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While W. E. B. Du Bois was traveling in newly independent Ghana in 1963, the State Department refused to renew his passport, effectively annulling his United States citizenship.
The American civil rights icon became a Ghanaian citizen and died there later that year.
The American civil rights icon became a Ghanaian citizen and died there later that year.
When W. E. B. Du Bois Was "Un-American" - Boston Review
At the very height of the McCarthy era, he tried to keep alive a free and open debate about American military, economic, and foreign policy.
www.bostonreview.net
April 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
While W. E. B. Du Bois was traveling in newly independent Ghana in 1963, the State Department refused to renew his passport, effectively annulling his United States citizenship.
The American civil rights icon became a Ghanaian citizen and died there later that year.
The American civil rights icon became a Ghanaian citizen and died there later that year.
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surely someone is super curious about why attorneys keep getting stopped at the border & having their phones searched
April 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
surely someone is super curious about why attorneys keep getting stopped at the border & having their phones searched
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Cinco de Mayo parades in Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Jose have been canceled due to organizers' concerns about ICE raids and anti-immigrant sentiment, as community members fear attending.
April 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Cinco de Mayo parades in Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Jose have been canceled due to organizers' concerns about ICE raids and anti-immigrant sentiment, as community members fear attending.
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From Idol to mentor to drinkin patnas. I’ve always left Tom Joyner’s presence as a better man than when I entered it. Beautiful night. Beautiful win @nyknicks.
April 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM
From Idol to mentor to drinkin patnas. I’ve always left Tom Joyner’s presence as a better man than when I entered it. Beautiful night. Beautiful win @nyknicks.
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Grambling State lost a successful coach and then quickly picked up another one.
FAMU is now looking to fill a position one college hoops media outlet called the "worst job in the country."
hbcusports.com/2025/04/11/p...
FAMU is now looking to fill a position one college hoops media outlet called the "worst job in the country."
hbcusports.com/2025/04/11/p...
Patrick Crarey now strengthens Grambling. How can reeling FAMU salvage its reputation?
Patrick Crarey II shifted the HBCU basketball landscape after leaving Florida A&M to take over at Grambling State following Donte Jackson's exit.
hbcusports.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Grambling State lost a successful coach and then quickly picked up another one.
FAMU is now looking to fill a position one college hoops media outlet called the "worst job in the country."
hbcusports.com/2025/04/11/p...
FAMU is now looking to fill a position one college hoops media outlet called the "worst job in the country."
hbcusports.com/2025/04/11/p...
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Patrick Crarey explains why Grambling State job was the right one for him #FAMU #HBCUSports
Patrick Crarey explains why Grambling State job was the right one for him
Wearing a black suit and speaking candidly, Patrick Crarey II explained why he decided to bolt Florida A&M to coach at Grambling State.
hbcusports.com
April 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Patrick Crarey explains why Grambling State job was the right one for him #FAMU #HBCUSports
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg struggled in federal court to defend his reasons for the Facebook owner’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram more than a decade ago — one of two acquisitions the Federal Trade Commission now contends was illegally anticompetitive.
FTC presses Zuckerberg to admit he bought Instagram to ‘neutralize’ it
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg struggled Tuesday to defend in federal court the company’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram amid a landmark antitrust case.
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April 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg struggled in federal court to defend his reasons for the Facebook owner’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram more than a decade ago — one of two acquisitions the Federal Trade Commission now contends was illegally anticompetitive.
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I’ll never get over how softly media carried the insane bailouts WE paid to farmers to cover the catastrophe of his first term tariffs. It didn’t get emphasized in debates or in response to his campaign tariff threat.HE TRIED THIS ALREADY. We paid. Remember? From 2020. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Trump Tariff Aid To Farmers Cost More Than U.S. Nuclear Forces
The $28 billion for farmers raises questions about using taxpayer money to shield policymakers from the consequences of tariff increases.
www.forbes.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I’ll never get over how softly media carried the insane bailouts WE paid to farmers to cover the catastrophe of his first term tariffs. It didn’t get emphasized in debates or in response to his campaign tariff threat.HE TRIED THIS ALREADY. We paid. Remember? From 2020. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
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NEWS: Whirlpool Corp. announces Iowa's largest layoff of 2025 in Amana manufacturing facility. Nearly 1/3 of the company’s workforce in the Iowa facility will be let go due to current market conditions.
April 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
NEWS: Whirlpool Corp. announces Iowa's largest layoff of 2025 in Amana manufacturing facility. Nearly 1/3 of the company’s workforce in the Iowa facility will be let go due to current market conditions.
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USIP owns their building. DOGE is vandalizing a building the federal government DOES NOT OWN.
After breaking into the US Institute of Peace (USIP) Monday, DOGE members immediately got to work taking down signs to erase the independent agency.
Photos taken yesterday shared directly with me:
Photos taken yesterday shared directly with me:
March 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
USIP owns their building. DOGE is vandalizing a building the federal government DOES NOT OWN.
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Facial recognition company Clearview attempted to buy Social Security numbers and mugshots for its database.
🔗 www.404media.co/facial-recog...
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Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states, court records reveal.
www.404media.co
March 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Facial recognition company Clearview attempted to buy Social Security numbers and mugshots for its database.
🔗 www.404media.co/facial-recog...
🔗 www.404media.co/facial-recog...
Today is another day that I’m so glad I no longer work as a Congressional staffer. Such heartbreak to watch Senate Dems undercut House Dems. Shame on Schumer. Shame on Durbin.
March 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Today is another day that I’m so glad I no longer work as a Congressional staffer. Such heartbreak to watch Senate Dems undercut House Dems. Shame on Schumer. Shame on Durbin.
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Any Senate Democrat who votes for cloture should have to spend time at schools across D.C. answering questions about why they care so little about the lives of D.C. residents.
March 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Any Senate Democrat who votes for cloture should have to spend time at schools across D.C. answering questions about why they care so little about the lives of D.C. residents.
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Schumer and Durbin should face a new leadership vote. Tomorrow.
March 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Schumer and Durbin should face a new leadership vote. Tomorrow.
This serves as a call to my senator’s office. Vote no on the CR, @jeff-merkley.bsky.social. Schumer’s leadership isn’t taking us anywhere Oregonians want to go.
March 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This serves as a call to my senator’s office. Vote no on the CR, @jeff-merkley.bsky.social. Schumer’s leadership isn’t taking us anywhere Oregonians want to go.
Hey, don’t ask me for any $ until we have a leader who stands up for what’s right, @dscc.bsky.social.
Schumer isn’t leading anywhere Oregon wants to go.
Schumer isn’t leading anywhere Oregon wants to go.
March 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Hey, don’t ask me for any $ until we have a leader who stands up for what’s right, @dscc.bsky.social.
Schumer isn’t leading anywhere Oregon wants to go.
Schumer isn’t leading anywhere Oregon wants to go.
This serves as a call to my senior senator’s office. Vote no on the CR, @wyden.senate.gov. Schumer’s leadership isn’t taking us anywhere Oregonians want to go.
March 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This serves as a call to my senior senator’s office. Vote no on the CR, @wyden.senate.gov. Schumer’s leadership isn’t taking us anywhere Oregonians want to go.
Schumer is not the strategist he imagines himself. Maybe it’s a New York thing but how many times can he be wrong and still believe his own noise?
Schumer tells me Republicans might try to jam Democrats again in September, but thinks Trump will be less popular then and Republican appropriators might be more willing to stand up to him. He said they refused to do so now.
March 14, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Schumer is not the strategist he imagines himself. Maybe it’s a New York thing but how many times can he be wrong and still believe his own noise?
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Now that Schumer and Dems have abjectly decided to cave, when they scream about the cuts that Musk and Trump continue to undertake in violation of *their own CR,* it will only sound all the more hollow. Great job all around, guys.
March 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Now that Schumer and Dems have abjectly decided to cave, when they scream about the cuts that Musk and Trump continue to undertake in violation of *their own CR,* it will only sound all the more hollow. Great job all around, guys.
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Trump harping on making Canada the 51st state, is also insulting to the residents of D.C. a city w/o representation (but where the pop. is higher than that of Wyoming).
The 51st state is right there. Ah but Canada, Trump & Miller think, will help forestall the demographic changes they fear.
The 51st state is right there. Ah but Canada, Trump & Miller think, will help forestall the demographic changes they fear.
Senseless pain is about to be afflicted to D.C., a place that has no congressional representation. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...
How Congress Could Force $1.1 Billion in Cuts on Washington, D.C.
District leaders say that a proposed cut to the city budget, part of a plan to avert a federal government shutdown, is unfair. The city raises most of its own money but cannot control how it is spent.
www.nytimes.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Trump harping on making Canada the 51st state, is also insulting to the residents of D.C. a city w/o representation (but where the pop. is higher than that of Wyoming).
The 51st state is right there. Ah but Canada, Trump & Miller think, will help forestall the demographic changes they fear.
The 51st state is right there. Ah but Canada, Trump & Miller think, will help forestall the demographic changes they fear.
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Breonna Taylor, a former EMT and aspiring nurse based in Louisville, Kentucky, was shot and killed in her home as police executed a no-knock warrant.
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#RestInPower
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March 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Breonna Taylor, a former EMT and aspiring nurse based in Louisville, Kentucky, was shot and killed in her home as police executed a no-knock warrant.
#5yearsagotoday
#xyearsagotoday
#RestInPower
#5yearsagotoday
#xyearsagotoday
#RestInPower
Schumer always thought he’d be a better leader than Harry Reid. In zero ways has proven it.
It’s beyond laughable that Chuck is the guy in the ring who is supposed to put up a fight for us. When has he shown grit? Where has he led his party? I guess I’m glad that y’all can see him clearly now.
It’s beyond laughable that Chuck is the guy in the ring who is supposed to put up a fight for us. When has he shown grit? Where has he led his party? I guess I’m glad that y’all can see him clearly now.
Quite something that Schumer had his NYT op-ed justifying his surrender ready to go tonight while not informing the public (including his constituents) of his plans. He seems to think this is just an old-school pr battle. He's never been more wrong.
March 14, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Schumer always thought he’d be a better leader than Harry Reid. In zero ways has proven it.
It’s beyond laughable that Chuck is the guy in the ring who is supposed to put up a fight for us. When has he shown grit? Where has he led his party? I guess I’m glad that y’all can see him clearly now.
It’s beyond laughable that Chuck is the guy in the ring who is supposed to put up a fight for us. When has he shown grit? Where has he led his party? I guess I’m glad that y’all can see him clearly now.
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When the FBI searched Jan. 6 defendant Jeremy Brown's home, they discovered illegal grenades, a sawed-off shotgun and classified information he retained after leaving the army.
Today, DOJ says Donald Trump's pardon for J6 issues covers all of that.
Today, DOJ says Donald Trump's pardon for J6 issues covers all of that.
February 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
When the FBI searched Jan. 6 defendant Jeremy Brown's home, they discovered illegal grenades, a sawed-off shotgun and classified information he retained after leaving the army.
Today, DOJ says Donald Trump's pardon for J6 issues covers all of that.
Today, DOJ says Donald Trump's pardon for J6 issues covers all of that.
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The National Women’s Soccer League has settled sex abuse charges. A $5 million player restitution fund addresses systemic abuse, and the settlement also commits to new safeguards and reforms. | NW Labor Press
Women’s soccer league settles sex abuse charges - NW Labor Press
NWSL’s $5 million player restitution fund addresses systemic abuse; new safeguards and reforms implemented.
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February 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The National Women’s Soccer League has settled sex abuse charges. A $5 million player restitution fund addresses systemic abuse, and the settlement also commits to new safeguards and reforms. | NW Labor Press