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‘The real issue is change’: Edinburgh University’s first Black philosophy professor on racism and reform Prof Tommy J Curry reflects on leading the institute’s slavery review – and why it must lead to meaningful action

‘The real issue is change’: Edinburgh University’s first Black philosophy professor on racism and reform

Wait. Chloe Kelly has scored the winner in two Euro Finals. Has any footballer ever done that?

🫶🏾⚽️🏆 #lionesses #football

Just gave. Please consider helping if you can. Right now is an incredibly important time. Right now.

I guess I just want to say that Trump has captured every single institution. You can track variation in, say, court decisions or changing positions on tariffs but even conceding those things accepts that his whims run institutions’ priorities. Not a single one of them really stood.

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

The more you know about the history of the NYPD, the more things like this blur the past and the present. Is it 1895 or is it 2025? The more you read about it, the more you realize the history of policing is more a history of continuity and less a history of change.

“Love Is Never Easy” with Denée Benton and Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar Podcast Episode · The Official Gilded Age Podcast · S3 E3 · 1h 10m

Could listen to Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar break down the 19th century U.S. all day 🫶🏾

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When you are feeling weary or despairing, remember that there are people in every corner of the world taking life affirming action in the direction of more justice. The fact that you can't see it all is a comfort because it means there is an excess of positive actions happening all at once. #onwards

When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

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Correct.

The common tactic we can see in the last ten years is that mixed-race politicians who claim Black international/ or African heritage are "not really Black" -- so as to dissuade Black Americans from supporting them.

See Obama, Harris, Mamdani.

Clockwork. Nasty work.

Coming to America is a strange experience for someone with a complex racial, religious, ethnic and national background. These many identities get subsumed under a racial or national identity that is then hyphenated with America.

"I can't believe The New York Times did this" Trans kids? Claudine Gay? Gaza? At some point we have to stop being surprised. The right sees the Times as a vehicle for laundering its conspiracy theories and injecting it into elite America and the Times is very happy to oblige them.

What other group of "workers" are treated in this way? Are teachers threatening on a regular basis to leave the city when a new Mayor is elected? How about construction workers? Maybe folks will understand why some of us refuse to consider them workers.

I’m not sharing the post, because racists are stupid and dull, but one of them accused Mamdani of committing “vibe warfare,” which is amazing. I am proud to be alive during a time when even vibes can fight wars.

Get Fahd Ahmed of DRUM onto your left podcasts etc... to talk about this campaign. If you actually want to better understand what's been happening re: organizing. You're welcome.

Bottom line is that if you haven't voted yet, please go out to vote tomorrow in the primary and DO NOT RANK CUOMO. I'll be out in the heat wave NOT RANKING HIM. We need to turn the page in this city.

YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC Brad Lander: "I'll keep coming back to court, week after week"

Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process.

But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things.

That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant.

This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.

“A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m... 🎁

Join us tonight & thank you for the invitation @qplnyc.bsky.social #juneteenth @dominiquejl.bsky.social • queenslib.org/4ka

It’s an honor to be in dialogue with colleagues whose work I’ve long admired. Thank you @ekwashington.bsky.social

It was wonderful to interview @prithik.bsky.social about her book, “Brooklynites.” To check out our conversation on @biographersintl.bsky.social Podcast #220, go to: biographersinternational.org/news/podcast...

It was never a slogan. It was an actionable demand. And the people who complained simply did not want to defund policing. It's simple.

Who wants free books? These are some of the titles that we at @urbanhistory.bsky.social are looking to review. Let me know if you or a friend want one, or if you have other suggestions. First, @rebwright.bsky.social's fabulous looking history of mid century US energy regimes:

An honor to be in conversation with @markanthonyneal.bsky.social a fellow New Yorker and one of my intellectual heroes & to other public intellectual giants celebrated in the book — Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy & Ruthie Wilson Gilmore @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

YouTube video by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke U. Left of Black | The Black History of Brooklyn, New York with Public Historian Prithi Kanakamedala

Prithi Kanakamedala, joined me on the latest episode of #LeftOfBlack to discuss her book 'Brooklynites: the Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough' (New York University Press)
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