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LesLeigh Ford
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Associate Director, Office of Race and Equity Research | Detroiter | Sociologist | #GoBlue | Views are mine.
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At we often get asked what baby bonds are, how they might close the racial wealth gap, and how they can fit in a budget with other wealth building policies and income supports. We are going to answer these questions and more, register here:
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Job alert!📢 My team at is hiring a Policy Program Associate to help execute external projects and internal efforts focused on innovative research and solutions to advance racial equity. Come join our team! #jobs #racialequity
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Who do Americans think faces "A Lot" of discrimination?
Very liberals, liberals, & moderates show same pattern, just different degree: Blacks, Muslims, & Gays/Lesbians get discrimination.
But conservatives & very conservatives are unique: for them it's Whites & Evangelicals.
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A pregnant 10-year-old child forced to cross state lines for medical care after she was raped.
And her doctor now facing prosecution.
That’s not the unintended consequence of the Supreme Court’s decision.
That’s the Republican agenda.
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Tomorrow! Tune in as representatives from Urban, @communitychange, community organizations & federal, state, & local governments discuss the American Rescue Plan & how policy can advance equity for all. RSVP here: urbn.is/3Rhoa85
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My Center is hiring a Senior Fellow focused on Racial Equity and Housing Justice. Come join us in advancing systems change through policy-relevant research. I’d love to work with you. Spread the word and apply here: urban.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Urban-Ca
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NYC Pushes Indoor Mask Advisory for All as ‘Worst' Omicron Strain Fuels 6th Wave
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inbox: National Park Service awards $9.7 million to preserve Historically Black Colleges and Universities
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Police are on track to kill more people this year than last year. Last year police killed 1,139 people, one of the worst years on record. This AFTER police said they “enacted reforms” and “reimagined public safety” following the murder of George Floyd.
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Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman says "Democrats in the Senate need to scrap the filibuster and immediately pass common-sense reform like universal background checks for all gun sales and a ban on military-grade assault weapons and high capacity magazines."
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The current court is horrifying but not in isolation. It is particularly horrifying in how it exists in relationship to the entire order, not unlike the electoral college and the Senate. Just 2 cents.
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Really excited for my amazing colleagues' new blog!
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To improve Black women’s economic well-being, philanthropies can invest in solutions that dismantle structural racism & are developed for & by the people most affected urbn.is/3OZ25cC
We are witnessing a judicial coup in process.
If the President and Congress do not restrain the Court now, the Court is signaling they will come for the Presidential election next.
All our leaders - regardless of party - must recognize this Constitutional crisis for what it is.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court agreed to hear Moore v Harper, an appeal advocating for extreme interpretation of the Constitution that could make it easier for state legislatures to suppress the vote, draw unfair election districts, enable partisan interference in ballot counting.
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“Just vote,” they say to 700k DC residents without voting representation in Congress.
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- Restrain judicial review
- Expand the court
- Clinics on federal lands
- Expand education and access to Plan C
- Repeal Hyde
- Hold floor votes codifying Griswold, Obergefell, Lawrence, Loving, etc
- Vote on Escobar’s bill protecting clinics
We can do it!
We can at least TRY
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5 justices confirmed by a POTUS who lost the popular vote.
4 lied under oath.
2 credibly accused of sexual assault.
1’s seat literally stolen.
1’s spouse implicated in a coup attempt.
It is not enough to tell people to vote. We need a comprehensive plan to fix this court.
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The people who claim government is too big, are totally fine with government intervening in your private lives & using the law to limit what choices you can make about your body.
Don’t forget, they hate the government unless the government is enforcing their religious extremism.
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Those of us who were anxious and fearful in 2016 were not being alarmist. That election paved the way for this being a possibility.
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Now do Plessy vs Ferguson/Brown vs Board of Education. twitter.com/BarackObama/st…
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NEW: Public confidence in the Supreme Court just plummeted to the lowest level ever recorded in American history. Only 25% of Americans say they have confidence in the Supreme Court now, down double digits since last year, per .
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there's now a map of sundown towns--this looks like a cancerous node over Indiana. an example of how racial segregation and terrorism expresses itself differently by region--sundown towns were (are) dominant in the midwest.
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Once again, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife was involved in January 6th.
She attended the rally and relentlessly urged the President’s Chief to overturn the US election.
He later refused to recuse himself from rulings related to the matter.
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Join us as we interrogate the disproportionately low number of Black/African American and Hispanic/Latinx physicians and nurses and to discuss strategies, policies, and practices that can help address this issue on June 21st at 2 p.m. EST #pathwayprograms #healthpolicy #webinar
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#LiveAtUrban on 6/21: What would it take to diversify the health care workforce? urbn.is/3MmPvlD
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Thrilled to be a part of this talented, growing team!💗
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Introducing Urban's Office of Race and Equity Research: urbn.is/3xsU5KN
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Job alert!📢 My team at is hiring a research associate to help build out and advance our research portfolio focused on innovative research and policy solutions to advance racial equity. Come join our team! #jobs #racialequity #research
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While we wait for action in the U.S. following the Uvalde school shooting, Canada vowed to freeze handgun sales and buy back assault-style weapons.
If that’s not an indictment of our system, I don’t know what is.
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The document lays out the harms suffered by descendants of enslaved people long after slavery was abolished in the 19th century, through discriminatory laws and actions in all facets of life, from housing and education to employment and the legal system
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When President Clinton banned assault rifles in 1994, mass shootings dropped by 43%. After Republicans let the ban expire in 2004, they increased by 243% — please don’t tell me bans don’t work, because I don’t want to hear it.
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Ban AR-15’s.
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Who wants to be in a country where you can’t process one massacre before another one happens? You can’t even grieve here.
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NEW: A pastor in Tennessee just said his church is no longer tax-exempt after TikTok users submitted complaints to the IRS because he went on a rabid rant at his church saying Democrats can’t be Christian and yelled “you ain’t seen an insurrection yet!”
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Job alert!📢 My team at is hiring a research analyst to build our research portfolio focused on innovative research and policy solutions to advance racial equity. Come join our growing team! #jobs #racialequity bit.ly/3NpUkva
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They're not going to be satisfied with forced birth state by state. They're going to go for a national forced birth law. And then they're coming for everything else. The SCOTUS ending "right to privacy" puts it ALL ON THE TABLE: gay marriage, LGBTQ rights, anti-discrimination...
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This is a brutal article. This is the reality in Florida and who knows where else soon. washingtonpost.com/education/2022
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Incredibly proud of this study and the recommendations we make to strengthen pathways for Black and Latinx physicians and nurses. Grateful to my incredible colleagues Kimá, Eva, Faith, Matt, and Clara for all their hard work. Fact sheets forthcoming!
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New report: What would it take to improve & expand programs to support a diverse health care workforce? urbn.is/3sMqd9p
![Study informant: My dean recently said, ‘Well, where would you put [recruitment] money?’ and I, joking, said Head Start. And we both laughed. But getting students at least at the middle school level to even see the possibility of becoming a health care worker, ensuring that we have just strong education, even in communities historically disinvested, that’s where, in my opinion, the efforts lie.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTJQwbSagAErFZ0?format=jpg&name=large)
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BREAKING: Michigan court stops enforcement of state's 1931 near-total abortion ban, which could go back into effect if Roe v. Wade is overturned. It's an early court win for Planned Parenthood.
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BREAKING: Charles Booker wins the Democratic primary for US Senate in Kentucky.
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New report from , Kimá Joy Taylor, Zara Porter, , & : Could educational programs to train & support Black midwives reduce racial disparities in maternal & infant health in Oklahoma?
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Critical race theory literally explains why Great Replacement Theory exists, but now just days after a white supremacist massacre the same people who created an entire book-banning hysteria around CRT are justifying and promoting GRT. Absolutely shameless.
Absolutely shameful.
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