Is a new ad posted to Twitter by Kamala Harris an epic 51 seconds of shade in response to the recent nasty diss of Harris by Republican columnist Peggy Noonan?
The Harris-supporting Twitterati seemed to think so, because as soon as the tweet dropped, it was being forwarded to Peggy Noonan, who, in a Wall Street Journal column, described Harris as “giddy,” “insubstantial,” and “frivolous.
There are moments in time that speak to sheer joy. In a world filled with dire upswings in COVID-19, an epic economic crisis, the rise of white supremacy, children in cages, and a lunatic in the White House, we need hope, inspiration, and an uplift for our spirits.
As the number of deaths due to COVID-19 continue to grow on Donald Trump’s watch, and outrage over his culpability escalates, let us not forget that he showed us who he is back in 2017 when he attempted to ignore and minimize the death toll in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria’s devastation of the island. Remember that in 2018, Trump claimed Democrats made up death toll numbers to make him look bad. He even gave himself a “10,” for his response.
As we grow closer to what could be the defining election of our lifetime, we need to also take stock of the amazing gains we made in the historic 2018 midterm elections. Those victories, especially for women who flipped seats from red to blue, could be clear indicators pointing to Democratic victories in 2020.
The documentary film Surge, scheduled to air on Sept. 8, goes behind the scenes in three of those races.
.@SurgeTheMovie details the long odds Rep.
“This is a show tune, but the show hasn’t been written for it yet” is a line in Nina Simone’s epic protest song “Mississippi Goddam,” written in 1963 after the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers and the bombing of the church in Birmingham, Alabama that left four little Black girls dead. I’m sitting here watching an all too familiar and deadly show more than 50 years later.
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has over 600,000 workers across the United States, and has been, as you know, under attack by Donald Trump, who, in his reckless attempt to screw up mail-in ballots, is also wreaking havoc on the lives of USPS employees. As a side benefit for the Bigot in Chief, he gets yet another opportunity to harm Black folks.
Results of Puerto Rico’s primary election yesterday are in, and according to news reports from the island, Puerto Rico’s current appointed governor, Wanda Vázquez Garced, lost her party’s primary and has conceded.
The second round of the botched primary took place yesterday. Garced’s party, Partido Nuevo Progresista, the New Progressive Party (PNP), is the party currently in power in Puerto Rico.
I’m about to go all Brooklyn on some folks on the internet—take off my earrings and throw down. Verbally of course. Y’all wanna play games to score dubious political points, and dare to question who vice presidential candidate and Sen. Kamala Harris is, or isn’t, regarding her identity as a Black woman who is also of South Asian Tamil heritage, and who was born in Oakland, California?
I’m not having it.
As the number of COVID-19 cases rises in Puerto Rico, one of the ironies of the situation on the island is that, though Puerto Rico is home to 12 of the world’s 20 top-grossing pharmaceutical companies, several of whom manufacture COVID-19 tests and reagents, they aren’t being readily supplied to Puerto Ricans.
Oprah Winfrey has launched a powerful #OWNYourVote campaign geared toward Black women, kicking off a series of events and actions in the run-up to the critical elections in November and beyond with a powerful video.
The video is a montage of images of women from civil rights movement history; women taking to the streets; and women marching and standing with family.
Puerto Rico can’t catch a break. Still attempting to recover from Hurricane Maria, with power problems exacerbated by the recent earthquakes, COVID-19, and a failing healthcare system (thanks to U.S. government Medicaid funding inequities), now the island has been hit by a Saharan dust cloud.
Reports are being posted to social media from the island:
Sahara Dust on its way here to Puerto Rico. It’s the biggest wave we’ve ever gotten before.
While Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation may not have arrived in Texas until the day that we celebrate as “Juneteenth,” no national conversation about enslavement and the ongoing systemic racism faced by Black Americans can simply be relegated to one day or even a series of historic dates.
As #BlackLivesMatter demonstrations demanding justice and an end to police brutality continue to swell across the nation and around the world, the face of a tiny girl shouting “no justice, no peace” went viral.
The video clip, which was filmed at the Merrick, Long Island protest march on June 3, has now been viewed by tens of millions of people on social media.
The little protester’s name is Wynta-Amor Rogers. She is seven years old.