Inspiring to hear how many ways Mark’s wit, humility, kindness, compassion, faith & sense of service affected so many people well beyond PBS News Lucky have been near his light. What do you want your legacy to be?

So, to sum up the Supreme Court’s week: life begins at conception and ends in a mass shooting.

Welcome to THE HANDMAID’S TALE.

How’s Uncle Clarence feeling about Overturning Loving v Virginia??!!

The Constitution was written by men who owned other human beings.

🌏 Climate disruption is increasing in ferocity and prevalence across the globe. The victims become increasingly vulnerable to slavery - as they face lost homes, livelihoods, opportunities, and protections. theguardian.com/global-develop… #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice

I hold the radical belief that the profits of a handful of oil companies are not more important than the future of the planet.

To state the obvious, it's dangerous to a democracy when the nation's highest court acts as a cudgel for a political agenda that blatantly and serially thwarts majority views.

looking at your friends who aren't in #gradschool

🗣Check out Dr. ⁦Dana El Kurd دانا الكرد⁩’s latest Monkey Cage article👇 washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…

Some Secret service agents of VP were calling their families to say goodbye as rioters were storming the Capitol. #January6thCommitteeHearing Jeez.

Excited to share our new dataset - slavery in armed conflict 1989-2016. There were 1,113 'conflict years' in that period, just at 90% showed some type of enslavement - child soldiers, yes, but much more, including strategic slavery linked to genocide. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Slavery and war are tightly connected – but we had no idea just how much until we crunched the data Prof Kevin Bales of the Rights Lab, Monti of University of Richmond and angharad of UN University, write about their research for The Conversation theconversation.com/slavery-and-wa…

Am trying to get better at my Korean for the new year. A while ago I took a placement test in Talk to Me in Korean, at intermediate. It’s a journey, one lesson at a time. Will aim to move to intermediate-advanced for 2023. Talk To Me In Korean

At the Rights Lab we're just completing a database of all conflicts from 1500 to 1900 (battles, skirmishes, massacres, etc.) in what is now the US - with GPS locations - you'll be able to watch the same progression, but of the actual battles and genocidal massacres.

To suggest that enslaved people somehow benefited from slavery is not only misleading, it is false. This is revisionist history.