Dr. Alexandra P. Gelbard

We Detailed Mayor Adams’ Embrace of an Abuse-Ridden NYPD Unit. Now Lawmakers and Advocates Demand Change. In the wake of ProPublica’s expose of the Community Response Team, critics are calling for the unit to be disbanded. New York City’s police commissioner may also be reducing the team’s role.

“The CRT is a dangerous unit, and ProPublica’s reporting shows it operates without accountability under the protection of a corrupt and compromised mayor,” said civil rights group LatinoJustice.

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Academic Target Tracker - Google My Maps A simple tracker for targeted international graduate students and faculty in American universities during the second Trump administration.

In an attempt to preserve what remains of my sanity, I'm continuing to update the Academic Target Tracker map @elotroalex.bsky.social and I threw together last weekend. It includes info about academic workers who have been detained or had their visas revoked in recent weeks. You can find it here:

PSA to business owners:
Don't just pass on the tariff cost to your consumers quietly.

Add a line on the bill and explicitly label it "Trump Tariff." Show people *why* it is costing more.

A Letter to Columbia <i>Editor's Note: This op-ed was dictated by Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA </i>’24<i>. Spectator verified this with his Attorney Amy Greer and conducted its regular editing process. Khalil is currently detaine...

Mahmoud Khalil: Columbia’s “singular concern has always been the vitality of its financial profile, not the safety of Jewish students. This is why Columbia was all too happy to embrace a superficial progressive agenda while still disregarding Palestine, & this is why it will soon turn on you, too.”

Al Green is trending. Most other US senators and reps are not. That's because the rest of you are not meeting the moment. Sen Murphy says we have maybe 6 months left before we turn into an authoritarian regime. Why are you not taking that seriously?

Not at all. What is one day gonna do financially? We have the blueprint of what to do from history, we just need to update for our now. In this case, The Montgomery Bus Boycott taught us.

One day won’t do anything. As history teach us, this has to be a long term commitment.

Despicable move by Hochul, yet unsurprising.

I can not overstate the need for headline writers who better understand race. This doesn’t impact “groups based on race” it targets students of color. All white frats and clubs will be fine. They are segregationists—not interested in equal access.

thehill.com/homenews/edu...

White Americans need to decide if they want democracy or resegregation. You can't have both.

"Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States."

-- W.E.B. DuBois, born #OTD 1868

Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.

An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

A brief update on the #CabildodeRegla.
This year we are grateful to receive a micro-grant from @caribbeandsc.bsky.social which allows us to do upgrades to our site. I’ll be announcing each change as they come here, but pls follow us @cabildoderegla.bsky.social our IG &FB @cabildoderegla for updates

Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans The NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward corporations that haven’t pulled back from diversity programs under conservative pressure.

The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI.

apnews.com/article/blac...

As someone from DC with no voting representation I have always fully subscribed to and used my right to free speech in calling out public officials in public. They represent the people, the people have the right to let them know what we think. Be loud.

If you are looking for ways to resist the bullshit attacks against DEI and respond to the reductive class versus race debates, we have an option for you: Consider giving us $10 a month to help sustain our work.

The real MeToo “cancel culture” was what happened to the women and other victims who came forward. They were retraumatized, harassed, humiliated, sued, fired, and blacklisted. Then they were the subject of a revisionist history that MeToo went “too far” and deserved a reactionary backlash

Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.

An amazing resource: www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

A message from a Brazilian academic with a Fulbright award has made its way to me. They're being forced to remove or replace a list of verboten words and phrases from their project. These include "cross-cultural interactions," AKA THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF FULBRIGHT PROGRAMS.

I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance.

Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.

Like I couldn’t think of a more conscious rejection of the fascist aesthetic than this production.

Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation. The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything

My latest.

As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.

I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.

Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Now is a time we need to support each other in academia across disciplines, across universities:

Those in fields not under attack, need to help those who are under attack

Senior faculty need to support junior faculty

Privileged faculty need to support marginalized faculty

#academicsky

Centering Grant-Murray’s pedagogy, Ancestral Movement Memory, this exhibit explores the idea of embodied ancestral movement inspired by African Diasporic Ancestral reverence and Spiritual practices. On display at the History Fort Lauderdale Museum from Feb 1-28, 2025!

Tomorrow is our opening of “Sweet Wata: Choreographing Ancestral Memory” co-curated with Michelle Grant-Murray. Based on the q: “How do we make an experienced performance last, how can the (dance) work live on?”

It’s far too soon to ascribe responsibility for the horrific DC plane collision, but it’s not too soon to say that dismantling the safeguards afforded by a functioning federal government put us at significant risk. And it’s irrefutable that, since January 20th, we are all less safe.