The CEO-to-worker pay ratio at S&P 500 companies last year was 285-to-1. The median employee would have had to start working in the year 1740 to earn what the average CEO received in 2024. Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?

Antislavery-related. 1st volume (with the 44 items) was Wendell Phillips’s.

Thank you for watching!

"The Last Class" is showing this week in theaters across the country.

Learn more about how you can catch a screening: www.thelastclassfilm.com/where-to-watch

From Senator Corey Booker

Spoke with Alejandro Barranco, Marine and son of Narciso, detained doing his landscaping job at an Orange County IHOP. Told me dad is "a kind person, hard working... a patriot. Loves this country. He always taught us the same thing. Just to love our country and always give back."

If you're heading to a protest tomorrow, it's important to know your rights. Consult this information from the ACLU.

Be peaceful. Be safe. Be careful. Be strong.

I ran grant programs at @nehgov.bsky.social for over a decade. With colleagues, oversaw review of thousands of grant applications. Witnessed care & thoughtfulness of hundreds of reviewers. This statement is insulting to all of them. Whoever wrote it should be ashamed.

www.neh.gov/news/update-...

Let’s keep the context up front. In early April masses of NEH grants were terminated as “an urgent priority.” Those included grants that fund 50 state humanities councils, which do community-based work all across the country. And rigorously peer-reviewed grants to individual scholars & orgs.

I refuse to listen to the audio or to this person’s voice, but:

▪️Library of Congress is NOT a library that children browse.
▪️I’m amazed the “journalists” in the room didn’t correct her.
▪️Pursues “DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children” will be used to attack all libraries.

M.I.T. Class President Barred From Graduation Ceremony After Pro-Palestinian Speech www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/u...

For the past year or so, my colleagues and I have been working with the authors of Our Bodies Ourselves, as well as the successor org to the Boston Women's Health Course Collective to digitize the very early printings of this once (and still) radical text: ourbodiesourselves.org/the-latest/b...

Join us for a special virtual fundraising event as part of our 2025 Spring Sprint! We’re celebrating the launch of Katie Mitchell’s Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores and inspiring crucial donations for the BSA Annual Fund. Register via Link in bio.

To all the jugglers.
Happy Mother’s Day.

“Supposed to be here” — I am. We are.

❤️

(with gratitude to @lizadonnelly.bsky.social & @anntelnaes.bsky.social)

250 years ago, Old North Church hung two lanterns that sparked a revolution. This April 18, they’ll ring their bells—and your congregation can too.

🔔 Ask your house of worship to join us from 3–6 p.m. local time: www.letfreedomring.live/join-the-mov...
#LetFreedomRing #BellsForDemocracy

Federal Judge Rules Against Trump

We’re RED-y to win our members a fair contract! Show your support tomorrow by wearing something RED! #bplpsa #bostonpubliclibrary #library #union #unionstrong #libraryunion #boston

Nearly $7 million has been “apportioned” over the past week to cover DOGE-related expenses.

USAID, currently being shut down by Elon Musk, purchases about $2 billion annually in rice, wheat, lentils, and peas from American farmers.

Please if you are able to donate to Tom Goldwasser.