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Wow. This is so important. She talks about the quiet dismantling of the Department of Education and the impact.
#Education
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cjnlegalnurse11/18/25 This isn’t a restructure. It’s a reallocation strategy that weakens a major civil-rights-driven federal agency. Watch the hands, not the headlines. #EducationCrisis #DepartmentOfEducation #FederalPolicy #CivilRightsInSchools #StopTheDismantlingView all 2,824 comments
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November 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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#TulsaRaceRiot #BlackWallStreet #History ##BlackHistory
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Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
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November 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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"We were going to schools with old, torn-down buildings, dilapidated buildings. In the classrooms, we had books with no pages, pages torn and missing,” Gail Etienne said of her parents' decision for her to desegregate a New Orleans elementary school in 1960.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘I was just going to school’: legacy of New Orleans’ other desegregation pioneers
Leona Tate has built a center at the former school she and her two six-year-old friends braved angry crowds to attend – the same day as Ruby Bridges’ better-known experience
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November 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Sixty years after federal marshals escorted her into McDonogh 19 elementary school in New Orleans, Leona Tate bought the building that she helped desegregate on November 14, 1960.
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#education #history #BlackHistory #politics #NewOrleans #CivilRights
‘I was just going to school’: legacy of New Orleans’ other desegregation pioneers
Leona Tate has built a center at the former school she and her two six-year-old friends braved angry crowds to attend – the same day as Ruby Bridges’ better-known experience
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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“I’m wondering, at six years old, what could I have done to these people to make them act the way they were acting? What had I done? I was just going to school.” - Gail Etienne
Check out my latest piece for @us.theguardian.com:
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#education #history #politics
‘I was just going to school’: legacy of New Orleans’ other desegregation pioneers
Leona Tate has built a center at the former school she and her two six-year-old friends braved angry crowds to attend – the same day as Ruby Bridges’ better-known experience
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
lottiejoiner.bsky.social
On November 14, 1960, Gail Etienne, Tessie Prevost and Leona Tate were escorted by federal marshals into McDonogh 19 elementary school in #NewOrleans.
Check out my latest piece for @us.theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#education #history #civilrights #socialjustice #politics
‘I was just going to school’: legacy of New Orleans’ other desegregation pioneers
Leona Tate has built a center at the former school she and her two six-year-old friends braved angry crowds to attend – the same day as Ruby Bridges’ better-known experience
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
lottiejoiner.bsky.social
On November 14, 1960, Gail Etienne, Tessie Prevost and Leona Tate were escorted by federal marshals into McDonogh 19 elementary school in New Orleans.
Check out my latest piece for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#education #history #civilrights #socialjustice #NewOrleans
‘I was just going to school’: legacy of New Orleans’ other desegregation pioneers
Leona Tate has built a center at the former school she and her two six-year-old friends braved angry crowds to attend – the same day as Ruby Bridges’ better-known experience
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
lottiejoiner.bsky.social
Important American history, especially the history of minority communities and the social justice warriors who fought for a more equal and just world, is being eliminated/wiped from classrooms and curriculums, libraries and museums.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...
#History #Politics #Justice
How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught
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October 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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"Dance allowed me to flourish. It gave me structure. It gave me discipline. It gave me grace. It gave me a purpose. Once I stepped into the studio, I couldn't imagine my life without it," Misty Copeland
#MistyCopeland #Dance #Ballet #Art #History @mistyonpointe
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Misty Copeland takes her final bow and reflects on her groundbreaking journey
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October 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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The article notes if the Supreme Court strikes down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Republicans could eliminate upward of a dozen Democratic-held districts across the South. Section 2 of the VRS requires the creation of majority-minority districts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
#Politics
The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans
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October 16, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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On this World Mental Health Day, I'm sharing this important piece about the positive impact of music on mental health.
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#WorldMentalHealthDay #MentalHealth #Music #Healing #HipHop #Health #Trauma #Culture #Art #Therapy
OP-ED: World Mental Health Day: Hip hop culture can be a catharsis in a world of chaos
From DJ Kool Herc dropping the needle on a record at a party in the Bronx more than fifty years ago and then experimenting with mixing beats and scratching records, worldwide legions of rappers, dance...
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October 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donates $70m to HBCUs
The gift, one of Scott’s largest single donations, will help UNCF build a $370m pooled endowment for its 37 HBCUs
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September 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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On this Labor Day, an important piece that looks at how cuts in the federal government have impacted Black women.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
#BlackWomen #LaborDay #Economics #Politics #DEI
In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit
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September 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
lottiejoiner.bsky.social
On August 29, 2005, #HurricaneKatrina made landfall on the United States Gulf Coast, more than 1,800 died, millions were displaced, and there were billions in damages. The Katrina Memorial site holds the remains of unclaimed and unidentified victims of the storm from the New Orleans area.
#Katrina20
August 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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In June, I wrote a piece for @us.theguardian.com and supported by the @economichardship.bsky.social about how African Americans were boycotting big retail stores because of the companies’ rollback of their #DEI initiatives. Earlier this week, I woke up to this headline.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/b...
Target’s CEO is stepping down as customers turn away | CNN Business
Target CEO Brian Cornell is stepping down after 11 years at the retailer, as the company faces slumping sales and backlash to its retreat on DEI.
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August 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Honor for Robert Smalls, the escaped slave who became a lawmaker
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#History #BlackHistory #AfricanAmericanHistory
Escaped slave who became lawmaker will be first individual African American honored with statue at South Carolina State House
Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and South Carolina lawmaker.
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August 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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“We are standing in righteous indignation against racism and sexism in this nation,” said Rev. Jamal Bryant who called for a 40-Day Fast against Target earlier this year. Some boycott participants now shop at small, local, minority and women-owned businesses.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Why many Black Americans are boycotting big-box retail stores: ‘using my money to resist’
People are shutting their wallets to firms such as Target and Amazon, which followed in Trump’s footsteps to undo DEI
www.theguardian.com
July 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
lottiejoiner.bsky.social
Beautiful piece by writer Santi Elijah Holley, who writes about the power of #gospelmusic, noting, "I felt the music in my soul before I had even acknowledged the existence of a soul." 
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/m...
#music #healing #art #culture
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I Don’t Know if I Believe in God, but I Believe in Gospel Music
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July 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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@klee4766.bsky.social - Thank you for sharing my piece.
#Retail #Boycott #DEI
July 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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ain’t going back. great reporting by @lottiejoiner.bsky.social
Why many Black Americans are boycotting big-box retail stores: ‘using my money to resist’
People are shutting their wallets to firms such as Target and Amazon, which followed in Trump’s footsteps to undo DEI
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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In my latest piece for @theguardian.com with support from the @economichardship.bsky.social, I write about Black families who are boycotting retail companies that rolled back their DEI initiatives.
Check out the entire piece below:
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
#DEI #Boycott #Politics
Why many Black Americans are boycotting big-box retail stores: ‘using my money to resist’
People are shutting their wallets to firms such as Target and Amazon, who followed in Trump’s footsteps to undo DEI
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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RIP Theo

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/a...
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Theo Huxtable on ‘The Cosby Show,’ Dies at 54
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July 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
lottiejoiner.bsky.social
This is such a good interview.
Ms. Oh hits on so many things - insecurity, racism in Hollywood, being a woman in midlife.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/m...
#SandraOh #art #culture #women #midlife
Sandra Oh Knows What’s Great About Middle Age
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July 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Today we honor the life and legacy of civil rights activist Meddgar Evers who was born on this day (July 2) in 1925. Evers, a World War II veteran, was the NAACP’s first field secretary in Mississippi.
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#MedgarEvers #CivilRights #SocialJustice #History #Politics
7 Things You Should Know About Medgar Evers | HISTORY
Explore the life and legacy of the civil rights pioneer.
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July 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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The piece notes that, "In a 50-page decision, the 5th Circuit panel wrote that "unwanted exposure to government-sponsored religious displays" would violate students' First Amendment rights." www.nola.com/news/educati...
#politics #religion #Constitution
Louisiana's Ten Commandments law is unconstitutional, federal appeals court rules
Louisiana’s controversial law requiring public schools and colleges to post the Ten Commandments violates the U.S. Constitution and cannot be enforced, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
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June 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM