These programs are going to have to convert to lineage based for descendants of slavery if they are to survive. alumni.duke.edu/magazine/artic…

According to numerous media reports, OJ Simpson has died. Of cancer. He was 76.

Reading @PercivalEverette’s newest book, James. A deeply thoughtful and sometimes painful retelling of the story of Twain’s Huck Finn saga—from his Black companion Jim’s POV. I’m going to be sorry when it ends, it’s that good.

On this day in 1961, a Mississippi agency voted to continue using state funds for pro-segregation campaigns organized by white citizens’ councils. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

DEI was never about accepting unqualified Black & brown people. It was always about ensuring qualified Black & brown people *also* had a fair shot at acceptance despite systemic racism

The “Didn't Earn It” you’re thinking of are legacy acceptance—like how Kavanaugh got into Yale

The great Vogue editor André Leon Talley died two years ago; his obesity complicated other health problems and ultimately caused his death. If semaglutide drugs had been available earlier, he probably would have taken them and be with us today. Timing is everything, isn’t it?

“This country has managed obesity as a moral failure because it will not solve the problem of inequality that makes it so easy for Americans to gain weight they would rather not have.” Tressie McMillan Cottom’s insightful essay “Oprah, Ozempic and Us,” in today’s The New York Times.

Louisiana’s toxic air is linked to low-weight and pre-term births

Residents have long suspected that the state's petrochemical plants and facilities were impacting birth outcomes. Now, a new study shows a correlation.

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19thnews.org/2024/03/louisi…

“This is all speculation and we’re having fun. Just know that we know we don’t know…” whoopi goldberg tried to moderate a frantic discussion on The View about Kate Middleton’s whereabouts.

Now there are demands that Kate make a video of herself to reassure the skeptics she’s really alive and well. (And not an AI creation.) She’s the Princess of Wales and they’re acting as if she’s a disappeared Scientology wife. Enough already—let the woman recover in peace!

Cillian Murphy joins the elite fraternity of Best Actors as he receives his Oscar for Oppenheimer.

Who wrote the president’s SOTU speech?

this Katie Britt speech feels like she's auditioning to be the white woman in a Tyler Perry production

They picked the wrong person to rebut the SOTU. Bad actor (not a theater major, I’m guessing.) Hard to hear her points above the dog whistles.

Joe Biden having church up in here tonight. Waiting for the plate to be passed—and the altar call… #SOTU2024

Lauren Bobert is scowling, but silent during Biden SOTU address. Marjorie Taylor Greene, on the other hand, gonna Marjorie Taylor Greene whenever and wherever, no matter how inappropriate. Oh well. #SOTU2024

Speaker Johnson looks like he wants to clap, but is restraining himself. Then I see, from another angle, he WAS quietly clapping close to the surface of his desk. #SOTU

“Women are not without electoral or political power—and you’re going to see that soon.”
Biden warns the assembled GOP reps that legislating women’s rights to determine what happens to their bodies is not a great idea.

“You can’t love your country only when they win.” Joe Biden comes out swinging the State of the Union 2024.

Here in LA, the sun is shining and it’s pouring. Metaphor for our times?
#sunstorm