Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $436 million to Habitat for Humanity, which plans to direct the funds toward boosting affordable housing and Black homeownership, the group said on Tuesday.
The contribution, the latest in a string of donations by Scott totaling nearly $9 billion since 2019, will be divided between Habitat for Humanity International and its affiliates.It will be used to accelerate Habitat for Humanity's efforts to promote homeownership in Black and minority communities, Natosha Reid Rice, Habitat's chief global diversity, equity and inclusion officer, said in a press release.
Ukraine's government said 10 hospitals have been completely destroyed in Russia's invasion, including one that was decimated by a Russian missile strike on Monday.
"I want to cry, because we had a connection between Ukraine and Russia," doctor Anatoli Pavlov said. "Russian cruelty is so brutal."
The U.S. has evidence that Russia is deliberately and intentionally targeting civilians, including hospitals and places of shelter, a senior Defense Department official told CBS News. The U.S. said it has seen clear evidence the Russians are committing war crimes as civilians are killed in their homes and on the street.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday took some time to grill Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson about children's books that he said promoted critical race theory.
During Jackson's Senate confirmation hearing, Cruz brought up books that were apparently on the recommended reading list at the Georgetown Day School where Jackson serves as a member of the board of trustees.
"They include a book called 'Antiracist Baby,'" Cruz informed her. "There are portions of this book that I find really quite remarkable. One portion of the book says babies are taught to be racist or anti-racist, there is no neutrality. They recommend babies confess when being racist... Do you agree with this book, that is being taught with kids, that babies are racist?"
Jackson replied that she did not believe infants should be forced to apologize for racism.
"Senator, I do not believe that any child should be made to feel as though they are racist, or as though they are not valued, or though they are less than, that they are victims, that they are oppressors," she said. "I don't believe in any of that."
Interesting times we live in, to say the least.
