Graves
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Dr. Joseph Graves, Jr. Ph.D. MacKenzie Scott Endowed Professor of Biology, NCATSU; Fellow of the Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1994; author of 6 books - evolution, as well as biological/social conceptions of race
In case you missed it, I did an interview on WUNC on the "Due South" program about my new book: "Why Black People Die Sooner" (Columbia U. Press), 2025: www.wunc.org/show/due-sou...
Pioneering NC A&T evolutionary biologist Joseph L. Graves, Jr. talks life expectancy gaps. Plus, 'Black, White, Colored' explores Laurinburg history.
Leoneda Inge talks to NC A&T professor Joseph L. Graves, Jr. about his new book, Why Black People Die Sooner. Mother-daughter authors Lauretta Malloy Noble and LeeAnet Noble research their family hist...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In case you missed it, I did an interview on WUNC on the "Due South" program about my new book: "Why Black People Die Sooner" (Columbia U. Press), 2025: www.wunc.org/show/due-sou...
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Tell Catholic bishops: Speak out against Trump's anti-immigrant cruelty
Pope Leo XIV has urged U.S. Catholic bishops to be "more united and more forceful" in defending immigrant rights, but the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has not spoken out with the clarit...
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October 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Tell Congress: Christians want our government funding to care for all us, not terrorize our neighbors. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/goverme...
Tell Congress: Christians want our government funding to care for all us, not terrorize our neighbors
The Trump regime has shut down the federal government indefinitely in the latest scheme to line the pockets of billionaires, fund ICE's terror against our neighbors, and eliminate federal services tha...
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October 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Tell Congress: Christians want our government funding to care for all us, not terrorize our neighbors. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/goverme...
Don't let another day go by! Tell Congress and the White House, No More Weapons to Israel!
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No More Weapons to Israel
Don't let another day go by!
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September 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Don't let another day go by! Tell Congress and the White House, No More Weapons to Israel!
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ADD YOUR NAME: Donald Trump's allies in Congress are ramping up their attacks on religious charities that help immigrants. As Christians, we need to speak up now. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/gop-ref...
ADD YOUR NAME: We support faith based aid to immigrants and refugees
Donald Trump's allies in Congress are ramping up their attacks on religious charities that help immigrants. As Christians, we need to speak up now.
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July 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
ADD YOUR NAME: Donald Trump's allies in Congress are ramping up their attacks on religious charities that help immigrants. As Christians, we need to speak up now. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/gop-ref...
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Sign the petition: Christians reject Trump's war on Iran
As followers of the Prince of Peace, we need to counter the religious right and make it clear that tens of thousands of social-justice Christians oppose the MAGA regime's war on Iran. Add your name no...
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June 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Joseph Graves Jr.: Blinded against science: Attacks on reseearch are unjust and dangerous greensboro.com/opinion/colu...
Joseph Graves Jr.: Blinded against science: Attacks on reseearch are unjust and dangerous
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The National Institutes of Health was founded in its modern form in 1930. These agencies have been stalwarts
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June 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Joseph Graves Jr.: Blinded against science: Attacks on reseearch are unjust and dangerous greensboro.com/opinion/colu...
Demand Congress to withdraw the military from Los Angeles!
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Demand that Congress withdraw the military from Los Angeles now
Donald Trump has crossed a line no other president in modern U.S. history has dared to cross. He just deployed thousands of National Guard troops and hundreds of active duty-Marines to Los Angeles--wi...
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June 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Demand Congress to withdraw the military from Los Angeles!
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Sheriffs should not do ICE's job for them. Thanks to pressure from Donald Trump's ICE, more sheriffs' departments are harassing, detaining, and jailing our undocumented neighbors. Add your name and tell sheriffs to stop taking orders from ICE. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/NSA-ICE...
Add Your Name - Sheriffs should not do ICE's job for them
Thanks to pressure from Donald Trump's ICE, more sheriffs' departments are harassing, detaining, and jailing our undocumented neighbors. Add your name and tell sheriffs to stop taking orders from ICE.
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June 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Sheriffs should not do ICE's job for them. Thanks to pressure from Donald Trump's ICE, more sheriffs' departments are harassing, detaining, and jailing our undocumented neighbors. Add your name and tell sheriffs to stop taking orders from ICE. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/NSA-ICE...
Tell the Senate: Reject immoral budget cuts - Repairers of the Breach and Faithful America are asking the Senate to reject Trump's immoral and unjust budget cuts. Add your name now >> act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/moralmo...
Tell the Senate: Reject immoral budget cuts
Repairers of the Breach and Faithful America are asking the Senate to reject Trump's immoral and unjust budget cuts. Add your name now >>
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June 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Tell the Senate: Reject immoral budget cuts - Repairers of the Breach and Faithful America are asking the Senate to reject Trump's immoral and unjust budget cuts. Add your name now >> act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/moralmo...
Visa offering $1,000 credit to "students" of Andrew Tate's fake "university." The U.K. just filed new criminal charges against the Tates. They're facing dozens of charges in 3 countries. WTF, Visa?!? Survivors deserve justice! Click to tell Visa to cut ALL ties with Tate NOW. app.sosha.ai/s/gf77YCe1
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May 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Visa offering $1,000 credit to "students" of Andrew Tate's fake "university." The U.K. just filed new criminal charges against the Tates. They're facing dozens of charges in 3 countries. WTF, Visa?!? Survivors deserve justice! Click to tell Visa to cut ALL ties with Tate NOW. app.sosha.ai/s/gf77YCe1
On the economic costs of ending DEI | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
On the economic costs of ending DEI
In January 2025, Donald Trump signed executive orders 14151 and 14173, which were intended to eliminate all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities in the federal bureaucracy and nondiscrimi...
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May 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Racial harassment has no place in Catholic schools: The Principal of the Madeleine School in Portland, OR recently called the police on a Black family and expelled their son for seeking an apology. Let's support this family and demand accountability. act.faithfulamerica.org/petition/fir...
Racial harassment has no place in Catholic schools
The Principal of the Madeleine School in Portland, OR recently called the police on a Black family and expelled their son for seeking an apology. Let's support this family and demand accountability.
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May 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Racial harassment has no place in Catholic schools: The Principal of the Madeleine School in Portland, OR recently called the police on a Black family and expelled their son for seeking an apology. Let's support this family and demand accountability. act.faithfulamerica.org/petition/fir...
Someone explain to me how Trump can pardon insurrectionists (several of whom assaulted police officers) but arrest 3 ministers praying for justice for the poor?
May 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Someone explain to me how Trump can pardon insurrectionists (several of whom assaulted police officers) but arrest 3 ministers praying for justice for the poor?
Thank you Rev. William Barber: The Rev. Dr. William Barber was arrested at the Capitol for praying and challenging the budget bill -- let's support his prophetic witness act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/thank-y...
Thank you Rev. William Barber
The Rev. Dr. William Barber was arrested at the Capitol for praying and challenging the budget bill -- let's support his prophetic witness
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May 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Thank you Rev. William Barber: The Rev. Dr. William Barber was arrested at the Capitol for praying and challenging the budget bill -- let's support his prophetic witness act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/thank-y...
Tell Texas Lt. Governor: We will protect the separation of church and state: Several proposals in Texas would indoctrinate public school children with a specific version of Christianity and the lies of Christian nationalism. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/tx-scho...
Tell Texas Lt. Governor: We will protect the separation of church and state
Several proposals in Texas would indoctrinate public school children with a specific version of Christianity and the lies of Christian nationalism.
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April 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Tell Texas Lt. Governor: We will protect the separation of church and state: Several proposals in Texas would indoctrinate public school children with a specific version of Christianity and the lies of Christian nationalism. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/tx-scho...
The AAC&U statement on "Constructive Engagement" is distinguished by who signed, but by all the university presidents who did not!
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A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
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April 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The AAC&U statement on "Constructive Engagement" is distinguished by who signed, but by all the university presidents who did not!
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SIGN NOW: Keep church and state separate: SCOTUS is about to hear arguments on St. Isidore vs. Drummond -- this could obliterate the line separating church and state in public school systems. We Christians should oppose religious charter schools now >> act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/st_isid...
SIGN NOW: Keep church and state separate in our schools
The U.S. Supreme Court is about to hear arguments on St. Isidore vs. Drummond -- a case that could obliterate the line separating church and state in public school systems. Let's make it clear that Ch...
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April 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
SIGN NOW: Keep church and state separate: SCOTUS is about to hear arguments on St. Isidore vs. Drummond -- this could obliterate the line separating church and state in public school systems. We Christians should oppose religious charter schools now >> act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/st_isid...
Trump attacks on federal agencies have steep implications for Black workers www.epi.org/blog/trump-a...
Trump attacks on federal agencies have steep implications for Black workers
In just over two months, the Trump administration has laid off tens of thousands of federal workers at several agencies. Probationary employees, foreign aid staff, and workers dedicated to diversity, ...
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April 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Trump attacks on federal agencies have steep implications for Black workers www.epi.org/blog/trump-a...
Tell the Senate: Christians say vote NO on the SAVE Act: Christian nationalists are on the verge of silencing millions of women. Tell your senators to oppose the SAVE Act now. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/senate_...
Tell the Senate: Christians say vote NO on the SAVE Act
Christian nationalists are on the verge of silencing millions of women. Tell your senators to oppose the SAVE Act now.
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April 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Tell the Senate: Christians say vote NO on the SAVE Act: Christian nationalists are on the verge of silencing millions of women. Tell your senators to oppose the SAVE Act now. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/senate_...
The ongoing influence of slavery and Jim Crow means high poverty rates and low economic mobility in the South: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Part Four www.epi.org/publication/...
The ongoing influence of slavery and Jim Crow means high poverty rates and low economic mobility in the South: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Part Four
Efforts to continue exploiting Black workers led to racist anti-worker policies that continue to maintain high rates of poverty, low economic mobility, and high levels of inequality for workers of all...
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April 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The ongoing influence of slavery and Jim Crow means high poverty rates and low economic mobility in the South: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Part Four www.epi.org/publication/...
ICE under Trump is attacking labor rights by targeting a farmworker advocate www.epi.org/blog/ice-und...
ICE under Trump is attacking labor rights by targeting a farmworker advocate
The Trump administration has ramped up its immigration enforcement over the last month, and claims to be targeting “the worst of the worst” for detention and deportation. However, several report...
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April 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
ICE under Trump is attacking labor rights by targeting a farmworker advocate www.epi.org/blog/ice-und...
NIH under orders to cancel $2.6 billion in contracts | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH under orders to cancel $2.6 billion in contracts
Mandate has set off a scramble to find places to trim awards that support much of the biomedical agency’s work
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April 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
NIH under orders to cancel $2.6 billion in contracts | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...