Shonita Black
@shonitablack.bsky.social
📚 PhD student | Interested in entrepreneurship + social inequality | Real-world impact 🌍 | Lover of big ideas, data, & building theories 🧠 | Reflections on nature, stoicism, and academic life 🥃 📖 | Romans 8:28.
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Senator Cory Booker concludes his record-breaking Senate Floor speech after 25 hours
Massive applause for Booker
Massive applause for Booker
April 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Senator Cory Booker concludes his record-breaking Senate Floor speech after 25 hours
Massive applause for Booker
Massive applause for Booker
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“I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the U.S. Senate for as long as I am physically able,” Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ, said shortly after 7 p.m. ET on Monday.
He has continued, with the help of questions from Democratic senators, for more than 22 hours, as of 5:30 p.m. ET.
He has continued, with the help of questions from Democratic senators, for more than 22 hours, as of 5:30 p.m. ET.
Booker protests Trump in marathon Senate speech
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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April 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
“I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the U.S. Senate for as long as I am physically able,” Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ, said shortly after 7 p.m. ET on Monday.
He has continued, with the help of questions from Democratic senators, for more than 22 hours, as of 5:30 p.m. ET.
He has continued, with the help of questions from Democratic senators, for more than 22 hours, as of 5:30 p.m. ET.
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Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct."
Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.
Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.
March 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct."
Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.
Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.
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Association of law schools reminds the chief justice of his own words
![As Chief Justice John Roberts recently explained: “Our political system and
economic strength depend on the rule of law. The rule of law depends, in turn,
on Article III of the Constitution and judges and justices appointed and
confirmed under it. . . .[V]iolence, intimidation, and defiance directed at judges
because of their work undermine our Republic, and are wholly unacceptable.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:65vkd7kbacss37t7uj75g2qt/bafkreibsvr6mj6uo5i4xxdvorsibtnz4vgtuqolbkrh47tugitrsjmbofm@jpeg)
February 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Association of law schools reminds the chief justice of his own words
"The NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward companies that haven’t pulled back from DEI programs under conservative pressure, and the nation’s oldest civil rights organization is listing which brands have stood by — or reversed — past commitments to DEI."
The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI.
apnews.com/article/blac...
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NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans
The NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward corporations that haven’t pulled back from diversity programs under conservative pressure.
apnews.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"The NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward companies that haven’t pulled back from DEI programs under conservative pressure, and the nation’s oldest civil rights organization is listing which brands have stood by — or reversed — past commitments to DEI."
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"That's not what I signed up for."
🚨MSNBC Legal Analyst Lisa Rubin gives her analysis of a letter from a top federal prosecutor in New York who resigned after being told to drop charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams by Trump's DOJ.
🚨MSNBC Legal Analyst Lisa Rubin gives her analysis of a letter from a top federal prosecutor in New York who resigned after being told to drop charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams by Trump's DOJ.
February 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM
"That's not what I signed up for."
🚨MSNBC Legal Analyst Lisa Rubin gives her analysis of a letter from a top federal prosecutor in New York who resigned after being told to drop charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams by Trump's DOJ.
🚨MSNBC Legal Analyst Lisa Rubin gives her analysis of a letter from a top federal prosecutor in New York who resigned after being told to drop charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams by Trump's DOJ.
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The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
February 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
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2nd Equitable Opportunity Conference
June 6-7, 2025
MIT Sloan School of Management
How organizations shape socioeconomic opportunities in ways that align with prevailing notions of fairness & justice – of equity – and in light of evolving regulations.
Submit by March 1st.
tinyurl.com/2nd-EOC
June 6-7, 2025
MIT Sloan School of Management
How organizations shape socioeconomic opportunities in ways that align with prevailing notions of fairness & justice – of equity – and in light of evolving regulations.
Submit by March 1st.
tinyurl.com/2nd-EOC
2nd Equitable Opportunity Conference
Submissions | Student Workshop | Registration (tba)
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January 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
2nd Equitable Opportunity Conference
June 6-7, 2025
MIT Sloan School of Management
How organizations shape socioeconomic opportunities in ways that align with prevailing notions of fairness & justice – of equity – and in light of evolving regulations.
Submit by March 1st.
tinyurl.com/2nd-EOC
June 6-7, 2025
MIT Sloan School of Management
How organizations shape socioeconomic opportunities in ways that align with prevailing notions of fairness & justice – of equity – and in light of evolving regulations.
Submit by March 1st.
tinyurl.com/2nd-EOC