pub day hits different when you’re writing for your dream publication. i’ve been wanting to ✍🏾 for Teen Vogue since i was 12!!!

celebrate #EarthDay with me by reading my feature on Mari Copeny, the youth activist formally known as @littlemissflint. 🌍💦 teenvogue.com/story/mari-cop…

Watch Tim Wise's “White Lies Matter” segment from last week’s Freedom to Learn homeroom and register to join us again at 8pm ET tonight:
bit.ly/F2L_ROAD2NDOA24
#FreedomToLearn #FreedomSummer2024

'Fighting for our democracy cannot be a colorblind campaign, if the attacks against that democracy are color conscious.' - Kimberlé Crenshaw #FreedomSummer2024 #FreedomToLearn

Join us this Thursday April 25th for our fourth homeroom 'Weaponization of Colorblindness: Understanding the Attacks on Civil Rights and DEI.' Register here: bit.ly/F2L_ROAD2NDOA24

On the Mississippi River banks—not far from where an 80yr old freedmen stood in 1863 waiting to meet his 1st teacher—1,500 students, 90% of whom are students of color & mostly poor, are still waiting for a library in their school. They are far from alone. chalkbeat.org/detroit/2024/0…

“Underfunding of public schools in certain districts and states is deeply connected to racial segregation and racial inequities. That is certainly no different in North Carolina.” –Ary Amerikaner Brown's Promise
#edequity #nced
Read more via The 74 the74million.org/article/with-g…

when it's the first nice spring day so you're legally obligated to get an iced coffee and hit the bookstore

Just got finished reading “If I Could Write This in Fire, I Would Write This in Fire” by Michelle cliff, wow. There are so many great pieces in this anthology. I cannot recommend this book enough.

“I realized that regardless of the tragedy, regardless of the grief, regardless of the monstrous challenge, Some of Us Have Not Died. Some of us did NOT die…And what shall we do, we who did not die?”

— June Jordan’s keynote lecture at Barnard College. November 9, 2001.

On the ground in ORLANDO FL 📍
With Leaders We Deserve endorsed candidate Nate Douglas 🌈🌅🚞🕊️ soon to be Florida’s youngest legislators!

After his wife’s difficult pregnancy, James Hogue founded Fathers Assisting Mothers, a doula bootcamp for fathers who want to empower their partner's pregnancy! Black women DESERVE a safe and healthy pregnancy -- this initiative is a great way to protect our Black mothers!

Texts from CVS, a timeline:

Day 1 - Good news! Your prescription is ready

Day 3 - Don’t forget to pick up your prescription! Only 3 more days before we will cancel your order

Day 5 - PICK UP YOUR PRESCRIPTION TOMORROW OR WE WILL SKIN YOUR FIRST BORN ALIVE. Type 1 to confirm!

Tom Mauser and I are part of a club no parent wants to join—we've both lost a child to gun violence.

In the 25 years since the death of his son Daniel at Columbine High School, he has never stopped sharing his family's story.

Tom, you're an inspiration. Daniel lives on in you.

This is my cousin, then 16, mourning her best friend, Cassie, who was murdered 25 years ago today, along with 14 others at Columbine High School. The anguish in her voice before they found Cassie's body haunts me.

My cousin would live a hard life.

We lost her, too, in 2020.

taking EBT at a fancy French bakery in Brooklyn is why Black women are the nurturers of this planet. I love this so much.

I will be in 8 more cities, and then home; and ALL I plan to do through Nov is to work for Biden. Find a way to plug in. Register voters, adopt a swing state. Every election, I write & address thousands of voter post cards (while watching Below Deck.) Make a plan.The time is NOW.

When I’m in line at the post office and there’s a conversation in the line ahead of me about the Constance Baker Motley stamp and I make sure everyone knows all about her contributions to equal justice…⚖️

#OnThisDay in 1939, legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday stepped into a 5th Avenue studio and recorded “Strange Fruit,” a song written by Jewish civil rights activist Abel Meeropol, a high school English teacher upset about the lynchings of Black Americans — more than 6,400

It’s been 25 years since 13 families last held their loved ones who were killed in the shooting at Columbine High School. Over 20 more people were injured that day.

No matter how many years pass, I’ll never forget the lives that were taken. And we’ll never stop fighting for a