Your favorite Triple Cs (co-parents, colleagues, collaborators), Drs. Dorimé-Williams and Williams tackle  (a) reaffirming the importance of education, (b) reading outside of your comfort zone, and (c) the bar for leadership in America. 

Our Attempt at Minute Markers:

• Kids who can’t read good | 1:00

• Shock & Awe | 7:18

• Listen you DEIs! | 15:42

• What are you reading? | 25:20

• Professor Corner | 41:00

• Figureheads & Felons | 44:44 

Links:

• The Nation's Report Card | NAEP 

• Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good - Zoolander

• Absolutely Relative: How Education Shapes Voter Turnout in the United States - PMC

• Federal judge blocks Louisiana's Ten Commandments law in public schools

• Tracking Trump Administration Litigation | Lawfare  

• Constitution 101: An Uneducated Populace Is A Grave Threat To Liberty

• America's billionaires are worth a record $6T. Where does that leave the rest of us?  

• Why They’re Turning On Elon | Josh Johnson

• Med schools face a new obstacle in the push to train more Black doctors   

• Where Trump’s cabinet picks went to college 

• Republicans blame DEI for the LA fires. This fire captain disagrees. - POLITICO 

• Republicans worry GOP-led states will suffer from Trump’s firings of federal workers • Nebraska Examiner

• Congressional Republicans worry about Trump's cuts at home, but barely speak up | Opinion

• Lightlark (Lightlark, #1) by Alex Aster | Goodreads    

• How Reading Fiction Can Shape Our Real Lives

• James & Annelle Whitt Entrepreneurial Development Foundation

• Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman | Goodreads

• Black Families Severed by Slavery

• Trump to Become First Convicted Felon to Serve as President - Common Cause