The barrage of terrible news this week is literally unbearable!

I don’t know what possessed me to actually turn on the Grammy’s tonight but I’m SO GLAD I did! Got to see the 👑🐝 get the recognition she EARNED! And the performances from these new younger artists are 🔥🔥

Doechii wins the Grammy for best rap album! Such a well deserved honor! LOVE LOVE LOVE this album! 🥹😍

Happy:
Black history
Black present
Black future
Black love
Black joy
Black health
Black healing
Black people
Black community
Black family
Black kids
Black culture
Black creativity
Black ingenuity
Black legacy
Black innovation
Black liberation
Black resistance
Black existence
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Federal workers are disproportionately Black. Ending DEI AND also eliminating the explicit prohibition against discrimination in hiring and in federal contracting is therefore about more than the culture wars. It, like the affirmative action ban, is about limiting opportunity for Black advancement.

As a student of history, I'm not being hyperbolic. The federal government built the Black middle class in DC, and in many parts of the U.S., largely because it was one of the first organizations to hire Black professionals and prohibit discrimination. It is amongst the most diverse US workforce.

North Carolina Republicans restart the steal If you can't beat 'em, try to get 60,000 votes tossed out.

New in PN: North Carolina Republicans restart the steal

"The entire state supreme court affair is a microcosm of the last several years, a one-stop-shop highlighting all the ways in which Republicans have used the nonexistent problem of election fraud to destroy trust and make it harder to vote."

DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’

More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”

White Backlash Is A Type Of Racial Reckoning, Too For more coverage of the Jan. 6 attack, read our collection of essays and reflections examining where we are as a country one year later, including what has — a…

Make no mistake, this is part of a racial backlash. And, as @victorerikray.bsky.social and I wrote in 2022, this backlash is a racial reckoning, too.

Nothing here is surprising, but, like the great Toni Morrison, “I insist on being shocked.”

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9 days in and we’ve already had a terrorist attack, suicide bombing, certification of a felon for President and one of the most populous cities in the country is on fire.

I would like to return 2025 …this is not the new year we want 😮‍💨

😂😂 new academic networking levels unlocked 🔓

This is actually a phenomenon I’ve always wondered about! Definitely confirms what I suspected. Glad to see this kind of research out in the world!

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The Lions are killing me tonight …I’m so stressed! How many times are we going for it on 4th down?!?!

This is so amazing!! Congrats Catarina!! 🎉🎉

Day after for sure! I give thanks and then I start to gear up for Christmas!

Sorry Drake …we were literally just listening to this track on repeat all summer!

They are so good …and so true!! 😂

Such amazing work …I feel so seen by this 🥹

This is amazing!!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾

I made the pilgrimage to Houston for the Renaissance tour!

😂😂😂

Watching this game in the snow tonight I’m so glad I don’t live in the Midwest anymore! ✌🏾

The report must truly be terrible!! 😫😫

“Racism is a terrible monster. White supremacy is America’s Beetlejuice. But, contrary to popular belief, if we are not willing to call it out, it will still eat us alive.”

Michael Harriott finally put into words what I’ve been saying to everyone since last week. This is the only take I accept!