Nonprofit Tweets of the Week – 1/15/21

Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Tweets of the Week.

Notable Events of the Week:

  • “The House made history Wednesday by impeaching a president for a second time, indicting President Trump a week before he leaves office for inciting a riot with false claims of a stolen election that led to the storming of the Capitol and five deaths.” Washington Post
  • “The F.B.I. on Wednesday urged police chiefs across the country to be on high alert for extremist activity and to share intelligence on any threats they encounter, as the U.S. government issued a dire intelligence bulletin warning of potential violence ahead of the inauguration.” NY Times
  • “President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Thursday proposed a $1.9 trillion rescue package to combat the economic downturn and the Covid-19 crisis, outlining the type of sweeping aid that Democrats have demanded for months and signaling the shift in the federal government’s pandemic response as Mr. Biden prepares to take office.” NY Times

Top 10 Nonprofit Tweets:

Black Lives Matter:

These Black Capitol Police Officers Describe Fighting Off “Racist Ass Terrorists” (Emmanuel Felton, BuzzfeedNews)

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (Isabel Wilkerson) [based on the Blinkist 16 min. summary of the book]

The Georgia Runoffs, Part 1: ‘We Are Black Diamonds’ (The Daily)

How Stacey Abrams, LaTosha Brown and other Black women changed the course of the 2020 election (Courtney Connley, CNBC)

What Tecumseh Fought For (Philip Deloria, The New Yorker)