Under Trump, top US health agency forbids officials to use these words in budget documents: fetus, transgender, diversity, science-based, evidence-based, vulnerable, entitlement. https://t.co/W5P1JrnPaZ
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot—a very big, a very impressive boot, people are talking about this boot—stomping a human face, which, to be frank, is not impressive, a bad face, but the boot is very impressive and big. We're gonna stomp, folks, believe me."
The Trump admin has indicated that the Labor Department will revisit an Obama-era rule meant to reduce exposure to coal mine dust that causes deadly black lung disease. https://t.co/OK2utySi7r
Pres. Trump cuts red tape in front of stack of paper representing current regulations. The president says his administration's goal is to return to the 1960-level regulations. https://t.co/NkJuIoh4fPpic.twitter.com/tMPYhlOpTZ
Things that were allowed in 1960: - Jim Crow - lobotomies - forced sterilization - child abuse - lead in paint - lead in gasoline - cars without seatbelts - DDT - smoking on planes - drinking and driving https://t.co/gzPr19cPUw
Sad to hear about the death of Simeon Booker, one of the best to ever do it. As the correspondent for Jet, he was crucial in telling the story of Emmett Till, and the civil rights movement from its infancy. https://t.co/mZILb4fKhD
Simeon Booker, a trail-blazing African-American journalist and first full-time black reporter at The Washington Post, dies at age of 99. https://t.co/NkiK1cPS0o
His work brought national attention to the murder of Emmett Till, which became one of the flashpoints for the civil rights movement. Mr. Booker’s article in JET Magazine included an open-casket picture of the boy that shocked the nation. Rest in power, sir. And thank you. https://t.co/TfbPT4wCAu
I hadn't known about his World War II experience, described by the Washington Post. It certainly is of a piece with how black soldiers were treated—
Drafted into the Army... Mr. Hendricks served in France after the Normandy invasion. But his most harrowing wartime experiences came from mistreatment by white soldiers in his own army, he recalled more than six decades later to Lee Ellen Martin, a University of Toledo graduate student writing a thesis on the singer. Mr. Hendricks said U.S. military police officers fired at him and other black soldiers they suspected of consorting with French women.
Out of fear, the black soldiers fled their unit. As a battalion clerk with access to military papers, Mr. Hendricks said he requisitioned a car and two trucks, loaded with gasoline, food and other supplies. He and the other African American soldiers sold the goods on the black market for several months before they were arrested and charged with "desertion in the face of the enemy."
"What enemy?" Mr. Hendricks said he responded. "You mean the white military police firing on us?"
He spent nearly a year in custody, before being returned to the front.
It's an enormous legacy to try choosing from, but here's a treat from the early days:
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