48 yrs ago today, my friend, my brother, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis, TN. The light of his life still shines.
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John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) April 04, 202548 years ago today Martin Luther King assassinated. His struggle for civil rights, nonviolence & justice lives on https://t.co/fCTxgIfnhu
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Ari Berman (@AriBerman) April 04, 2025****
Maya Angelou: April 4, 1928-May 28, 2014. (Today would've been her 88th birthday.)💕 https://t.co/7H877ppRAT
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Trudy (@thetrudz) April 04, 2025Birthday of writer and poet Maya Angelou (1928) #todayinblackhistory https://t.co/AdRmF6nTFI
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(@SchomburgCenter) April 04, 2025****
LBJ’s letter to Coretta Scott King after her husband’s assassination, which occurred today 1968: https://t.co/SbDDeXFF06
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Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) April 04, 2025Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed 48 years ago today. A look back at his speech about racial progress from 1965: ajplus.co/jwdf
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AJ+ (@ajplus) April 04, 2025****
"He was like a father, man. To all of us." - BG. Happy Birthday to the late great #MuddyWaters (📷 by Watt Casey) https://t.co/BhT4aVD8Ve
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Buddy Guy (@TheRealBuddyGuy) April 04, 2025Joe Medicine Crow, the last surviving Plains Indian war chief, has died at age 102. nbcnews.to/1pYIRHS https://t.co/mxQ9WFHmQU
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Micah Grimes (@MicahGrimes) April 04, 2025****
Racism at the root of a government policy
Watergate co-conspirator & Nixon aide John Ehrlichman on why they started the "war on drugs"
harpers.org/archive/2016/0… https://t.co/Vckwbzn8Xq
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Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) March 22, 2025****
Today is the 2-year anniversary of 276 schoolgirls being kidnapped by Boko Haram. 219 still haven't been found. washingtonpost.com/world/africa/t…
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Megan Hess (@mhess4) April 04, 2025BREAKING: SCOTUS unanimously rejects Texas GOP attempt to limit voting power of Hispanics & other minority groups nbcnews.to/1UPSbvq
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(@MSNBC) April 04, 2025****
LBJ’s letter to Coretta Scott King after her husband’s assassination, which occurred today 1968: https://t.co/SbDDeXFF06
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Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) April 04, 2025My Heartfelt Tribute to President Obama (@POTUS) for Great Service to Our Country, "Thank you sir!" WATCH: youtu.be/3aKQBQdcwuQ
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Frank Schaeffer (@Frank_Schaeffer) April 04, 2025****
Leaked documents detail how the wealthy and powerful hide money overseas lat.ms/1RH0NOO https://t.co/wXOWHdbVu2
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Los Angeles Times (@latimes) April 03, 2025What are the Panama Papers? What you need to know about the biggest leak in history gu.com/p/4tvyz/stw #PanamaPapers
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Katharine Viner (@KathViner) April 03, 2025****
President Obama once again taking action while Congress abdicates its responsibilities and takes a paycheck
Pentagon to send about a dozen Guantanamo inmates to other countries soon reut.rs/22Qqzus
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Reuters Top News (@Reuters) March 31, 2025Just in: #Guantanamo parole board's cleared Yemeni Ayyub Ali Salih. Now, 37 of 91 captives on Gitmo transfer list. https://t.co/5KFAx9CoOh
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Carol Rosenberg (@carolrosenberg) March 24, 2025****
Nobody should have to choose between losing a paycheck & caring for their family. I applaud @NYGovCuomo for taking a big step on paid leave.
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President Obama (@POTUS) April 04, 2025****
“And this is the real news: Everyone is entitled to it—no matter the size of your workplace, no matter whether you have a full-time or part-time position. As soon as you’ve been an employee for at least six months, this time is yours (and your partner’s) to take. Better yet, the new law ensures that your job will be there when you get back. Until now, only workers who have met certain requirements at companies that employ more than 50 people have been given that protection. Thanks to this bill, that’s one less crisis for new moms and dads to worry about.”
New York just passed a great paid-leave policy for parents: trib.al/aK4Zza0 https://t.co/lPnntvzmVO
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ELLE Magazine (US) (@ELLEmagazine) April 01, 2025****
In this map I've circled the places you need to get blown up in if you want to make headlines: https://t.co/mVMwTpA7Bq
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Duncan Trussell PhD (@duncantrussell) March 23, 2025feminism is: 👩🏻👩🏼👩🏽👩🏾👩🏿=👨🏻👨🏼👨🏽👨🏾👨🏿
not:👩🏻👩🏼👩🏽👩🏾👩🏿>👨🏻👨🏼👨🏽👨🏾👨🏿
black lives matter is: 👩🏽👩🏾👩🏿👨🏿👨🏾👨🏿=👨🏻👩🏻👩🏼👩🏻👨🏼
not:👩🏽👩🏾👩🏿👨🏾👨🏿>👨🏻👩🏻👩🏼👨🏼👩🏻
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Himo (@HimoKash) March 30, 2025****
Legalize it, sure, but if we do not address the huge racial disparities at the heart of the matter, the barrier between those who are allowed to open up pot shops and profit 1000% and those who are arrested for using the same drug that their white counterparts freely use, the issue is pretty much moot
Pot legalization hasn’t done anything to shrink the racial gap in drug arrests wapo.st/1pEEIcS
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(@Wonkblog) March 21, 2025Took 85 yo black woman 2 years, 4 trips to DMV, 2 trips to SC & $86 to get voter ID in NC thenation.com/article/north-… https://t.co/VUtA8YLdxT
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Ari Berman (@AriBerman) March 14, 2025****
.@POTUS revealed that @google has made arrangements to upgrade Internet access in Cuba: ow.ly/ZKYJ4 https://t.co/Cgki8dT9fF
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EBONY MAGAZINE (@EBONYMag) March 21, 2025The back story on the Obama/Cuba secret negotiations is pretty nuts: motherjones.com/politics/2015/… https://t.co/6uPIpWr8wS
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Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) March 20, 2025****
A Trump rally https://t.co/zIF69lGsk2
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zellie (@zellieimani) March 13, 2025President Obama deconstructs every element of Trump.... And does so brilliantly, as a comedy routine. youtube.com/watch?v=WtNiD3…
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Rula Jebreal (@rulajebreal) March 13, 2025
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Hi Nerdy. Great selection of tweets.
Thanks, Jackie.
Congratulations on first.
You are a wonder and so generous to put this together. I am always impressed but this compilation is amazing. Thank you.
^^^ THIS!
BOOM! These nuggets of truth do wonders for the brain and soul. Thanks Nerdy for posting!
Yes they do…yes they do…
Thanks, HF!
I truly look forward to seeing and hearing PBO on the campaign trail after the convention. With Joe Biden working his magic in mid-Atlantic states and PBO undermining the Republican candidate at every turn, HRC is going to have some very strong wind beneath her wings.
We all knew that the war on drugs was created to incarcerate the blacks. Just as we knew that Crack was created because heroin and power cocaine was too expensive for the common black person and they needed my people to be hooked on something more than just weed.
LOVE THE CRAYONS…TAIN’T IT THE TRUTH!!!! THE WONDERFUL AND EXEMPLARY BEHAVIOR OF PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA…HAS BEEN SHINING A GRACEFUL LIGHT ON THE UGLINESS OF WHITE SUPREMACY…THEY CAN’T HIDE!
Thank you Nerdy!!! ❤
You’re welcome, Dudette!
GOTTA GO….BLESSINGS EVERYONE…I LOVE MY PRESIDENT!
It stars Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Henson, and Janelle Monae! Super Squeeeeeeee!
Did I mention my niece is gonna be a background actor in this one?😎
If I have to, I will camp out to be one of the first in line to see this movie!😀
“Hidden Figures,” a movie with Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae, about African American women involved with NASA’s early missions, films in Canton this month. The movie, also with Kevin Costner, is based on the nonfiction book by Margot Lee Shetterly, “Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race.”
From the book’s synopsis on Amazon:
“Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program—and whose contributions have been unheralded, until now.
Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as ‘Human Computers,’ calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these ‘colored computers,’ as they were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper to support America’s fledgling aeronautics industry, and helped write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.
Drawing on the oral histories of scores of these “computers,” personal recollections, interviews with NASA executives and engineers, archival documents, correspondence, and reporting from the era, Hidden Figures recalls America’s greatest adventure and NASA’s groundbreaking successes through the experiences of five spunky, courageous, intelligent, determined, and patriotic women: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden, and Gloria Champine.
Moving from World War II through NASA’s golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women’s rights movement, Hidden Figures interweaves a rich history of scientific achievement and technological innovation with the intimate stories of five women whose work forever changed the world—and whose lives show how out of one of America’s most painful histories came one of its proudest moments.”
Kevin Costner plays the head of the space program and now…
Good point here…
First Lady Michele Obama will speak at Jackson State University graduation ceremony April 23rd.
Yay! Thanks for the heads up, bella!
Thanks for the tweets…informative and on point.
This!
You’re welcome, Rikyrah.
Such sad for her!
Such sadness…
I was there watching and listening when she recited that poem.
ROFL! 😀
they are who we thought they were
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Harrisburg GOP begins budget strategizing
Updated: April 3, 2025 — 1:08 AM EDT
The most detailed - and pointed - GOP battle plan came in an email from Rep. Brad Roae, who for nearly a decade has represented Crawford County, in the state’s northwest corner, and serves on the Finance and Human Services Committees.
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Roae called for closing state-owned residential facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities, reversing the Medicaid expansion that added coverage to hundreds of thousands of uninsured Pennsylvanians, selling State Stores, and repealing prevailing wage policies.
He said arts grants and even the state meteorologist may have to go. And he proposed ending higher-education grants for students studying “poetry or some other Pre Walmart major.”
Roae also left no doubt as to his view of their role: “Everything needs to be flat funded or cut. People elected us to cut spending, not raise taxes.
PA Residents had better take heed….they are about to begin an assault on our rights…VOTE!!!!
GA/GE Dudette.
And FLOTUS hasn’t forgotten about the Native American community either — really enjoyed @DrBiden’s commencement address in NM a year or two ago.
Hi Arapaho!
67 years of Anniversary of NATO Alliance
POTUS & NATO General Sec.
SOON: Hillary Clinton holds a campaign rally in Cohoes, New York. http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
THIS!!!!!
Weall!
4-4-16
WH Presser by the Hon Josh “The Voice” Earnest earlier today.
GA/GE TODville.
Heaven help us if other countries look to the US for leadership on conducting elections during this Presidential election year.
Yet, Michael Steele after he was thrown out of the GOP is still a GOPer.
Own your Mendacity.
My daughter and my son-in-law’s business is not based in NY it is in PA…they have less than 10 employees …would they be responsible for giving their employees 12 wks of paid leave…their business could not handle that….i read the article and they said that no matter how small after 6 mos they would have to offer paid leave….how does a business as small as my daughter’s handle this…
Pf, every business may have to offer paid leave, but it doesn’t seem logical that each would have to provide 12 weeks. Maybe that number is for larger companies AND after years of service? After all 12 weeks is 3 months - how many businesses would survive if all employees got 3 months off annually? I’d certainly be interested to hear what you find out from your children in this regard, Pf.
yes me too..my daughter’s business is in PA..
Yes, I know this law is now in NY but isn’t the hope that something similar will catch on in other states (as long as it’s reasonable/feasible)?
yes…i wonder how the mom and pop stores in NY will make out
Since the intent cannot be to kill small business, I am assuming that there would be ‘small business’ provisions in the bill. I cannot think of any ‘everyday’ business here that provided more than a 2-week vacation in the first few years of employment.
This article says it will be phased in gradually starting in 2018 and funded by a $1/wk payroll tax per employee:
“The time off will be funded by a small weekly payroll tax of about $1 per employee. That was a key selling point: Businesses will not have to pay anything to give workers this much-needed benefit. Many companies say paid leave helps them retain employees, ultimately saving money that would be spent recruiting and training new workers.”
New York Just Passed America’s Best Paid Family Leave Law
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-york-paid-family-leave_us_5702ae75e4b0daf53af042b7
Thanks, D-ette.
thank you dudette…i did read that but misunderstood..
A payroll tax will cover the costs (kind of like unemployment insurance). Businesses will not have to pay out of pocket for the coverage.
my job offers 12 wks unpaid leave….although if i have sick time available i can use it
Wolf Needs an OFA like group…in PA
The White House
Office of the First Lady
For Immediate ReleaseApril 04, 2016
First Lady Michelle Obama to Address 2016 Graduating Seniors
As part of her Reach Higher initiative, Mrs. Obama will deliver the commencement addresses at Jackson State University in Jackson, MS ; Santa Fe Indian School in Santa Fe, NM and City College of New York in New York, NY. These mark the final commencement addresses Mrs. Obama will deliver as First Lady.
Saturday, April 23rd
Jackson, Mississippi – The First Lady will deliver the address at Jackson State University’s 139th Spring Commencement Ceremony. Mrs. Obama will address more than 1,000 graduates as well as their friends, family and members of the university community.
Jackson State University was founded in 1877 as a four-year public university; it is one of the largest institutions of higher learning in Mississippi and a Historically Black University originally established to educate newly freed African Americans to become ministers and teachers. Mrs. Obama has delivered remarks on an HBCU campus each year she has served as First Lady.
Echoing the call of the First Lady’s Reach Higher initiative, Jackson State University and the Jackson Public School District collaborated to form the first laboratory school in the Jackson area. Since 2013, Blackburn Laboratory Middle School has partnered with JSU in an effort to transform Blackburn into a highly successful middle school for replication and study of successful practices in the district, state, and nation.
This event is open to pre-credential media. To RSVP, please contact Dr. Elayne H. Anthony at [email protected].
Thursday, May 26th
Santa Fe, New Mexico – As part of the White House Generation Indigenous (Gen-I) Initiative, the First Lady will deliver the high school commencement address to the Class of 2016 at Santa Fe Indian School. Gen-I works to improve the lives of Native youth by promoting a national dialogue and programs to cultivate the next generation of Native leaders. Last year, the First Lady addressed the White House Tribal Youth Gathering in Washington, DC.
Originally founded in 1890, as a Federal off-reservation boarding school, the Santa Fe Indian School is currently owned and operated by the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico. Recently honored as a National Association Secondary School Breaking the Ranks Showcase School, SFIS is a leader in Native American education and proud of its history to educate the next generation of tribal leadership. Graduates of SFIS participate in the culture of their communities and will have the skills to pursue the education and careers that will benefit them, their families, and their people. For the past five years, SFIS has had an average graduation rate of 98%, and over 90% of this year’s graduating class plan to pursue a post-secondary degree.
This event is open to pre-credential media. To RSVP, please contact Kimball Sekaquaptewa at [email protected].
Friday, June 3rd
New York, New York – The First Lady will deliver the commencement address during the 170th Commencement Ceremony at The City College of New York on the CCNY campus in historic Harlem, where more than 3,000 students make up the Class of 2016.
The City College of New York was the first public higher education institution in New York City and has one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation with over 40% first-generation college students, almost 40% non-native English speakers, and half from low-income households. Established as a free institution dedicated to overcoming barriers to advancement, CCNY continues its mission of access to excellence and keeping tuition affordable.
This event is open to pre-credential media. To RSVP, please contact Deidra Hill at [email protected].
Who among us hasn’t accidentally mailed their pet somewhere? 😀
😀
30s overnight this weekend — April in Atlanta!
Tooooooooo Funnyyy!!
Sometimes all you can is just laugh and keep organizing
Tonight, I look forward to the name of the presidential candidate from the DC Madam list and more on the Panama Papers with names, too.
i heard that the DOJ is looking into the Panama Papers…i am willing to bet….that whatever they did…is perfectly legal because of the laws that have been put into place by Congress
ut ohhhhhh
He needs to be the nominee & to lose by a massive margin in the general - to show the political media how they have NO idea as to their role & what the American people think of their b.s.
Hi, 99ts. The only problem with that is when you remember people in this country (not I) voted for W, twice. Eight years of hell, here and various places around the globe. In November, it’s all a matter of turnout, and we can’t chance the RWNJs’ turning out!
Did you hear that The Donald has been wearing a bullet proof vest at his own rallies lately? He, too, is afraid of his “creations”, his fan base?
I thought he had just gotten fatter from eating too much gold trail mix on the trail.
Actually, I shouldn’t joke, because the way he’s set up his rallies is dangerous, as we all know - not just for him, but also for all attending or protesting them. Maybe instead of the red ballcaps, he can hand out bullet proof vests to everybody.
We’ll get through this, America. We must!
I truly don’t believe that Trump can win - Cruz could - not Trump. If Trump wins the US is in a much worse state than the world believes - and for this I blame the US media.
Just went to a link at TPM (the liberal news). On their front page is ONE story about the democrats - Bernie is winning Wisconsin. Every other story is about the GOP. They may be negative stories - but the GOP is the news in the USA. For this the media is 100% to blame. They have accepted that racist and misogynist men have the right to rule in the USA
Forgot my manners - good evening jacqueline, hope all is good in your part of the world
No problem - good day to you, and all is well!
I guess this is the same rally which MSNBC just reported on … it’s 28 degrees outside (ugh), but nevertheless, no big lines, no big protest rallies outside … sounds like Trump’s luster in that part of the state is a bit rusted out.
And I laugh.
Bernie Sanders = Exciting but Empty Promises
Hillary Clinton = Hard Working Team Player
Forty-eight years ago, and I certainly remember every part of that day, and night, and many days to follow. Rest in peace, Dr. King.
Those combatant commanders have major responsibilities around the globe. Everybody at that meeting - including their civilian President - has a spine of steel, as I believe our Vice President once remarked about President Obama.
Somehow Tim seems to have forgotten the primary is about picking the party nominee. Oh yeh, Berniebots aren’t really Dems, so they just think it’s general election practice.
Is this Susan Sarandon ex Tim Robbins? What is winning N.H. and Vermont like?
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/04/04/the-presidents-day-87/