Cameron Beatty, Ph.D.

“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys

They are incredibly stupid people.

AMERICAN TAYLOR TOWNSEND UPSETS NO. 5 MIRRA ANDREEVA AT THE US OPEN 🇺🇸

She did. And she's right.

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

Last month, hospital shooting victim sought protection from ex 'before this goes too far' The cries for help from Latricia Green appeared in black and white, first in a personal protection order sought on June 13th of this year in Wayne County Circuit Court.

In June, Latricia Green pleaded for a protection order from her ex-husband. It was denied. She asked again in July. It wasn’t served.

She was shot and killed by her ex-husband this morning inside a Detroit hospital

Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.

Homelessness is a policy failure, not a personal one.

When it comes to fascism, you push the boundaries a bit, wait for the public to react, and if they settle down, you push the boundaries some more. Bit by bit, this is how you change what's "normal". You'll sleep walk right into it if you were never taught the signs.

BREAKING: A federal appeals court affirmed that Louisiana's state legislative districts dilute the power of Black voters and must be redrawn.

Season 3 of The Gilded Age has been top tier!

The Audra McDonald and Philicia Rashad showdown on the season finale of the Gilded Age was excellent.

This administration is going to kill the majority of us, further dismantle democracy, and destroy the economy to the point where private corporations will come in and buy up everything and make any type of ownership impossible.

RIP Malcolm-Jamal Warner

When you carelessly cut government workers as some type of misguided political statement you soon come to realize that those government workers do important and literally life saving work

After a child care worker is detained by ICE, a community is left reeling Nicolle Orozco Forero is one of the thousands of immigrant women who provide child care for American children, and one of the few who cares for children with disabilities. Now she and her seriously il...

Our federal government is currently spending more money deporting childcare workers than fixing our broken, patchy childcare system. 19thnews.org/2025/07/chil...

Outdoor Afro tells me they received 300 applications overnight following this post! People are learning how to swim

He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore.

Make it make sense.

They've got enough money to throw us into another war, but not enough money to fund the suicide prevention hotline. Very "pro-life." Very "pro-family." So "GREAT."

The Trump administration is shutting down the National LGBTQ+ youth suicide lifeline on July 17th.

@espn.com analyst (SAS and Perkins) are pissing me off this morning with their Pacers takes. “Everybody thought” “Everybody said” No you “experts” have been consistently wrong about the Pacers and continuously hating on them and not giving them credit. Plus you are “everybody”. Real fans know.

Just reminding y'all of the Congressionally mandated report (condition on education) that ED did not put up by the deadline of June 1st AND when a reporter reached out asking why they missed the date, they threw up old tables/figures and links to other websites

Advice | 5 Steps to Defend Higher Ed How to stand up for academe in this era of constant attacks from federal and state governments.

After writing about feeling personally a little adrift working in higher ed, I interviewed a group of people who had found pathways to resist and take action. Here's what I learned from them, w/ thanks to @karencosta.bsky.social, @daniellaurison.bsky.social & others
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FEMA Head Said He Was Unaware Of U.S. Hurricane Season, Sources Say It was not clear to agency staff whether he meant it literally, as a joke, or in some other context.

The head of FEMA reportedly said during a briefing that he wasn't aware the U.S. had a hurricane season, leaving staffers "baffled" and "confused"

“My whole body of work, starting with 'Girlfriends,' .. I have been wanting to carve out the vulnerability of Blackness ... Now, having a front row seat to raising boys, I wanted to give them their full humanity."

Mara Brock Akil on creating Netflix's #Forever:
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Home this holiday weekend and Im grateful for that. The next three weekends look booked and busy. Zora is also happy we are home this weekend.

@warren.senate.gov: "They're fighting over how many children should go hungry so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island."

Congratulations Antonio and welcome to the Center family! So excited about your project.

Academics and Academia Can No Longer Afford the Politics of Silence [Header Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash] On April 28, 1967, Muhammad Ali publicly defied being drafted into the Vietnam War, costing him his heavy-weight title and derailing his career for three …

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