Chenjerai Kumanyika

Higher ed workers at the University of Virginia demand:

Democratize the campus!

Out with the Rector and Vice Rector!

In with student, faculty, and staff power!

Collective bargaining and a living wage NOW!

Video of Boat Strike Shows Survivors Waving Before Fatal Follow-Up Attack The new detail further complicates the military’s explanations for its actions during the Sept. 2 strike in the Caribbean Sea.

People who have seen video of the U.S. military’s first boat strike in September in the Caribbean Sea said two survivors climbed atop the overturned hull and waved to something overhead. The new detail further complicates the military’s explanations for its actions during the strike.

AAUP University of Nebraska - Lincoln is countering
the threats to cut around $25 million in funding and to close four academic programs with music and grassroots energy!

The creative solidarity among faculty, students, and staff energize powers the fight against these disastrous budget cuts!

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: AI is Not Inevitable. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. A conversation with educators, education unions and Collaborative Research Center for Resilience

AI is not inevitable: A conversation with educators, unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience!

Join your colleagues from across pre-K-12 and higher ed for a webinar on exercising worker power in the age of AI.

December 11, 4-5 p.m. ET on Zoom

Link to register below👇

UNL’s future is on the line: Cancel the Dec. 5 NU regents vote • Nebraska Examiner NU regents approving this questionable plan is not fiscal prudence. It is institutional self-harm with long-term consequences for Nebraska.

Stop the $24 million funding cuts and program closures at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln!

"The proposed cuts would weaken UNL’s academic core, diminish statewide economic growth, undercut agricultural innovation, and harm student success for years to come."

Link to petition in thread 🧵

Hey! Yes Spotify is really horrible in number of ways. I should have unsubscribed long ago

A new episode of Unruly Subjects w/ @chenjerai.bsky.social dropped today!

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We feature an interview with @hammerandhope.bsky.social's Lovia Gyarkye, influencer Conscious Lee, and voicemail responses to our prompt: “How do you balance your love life with the struggle?”

I know we all say this, but this show we're making with @chenjerai.bsky.social is so good and only going to get better. It's my dream synthesis of playful textural radio, critical conversations about culture and politics, and a huge diverse range of voices (and voicemails!).

Join us from the jump!

Alabama Ends Black-, Women-Focused Student Magazines The university pointed to a July Department of Justice memo that warned against “unlawful proxies” for race or sex. It’s another example of administrators restricting student media.

“These publications have the First Amendment right to be free of viewpoint-based discrimination, but UA is explicitly citing their viewpoints to justify killing their publications. No federal antidiscrimination law authorizes the university to silence student media it dislikes.”

This event is tonight in DC. It’s the last book event I have scheduled for the Copaganda tour. Hope to see folks! Talk starts at 6:30pm.

Now THIS is what I want to see. #boycottspotify #cancelyoursubscription

Three progressive organizations have launched the “Spotify Unwrapped” campaign in response to the music streamer running ICE recruitment adson its platform, its alleged promotion of AI generated music, and CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in an AI military defense company.

UNL Faculty Senate approves historic no-confidence resolution The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Faculty Senate voted 60-14 to approve a no-confidence resolution against Chancellor Rodney Bennett. It's believed to be the first such vote in the university's histo...

“For the first time, we are delivering a united message to the Regents: We will not accept a lack of transparency, the exclusion of faculty from decision-making, or the erosion of our university’s 156-year-old mission to educate Nebraska’s students.”

– UNL AAUP President Sarah Zuckerman

The AAUP chapter at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln is organizing a week of action to fight devastating budget cuts!

UNL is proposing to slash around 27 million dollars and to close 4 programs at the university.

These cuts will be disastrous.

Let's stand with AAUP - UNL and stop the cuts!

UNL professors launch Week of Action ahead of vote on $27.5 million budget cuts "There hasn't been enough time for faculty to respond, and there hasn't been enough input from the faculty."

UNL AAUP are fighting tooth & nail to stop the Board of Regents from cutting $27.5 million from UNL's budget.

"There hasn’t been enough time for faculty to respond...We want shared governance, which means we have a voice that actually matters.”
— Theresa Catalano, UNL AAUP.

Good morning!

At 8PM EST/1AM GMT (tonight), we will hold a forum on genocide & war narratives in Africa focusing on Sudan & the DRC.

Thanks to @ccc-journal.bsky.social for publishing our forum and @chenjerai.bsky.social for hosting us.

Join us here: youtube.com/live/tEkLxFS...

See you tonight!

Tonight at IPK: Conscious Lee and @chenjerai.bsky.social discuss Conscious Lee’s approach to storytelling and how his work promotes understandings of justice through accessible public political education. Co-sponsored by NYU Journalism and IPK's Race and Public Space Working Group.

TONIGHT!! Make sure to reserve your spot @theconsciouslee.bsky.social

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For the last year we've been cooking up a critical conversation between myself and orator, educator, and influential content creator Conscious Lee. We’ll discuss how he determines what's true, communicates complex stories, and promotes compelling, accessible public political education

ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record. Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...

A cracked windshield, a waiting officer, a forgotten document: The new family separations often start in the most mundane ways.

Chicago day care worker detained by immigration agents at drop-off time for children Witnesses say a Chicago day care employee was detained at work during a drop-off time for children, reflecting the Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive...

A Chicago daycare worker was taken by ICE at drop-off time. Nationally, more than 70% of ICE arrests involve people with no convictions. The “public safety” narrative collapses under the data.

Link: www.wfaa.com/article/synd...

PITTSBURGH'S Public Source Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh journalists return to their jobs at the Post-Gazette after three years on strike After a court ruling in their favor, long-striking journalists declared victory and returned to a pivotal Southwestern Pennsylvania newsroom. They return as union organizing continues throughout the region. Stephanie Strasburg November 24, 2025

Natalie Duleba, local secretary of the guild, hugs Jon Schleuss, president of the NewsGuild Communications of America, as she hands him the mic. "The first day of this strike, our folks went over across the street and they sat down at a table, and they started talking about that they were going to take care of each other," said Schleuss, acknowledging the guild could not have known how long the path back to work would be. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh's Public Source)

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.

Billionaires, who quite often do not see education as a common good, should not be guiding higher education policy.

“I kind of yearn,” Mr. Nassirian said, “for the gilded age when billionaires satisfied their extracurricular interests by collecting Fabergé eggs and prized ponies.”

#DefendHigherEd

How do you balance your love life with the struggle? Call 215 436 9212 and leave a short message on our Unruly subjects hotline. Let us know how you balance love work, dating protest, writing, etc. not trying to keep that spark in your life @rowhomeproductions.bsky.social

A new podcast from PhD alum @chenjerai.bsky.social: Unruley Subjects!

IMPORTANT PODCAST ALERT! Unruly Subjects, with @chenjerai.bsky.social.

ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record. Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...

NEW and IMPORTANT: ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.

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EVENT ALERT!
For the last year we've been cooking up a critical conversation between myself and orator, educator, and influential content creator Conscious Lee. We’ll discuss how he determines what's true, communicates complex stories, and promotes compelling, accessible public political education