“Listen”
how many prayers
must we stack
before the ceiling cracks?
how many babies
must we bury
before the ground
refuses us?
stop calling it tragedy
when it’s policy.
stop calling it freedom
when our children
are the collateral.
we deserve a country
that loves them enough
to keep them alive.
Family, Here’s a clip from my upcoming film Clearing the Air:The War on Smog—a powerful reminder that when crisis strikes, we can come together and solve it.
I hope you will watch the premiere Tonight, August 26, 2025, at 9:00 p.m. on PBS.
#ClearingTheAirPBS
#ProudBlue
www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...
Here's some good news: Catelin Drey won a special election this week to flip a seat blue in the Iowa Senate and break Republicans' supermajority.
As the EPA works to reverse the Endangerment Finding, gutting the legal basis for addressing climate change, @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social warns Black, Brown, and poor communities will pay the price.
wordinblack.com/2025/07/the-...
Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and other deep-red states are leading the pack in rural hospital closures. This is what happens when you gut Medicaid, reject federal dollars, and treat healthcare like a luxury.
You can’t blame “woke” when there’s no ER for 100 miles.
It's July 4, and Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams.com is done with performative patriotism. DEI is not the problem. Erasing the truth is. America's birthday warrants a reckoning, so now is the time to show up, speak out, and remember who we are. wordinblack.com/2025/07/amer...
Few people have embodied the best of journalism—its ability to cut through BS, its capacity to uplift those who’ve been wronged, its burning appetite to tell the stories people need to know—like Bill Moyers.
We’ve never needed him more, writes @monikab.bsky.social.
Extreme weather is real.
freer because of us
—july 4th, with memory in my mouth—
i don’t light fireworks
i light candles
for crispus & kin—
Black breath blown
into battles
they weren’t meant to win.
they called it revolution
but asked us to wait
told us freedom was coming
just show up late.
but we were there—
boots muddy
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is the Big Lie wrapped in a flag, handed to you with a smile, and signed in ink that looks suspiciously like blood. It’s not policy—it’s a death sentence in red, white & blue. Patriotic theater with real-life casualties.
Listen and Read👇🏾
wordinblack.com/2025/07/big-...
"The proposed changes (to the clean energy tax credits) would likely disincentivize investment in renewable energy, potentially slowing the transition to a cleaner energy grid & impacting the economic viability of solar & wind projects, while providing tax breaks for the coal and oil industries."
“this too shall pass,”
auntie said,
stirring truth into her tea—
but not without us.
not without feet in the street,
mouths wide with no more,
hearts loud as drums
that won’t stop beating
‘til justice
opens the door.
©️MustafaSantiagoAli
#WritersCommunity #Poetry #Resister
“There is a myth we tell ourselves about #Juneteenth, as if #freedom arrived suddenly, like a thunderclap, on June 19, 1865, with General Granger reading General Order No. 3 to the enslaved people in Galveston, Texas.” @wordinblacknews.bsky.social @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world won’t just know peace—
it’ll breathe again.
No more boots on necks, bombs in skies, or borders drawn in blood.
Just humanity, finally choosing heart over empire.”
#Peace #Truth #Resistance #RevolutionOfLove
“Honoring The Original Patriots and Roots of #MemorialDay”
On that May day, the shadows danced In Charleston’s aftermath, where chains had broken.
The sun’s light pierced through history’s trance,
As freedom’s first sighs in silence were spoken.
African hands, calloused by the past, Gathered bones
#GeorgeFloyd 5 Years later. @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social imagines what he might say now…
Tornadoes decimated parts of Kentucky, Missouri, and Virginia, killing at least 25 people this weekend. A FEMA staffer says recent federal cuts will hamper the agency’s “ability to reach vulnerable people."
wordinblack.com/2025/05/fema...
The Black Arts Movement began one day after Malcolm X’s assassination. Since then, the icon’s spirit of power & pride has influenced generations of Black artists — from poet Gwendolyn Brooks to hip-hop legends Public Enemy &, most recently, sculptor Nathan Murray.
wordinblack.com/2025/05/malc...
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
NEWS: Documents obtained by EPW reveal EPA’s plan to scrap program that has saved families $500B in energy costs.
Energy Star doesn't just help protect our environment—it keeps money in families' wallets.
Documents obtained exclusively by EPW reveal that Trump and his EPA chief, Lee Zeldin, plan to eliminate this money-saving program.
Toxic air doesn’t wait—pollution harms babies before they even take their first breath.
Let’s learn how we can protect future generations.
🗓️ May 8 | 9:00–11:30am ET
📲 Livestream on Moms Clean Air Force channels
A United Airlines jet flies above a runway at Newark Liberty International Airport. Exhaust is coming out of both of the plane's engines, creating blurry areas over a bridge in the background. The text reads: "Newark Airport Is Experiencing Major Delays. Here's What to Know." Photo by Dakota Santiago for The New York Times.
More than 200 flights from and into Newark Airport had been delayed as of Monday morning. Disruptions have prompted United Airlines to cut nearly three dozen round-trip flights per day at the New Jersey airport. We explain what's going on. nyti.ms/42L2aKE
Ridiculous.
Energy Star program is on the chopping block, sources say | CNN www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/c...
"Repealing these protections requires blatant disregard for the urgent and very real suffering of the millions of Americans who have already had their lives destroyed by dangerous air pollution and climate change-fueled extreme weather"
Read more here ⬇️ www.actonclimate.com/post/cac-tru...
President Biden left Trump a strong economy that was growing at a 2.4% rate in the fourth quarter of 2024.
Trump ruined it in just 100 days, shrinking the economy (-0.3%) in the first quarter of 2025 and sparking fears of recession.
Hey EPA, we fixed this for you.
In Trump's first 100 days, the EPA has rolled back climate and environmental justice programs and removed standards keeping our air and water clean. Here's what ACTUALLY has been happening to our climate: www.actonclimate.com/trumptracker/ #100Days100Harms
Learn more in this new report, "The Green Gender Gap: How Women are Shaping the Climate Vote" during next week's webinar, which will feature Moms Co-founder and Director Dominique Browning as a panelist. Register here: www.environmentalvoter.org/get-involved...
