Candidates for elected office ask voters to trust them with the future of their community. But how committed are they to that community if they cannot even become a member of its local museum? Membership is more than writing a check it is a visible statement that a candidate values civic education, respects the community’s history and cultural heritage, and recognizes the museum as an important community institution. If candidates want to represent the people, they should be willing to stand with the institutions that serve those people.
A museum that loses funding and closes is not simply a building that disappears. The community loses a place of learning, a keeper of its history, and an attraction that helps draw tourists, businesses, and investment to the region. Elected officials who fail to support such an institution should be asked a straightforward question: If you will not support your community’s museum, what does that say about your commitment to the community itself?
“Woke” did not begin as an insult or a punchline. Rooted in African-American vernacular of the early twentieth century, it emerged as shorthand for a simple idea: staying alert to the social and political conditions harming Black communities, and to the need for solutions. It named something specific awareness of structural inequality, discrimination, and mistreatment by government or society, the same awareness that animated the civil rights and voting rights movements.
False claims from the 2020 campaign for president which were made against then candidate Kamala Harris still linger in some parts of the internet and community. We cannot allow falsehoods to perpetuate against our candidate, against someone who has championed the best interests of our community. The following is based on research on every fact with links to the evidence.
Having noted that both the Arab store-keeper and his sister were able to attend college and drive late-model cars while only working short shifts in their family store, an African-American youth, who sometimes did odd jobs for them, asked how they managed to do, and have, so much. The young Arab answered, “in my family we are many hands, but only one pocket. You all are many hands with many pockets.”
We’ve updated how we work combining our meetings and work products to improve how we keep people informed. On our website, HoodResearch.org, we now show our goals and active work areas. This replaces the topics we used to track as trending. Trending topics will be part of our newsletter, The Thinkers Report.
Cursive Writing Instruction has NOT been cancelled in the U.S.A., however it has declined significantly. This decline began around 2010 with many states adopting the Common Core State Standards which did not require Cursive Writing Instruction.
Arguments for the return of Cursive Writing Instruction include potential improvement in cognitive development, memory, and motor skills.There is also some evidence suggesting that cursive might help combat plagiarism.
The Biden-Harris administration is the most successful in modern history. Our lifetime. This administration has done more for people than any previous administration with the exception of the Obama-Biden Whitehouse.
Lansing Michigan Police falsely arrested a 12 year old child violating his civil rights and the rights of his family and additionally the privacy rights of their home and the other tenants.
The city of Detroit is on a path for another very low voter turnout. City and state government is apparently unable to maintain the effort needed to ensure a voter turnout above 50% as was done in 2020.
False claims from the 2020 campaign for president which were made against then candidate Kamala Harris still linger in some parts of the internet and community. We cannot allow falsehoods to perpetuate against our candidate, against someone who has championed the best interests of our community. The following is based on research on every fact with links to the evidence.