Is Booker a VP possibility?

"United", a conversation with Senator Cory Booker (Is he a VP possibility?)
(powerful yet positive)
The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate
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Yesterday, we were honored to be joined by Senator Cory Booker and NPR's Tom Ashbrook for a powerful Getting to the Point program. I
The Edward M. Kennedy Institute strives to encourage participatory democracy, invigorate civil discourse, and inspire the next generation of citizens and leaders to engage in the civic lives of their own communities. The subtitle of the Senator's book, United, is "Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good", something that we aim to accomplish with our public programming series.
As Senator Booker said last night, “We have work to do in this country and if you care, if you live passionately, if you believe in the ideals of this nation and see what is going on...sometimes you are going to feel overwhelmed. But don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something."
Senator Cory A. Booker
Cory A. Booker
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Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-3224
Email: info@booker.senate.gov
About the Senator:
Cory A. Booker, a Senator from New Jersey; born on April 27, 1969, in Washington, D.C.; graduated Northern Valley Regional High School, Old Tappan, N.J., 1987; B.A., Stanford University, 1991; M.A., Stanford University, 1992; attended The Queen’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, as a Rhodes Scholar and received a graduate degree in 1994; J.D., Yale Law School, 1997; worked as an attorney in the non-profit sector; Newark City Council 1998-2002; Mayor of Newark, N.J. 2006-2013; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in a special election on October 16, 2013, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frank Lautenberg, a seat subsequently held by appointed senator Jeffrey Chiesa, and took the oath of office on October 31, 2013, for the term ending January 3, 2015.
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Marian Wright Edelman opens the Race and Social Justice Initiative

“A Conversation with Marian Wright Edelman,”

 2016 Speaker Series

Marian Wright Edelman Opens the Race and Social Justice Initiative 2016 Speaker Series

“A Conversation with Marian Wright Edelman,” Author and President of the Children’s Defense Fund, Introduction by Former Senator Malcolm Graham

Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Sottile Theatre, 44 George Street, Charleston, SC6:30PM – Free and open to the public!

"If they nominated hosts, I wouldn't even get this job," he said. "You'd be watching Neil Patrick Harris."

"Well, I'm here at the Academy Awards, otherwise known as the White People's Choice Awards."

Chris is right unfortunately...this man is accurately very funny!
"Well, I'm here at the Academy Awards, otherwise known as the White People's Choice Awards."
Chris Rock began his hosting gig at Sunday's Oscars with an intelligent, biting opening monologue that addressed the ‪#‎OscarsSoWhite‬ controversy head-on. Going into the ceremony, many were wondering how the comedian was going to address the issue, and he answered those questions immediately.

"If they nominated hosts, I wouldn't even get this job," he said. "You'd be watching Neil Patrick Harris."
He also addressed the boycott that some major Black figures in Hollywood, like Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett-Smith. Many people wondered why he hadn't quit the hosting gig as part of the protest, which he thought was ludicrous.
"I thought about quitting," he revealed. "I thought about it real hard. They're gonna have the Oscars anyway, and they're not going to cancel them because I quit. And the last thing I need is to lose another job to Kevin Hart."
"Jada [Pinkett-Smith] boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna's panties: I wasn't invited," he continued.

History will prove him to be one of the best POTUS ever...hope I'm still here to see it

Occupy Democrats

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The way Republicans have treated Pres. Obama is truly unconscionable.
Thanks to Democratic Underground.

Bernie stood up when he didn't have to stand up as a young man

 

 

 

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"Senator Sanders stood up when he didn't have to stand up as a young man. The way to define the character of a person is what they do when the cameras are not o...n. What they do when they don't benefit from it personally. He is a champion for civil rights and social justice in this country - the time is right, and the cause is now." - Nina Turner
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I was blessed to be interviewed on AMERICA AFTER CHARLESTON by Gwen Ifill

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Sep 21, 2015 - Join Gwen Ifill for a one-hour town hall meeting that explores the many ... WATCH: America After Charleston hosted by Gwen Ifill ... To inform the discussion, PBS NewsHour and Marist College's Institute for ..... It would be great to have someone really improve the world, right? http://front.moveon.org/elizab.

CAUCASIAN SLAVES??? YES IT'S TRUE!...

Patrick Washington

January 10, 2015 · Lincoln, AL ·

BONUS: BLACK HISTORY... CAUCASIAN SLAVES??? YES IT'S TRUE!...
They came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall British ships bound for the Americas. Th...ey were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children.

Whenever they rebelled or even disobeyed an order, they were punished in the harshest ways. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. They were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning to other captives.
We don’t really need to go through all of the gory details, do we? We know all too well the atrocities of the African slave trade.
But, are we talking about African slavery? King James II and Charles I also led a continued effort to enslave the Irish. Britain’s famed Oliver Cromwell furthered this practice of dehumanizing one’s next door neighbor.
The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves.
Ireland quickly became the biggest source of human livestock for English merchants. The majority of the early slaves to the New World were actually white.
From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade. Families were ripped apart as the British did not allow Irish dads to take their wives and children with them across the Atlantic. This led to a helpless population of homeless women and children. Britain’s solution was to auction them off as well.
During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia. Another 30,000 Irish men and women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder. In 1656, Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves to English settlers.
Many people today will avoid calling the Irish slaves what they truly were: Slaves. They’ll come up with terms like “Indentured Servants” to describe what occurred to the Irish. However, in most cases from the 17th and 18th centuries, Irish slaves were nothing more than human cattle.
As an example, the African slave trade was just beginning during this same period. It is well recorded that African slaves, not tainted with the stain of the hated Catholic theology and more expensive to purchase, were often treated far better than their Irish counterparts.
African slaves were very expensive during the late 1600s (50 Sterling). Irish slaves came cheap (no more than 5 Sterling). If a planter whipped or branded or beat an Irish slave to death, it was never a crime. A death was a monetary setback, but far cheaper than killing a more expensive African. The English masters quickly began breeding the Irish women for both their own personal pleasure and for greater profit. Children of slaves were themselves slaves, which increased the size of the master’s free workforce. Even if an Irish woman somehow obtained her freedom, her kids would remain slaves of her master. Thus, Irish moms, even with this new found emancipation, would seldom abandon their kids and would remain in servitude.

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Danny Glover introduces Bernie in Greenville, S. C.

"What a moment, what a moment. You can feel the Bern, don't you feel it?" actor Danny Glover told thousands of cheering Bernie Sanders supporters. "It is amazing to know that you are building not only a movement, but you are building that movement on the stage of a presidential election. We have never had that opportunity before. We are going to change this country."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Danny Glover gives a wonderful introduction for Bernie Sanders in South Carolina. (02/21/16) ‪#‎AmericaTogether‬ ‪#‎NotMeUs‬ ‪#‎FeelTheBern

 

  

Marian Wright Edelman Opens the Race and Social Justice Initiative 2016 Speaker Series

Marian Wright Edelman Opens the Race and Social Justice Initiative 2016 Speaker Series

“A Conversation with Marian Wright Edelman,” Author and President of the Children’s Defense Fund, Introduction by Former Senator Malcolm Graham

Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Sottile Theatre, 44 George Street, Charleston, SC6:30PM – Free and open to the public!

Marian Wright Edelman, author and founder
of the Children’s Defense Fund

Marian Wright Edelman, Founder and President of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life. Under her leadership, CDF has become the nation’s strongest voice for children and families.  The Children’s Defense Fund’s Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. A graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, Edelman was the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar and directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Mississippi. She has received over a hundred honorary degrees and many awards including the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Prize, the Heinz Award, a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for her writings, which include: Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change; The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors,I’m Your Child, God:  Prayers for Our Children; I Can Make a Difference: A Treasury to Inspire Our Children; and The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation.

HEALTHY discontent leads...

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

 

Only a courageous and very strong person could have withstood all the hatred sent his way

Conservative David Brooks: “I Will Miss Obama’s Integrity, Grace, Humanity & Resilience”

Conservative New York Times correspondent David Brooks used his column today to venerate President Obama, a rare enough sight indeed in this polarized and heavily…

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Black History Celebration involving President O. and Michelle

President Obama, we will miss him and Michelle Obama! Thanks for all of your compassion:

This photo of Obama and a little visitor at a Black History Month celebration is remarkable

A must-see photo.

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More people can be like him - please share!

The Other 98%

November 15, 2013 ·

Awesome

Here is the candidate that will fight for your rights!

Come on Minorities, here is the man who will fight for your rights!

Arrest photo of young activist Bernie Sanders emerges from Tribune archives

A Chicago Tribune archival photo of a young man being arrested in 1963 at a South Side protest is Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders , his campaign has…

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Cornel West shows us what justice looks like in public

The Other 98%

February 14, 2014 ·

A Valentine's Day message for all.

 

 

Peter E. Lanzillotta Far too often, those of us who choose to identify as "spiritual" forget that the complementary and contemplative balance point is the prophetic and we need to also be involved with those seeking justice, dignity, peace for everyone... It is not primarily about self concern or even enlightenment, it is also the path of service and companionship...

Closing schools while opening new prisons contributing to the New Jim Crow

In Philadelphia, they are closing minority neighborhood schools while building big private prison nearby!

The Real Lone Ranger was Black

 

"Despicable racists" admission about his own party

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Powerful message !!

 

World Peace or Inner Peace?

Do you want world peace or inner peace?
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Do you want world peace or inner peace? Which one is required before recognizing the other? http://thework.com pic.twitter.com/Vf3NtrYW2J

A Buffalo Soldier who practiced law until he was 106!

CurlyNikki with Pamela Cushman and Peculiar Umensofor.

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‪#‎BlackHistory365‬ ‪#‎ElevenDegreesTho‬

 

And Clinton claims Kissinger's friendship

Kissinger was to Nixon as Cheney to Bush (and Clinton claims his friendship).
He sabotaged the Paris Peace Accords which would have ended the Vietnam War in order to get NIXON elected, resulting in the death of the vast majority of both American (includes my dear Bro. Barry) and Vietnam and Cambodian deaths which led to the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge. This is like Cheney/Bush's invasion of Iraq led to Isis.
In addition:
slatsg: Kissinger is a criminal thug.
Another example — the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile and the resulting bloodbath and years of military rule under the fascist Pinochet.

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'New Jim Crow' author: 'Hillary Clinton doesn't deserve the black vote'

Hmm, Bernie Sanders is the only one for real "income equality" ..,

'New Jim Crow' author: 'Hillary Clinton doesn't deserve the black vote'

One author is now arguing that policies Hillary Clinton and her husband supported have 'decimated black America.?

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People of Color are looking at Bernie and liking what they see.

Hubert Abel: 10 out of the top12 nations are Socialist.

SC state rep. Cezar McKnight becomes the 6th state lawmaker to endorse @BernieSanders

People of Color are looking at Bernie and liking what they see. South Carolina primary is February 27...Go…

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The Republican party has become an international embarrassment

Occupy Democrats

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The Republican party has become an international embarrassment.
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Cath Bayliss pardon my ignorance but isnt he the only republican in the running? what a JOKE. however, this is to me v v serious. he is quite the lunatic.

 

 

 

Ron Alexander No, Cath, there is a more moderate candidate Gov. Kasich who came in second in New Hampshire. He is hopefully a more likely candidate in the end?

Powerful Super Bowl Halftime Performance Celebrated Black Culture

 

 

 

 

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Beyoncé’s Powerful Super Bowl Halftime Performance Celebrated Black Culture

 

Rev. Dan Wright, Remarkable 94 year old WW11 Vet. interview

Who nominated Dr. King for his very deserved Nobel Prize

Decades later, a secret finally revealed - Gary/Chicago Crusader

By Erick Johnson, Chicago Crusader It’s a known fact that in 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. became the third Black leader to win the prestigious Nobel Peace…

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Ra Divakar I am not surprised at all about who nominated Dr. King! The Quakers have always been pro-peace no matter what!

Love is a Verb - Official Trailer

Truth and Reconciliation: Danny Glover for Bernie

Truth and Reconciliation: Danny Glover for Bernie: No wonder, Bernie shares Dr. Martin Luther King's politics - DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM. Actor and political activist Dann...

Danny Glover for Bernie

No wonder, Bernie shares Dr. Martin Luther King's politics - DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM.

Actor and political activist Danny Glover endorses Bernie Sanders

Glover said Sanders’ “presidency could serve the policy interests of the Black…

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THE PROBLEM IS HATRED

Roadtoelectionday.org

January 30 at 9:35pm ·

‪#‎TRUTH‬

 

Let this be now!

 

A couple of Black Inventions

And another black man, Frederick McKinley Jones, invented air conditioning for vehicles. There's the hot and cold of it. ‪#‎brothercomfort‬

Mansa Legba

January 25 at 10:13am ·

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Happy Birthday sweet courageous Ruby Bridges

Happy Birthday sweet courageous Ruby Bridges, thanks for your service - what you did for all of us!

‎Michael Dunn‎ to King Noble The Most High Living God

January 26 at 12:57pm ·

The first child in the south name Ruby Bridges to attend a all white school. When she enrolled white parents started pulling their kids out some white teachers resigned. She had to escorted by U.S Marshalls home because of death threats. Well today is her Birthday!!

FOR PEACE IN SERBIA

TODAY IS THE DAY FOR SYNCHRONIZED MEDITATION FOR PEACE IN SYRIA! COURAGEOUS James Twyman will be in a Syrian village on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights overlooking several ISIL and Hezbollah held villages. WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT. Join us. SUSAN BOLES, OLIVIA ROSE AND I HAVE BEEN TO A WORKSHOP WITH THIS MAGIC MAN ABOUT PEACE IN SERBIA, AND IF ANYONE CAN HELP FOCUS AND HELP BRING PEACE IN SYRIA, IT IS JAMES TWYMAN!

James Twyman, OFH

January 30 at 11:59am ·

Monday is the Big Day
Millions will join in The Great Abrahamic Pulse
World Synchronized Meditation
At 10AM Eastern US time, stop for 10 minutes and send your l...ight and love to the children and those suffering from war in Syria. There has been the most amazing response to this peace effort. Will you join us? James Twyman will be in a Syrian village on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights overlooking several ISIL and Hezbollah held villages. WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT. Join us.