual fight into a major campaign theme.The battle-lines are drawn: we can embrace the principles of 1776 or

Dominique- here since 2009?

dominique_will

Teachers and tracking by ability... are insufferable 1. It’s ableist AF. In our anti racism work we are invested in dismantling all systems of oppression (especially within our schools where

🇯🇲Black🇭🇹 Aziz 🇳🇬aNANsi🇹🇹

Freeyourmindkid

1. When the rise of Nazism happened, Nazis were not all 6 foot tall super soldiers who carried guns. They were the nice old lady next door, the house mother

Bob Fraust

BobFraust

In 1955 Emmett till was killed by white men after a white woman admittedly lied about his interaction with her. In 1956 his killers did public interviews bragging ab it.

Alliance for Justice

AFJustice

Trump SCOTUS Pick Would Disgrace Ginsburg’s Legacy and Take Health Care from Millions. See our full statement ----------> #ourcourt #wedissent https://www.afj.org/article/trump-scotus-pick-would-disgrace-ginsburgs-legacy-and-take-healt

Mrs. Nya Major, B.S.

mrsnyamajor

One of the most damnable lies in US history is that there's a "black" community. We were never the same; segregation forced us to live amongst each other. There's never

Rhea Boyd MD, MPH

RheaBoydMD

One of the most insidious and harmful consequences of Anti-Black Racism is that it separates Black people outside of the mutuality central to the concept of “the public.”Let me explain.

Delegate Ibraheem Samirah

IbraheemSamirah

Fact: You can support big federal plans to curb housing costs/invest in housing while still acknowledging the need at the state/local level to tackle exclusionary zoning that keeps the supply

Go Home Jacob Go Home

DeniseEPike

I have so many questions about this brand new initiative "The Minneapolis Civil Rights Museum Project that aims to build on the site of the third precinct. @mplscivilrights The project

Tade Thompson

tadethompson

From a thread strand with @clacksee we come to this: where does 'no politics in my fiction' come from?Glad you asked.It comes from the CIA. Here's a nice picture of

Peter Piazza

PeterTPiazza

It took a Freedom of Information request for students @TeensTakeCharge to get racial data on students applying to *screened* *public* schools in NYC. Here's a quick summary of what they

Tricia Pendergrast

traependergrast

THE MCAT WAS DESIGNED TO FAIL (ON PURPOSE):Many medical schools in the 19th century either did not accept white women or non-white men and women.In response to this, medical schools

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

I've never seen any coherent account of how 'cultural appropriation' boundaries or rules could work that would not have many regressive implications. Useful example of how some assumptions of current

Howard County Progress Report

HoCoProgressRpt

Please, Howard County District 4, do not vote for Sezin Palmer. Just don’t. Why? (thread) /1 She is supported (if not endorsed) by the Howard County Republican Club /2

West Wing Reports (edited by Paul Brandus)

WestWingReport

Abraham Lincoln, a former one-term Congressman and lawyer, condemned slavery - this day in 1854 - during a speech criticizing the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which Congress had passed five months earlier.