For business owners, affordable internet is key to their success. But for over 700K Georgian households, 80% of who are Black, that might be disappearing.

Learn more about The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) & why its existence is key:

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How many stories have we seen on this versus a year ago when the narrative was violent crime was spiking? Far too often, media doesn’t report what’s most important to people, it determines it. It doesn’t report news, it decides what’s news and media more than anything drives…

Thank you for this piece Patrick.

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Black Americans experience the most hate crimes of any group in America. They live at the bottom of every indicator of well being. They face rampant and documented discrimination in employment, housing, you name it. I really wish pundits discussing campus protests and…

An AI 'resume screening program identified two factors as the best predictors of future job performance: having played high school lacrosse and being named Jared.' politico.com/news/magazine/…

'Time and time again, we have recognized the failures and flaws [in democracy], and we have expanded the franchise. We have made new rules to make sure... that people are truly heard.' - Rashad Robinson

Learn how the #FairRepAct can help fix our democracy
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Will this finally make the world see the horrors in Sudan… people “eating grass and peanut shells” to survive?! cnn.com/2024/05/03/afr…

Ole Miss is literally called this to honor how enslaved people had to refer to the slave owner’s wife. Black students account for less than 12 percent of the students there even though Mississippi is the most heavily Black state in the country. But keep telling me how DEI made…

But the real danger on college campuses is DEI and students being exposed to dialogue about race and racism.

Brian Schwartz Rashad Robinson ColorOfChange Natasha Korecki Unfortunate they feel “under pressure”.

Should be a no-brainer to not participate. In fact, they should happily and loudly proclaim they won’t participate.

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NEW from kate briquelet: Jessica Seinfeld and Bill Ackman both donated thousands to fund pro-Israel counter-protesters at UCLA, in the lead up to last night's violent attack on the university's Pro-Palestinian encampment. The Daily Beast

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This case was a farce. A mere fine would've sufficed because it was a victimless crime. However, we've given prosecutors too much power and discretion and Congress should change that.

Instances such as this make the average person hate and distrust the criminal justice system,…

A Florida Black woman with a medical condition causing her to lose all of her amniotic fluid was denied an abortion.

She was sent home from the hospital to deliver a dead baby, of course with hospital apologies.

Thinking she was going to die she went to the salon so her…

Sen. Sanders: 'I suggest to CNN and maybe some of my colleagues here, maybe take your cameras, just for a moment, off of Columbia and UCLA . Maybe go to Gaza, and take your camera show us the emaciated children who are dying from malnutrition because of Netanyahu's policies.'

Mind you, this man is currently mayor of one of the most diverse cities on earth and there’s literally a video compilation of the many many times he’s likened NYC to another country in order to pander to the very diverse populations he constantly criminalizes and others.

1/ This is ridiculous. I've known Kristen Clarke for years & consider her a good friend as well as a colleague. She's now made the painful disclosure that 20 years ago she was the victim of serious domestic abuse & was arrested once in that time. cnn.com/2024/05/01/pol…

1/2 'The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has made a historic decision—agreeing with the top federal health agency and proposing to move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).'