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Cover of HOW TO BE LESS STUPID ABOUT RACE by me, Crystal Fleming.

I’ve been informed that one of my books, “How to Be Less Stupid About Race”, was removed from the Naval Academy Library today, along with Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, works by Imani Perry and other luminaries. Honored to be in such great company! static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

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Also, New York City had the most billionaires of any city in the world and New York State has the second most billionaires in the United States.

New York can afford it. Both of them.

A Black woman is sitting in a cream dress holding a rose and staring past the camera

Danielle Brooks is such a beauty 😍😍😍

Harvard faculty organize amid anxiety university will capitulate to Trump Harvard weighs costs of standing up to president as other elite schools, such as Princeton, signal they won’t concede

www.theguardian.com/education/20.... “One of the … brighter things to come out of last year is that I saw the faculty organizing & working together to an extent that outstripped anything I had seen in my academic career,” said Jasanoff. “We have our voices, and we can use our voices together.” Amen

Palestinian Child Killed in Israeli Prison After Being “Systematically Starved” Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, who was 17 years old, is the first known child killed in an Israeli prison.

The first known Palestinian child to be killed in an Israeli prison, Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, was starved, had untreated diseases, and was repeatedly beaten by guards before he died last month, his autopsy report shows.

Wild. Right after Cory Booker went viral for speaking on the "wretched truth about America," he just voted to keep arming a government that just officially achieved The Deadliest Conflict Ever for Journalists & executed and buried 15 paramedics and their emergency vehicles

“Every generation of Americans is more diverse. Baby boomers were 29% people of color. Gen X 41%. Millennials 46%, gen Z 50%. The youngest cohort—born after 2012 and squarely in Disney’s prime target demo—is the first to be “majority minority”, with kids of color making up a full 52% of gen Alpha.”

Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez is one of the most compelling organizers in the labor movement.

One of the very moving parts of my interview with Edgar Franks, Lelo's comrade and political director of his union, for @truthout.org.

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

Heart shaped sign says “dear trans kids, this world is better with you in it and you are worth fighting for!”

A pink blue and white sign says “A world without trans people has never existed and never will”

Rainbow sign says “we are stronger together”

Pink, blue and white sign says “gender-affirming health care saves lives “

“When trans lives are under attack, what do we do? FIGHT BACK!”

Chicago’s Federal Plaza is filling way waaaaaay up for the Trans Day of Visibility rally!!!

Sook Yin-Lee's Paying For It Views Sex Work Through the Lens of Labour - Toronto Film Critics Association An interview with Paying for It writer/director Sook-Yin Lee on adapting Chester Brown's graphic novel and bringing their relationship to the screen.

"I neither glamorize nor denigrate sex work but view it through the lens of labour."

Sook-Yin Lee tells Marriska Fernandes about her #CdnScreenAwards nominee Paying for It torontofilmcritics.com/features/soo...

Aries, man. They run this diva ish

I wish more people understood this. Universities aren’t “caving” — they are seizing the opportunity.

Eid Mubarak

When we didn’t do this to anyone who put the word race and card together

When we didn’t do this to anyone who put the words reverse and racism together

v funny

New Orleans, we’re screening next Saturday, April 5th at the grassroots Patois film fest!

LA, we’ve got an April 4th screening hosted by artists I admire in a space I’m super excited about

Houston! We’re screening It Was All a Dream at the AfAm Museum tomorrow at noon

But want to share some screenings for the few folks following me here ☺️

Been deactivated cuz US is dumb AF and I’m easily distracted and major deadline

YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix Allison Janney as Grace Penn explaining THAT decision | The Diplomat | Netflix

Writers ate youtu.be/__0Qubv3Dn8?...

He's still talking?????

Doechi is at the Louvre looking incredible. That's my President!

love it (the radicalism)