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Things the Biden-Harris Administration Did This Week #34

Sep 13-20 2024.

President Biden announced $1.3 billion in new funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The Biden-Harris Administration has already invested a record breaking $17 billion in HBCUs since the President took office. HBCUs represent an important engine for making black professionals. 40% of all Black engineers, 50% of all Black teachers, 70% of all Black doctors and dentists, 80% of all Black judges, and the first black Vice-President, Kamala Harris, are HBCU graduates. HBCUs have also been proven to be far better at boosting the long term economic prospects of graduates than non-HBCU colleges. The bulk of the new funding will go directly to supporting students and helping them pay for college.

The Department of Transportation celebrated 60,000 infrastructure projects funding by the Biden-Harris Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This landmark is a part of the Biden-Harris team's effort to address America's long neglected infrastructure. From major multi-state projects to small town railway crossings every project was lead by a local community in need not a make-work project dreamed up in Washington

The Department of Energy announced over 3 billion dollars to support the battery sector. The 25 projects across 14 states will help support over 12,000 jobs. Advanced battery technology is key to the shift to a carbon energy free economy. The move is meant to not only boost battery production but also shift it away from China and toward America.

Maine and Rhode Island both launched a partnership with the federal government to help save low income families money on their utility bills. The program offers low and moderate income households aid in updating wiring, switching to energy efficient appliances, and installing heat pumps.

The EPA announced $156 million to help bring solar power to low-income New Mexico residents. This is part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s "Solar for All" project aimed at helping low-income people afford the switch over to solar power. It's expected that 21,750 low-income households in New Mexico will benefit from the money. New Mexicans can expect to save over the next 20 years $311 million in energy costs.

The Department of The Interior announced the first ever leases for wind power in the Gulf of Maine. The leases for 8 areas off the coast of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine will be sold in late October. The Department believes that once developed the wind power from these leases could produce 13 gigawatts of clean offshore wind energy, enough to power 4.5 million homes. When added to the 15 gigawatts already approved by the Biden-Harris team it brings America close to Biden's 30 gigawatts of clean offshore wind power by 2030.

The Senate approved the appointment of Kevin Ritz to the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which covers Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee. The Senate also approved Mary Kay Costello and Michelle Williams Court to district court judgeships in Pennsylvania and California respectively. Costello is the 12th LGBT judge appointed by President Biden, making him the President to appoint the most LGBT people to the federal bench more than during Obama's 8 years. President Biden has also appointed more black women, such as Judge Court, to the bench than any other President. Judge Court also represents President Biden's move to appoint civil rights attorneys to the bench, Court worked for the ACLU in the mid-90s and was a civil rights expect at HUD in the early 2000s. This brings the total number of judges appointed by Biden to 212.

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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was interrupted during a congressional hearing dedicated to discussing "hate" on Tuesday by an anti-Israel agitator who stood up shouting "F---ing Jews." 

During the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled, "A Threat to Justice Everywhere: Stemming the Tide of Hate Crimes in America," Cruz discussed soaring antisemitism on college campuses in the wake of Oct. 7. 

"Antisemitism is a unique, historic form of evil, and over millennia, it is manifested in violence, mass murder and genocide," Cruz said. "October 7th was one of the darkest days in human history when terrorists murdered over 1,200 Israelis and took 251 hostages. Women and girls were raped. It was the single largest mass murder of Jews in a day since the Holocaust. In the wake of October 7th, we have seen antisemitism explode across the United States and across the world, but especially on college campuses." 

After listing examples of antisemitic and pro-Hamas messages hurled toward Jewish students, Cruz called out the Biden-Harris administration. 

COLUMBIA ANTI-ISRAEL AGITATORS TO REACH ‘CRESCENDO OF INTIMIDATION’ AS SCHOOL SUFFERS LATEST BLACK EYE

"Throughout all of this, the Biden-Harris administration has been utterly absent. Does anyone doubt if the Klan were on college campuses terrorizing African American students, threatening African American students, that we would see the FBI there, that we would see prosecutors there, that we would see federal funding cut off to universities? Of course we would. And we should," Cruz said. "But when it comes to antisemitism, the Democrats have a problem. I would note this is occurring in blue states with blue governors, because the Democrat Party is terrified of the pro-Hamas wing of their party."

"In states like Texas and Florida, we don't allow this. At the University of Texas, when violent protests threatened Jewish students, police officers arrived and arrested them. That's what happened when you enforce the law," Cruz continued. "Every Republican member of this committee asked the chairman to hold a hearing on antisemitism in February. And yet we don't get a hearing on antisemitism. We get a hearing generically on hate."

Cruz was about to explain why he believes the Biden administration is to blame for this, when a man in the audience stood up and interjected, shouting profanities including "F---ing Jews," according to video on social media. The anti-Israel agitator was then escorted out. 

"And this is the kind of anger and hate that is encouraged. You're now seeing the hate manifesting right here," Cruz said, referencing the protester. 

"So we now have a demonstration of antisemitism. We have a demonstration of the hate," he added. 

Cruz proceeded to ask one of the witnesses, Mark Goldfeder, director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, "Has the Biden administration cut off the funding of any of the colleges that have allowed this hate? Have they indicted anyone for funding these violent protests? Have they indicted the people paying for the matching tents, or have they sat there silently and have the universities, sat there silently while their students are terrified to go to class?" 

Goldfeder responded, "They have not indicted anyone." 

"Has any university had their funding cut off for allowing this sort of violent intimidation?" Cruz asked. 

"Not a single university," Goldfeder said. 

The senator earlier referenced how the Anti-Defamation League has illustrated how the number of antisemitic incidents in the United States more than doubled from 2022 to 2023. 

ACTRESS SELMA BLAIR CONDEMNS ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTERS 'PRAISING' HAMAS TERRORISTS: 'SOMETHING VERY WRONG'

Cruz said that "college campuses in particular have become vile incubators of hatred of Jews," citing examples of how one Cornell University student made threats after Oct. 7, including statements such as "if I see a pig, male Jew, I will stab you and slit your throat.If I see another pig female Jew, I will drag you away and rape you and throw you off a cliff." 

The Republican senator displayed a flier circulated by a student organization at California State University, Long Beach, calling for a "Day of Resistance" celebrating Oct. 7, noting how the flier included an image of a person parachuting with a fan attached, "a direct reference to and a glorification of Hamas terrorists that used gliders to descend upon a music festival and murder 260 innocent people and take many more hostages." 

Cruz recalled that in the days after now-former Columbia University President Minouche Shafik was confronted about soaring antisemitism on campus before the House Education and the Workforce Committee in April, Rabbi Elie Buechler issued a warning to Jewish students that Columbia "cannot guarantee Jewish students' safety in the face of extreme antisemitism and anarchy," and that he "would strongly recommend" that Jewish students leave campus and go back to their homes.

Cruz said the rabbi "had every reason to be concerned," as at Columbia's campus, individuals yelled, "We're all Hamas! Long live Hamas!" 

The senator continued to list examples of antisemitism on campuses across the U.S., including the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor who was told to "go back to the gas chambers," and displayed a photo of a student at Columbia University holding a sign reading "al-Qassam's next targets," in front of a group of students holding American and Israeli flags in counter-protest. 

"Al-Qassam is the military arm of Hamas. According to social media, this particular student is a wealthy student from Georgia. She's not Palestinian, but she has been taught lies and hatred, and she feels perfectly comfortable advocating the murder of her fellow students at Columbia," Cruz said. 

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Holly Black is so real. I love that she wrote a fantasy series as her first ever publication and then ten years later she was like "you know what, I fuck heavy with that faerie shit actually" and just continued writing stories in that world. Go off queen. I hope she never stops. I hope she writes so much about faerie that it starts to feel like a living, breathing organism. Holly Black you are my idol.

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On Wednesday, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) reintroduced a proposal to make higher education free at public schools for most Americans — and pay for it by taxing Wall Street.

The College for All Act of 2023 would massively change the higher education landscape in the U.S., taking a step toward Sanders’s long-standing goal of making public college free for all. It would make community college and public vocational schools tuition-free for all students, while making any public college and university free for students from single-parent households making less than $125,000 or couples making less than $250,000 — or, the vast majority of families in the U.S.

The bill would increase federal funding to make tuition free for most students at universities that serve non-white groups, such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). It would also double the maximum award to Pell Grant recipients at public or nonprofit private colleges from $7,395 to $14,790.

If passed, the lawmakers say their bill would be the biggest expansion of access to higher education since 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Higher Education Act, a bill that would massively increase access to college in the ensuing decades. The proposal would not only increase college access, but also help to tackle the student debt crisis.

“Today, this country tells young people to get the best education they can, and then saddles them for decades with crushing student loan debt. To my mind, that does not make any sense whatsoever,” Sanders said. “In the 21st century, a free public education system that goes from kindergarten through high school is no longer good enough. The time is long overdue to make public colleges and universities tuition-free and debt-free for working families.”

Debt activists expressed support for the bill. “This is the only real solution to the student debt crisis: eliminate tuition and debt by fully funding public colleges and universities,” the Debt Collective wrote on Wednesday. “It’s time for your member of Congress to put up or shut up. Solve the root cause and eliminate tuition and debt.”

These initiatives would be paid for by several new taxes on Wall Street, found in a separate bill reintroduced by Sanders and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-California) on Wednesday. The Tax on Wall Street Speculation would enact a 0.5% tax on stock trades, a 0.1% tax on bonds and a 0.005% tax on trades on derivatives and other types of assets.

The tax would primarily affect the most frequent, and often the wealthiest, traders and would be less than a typical fee for pension management for working class investors, the lawmakers say. It would raise up to $220 billion in the first year of enactment, and over $2.4 trillion over a decade. The proposal has the support of dozens of progressive organizations as well as a large swath of economists.

“Let us never forget: Back in 2008, middle class taxpayers bailed out Wall Street speculators whose greed, recklessness and illegal behavior caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs, homes, life savings, and ability to send their kids to college,” said Sanders. “Now that giant financial institutions are back to making record-breaking profits while millions of Americans struggle to pay rent and feed their families, it is Wall Street’s turn to rebuild the middle class by paying a modest financial transactions tax.”

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Virginia Union University Homecoming 23': "Union DayZ"

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Robert Sheehan honored by University College Dublin’s Literary & Historical society, 2013

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LAND GRANT AND UNIVERSITIES: A PRIMER

The history of land grant colleges of agriculture is intertwined with the history of  higher education for U.S. citizens of average means.

The land grant system began in 1862 with the passage of the Morrill Land Grant  Act. This law  gave states public lands provided the lands be sold or used for profit and the proceeds used to establish one college—hence, land grant colleges—that  would teach agriculture and the mechanical arts.

The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 can be read in its entirety here.

Land grants status for the establishment of colleges of agriculture and mechanical arts was also later given to U.S. territories and the District of Columbia. The legislative mandate for these land grant colleges helped extend higher education to broad segments of the U.S. population.

In 1889, many Land Grant colleges were largely segregated.  In an effort to seek Federal funding, these Public Universities were required to integrate.  However, Public Universities in most states responded by legislating new agricultural and mechanical arts colleges for Black citizens rather than enhance existing institutions  through integrated programs. The Act passed in 1890 gave rise to a network of often poorly financed colleges known as the “1890” Land Grant Universities. This Act, passed by Congress in 1890, provided for annual appropriations to each state to support its land grant college.

The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1890 can be read in its entirety here.

In addition to appropriating funding, a state could escape this provision, however, if separate institutions were maintained and the funds divided in a "just," but not    necessarily equal, manner.

Thus the 1890 act led to the establishment of land grant institutions for African Americans.

Today there are 19 “1890” institutions - including one private institution, Tuskegee University - located primarily in the southeast. In addition to being part of the land   grant system, these 1890 Universities are among the more than 100 Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the United States.

The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 can be read in its entirety here.

(Pulled from “Colleges of Agriculture at the Land Grant Universities: A Profile” by  National Academies Press)

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Honoring Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Black-owned Crown & Hops Brewing Co. releases two india pales ales, the "HBCU" West Coast IPA and "HBCU" DDH Hazy IPA.

Press Release

Los Angeles ... Crowns & Hops Brewing Co., the first Black-owned craft beer brand in Inglewood, CA, will honor Historically Black Colleges and Universities with the limited release of two IPAs: the “HBCU” West Coast IPA and “HBCU” DDH Hazy IPA.

The beer represents a full-circle moment for Crowns & Hops Brewing Co. founders Beny Ashburn and Teo Hunter, who went to Spelman and Howard. In addition, it pays homage to many of the black craft beer entrepreneurs and connoisseurs who are also proud members of the HBCU community. Crowns & Hops Brewing Co. brews the HBCU IPA with the same hops in two styles— The West Coast IPA and the Hazy DDH IPA.

To ensure that fellow HBCU alumni and students gain access to this special brew, the company has expanded its distribution footprint to the DC area, and is launching a new E-Commerce platform on Wed, 10.19—Crownsandhops.com. Customers may order select products at crownsandhops.com and receive the beer D2C shipped directly to their homes. Shipping will be limited to select cities. Both of the HBCU beers, as well as the brand’s core beers, will be available online. 

In other news, Crowns & Hops Brewing Co. recently partnered with

The Gathering Spot to offer their members Crowns & Hops beers in all three of their flagship locations in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Washington DC.

The brewery is also featured in a new series on PBS entitled “Fresh Glass” on an episode about Neighborhood Brewing that aired on October 6. Stream the show HERE to watch it before it airs nationally in January.

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In 2020, the brand launched its non-profit “8 Trill Pils Initiative,” which focused on taking actionable steps to provide capital, resources, and opportunities for Black-owned craft beer brands. Through the initiative, they raised a $100,000 development fund which they awarded to (5) Black-owned craft beer brands in December 2020. Their motto, “OWN YOUR CROWN,” encourages excellence, cultural ownership, and authentic self-representation. 

Crowns & Hops Brewing Co. will be the first Black-owned craft beer brand in Inglewood, CA. In Q1 of 2023, Crowns & Hops Brewing Co. is set to open their flagship 14,000 sq. ft. restaurant and brewpub, Crowns Inglewood, off of Crenshaw Blvd & Manchester Ave. Crowns Inglewood will be a community establishment providing a safe, family-friendly space to gather, dine and have delicious independent craft beer.

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It's All a Facade

In college I was generally open to any and everything, I don't recall ever refusing any opportunity presented to me. One of the many modeling gigs I did was for the school itself, to update their promotional and PR materials to encourage other young people like myself to attend the school. This was so long ago I don't recall how I specifically heard about this opportunity to model for the school brochure, but I am betting it was from something official posted on or around campus.

What I do remember just looking at this photo, is that first I didn't know any of the people I was seated with, and that all the folks in the background were totally staged. The one true thing on campus was, like people tended to hang out with like people. I am not saying there wasn't any cross-pollination, but it wasn't as standard as people hanging out with folks didn't look like them.

I would be remiss if I didn't mention in a Primarily White Institution you are going to get those groups of mostly white kids with a single person of color in them. Some minority groups would judge those folks feeling a certain level of social betrayal, but in reality the numbers just aren't there. If you're on a campus of five thousand and only sixty of those people are people of color, it doesn't make any sense that the only people you would socialize with were POC's.

My identities at the time had me straddling the lines between two groups, the Blacks and the queers, ultimately my loyalties fell to the queers because I was more readily accepted there and even tokenized, which was highly problematic, but was a real boost to my developing self-esteem even if one based in distorted perceptions of who exactly I was.

At the end of the day I was still always Black and would hear of the tales of other Blacks in our college town being asked for multiple pieces of identity to get into the local bars. But the Blacks on campus, especially the men, didn't like my being gay and thought of it as a betrayal to the race, which was curious since I lead a race-based boycott of one of the theatrical production based on their very racialized casting procedures.

College was an interesting place for me, I seemed to learn much more outside of the classroom than in it. The biggest shock to me was learning of the significant class difference between myself and my peers. I remember traveling to one of my friends homes, which for all intensive purposes was a mansion to me, as we drove there in his Range Rover, I marveled at the inside jacuzzi versus the outside jacuzzi and pool in the beautiful and exclusive Lynnbrook neighborhood in Long Island.

Today I would never volunteer to promote the propaganda of an institution that didn't fully embrace diversity as they would like you to think, but only gave it lip service when you actually looked at the make up of their administration and staff. But I was young, hopeful and still believing that the world was basically a good place. This would begin to change in my time in college and be cemented in my years post college. If I had to go back and choose differently knowing what I know now, I would have went to a Historically Black College or University.

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What an honor to give a prayer for the last prayer in the yard for fall 2023! God is doing great things at Grambling State University. #CollegePrayer #YoungPreacher #GSU #gramfam🐯

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