Recently, Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “Well, they’re killing people in the streets. I don’t like to say I told you so, but I saw this coming years ago, and they said I was being too alarmist. But it’s consistent with what the United States is as a country.“
Like Ryan Coogler said, “‘Let’s make something great,’ you know what I’m saying? ‘If we’re here, let’s be here.’”
“Every day I wake up, I get to contribute. That’s what I’m focused on.”
Toni Morrison noted that students she taught often had difficulty identifying "the bad writing that they do" but "are ruthless when it comes to evaluating other people's things."
The radio show I contribute to is a leftist radio program. We have a recurring segment called “The F Word.” The F word is fascism. We’ve been doing this segment, grounded in how leftists were recognizing American fascism for generations, for a decade. It’s only new to liberals, hate to say.
AI companies are hiring people to produce data for practically any job you can imagine: chefs, management consultants, archivists, private investigators, rental-counter clerks. It is, as one industry veteran put it, the largest harvesting of human expertise ever attempted.
I appreciate Octavia E. Butler rejecting the label of prophet. And how it wasn’t just humility but a reminder that prophecy suggests some truth forecast by a higher being that can lend itself to doomerism. As she said, she wanted things to be different and believed we can and should change things.
Useful to teach this with broken windows theory, since it‘s used to promote community policing.
And for those of us whose work on the prison-industrial complex focuses on the United States, the focus on Canada here shows how antiblackness and the limits of police reform are global.
Promotional graphic for a live Instagram event about sexual health and PrEP. The text reads, “Sexual Health & PrEP. Ask the Experts live on Instagram.” It lists the date and time as 3/10 at 7 PM ET and the Instagram handles @raifderrazi and @onee_bee. Circular headshots of Dr. Oni Blackstock and Raif Derrazi, identified as an HIV advocate, appear near the bottom. Text at the bottom reads, “Bring your questions and be part of the conversation.”
Join us LIVE for an Instagram “Ask the Expert” on sexual health & HIV prevention!
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"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom."
College writing teachers have spoken, y'all.
The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6.
Link to the full resolution below.
This article doesn’t mention that the amicus brief filed in the SCOTUS on behalf of Killer Mike, Young Thug, Fat Joe, T.I. & other artists & scholars is the work principally of colleagues & students in the Criminal Justice Clinic at @howardlawschool.bsky.social
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Breaking NYT:
Two teenage brothers and mariachi stars who visited the White House last summer were just released with their family from ICE detention centers in South Texas — immediately following the visit of a delegation of Democratic lawmakers who pressed for them to be freed.
I follow the news around local data center resistance fairly closely. This one stands out.
On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.
For Mahmoud Khalll, this past year has been marked by profound hardship-and by profound courage. A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife Noor when he was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, and then held in an ICE facility for months. In that time, he was forced to miss the birth of his first child. All of this for exercising his First Amendment rights in protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine. And yet, even in the face of that cruelty, there has also been beauty. New Yorkers raising their voices in solidarity. A city refusing to look away. Mahmoud won his freedom, and a father was finally reunited with his child. Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together. Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City.
In a dining room, five people eat, chat and smile around a table of food.
Iftar, Day 19
Octavia E. Butler said, “These novels are not prophetic. These novels are cautionary tales… The problems that I write about are problems that we can do something about. That's why I write about them.”
And “I hope they're not prophecy because I don't want to live in that world.”
Like June Jordan—inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr.’s stance against the Vietnam War—said, it’s “evil and racist to punish, poison, pulverize, and decimate another people... people of the Third World.”
Here’s what happened when white phosphorus was used during the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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After Christianity, Islam is world’s second largest religion. The Asia-Pacific region is home to largest number of Muslims. While over 90% of residents of the Middle East-North African region are Muslim, they comprise only about a fifth of Muslims worldwide.
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A year ago, Mahmoud Khalil was abducted because he spoke out against the government’s actions—while being an immigrant. While being Palestinian.
And while being a New Yorker.
We will continue to stand up to protect students, like Leqaa Kordia, and all of our neighbors—and freedom of speech.
Running 4.5 miles greatly improved my mood. I hate how this works, lol.
““It’s almost as if public libraries are home to democracy’s last stand,” said Peters.”
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Like Audre Lorde said, “Talking to some people is like talking to a toilet.”
As of today almost all vendors in New York City will no longer have to worry about being given a criminal record for simply vending.
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Toni Morrison said, “Writing to me is an advanced and slow form of reading. If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. It took me a long time to do a short book... once it began to float I knew I could not not do it.” Start, then keep writing.
About five years ago, Asian Americans got a lot of attention for being the targets of racist violence. But the attention is often for major episodes of violence, like the Atlanta Massacre, and rarely for the ways that Asian Americans are victims of state violence and racial capitalism.
Later in her life, June Jordan noted that instead of saying “they,” she was making more “I” statements, as in ”‘I’ am not doing enough, for instance, or ‘I‘ have not done my homework, and so on.”
I really appreciate how Ryan Coogler frequently talks about the importance of labor unions in his life and family history, including insurance for his therapy and his family’s healthcare, as a way to try to protect jobs, and as a source of political power to challenge structural violence.
In an obituary of June Jordan it was reported that Jordan said that despite her publishing record, she was often told by people that she should consider writing a book.
Mental health crisis training for police doesn't work. We need a civilian alternative. www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/09/c...
