On behalf of the American people, I thank Joe Biden for his extraordinary leadership as President of the United States and for his decades of service to our country. I am honored to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination.

#OnThisDay in 1967, Wharlest Jackson Sr., a Korean War veteran and treasurer of the NAACP branch in Natchez, Mississippi, became a Ku Klux Klan target after he was promoted to a whites-only position at his job in Natchez. It was a promotion his wife, Exerlena Jackson, wanted him to turn down because of what had happened two years earlier to their friend, George Metcalfe, who received a similar promotion — only to be injured by a bomb when he started his 1955 Chevrolet. The Jackson family helped nurse Metcalfe back to health. Wharlest Jackson had just finished his shift at the Armstrong Rubber and Tire Co. and was heading home. Four blocks later, the turn signal tripped the wire to a bomb that Klansmen had planted in his truck. The explosion killed him instantly, hurling the roof of his truck hundreds of feet. His 8-year-old son, Wharlest Jr., ran to the scene and returned home with his father’s shoe. “He was 36 and in the prime of his life,” recalled his son. “He had the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and they took that away.” Despite an FBI investigation, his killers were never prosecuted. “A lot of people have tried to push my daddy’s death under the rug,” his son said. “We’re still trying to pull it out into the light.” Wharlest Jackson Sr. is among 40 martyrs listed on the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. mississippitoday.org/2024/02…

#RalphYarl accidentally rang the door of the wrong house while trying to pick up his siblings. For this, a man shot him in the head. Then shot him a 2nd time as he was on the ground. The man is free and the 16-year-old is fighting for his life in the hospital. This can’t be it.

New report identifies "lack of political will" as top obstacle to ending hunger by 2030. We know #nutrition interventions work, especially for families in their @1000Days window. We must educate, inspire govts to #InvestInNutrition. #TogetherAgainstHunger bit.ly/3TbsC8I

At the top of Germany’s highest mountain, I ask @kuminaidoo who ran Greenpeace, & @Ertharin1 who ran the World Food Programme, how seeing the death of the glacier makes them feel, & what it signals for the dangers from global climate change & for hope for action. @BoschAcademy

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