the lede: I’ve spent years reporting on the rise in white racial violence - against immigrants, Muslims, Jews and black Americans - since America elected its first black president. The result, AMERICAN WHITELASH, is out in June. You can preorder it now https://t.co/7GYShx0ykf

Shohei Ohtani just played the greatest game in baseball history.

“We’re all from somewhere, a city, a neighborhood, a block we claim with pride.” Me: @pgcnty and the same community that shaped @KDTrey5 Here’s my latest essay for @PostOpinions on @KingJames & Akron. https://t.co/U4beyzxboC

The government does not track how often ICE holds Americans. So ProPublica did. They found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the Trump admin. Their tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer. https://t.co/mNRxMfyeud

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams https://t.co/PdBRDFNoHG

This is not a video game. With lethal connectivity, EagleEye enables Warfighters to command and control unmanned systems and call for fires through a heads-up, hands-free display.

It's the late great Greg Tate's bday today, and we've lost the brilliant Michael Eugene Archer. The kicker of Greg's Voodoo review from VIBE's Dec 99 issue feels particularly fitting to sit with today as we grieve this genius. Wishing our king safe passage to the other side.

detailed what i experienced, witnessed, and heard during 48 hours in israeli captivity, from the flotilla to ketziot prison camp for @JewishCurrents at https://t.co/ELYrxhgP7q

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One of the best live performances of all time. Shoutout to Anthony Hamilton on the background vocals and RIP to the legend D’Angelo. Sleep well 🤍🤍🤍

D’Angelo’s keys. Eric Clapton’s strings. Two masters speaking the same language — soul.

You must watch The Alabama Solution on HBO.

While serving time for murder, Joe Garcia heard Taylor Swift’s music and thought of the woman he loved. Last year, they were reunited.

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’ The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents. By @AnthonyJRivera for @washingtonpost

“…the part of the citizenry that has resisted the equal citizenship of Black Americans is in political ascendancy… we should recognize that just as freedom is part of the nation’s heritage, so is racism”

Of 98 Senate-confirmed appointees to the administration’s most senior leadership roles in its first 200 days, only 2 are black. https://t.co/7tYqm7gBkR

This stunning investigation by @MsHallieMiller, Giacomo Bologna and @SahanaJayaraman about New York profiteers buying up hundreds of rowhouses in Baltimore's poor neighborhoods at inflated prices and precipitating a foreclosure crisis.

Jane Goodall Dead: Eminent Chimpanzee Expert Was 91 - The New York Times

Napheesa Collier’s full statement today, where she challenged Commissioner Cathy Engelbert and the WNBA with directness and stunning detail we rarely hear from active players. Worth listening to every word.

“In some parts, it now holds that if Kirk’s views were repugnant, his willingness to calmly argue… made him an exemplar of how we should engage…this thinking seems to place the civility of Kirk’s style of argument over the incivility of what he argued”

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

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