Executive & Nephrologist & Associate Prof. @nationwidekids. @HowardU & @MeharryMedical alum. Private Pilot. Dad. Husband. Believer. My views. 🇺🇸🇯🇲
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My Grandma passed away today.
A while back, we drove past a mansion she used to clean in Naples, FL:
“I remember cleaning toilets for a doctor that lived there,” she said.
Then w/a smirk, she finished: “But my son’s a doctor now.”
Rest now Grandma, from your Dream Come True.
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This was me just a few weeks ago.
Times were tough, yes, but wouldn’t have changed it.
An honor to have cared for a parent 🙏
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Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath but never a source of God's mercy, generosity, or compassion.
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Years ago I met a Dr who’d changed jobs 3 times. I thought: “Sounds awful!😣” I anticipated retiring from my 1st job. As fate would have it…
What I’ve learned: Mission is the driver. Not city, not 💰, not title.
(Thx to God and my family.)
No matter what—
#StayOnMission✊🏾
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The neighborhood that raised you, needs you. Join Sterling K. Brown in keeping our Street strong for the next generation: m.sesame.org/SterlingKBrownX
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There’s a pretty simple explanation for that UT photo.
For years, the top 6% of Texas high school students got automatic admission to UT. Now it’s the top 5%. It’s completely colorblind. It’s just class rank.
Asian kids are about 5% of Texas graduates, but roughly 21% of the kids hitting a 1180 SAT/24 ACT benchmark. Absolutely kicking ass.
And UT’s own numbers make the “foreign students” explanation pretty hard to square. Only about 4% of UT undergrads are international students.
What we’re looking at is immigrants and the children of immigrants doing all the things YOU SAID you wanted immigrants to do: come here legally, work hard / succeed academically, and assimilate into our culture.
Check. Check. Check.
I’m starting to think your problem with this picture might be something else entirely....
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#OTD 1948 Isaiah Nixon was killed for voting in the Georgia’s Democratic primary election in Alston, GA. Nixon was shot three times by J.A. Johnson in front of his wife and young children. Johnson was acquitted in the death of Nixon. SAY HIS NAME!!!!
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NEW: Every week, a Philadelphia nun drives to the immigration court in Harlingen, Texas, to sit beside unaccompanied children, some as young as four, who face a deportation judge with no lawyer and no parent.
This week, an undocumented migrant who is facing imminent deportation called Sister Rose Kuhn his “angel.”
This comes as Catholics across the nation, inspired by Pope Leo XIV, are standing up to the White House’s immigration policies. thelettersfromleo.com/p/a-ph…
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Full Circle: We graduated from Howard University’s School of Communications together. Now, Stan Verrett and me will be sharing a Newsdesk on NFL Network’s Total Access beginning Tuesday, Sept. 8, noon-2 ET.
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BREAKING: The NBA has ruled on the Los Angeles Clippers in for salary cap circumvention investigations on Kawhi Leonard after yearlong probe -- stripping the franchise of 5 first-round picks, issuing a $30 million fine to owner Steve Ballmer and suspensions for Ballmer, Lawrence Frank and Gillian Zucker, sources tell ESPN.
Kawhi Leonard will have to pay $700,000 in restitution for improper benefits by the Clippers for his uncle and former business rep, Dennis Robertson. No contract void or suspension for Leonard. And Robertson -- who was fired by Leonard in June -- is being banned by the NBA from all business dealings.
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The television stations are ready. I’m ready. The only person we haven’t heard from is the woman who believes she should be handed a six-year Senate term.
Track how long it’s been since we asked Darline to debate at DebateMeDarline.com.
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I have never been more wrong in my life.
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You know what guys I think maybe the food inspectors were good actually
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It’s #HBCU Day in my clinic at the Rush Heart and Vascular Center today. Lucky to be mentoring 2 brilliant Drs today: an alum of @SpelmanCollege (L), and a proud Bison from @HowardU (R). And of course, you know I’m always reppin’ HU. HBCU grads stamping out heart disease today!
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Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID. nytimes.com/2021/03/02/world…
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Here’s a quietly wonderful thing I noticed:
If you talk to someone who was in choir or band at a majority Black HS, you’ll eventually discuss those annoying fundraisers for uniforms, instruments, etc. & a SURPRISING number will casually say:
“Oh, Dolly Parton paid for ours”