@0briang …world-renowned woman[Bethune] who’d begun life as Mary Jane McLeod, daughter of freed slaves. [Read more at bit.ly/3H05O4W BY Dovey Johnson Roundtree &
Katie McCabe via @yesmagazine]
Alongside her[Bethune] sixteen brothers and sisters she’d picked cotton in the fields of Mayesville, South Carolina,[Read more at bit.ly/3H05O4W BY Dovey Johnson Roundtree & Katie McCabe via @yesmagazine]
until with her[Bethune] brilliance she captured the attention of a Black missionary who’d seen to her schooling.[Read more at bit.ly/3H05O4W BY Dovey Johnson Roundtree & Katie McCabe via @yesmagazine]
Barred because of her[Bethune] race from the missions of Africa to which she felt called, she’d taken on the fight for Negro advancement as her life’s work.[Read more at bit.ly/3H05O4W BY Dovey Johnson Roundtree &
Katie McCabe via @yesmagazine]
In a tiny cabin with five pupils, she[Bethune] founded the Florida normal school that would eventually become Bethune-Cookman College,[Read more at bit.ly/3H05O4W BY Dovey Johnson Roundtree &
Katie McCabe via @yesmagazine]
and as a child I loved to hear the tales of how she’d[Bethune] used packing crates for desks and elderberry juice for ink and raised funds by selling sweet potato pies.[Read more at bit.ly/3H05O4W BY Dovey Johnson Roundtree &
Katie McCabe via @yesmagazine]
Later, when poll taxes shut Blacks out of the voting booth, it was said she[Bethune] took to bicycling around the countryside collecting money to pay them[Read more at bit.ly/3H05O4W BY Dovey Johnson Roundtree &
Katie McCabe via @yesmagazine]
@tommyboy0690 Warren is one of Capitol Hill's top advocates for legislation that would ban lawmakers from trading individual stocks.
[Read more at bit.ly/3GY1rHF by Camila DeChalus @cdechalus via @Businessinsider]
[Insider @Businessinsider published its "Conflicted Congress" investigation]…that found that 57 lawmakers and at least 182 senior-level congressional staffers have violated…[Read more at bit.ly/3GY1rHF by Camila DeChalus @cdechalus via @Businessinsider]
Master SGT. Roddie W. Edmonds saved the lives of Jewish Prisoners of War. [Watch this 14 minute inspiring story. ]
While Edmonds was not Jewish, he was in command of the Jewish Barracks; these Barracks were separated from the rest of the Prisoners. The German Commandant ordered all the Jewish Prisoners out of the Barracks.[Watch this 14 minute inspiring story. ]
Edmonds ordered all the Prisoners out from all of the rest of the Barranks. The Commandant put a gun to Edmonds head and said you can’t be all Jews. Master SGT. Roddie W. Edmonds said we are all Jews.[Watch this 14 minute inspiring story. ]
When the company faced bankruptcy in 2016, the miners at Warrior Met agreed to an across-the-board wage cut of 20%,...[Sanders’ office explained][Read more at bit.ly/351Pbsh by Jessica Corbett @corbett_jessica via @commondreams]
[miners at Warrior Met agreed to]...substantial reductions in their healthcare and retirement benefits as part of a restructuring deal made by the private equity firms.[Sanders’ office explained][Read more at bit.ly/351Pbsh by @corbett_jessica via @commondreams]
@Lynda_Katerra BPA[bisphenol-A (BPA)] is commonly used as lining in metal cans or as hard, clear polycarbonate plastic used for water bottles or food containers.[Read more at bit.ly/3gBnrNG by Olivia Rosane @orosane via @EcoWatch]
EDF[Environmental Defense Fund] has had some success with FDA petitions in recent years, including one to ban long-chain PFAS[Polyfluoroalkyl Substances]in food packaging and another to ban seven carcinogenic food flavors.[bit.ly/3gBnrNG by Olivia Rosane @orosane]
Limiting exposure to plastic-packaged or canned foods.[to avoid [bisphenol-A (BPA)][Verywell Health @Verywell noted].[Read more at bit.ly/3gBnrNG by Olivia Rosane @orosane via @EcoWatch]
@goodday6390 “…the Fed’s plan to slow the economy is the opposite of what’s needed now or in the foreseeable future. Covid is still with us.’[Read more at bit.ly/3LgetDZ by @RBReich via @guardianUS]
“Even in its[Covid] wake, we’ll be dealing with its damaging consequences for years: everything from long-term Covid to school children months or years behind.”[Read more at bit.ly/3LgetDZ by @RBReich via @guardianUS]
“…the Fed’s plan to slow the economy is the opposite of what’s needed now or in the foreseeable future.”...“Friday’s jobs report shows that the economy is still 2.9m jobs below what it had in February 2020.”[Read more at bit.ly/3LgetDZ by @RBReich via @guardianUS]
@BlueDoggin45@POTUS@beachbirds72 President Biden has had two monumental legislative victories in his first year: the American Rescue Plan and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.[Read more at bit.ly/3Gl2fGu]
The American Rescue Plan provided critical funding to keep workers safe, protect jobs, and stabilize the pensions we’ve earned.[Read more at bit.ly/3Gl2fGu]
It[The American Rescue Plan] extended the successful payroll support program, directing money toward saving thousands of airline jobs instead of sending it into the pockets of executives and shareholders.[Read more at bit.ly/3Gl2fGu]