Helen Octavia Dickens, MD, FACOG, FACS, lived a life defined by firsts and guided by an unwavering commitment to reproductive health, education, and equity. This #BlackHistoryMonth, read about her incredible legacy and how she changed lives: https://bit.ly/4tzgdhE
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An amazing, impressive book by an incredible scholar and fastidious researcher - congratulations Justene!
MOTHER JONES: “You should be paying attention to the race in Tennessee’s 7th congressional district”
This is why we need the humanities
Jamaica could face one of the strongest landfall storms in its recorded history as Hurricane Melissa moves through the Caribbean. Forecasters predict it will hit the island as an “upper-end” Category 4 hurricane on Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/w...
This one's hitting different. I'm sad, I cried, but I'm reacting mostly angrily, like something was stolen from me personally. D'Angelo really got inside of me all those years ago, I dunno. It hurts pretty bad.
Article (Nolan Feeney; TIME) excerpt reads: “Black Messiah is a hell of a name for an album. It can be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah. It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen, D'Angelo writes in a statement about the album It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them. Not every song on this album is politically charged (though many are), but calling this album Black Messiah creates a landscape there these songs can live to the fullest. Black Messiah is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.” “D’Angelo’s First Album in 14 Years Is Finally Here, and It’s Surprisingly Timely” via TIME.
What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.
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Great opinion piece by our AAUP chapter Vice President! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
"For many years, American shoppers have been able to buy inexpensive foreign items without paying tariffs and completing complicated customs paperwork.
No more."
This is terrible.
This article is less about teaching AI and more about students using it in humanities courses but the authors make compelling philosophical arguments that can be applied to other academic situations (like teaching). link.springer.com/article/10.1...
“Fibroids impacted my career,” Williams said. “I never had enough energy most times to play a real match the way I wanted to, and, of course, it affected my results.”
10 years ago
#tdih 2015, nine African American churchgoers murdered 💔 inside Charleston’s historic Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in act of white supremacist terrorism, one of countless (ongoing) massacres in the U.S.
Read words of Rev. William Barber & Bree Newsome ⬇️ 🧵
Art by Panhandle Slim
When folks can afford fewer things at higher prices, economists describe this as a decline in real income, and a widespread fall in real income is called a recession.
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"This is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more...students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base."
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
“Whether engaging in political organizing, enhancing economic growth, or serving as a source of relaxation, Black beauty shops have curated a defiant history & unique experience. The women who own & work in these shops have done far more for the advancement of Black communities than meets the eye.”
New story from me: Imani* was in class when she discovered a scholarship program she relied on had been shut down.
“I don’t come from wealth ... Ending the program puts a burden on individuals who don't have it like most of the wealthy people here at the University of Michigan"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Fodera, who studies fibroids—non-cancerous growths that affect 70–80% of women by age 50, and can cause severe pain and infertility—is just one of numerous scientists affected by the decision...to cancel $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia."
On this day in 2020, Louisville police officers shot and killed 26-year-old Breonna Taylor during a no-knock raid in the middle of the night.
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"In our roles as editors [we will continue] to do what we think makes a difference: publishing the highest-quality research, analysis, opinion, and educational content that can improve patient health...even when topics are controversial."
Interesting and deeply depressing. Only set of physicians who live longer than their non-physician colleagues are...white men. "Black female physicians had higher mortality rates than all other physician subgroups and White females in non–health care occupations" www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
Great letter from my colleagues @sbagen.bsky.social, @mjschlanger.bsky.social and other legal scholars across the country explaining why it is not necessary to start eliminating university programs because Trump
@noirejenn.bsky.social @lakisha.bsky.social @kidadaewilliams.bsky.social @nancymaclean.bsky.social @robinmbernstein.bsky.social
In times of political defeat and civic annihilation, Black history/feminism directs us to nonetheless make space for recognition, critical thought, and even celebration. We will do so next month in honor of Michele Mitchell’s scholarship at the University of Michigan. lsa.umich.edu/history/news...
