Column | A 6-year research project found a surprisingly simple route to happiness - The Washington Post apple.news/AAq3yJUNFRCGbp9NO…

Three HBCUs — Alabama State University, Hampton University and Virginia State University — have received campus threats ASU and VSU are on lockdown, and Hampton has canceled classes today and Friday

#BreonnaTaylor…We #SayHerName, as we pray for those who loved her before her name became a hashtag.. Breonna Taylor…We Say Her Name as a devastating reminder that racial injustice is not “un-American,” but it should be. Breonna Taylor…We Say Her Name as a call for and commitment to justice. “Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against Iove.” #MLK

Five years ago, Breonna Taylor—an EMT who dedicated her life to others—was killed in her own home. We say her name in reverence and restitution. The fight to end police brutality continues.

"Poverty, by America" author Matthew Desmond (@just_shelter) shares how the US could end poverty if the top 1% of Americans just paid the taxes they owed

“When you see yourself in the story, you have a powerful sense of who you are. So I because of a Black educator named Ray Dial, who in high school introduced me to “Before The Mayflower” I became the child who would go on to create The 1619 Project” ~Nikole Hanna Jones

Our “arrogants” is just getting started

Emmanuel “Manno” Bernoon, a former slave, opened one of the first restaurants in Rhode Island with his wife in the 1700s — and America may owe its love for oysters to their efforts bostonglobe.com/2025/02/20/m…

A Texas lawmaker introduced a bill that would make it illegal in the state to perform medical research on a corpse without explicit consent, following an NBC News investigation into a medical school that profited from the bodies of the poor and vulnerable. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tex…

Portrait of Formerly Enslaved Person Alabama, 1937

The family of Sonya Massey and Sangamon County officials reached a settlement in which the county agreed to pay Massey’s family $10 million theguardian.com/us-news/2025…

🚨NEW: Federal Judge James Boasberg has blocked the Department of Justice from removing January 6th videos from a public database. RETWEET to thank Judge Boasberg for standing up for our democracy!

On this day in 1946, Isaac Woodard, WWII veteran, hours after being honorably discharged, was attacked by South Carolina police while still in uniform when taking the bus home & left permanently BLIND The officers were acquitted by an all white jury. —Isaac enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942 at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C, and served in the Pacific Theater as a longshoreman in a labor battalion. In February 1946, the decorated soldier received an honorable discharge at Camp Gordon, which is located near Augusta, Georgia. Along with other discharged soldiers, Woodard boarded a Greyhound bus on February 12 to travel home. A conflict was triggered when the white bus driver belittled the army veteran for asking to take a bathroom break. At the next stop, Woodard was met by the Chief Linwood Shull of the Batesburg, South Carolina police. While still in his army uniform, the police forcibly removed him from the bus and arrested him for disorderly conduct. They beat Woodward, and the next day he was convicted of 'drunken and disorderly conduct' and fined $50. They also refused to take him to hospital after beating him for several days. The beatings that he suffered while in police custody caused him Permanent Blindness. —check out my blog posts on ko-fi.com/africanarchive… and subscribe to get my posts on your email.

Mobile Alabama, 1956 Photo by Gordon Parks

The voices of people incarcerated in Illinois are rarely heard outside their institutions’ walls. Students in the Northwestern Prison Education Program (@NUPrisonEd) are changing that with the "Northwestern Insider" magazine. spr.ly/6013QwRoL

I am deeply honored by and grateful for @macfound’s recognition of my work in the struggle to end family policing and to reimagine family support & child safety.

Saw this last night at the opening of the exhibit hall @CSocialWorkEd APM and was thinking wow they have our book displayed. Came Back this morning after thinking I’ll go back and ask them if I can sign all the copies in case anyone buys them and there was just the one left!

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The term “middle class” is frequently invoked on the U.S. campaign trail. But who is the middle class? @andreperryedu, Hannah Stephens, and Farah Khan explore how middle-class households vary by race, ethnicity, and place. brookings.edu/articles/harri…

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