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Dr. Joseph Graves, Jr. Ph.D. MacKenzie Scott Endowed Professor of Biology, NCATSU; Fellow of the Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1994; author of 6 books - evolution, as well as biological/social conceptions of race

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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Reinventing Science mitpress.mit.edu/978026205851...
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Reinventing Science
The scientific method is the best tool we have for understanding the natural world, and it is a stunning triumph of human history. But the scientific enterpr...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I just signed a @FaithfulAmerica petition: Cancel the contract for the proposed Alexandria ICE facility. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...
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Cancel the contract for the proposed Alexandria ICE facility
The England Airpark Authority Board has signed a contract to convert decommissioned military barracks at England Airpark in Alexandria, Louisiana, into a 528-bed detention facility for migrant childre...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Sign and Share: Stop tech billionaires in their race to replace humanity with reckless AI action.eko.org/a/stop-the-b...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I'm attending People Power United's event, “March on Washington: Defend the Vote” - sign up now to join me! #PeoplePowerUnited www.mobilize.us/peoplepoweru...
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March on Washington: Defend the Vote · People Power United
## March on Washington: Defend the Vote As America marks its 250th anniversary, we face a defining choice: **Will our nation live up to its promise of liberty and justice for all—or allow wealth, pre...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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Stop the witch-hunts against America’s leading scientists
Scientific research and evidenced-based public health are under attack by the Trump Administration and its allies in Congress. The attacks on science and public health are well-documented. However, th...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Help wanted: Anthropic hires to head off catastrophe www.axios.com/2026/07/15/a... - hate it when I am right!
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Help wanted: Anthropic hires to head off catastrophe
Anthropic has warned that its own technology could bring the end of civilization.
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/ju...
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Justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
There were three passengers in the vehicle with Lorenzo when he was shot and killed by ICE agents. Two of them claim that ICE agents were never in any danger, and that the shots were fired from the si...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Tweet Petition Link: www.thepetitionsite.com/106/073/098/...
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Sign Petition: One-Year-Old Boy Shot Dead by Police Outside Store. Demand Justice.
As Bernice King said, "We are treating items on a shelf as more valuable than a child." (142 signatures on petition)
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Please Grant Darrell Hines A Reprieve of Execution. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/plea...
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Please Grant Darrell Hines A Reprieve of Execution
Given the horrifying failed execution attempt of Tony Carruthers in May, now is the time for Governor Lee to grant a reprieve to Darrell Hines, who is scheduled for execution in Tennessee on August 13...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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Save “The View”
Trump’s government is trying to punish “The View” — a talk show led by women, for women — for talking about politics. You read that right. Trump’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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Oppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political Appointees
On May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), OMB-2026-0034, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The scope of this proposed regulation is...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I just wrote a @FaithfulAmerica letter: Tell Congress: Co-Sponsor the Transgender Bill of Rights. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Co-Sponsor the Transgender Bill of Rights
They are coming for our trans neighbors -- one bill at a time. Stand with us to declare: NOT IN OUR NAME. In 2025 alone, over 1,000 anti-trans bills were introduced in state legislatures across the ...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This speech is from the launch of Anti-Racist Medicine at the Parliament building in the UK in April 2026. I co-edited this book with Zeshan Qureshi and Mehrunisha Suleman. bsky.app/profile/drze...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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Joseph L. Graves Jr.: Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse for American science
On April 24, President Trump dismissed the entire National Science Board. The NSB was composed of 24 of America’s leading scientists and engineers charged with oversight of the National Science
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
A book representing the core of my research published today. This was written with my colleagues and life-long friends, Michael Rose, Richard Lenski, and Margarita Matos! www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
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A Primer for Experimental Evolution
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Trump's war on science takes a disturbing turn www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Trump’s war on science takes a disturbing turn
The Trump administration arrested a research scientist who worked for Anthony Fauci for the most ridiculous reasons.
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I just wrote a @FaithfulAmerica letter: Tell your senator: Do NOT confirm Markwayne Mullin. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell your senator: Do NOT confirm Markwayne Mullin
The Senate is about to vote on whether to confirm Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma -- an election denier -- as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. DHS oversees both immigration enfo...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/bl...
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Block Trump from building a giant arch in our nation's capital!
The Commemorative Works Act makes it clear that any memorials constructed on federal land in Washington, D.C. need authorization from Congress. But we need to make sure that Congress hears us loud and...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Please stop sign: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
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Stop Trump’s Mega Detention Warehouses
The Department of Homeland Security is buying and leasing large warehouses across the U.S. to convert them into mega immigration detention centers. These facilities are meant to support Donald Trump’s...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I just signed the @ncaaup.bsky.social petition calling on the UNC Board of Governors to Protect Academic Freedom, Vote No to Revising the UNC System Code. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
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Protect Academic Freedom, Vote No to Revising The Code
The UNC System Board of Governors will vote to amend the UNC System Code with new restrictions on academic freedom at its February 26 meeting. The Board of Governors plans to rewrite the very definiti...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Friend, We need to move fast and organize if we’re going to fight back and win against Trump’s War on Science. Click here to donate: act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/... Your contribution is needed ASAP to fuel this existential fight to save science in America!
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Help Fuel the Big Budget Battle of Fall 2025!
Donate now to help mobilize the fight for science and democracy. Every contribution matters!
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...
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Congress: Stop Funding ICE’s Violence
Masked, unidentified federal agents have been militarizing our cities and brutalizing our communities in order to carry out Trump’s extreme deportation agenda. These agents—outfitted for war—are showi...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I’ll be in Phoenix February 12-14 for the 2026 [@aaas.org or @aaas] Annual Meeting!🌵✨ Be part of the movement to protect, uplift and renew the scientific enterprise. Please attend my panel on ideological divides in science, on Friday Feb. 13 meetings.aaas.org/attend- phx/registration/
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Please consider signing: act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/Take_Gr...
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Tell Apple and Google: Grok is generating child sexual abuse material. Remove Grok from your app stores immediately!
In August 2025, Elon Musk's company xAI launched what the company called “spicy” mode for its AI chatbot, Grok, allowing users to create pornographic images and videos. Almost immediately, users began...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
In case you missed it, I did an interview on WUNC on the "Due South" program about my new book: "Why Black People Die Sooner" (Columbia U. Press), 2025: www.wunc.org/show/due-sou...
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Pioneering NC A&T evolutionary biologist Joseph L. Graves, Jr. talks life expectancy gaps. Plus, 'Black, White, Colored' explores Laurinburg history.
Leoneda Inge talks to NC A&T professor Joseph L. Graves, Jr. about his new book, Why Black People Die Sooner. Mother-daughter authors Lauretta Malloy Noble and LeeAnet Noble research their family hist...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Sign our petition act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/usccb-l...
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Tell Catholic bishops: Speak out against Trump's anti-immigrant cruelty
Pope Leo XIV has urged U.S. Catholic bishops to be "more united and more forceful" in defending immigrant rights, but the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has not spoken out with the clarit...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Tell Congress: Christians want our government funding to care for all us, not terrorize our neighbors. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/goverme...
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Tell Congress: Christians want our government funding to care for all us, not terrorize our neighbors
The Trump regime has shut down the federal government indefinitely in the latest scheme to line the pockets of billionaires, fund ICE's terror against our neighbors, and eliminate federal services tha...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Don't let another day go by! Tell Congress and the White House, No More Weapons to Israel! rootsaction.org/no-more-weap...
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No More Weapons to Israel
Don't let another day go by!
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
ADD YOUR NAME: Donald Trump's allies in Congress are ramping up their attacks on religious charities that help immigrants. As Christians, we need to speak up now. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/gop-ref...
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ADD YOUR NAME: We support faith based aid to immigrants and refugees
Donald Trump's allies in Congress are ramping up their attacks on religious charities that help immigrants. As Christians, we need to speak up now.
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Sign our petition act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/Trump-I...
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Sign the petition: Christians reject Trump's war on Iran
As followers of the Prince of Peace, we need to counter the religious right and make it clear that tens of thousands of social-justice Christians oppose the MAGA regime's war on Iran. Add your name no...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Joseph Graves Jr.: Blinded against science: Attacks on reseearch are unjust and dangerous greensboro.com/opinion/colu...
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Joseph Graves Jr.: Blinded against science: Attacks on reseearch are unjust and dangerous
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The National Institutes of Health was founded in its modern form in 1930. These agencies have been stalwarts
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Demand Congress to withdraw the military from Los Angeles! act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/troops-...
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Demand that Congress withdraw the military from Los Angeles now
Donald Trump has crossed a line no other president in modern U.S. history has dared to cross. He just deployed thousands of National Guard troops and hundreds of active duty-Marines to Los Angeles--wi...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Sheriffs should not do ICE's job for them. Thanks to pressure from Donald Trump's ICE, more sheriffs' departments are harassing, detaining, and jailing our undocumented neighbors. Add your name and tell sheriffs to stop taking orders from ICE. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/NSA-ICE...
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Add Your Name - Sheriffs should not do ICE's job for them
Thanks to pressure from Donald Trump's ICE, more sheriffs' departments are harassing, detaining, and jailing our undocumented neighbors. Add your name and tell sheriffs to stop taking orders from ICE.
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Tell the Senate: Reject immoral budget cuts - Repairers of the Breach and Faithful America are asking the Senate to reject Trump's immoral and unjust budget cuts. Add your name now >> act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/moralmo...
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Tell the Senate: Reject immoral budget cuts
Repairers of the Breach and Faithful America are asking the Senate to reject Trump's immoral and unjust budget cuts. Add your name now >>
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Visa offering $1,000 credit to "students" of Andrew Tate's fake "university." The U.K. just filed new criminal charges against the Tates. They're facing dozens of charges in 3 countries. WTF, Visa?!? Survivors deserve justice! Click to tell Visa to cut ALL ties with Tate NOW. app.sosha.ai/s/gf77YCe1
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Tate Visa Card
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Tell the Department of Justice to drop all charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver!
Earlier this month, Representative LaMonica McIver of New Jersey was part of a contingency of elected officials who visited an immigration detention facility in her district but weren't permitted in. ...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
On the economic costs of ending DEI | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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On the economic costs of ending DEI
In January 2025, Donald Trump signed executive orders 14151 and 14173, which were intended to eliminate all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities in the federal bureaucracy and nondiscrimi...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Racial harassment has no place in Catholic schools: The Principal of the Madeleine School in Portland, OR recently called the police on a Black family and expelled their son for seeking an apology. Let's support this family and demand accountability. act.faithfulamerica.org/petition/fir...
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Racial harassment has no place in Catholic schools
The Principal of the Madeleine School in Portland, OR recently called the police on a Black family and expelled their son for seeking an apology. Let's support this family and demand accountability.
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Someone explain to me how Trump can pardon insurrectionists (several of whom assaulted police officers) but arrest 3 ministers praying for justice for the poor?
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Thank you Rev. William Barber: The Rev. Dr. William Barber was arrested at the Capitol for praying and challenging the budget bill -- let's support his prophetic witness act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/thank-y...
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Thank you Rev. William Barber
The Rev. Dr. William Barber was arrested at the Capitol for praying and challenging the budget bill -- let's support his prophetic witness
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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NIH and NSF: Stop cutting critical health research
Women and gender-expansive people are already extremely underrepresented in scientific studies and struggle to even be believed by their doctors about health problems. We’ve made significant progre...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Tell Texas Lt. Governor: We will protect the separation of church and state: Several proposals in Texas would indoctrinate public school children with a specific version of Christianity and the lies of Christian nationalism. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/tx-scho...
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Tell Texas Lt. Governor: We will protect the separation of church and state
Several proposals in Texas would indoctrinate public school children with a specific version of Christianity and the lies of Christian nationalism.
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The AAC&U statement on "Constructive Engagement" is distinguished by who signed, but by all the university presidents who did not! www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
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A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
SIGN NOW: Keep church and state separate: SCOTUS is about to hear arguments on St. Isidore vs. Drummond -- this could obliterate the line separating church and state in public school systems. We Christians should oppose religious charter schools now >> act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/st_isid...
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SIGN NOW: Keep church and state separate in our schools
The U.S. Supreme Court is about to hear arguments on St. Isidore vs. Drummond -- a case that could obliterate the line separating church and state in public school systems. Let's make it clear that Ch...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Trump attacks on federal agencies have steep implications for Black workers www.epi.org/blog/trump-a...
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Trump attacks on federal agencies have steep implications for Black workers
In just over two months, the Trump administration has laid off tens of thousands of federal workers at several agencies. Probationary employees, foreign aid staff, and workers dedicated to diversity, ...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Tell the Senate: Christians say vote NO on the SAVE Act: Christian nationalists are on the verge of silencing millions of women. Tell your senators to oppose the SAVE Act now. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/senate_...
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Tell the Senate: Christians say vote NO on the SAVE Act
Christian nationalists are on the verge of silencing millions of women. Tell your senators to oppose the SAVE Act now.
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The ongoing influence of slavery and Jim Crow means high poverty rates and low economic mobility in the South: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Part Four www.epi.org/publication/...
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The ongoing influence of slavery and Jim Crow means high poverty rates and low economic mobility in the South: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Part Four
Efforts to continue exploiting Black workers led to racist anti-worker policies that continue to maintain high rates of poverty, low economic mobility, and high levels of inequality for workers of all...
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Graves @gravesjl55.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
ICE under Trump is attacking labor rights by targeting a farmworker advocate www.epi.org/blog/ice-und...
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ICE under Trump is attacking labor rights by targeting a farmworker advocate
The Trump administration has ramped up its immigration enforcement over the last month, and claims to be targeting &nbsp;“the worst of the worst” for detention and deportation. However, several report...
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