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New president picked to lead the board overseeing Iowa's public universities The Iowa Board of Regents elected Robert Cramer as its new president after former President Sherry Bates announced her resignation earlier this week.

12/3: Iowa BOR appoints Robert Cramer the new president: Cramer is former board chair of The Family Leader, whose tagline is "Biblically Engaging Government to Transform America"
Cramer is also on the new center’s advisory board
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#NewIssue 📣

We’re proud to present our second issue of 2026: Mechanisms and Mechanics of Racial Hierarchy, guest edited by E. Bonilla-Silva & A. E. Lewis.

This special issue examines the how behind #racism's mechanics, offering insights into the systems & structures that sustain racial inequality.

The extreme, ideologically-driven, fast, furious, economically reckless decisions being made by New School president & provost are NOT the simple consequence of economic need. they're a malicious disaster and must be stopped... an assault on critical thought.

Really useful analysis of data to show how many people are going to ICE detention from local jails. These arrests are less visible to the public - as compared to raids or street arrests -- so we don't see the full scope.

It is, indeed. Solidarity, friend.

This HIV Expert Refused To Censor Data on Trans Patients, Then Quit the CDC — Assigned John Weiser, a doctor and researcher, has treated people with HIV since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.

An HIV doctor quit the CDC when they insisted on censoring his research by removing data on trans people. This interview peels back the curtain of how anti-trans ideology figured into the Trump administration's war on science.

Republished from @kffhealthnews.org, written by @amymaxmen.bsky.social.

UNC System Weighs Requiring Course Syllabi to be Public Campuses have reached different conclusions about whether syllabi are public records. Now the UNC System wants to dictate that they are.

New: The UNC System could make all course syllabi public records and openly available online.

The system frames the potential move as a benefit to students. But critics say it could put professors at risk and violate their intellectual property rights. www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

I got to meet Prof. Choy my first month at NYU film in 1995. She was a loudmouthed, hard drinking, chain smoking New York indie director. The real deal. “Who Killed Vincent Chang?” had a huge impact on me on what doc film was and could be. RIP, Professor. They don’t make ‘em like you anymore.

There should be a national conservatory for the preservation of funk. The musicianship in those 70s bands is beyond beyond.

I am so sorry for your loss.

the travesties pile up

When A Byrd Flew To North Carolina Central University Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II aka Donald Byrd is probably most remembered as a Detroit City born Hard Bop maestro. In the mid-1970s Byrd began to collaborate with the Mizell Brothers -- Larr...

When A Byrd Flew To North Carolina Central
University

Jazz trumpeter #DonaldByrd pioneered jazz education programs at Historically Black Colleges.

#SaggGenius
#BornOnThisDay
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Misogyny, Racism, Power: Connecting the Dots in the Violent Far Right Cynthia Miller-Idriss' new book Man Up explores the links between misogyny, gendered violence against women and political extremism.

In this final article (part 3) of the Ms. Magazine series on the links between misogyny, gendered violence and political extremism, @milleridriss.bsky.social talks about 'Misogyny, Racism, Power: Connecting the Dots in the Violent Far Right':

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arjec 2026

2026 Summer School:
Anti-Racism, Social Justice, and the European City,
University of Padua (Italy)

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Come work with me! Salary range $85,000-$100,000. Benefits include a union, fairly low insurance premiums and so many cat photos. job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

🚨 BREAKING: Jackson County Board of Elections votes 3-2 to close the Western Carolina University early voting site despite it being one of the most active polling locations in the county. This is active voter suppression and we will not stand for it.

Protect Academic Freedom, Our Faculty, Our Communities Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members: The UNC System is preparing to cave to political pressure from the Heritage Foundation, the Oversight Project, and the James Martin Center by ...

Circulating a petition against a proposal to force UNC system faculty to share their syllabi publicly, a move that would potentially exposing faculty to bad faith actors without necessarily improving student access to syllabi (which are already accessible in the course catalog) #AcademicFreedom

This Unruly Witness: June Jordan’s Legacy Becky Thompson in conversation with Maya Marshall, hosted by Charis Books Friday, December 12th at 7:30 pm ET RSVP to attend (in person in ATL or online):

This Unruly Witness: June Jordan’s Legacy

Becky Thompson in conversation with Maya Marshall, hosted by Charis Books

Friday, December 12th at 7:30 pm ET

RSVP to attend (in person in ATL or online): charisbooksandmore.com/event/2025-1...

NC Republicans are stripping voting sites off college campuses because they’re afraid of young people and their power in elections. And that’s a powerful message for me to take to college campuses across the state in 2026. So run afraid, NCGOP. It won’t change your outcome.

Audiofuturism - andré carrington A revelatory history of Black radio productions from the 1950s to the presentAudiofuturism uncovers the vibrant, overlooked history of radio adaptations that placed Black speculative writing before ma...

Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama & the Black Fantastic Imagination will be available for pre-order in December.

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I was deeply honored that the cover is original woodcut artwork made by Jamaal Barber. Check out this video of his process

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Cover art of the book "The Overseer Class: A Manifesto" by Steven W. Thrasher. The cover is a black and white woodcut, with the title appearing over the images of three African American faces. To the left, is a face without eyes, in profile. To the right, is a man in a suit with no eyes looking forward. In the center is a police officer with eyes. Inside of him is a Black man on his knees, appearing to have been whipped. They all tower over raised fists.

Coming May 19, 2026 from Amistad Books and HarperCollins

THE OVERSEER CLASS:
A Manifesto

by Steven W. Thrasher

cover art by Jamaal Barber

Available for pre-order now www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

Nicole Foy ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year

My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! nicolemfoy@gmail.com
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Donate to offering support after rolling stone layoff, organized by Andre Gee Last week, after three years at Rolling Stone, I was unexpectedly laid off. Appa… Andre Gee needs your support for offering support after rolling stone layoff

after 3 years, i was laid off by rolling stone. im appreciative of my time there, but i know this is opening a better path🙌🏿

putting everything into my newsletter for now, plz subscribe: andrejgee.substack.com

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definitely need this.

So proud to be in community with fabulous thinkers like @jean23bean.bsky.social

YouTube video by Stanford Arts Hanif Abdurraqib at Stanford | On Art, Survival, and the Heart’s Work

I had the good fortune of being in the room for this conversation between the brilliant Hanif Abdurraqib and my equally brilliant colleague Prof Matthew D. Morrison.

Could not recommend it more highly. Just a stunning conversation. Watch it.

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‘Bloodshed was supposed to stop’: no sign of normal life as Gaza’s killing and misery grind on The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’ for Palestinians squeezed into the remaining 42% of their land behind Israel’s ‘yellow line’

The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’

Since the US-brokered ceasefire was announced on 10 October, Israeli forces have killed more than 360 Palestinians in Gaza; according to a UN official, at least 70 are children

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checking back in to assess progress in enacting this policy proposal