The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice will launch a digital archive this fall featuring articles, photos, videos, telegrams, speeches, and more tied to Rustin's work.
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The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice will launch a digital archive this fall featuring articles, photos, videos, telegrams, speeches, and more tied to Rustin's work.
Meet our reporters @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social. They've reported on education for decades — and have been closely tracking President Trump’s changes to the Department of Education.
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Tesla Takedown, the protest movement urging people to boycott Elon Musk's car company, continues to gain momentum across the United States.
Listen to our Editor-in-Chief @sengelberg.bsky.social break down the source for the claim that only 6% of federal employees are working full time in their offices, and why the untrue statistic matters.
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Long history to attacks on teaching history, includes #tdih 1997 when Cordova sisters were suspended (& later fired) for teaching Chicano studies, engaging students in critical reading of textbooks, & using materials from Learning for Justice of @splcenter.org ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/co...
What can museums do right now to support their trans and queer staff and visitors?
The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.
Twenty-one members of the United State DOGE Service have resigned, they said in an anonymous letter, citing DOGE's ongoing work dramatically reshaping the federal government.
Two hands hold a small red card with white lettering against a wallet. The card reads: “I do not wish to speak with you, answer your questions, or sign or hand you any documents based on my 5th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution. I do not give you permission to enter my home based on my 4th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution unless you have a warrant to enter, signed by a judge or magistrate with my name on it that you slide under the door. I do not give you permission to search any of my belongings based on my 4th Amendment rights. I choose to exercise my constitutional rights.” Photo by Loren Elliott for The New York Times.
Known as the red card, a resource distributed by the nonprofit Immigrant Legal Resource Center lists tips and legal rights for immigrants who might find themselves targeted by federal agents. Demand for the cards has surged since President Trump returned to office. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...
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Cover of Informatics of Domination, edited by Zack Blas, Melody Jue, and Jennifer Rhee. The cover features and bright white title text against a stark black background, with information about the contributors in a light gray text. The text is located at the top of the cover, above a series of intersecting parallel and perpindicular lines that are rendered in a black, gray and white gradient.
The new experimental collection "Informatics of Domination," edited by Zach Blas, @melodyjue.bsky.social , & Jennifer Rhee, addresses formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the 21st century. Read the intro for free now!
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Ellen Weintraub, a Democratic member of the Federal Election Commission, says President Trump is trying to improperly remove her from the post.
Educator @jessehagopian.bsky.social says Trump's vow to abolish the Education Department is not about "local control" over schools.
"Let’s call this what it is: an extremist, authoritarian power grab to dismantle public education and enforce ideological conformity."
"Suppressing resistance has a long history, and 'Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacy Run Our Prisons' traces the explosive growth of Black imprisonment since Reconstruction."—read a review of @curlyprofessor.bsky.social Brittany Friedman's recently released book via #TheIndypendent:
The State Department has fired about 60 contractors who work for its democracy, human rights and labor bureau, a division whose programs have often been criticized by authoritarian leaders, according to two U.S. officials and two former officials.
✍️ Over at @harvardcarrcenter today, we Racial Justice Fellows offered some reflections on Black History Month and truth telling as resistance.
Check them all out at www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...
WHITE EVANGELICAL RACISM: The Politics of Morality in America author and @upenn.edu professor @antheabutler.bsky.social commentary in @salonnewsroom.bsky.social:
President Trump's efforts to cut the federal workforce by 10% might not save as much money as hoped and could have unintended consequences. NPR explains why.
The president's new EO promotes "patriotic education."
What would that mean? A return to what James Loewen described in his textbook critique, their approach to patriotism "converts textbooks into anti-citizenship manuals — handbooks for acquiescence." ⬇️
www.civilrightsteaching.org/resource/pat...
Researching & writing this curriculum was such a joy & honor. Obviously, I think all the lessons I work on are important, but this is one I *really*, REALLY, hope folks are teaching right now.
Investors Worried AI Could Leave Shred Of Humanity Intact
Investors Worried AI Could Leave Shred Of Humanity Intact
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Protecting Journalism from Rising Fascist & Ethnonationalist Threats
Join Rula Jebreal, Naomi Klein and Nermeen Shaikh on January 29 for a discussion on the critical challenges facing journalists, and building solidarity with those on the front lines.
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It takes practice, but saying no is a critical life skill that has negative health and other implications if we chronically avoid it. Supporting people’s ability to safely say no is another thing to consider. Who gets to say no and the privileges around it (race, class, and gender) are worth noting
Texas is one of the country's testing grounds for anti-library legislation and many states have attempted to duplicate their legislation.
We're tracking 14 anti-library bills in the state.
bit.ly/4g6yRW3 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
