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dreamhampton
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I’ve been informed that one of my books, “How to Be Less Stupid About Race”, was removed from the Naval Academy Library today, along with Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, works by Imani Perry and other luminaries. Honored to be in such great company! static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
April 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
same
I kind of want to go
April 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Also, New York City had the most billionaires of any city in the world and New York State has the second most billionaires in the United States.

New York can afford it. Both of them.
The New York State Education Department on Friday issued a defiant response to the Trump administration’s threats to pull federal funding from public schools over certain diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
New York Warns Trump It Will Not Comply With Public School D.E.I. Order
New York’s stance differed from the muted and deferential responses from other major institutions to the administration’s threats.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Danielle Brooks is such a beauty 😍😍😍
April 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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www.theguardian.com/education/20.... “One of the … brighter things to come out of last year is that I saw the faculty organizing & working together to an extent that outstripped anything I had seen in my academic career,” said Jasanoff. “We have our voices, and we can use our voices together.” Amen
Harvard faculty organize amid anxiety university will capitulate to Trump
Harvard weighs costs of standing up to president as other elite schools, such as Princeton, signal they won’t concede
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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The first known Palestinian child to be killed in an Israeli prison, Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, was starved, had untreated diseases, and was repeatedly beaten by guards before he died last month, his autopsy report shows.
Palestinian Child Killed in Israeli Prison After Being “Systematically Starved”
Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, who was 17 years old, is the first known child killed in an Israeli prison.
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April 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Wild. Right after Cory Booker went viral for speaking on the "wretched truth about America," he just voted to keep arming a government that just officially achieved The Deadliest Conflict Ever for Journalists & executed and buried 15 paramedics and their emergency vehicles
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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“Every generation of Americans is more diverse. Baby boomers were 29% people of color. Gen X 41%. Millennials 46%, gen Z 50%. The youngest cohort—born after 2012 and squarely in Disney’s prime target demo—is the first to be “majority minority”, with kids of color making up a full 52% of gen Alpha.”
My latest for @theguardian.com is about the Trump and Elon-directed FCC assault on Disney’s DEI policies, which ultimately isn’t about employee resource groups or “illegal racial discrimination” — it’s about trying to unconstitutionally force the Mouse House to whitewash its content.
Dear Disney: don’t cave to Trump. We need you to shape dreams for kids everywhere | Jeff Yang
Maga is coming after the House of Mouse with a cynical attack on its diversity policies. Disney can – and should – fight back
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez is one of the most compelling organizers in the labor movement.

One of the very moving parts of my interview with Edgar Franks, Lelo's comrade and political director of his union, for @truthout.org.
April 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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“When trans lives are under attack, what do we do? FIGHT BACK!”

Chicago’s Federal Plaza is filling way waaaaaay up for the Trans Day of Visibility rally!!!
March 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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"I neither glamorize nor denigrate sex work but view it through the lens of labour."

Sook-Yin Lee tells Marriska Fernandes about her #CdnScreenAwards nominee Paying for It torontofilmcritics.com/features/soo...
Sook Yin-Lee's Paying For It Views Sex Work Through the Lens of Labour - Toronto Film Critics Association
An interview with Paying for It writer/director Sook-Yin Lee on adapting Chester Brown's graphic novel and bringing their relationship to the screen.
torontofilmcritics.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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I wish more people understood this. Universities aren’t “caving” — they are seizing the opportunity.
As best as I can tell, the board has been running Columbia, and the board didn't so much surrender to Trump as draw up a list of demands for him to issue. The board, Trump, and the Free Press are all on the same page.
March 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Eid Mubarak
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
March 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
When we didn’t do this to anyone who put the word race and card together
March 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
When we didn’t do this to anyone who put the words reverse and racism together
March 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
v funny
Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog
March 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
New Orleans, we’re screening next Saturday, April 5th at the grassroots Patois film fest!
March 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
LA, we’ve got an April 4th screening hosted by artists I admire in a space I’m super excited about
March 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Houston! We’re screening It Was All a Dream at the AfAm Museum tomorrow at noon
March 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
But want to share some screenings for the few folks following me here ☺️
March 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Been deactivated cuz US is dumb AF and I’m easily distracted and major deadline
March 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM