Yolanda

• The gift to Morehouse was inspired in part by the financial challenges that Jones and his twin brother faced as first-generation college students 42 years ago.
• He also became permanently disabled while we were in school," said Jones, a Trustee Emeritus at Morehouse College.
• The Yolanda and Dale Jones Family Endowed Scholarship Fund will provide a safety net of financial support to help juniors and seniors reach graduation.
• "We are pleased to establish the Yolanda and Dale Jones Family Endowed Scholarship Fund of $2.5 million to help students finish well," Jones said.

• Spain is now one of only two teams who are world champions in both the male and female competitions (Germany is the other).
• In a society where feminist progress has historically been met with backlash, it shows how far Spanish society has come to reject rancid machismo instantaneously.
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Machismo, on and off the pitch

• The kiss was not the only moment of such machismo that this team has had to contend with.
• In the autumn of 2022, 15 players demanded better working conditions, because they feared for their physical and mental health.
• These legitimate concerns made in private were leaked to the press and spun as a revolt of spoilt, female brats against the head coach Jorge Vilda.

Backlash to progress

• While there was slow but steady progress for women’s rights in the 1980s and 1990s, it was not until the administration of José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (2004-2011) that progress accelerated, and the longstanding machismo culture began to face a real challenge.
• Two landmark legislative changes were made to combat gender violence in 2004 and progress gender equality in 2007.
• The most recent new legislation, passed in October 2022, strengthens criminal charges for sexual aggression, among other advancements for women’s rights.
• Even during the dictatorship in the 1960s, the slightest progress for female rights was perceived as a danger to a male-dominated society.

Solidarity

• Female and male feminists from all walks of life took to the streets demonstrating in Spanish cities, showing Rubiales the red card.
• An editorial in El País is brutally frank in its judgement of this powerful man who has behaved like a textbook perpetrator.
• No country can control its lunatics, but how it deals with them is a sign of its maturity.

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. passed on the morning of June 29 at age 95.
• She worked diligently to help build The King Center, founded by her sister-inlaw, Mrs. Coretta Scott King in June 1968.
• She also wrote the first intermediate-level textbook on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Farris served as the first director of The Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The King Center will also continue her Legacy through the Christine King Farris Legacy of Service in Education Beloved Community Award.

• The local and regional elections that took place the 28th May have shaken up the political chessboard in Spain.
• The right-wing Partido Popular took the largest proportion of votes and now has the largest number of seats in local and regional governments.
• In one fell swoop the socialist party has lost around 70% of the local and regional power it had.

National identity

• Ideas about identity and nationalism came to play an important part in what were supposed to be elections about local matters.
• During the last week of the campaign in particular, national issues dominated the discourse.
• The Partido Popular has constructed a rhetoric of being the only party defending the constitution and the union of the country.
• The party, presided over by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has absorbed the main voters from Ciudadanos, the Catalan political start-up that was at first phenomenally successful when it came to national prominence in 2015 but has already almost disappeared.

Political leadership

• He has managed to boost his international image with good performances in Europe and occasional visits to Washington and Beijing.
• But there is little time for Sumar to establish a strategy that can turn a social movement into a political entity with representation in the provinces.
• Meanwhile, Alberto Núñez Feijoo, of the Spanish People’s Party, proposes a quiet style of leadership.

Plebiscite

• He lost three MPs in the 2019 rerun election and now he has lost ground in many regions.
• In Catalonia, his acceptance is growing, but the seats it brings to the general elections are not enough.
• In this situation, Sánchez’s only chance is to get as near to his current 120 parliamentary seats as he can.
• Whereas local elections weren’t supposed to be a plebiscite on national government, next 23rd of July seems to be the rerun of a general election whose first round took place last weekend.