Shonita Black

Senator Cory Booker concludes his record-breaking Senate Floor speech after 25 hours

Massive applause for Booker

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Booker protests Trump in marathon Senate speech

“I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the U.S. Senate for as long as I am physically able,” Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ, said shortly after 7 p.m. ET on Monday.

He has continued, with the help of questions from Democratic senators, for more than 22 hours, as of 5:30 p.m. ET.

“Race does not provide an accurate representation of human biological variation,” the statement reads. “Humans are not divided biologically into distinct continental types or racial genetic clusters. Instead, the Western concept of race must be understood as a classification system that emerged from, and in support of, European colonialism, oppression, and discrimination.” “It thus does not have its roots in biological reality, but in policies of discrimination,” the statement says. “Because of that, over the last five centuries, race has become a social reality that structures societies and how we experience the world. In this regard, race is real, as is racism, and both have real biological consequences.”

Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct."

Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.

Association of law schools reminds the chief justice of his own words

"The NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward companies that haven’t pulled back from DEI programs under conservative pressure, and the nation’s oldest civil rights organization is listing which brands have stood by — or reversed — past commitments to DEI."

"That's not what I signed up for."

🚨MSNBC Legal Analyst Lisa Rubin gives her analysis of a letter from a top federal prosecutor in New York who resigned after being told to drop charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams by Trump's DOJ.

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2nd Equitable Opportunity Conference Submissions | Student Workshop | Registration (tba)

2nd Equitable Opportunity Conference
June 6-7, 2025
MIT Sloan School of Management

How organizations shape socioeconomic opportunities in ways that align with prevailing notions of fairness & justice – of equity – and in light of evolving regulations.

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