Jennifer Williams

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FAM, have you heard of the #EconomicBlackout today? Are you participating?

My late brother's name is Stephen too. Sending love 💕

Noncompliance is also an option.

(1982) Audre Lorde, "Learning from the 60s" • In February, 1982, Audre Lorde delivered the address, “Learning from the 60s” as part of the celebration of the Malcolm X weekend at Harvard University.  Her presentation appears below. online pharmac...

Lorde's words for this moment:
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Why Democrats Won’t Throw a Real Punch Faced with existential threats from the right, the Democratic leadership remains timid; faced with demands for justice from the left, it goes on the attack.

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Y'all gave them the keys, the codes, the passwords. Sigh.

It would be great if event planners, performers, and other stakeholders seize this opportunity to work with the Howard and Lincoln theaters. Just an idea.

New Kennedy Center board elects Trump chair, ousts Rutter as president President Trump’s refashioned board of trustees voted him chairman and replaced the Kennedy Center’s president Deborah Rutter with Trump ally Richard Grenell.

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Disgusted

The Boomerang Comes Back - Boston Review How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.

“The liberal establishment has not raised the alarms. Worse, they have often served as the right’s complicit partner, oblivious to the precedents that Trump is now inheriting: broader police power, unaccountable presidential power, generalized repression, and gross restrictions on speech.”

Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation. The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything

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Finally, a journalist willing to call a spade a spade.

More of this!

Today is Rosa Parks Day! We can learn so much from this courageous warrior for Black women's bodily autonomy and racial equality.

Doechii!!!

28 Films for the 28 Days of Black History Month The 5th Annual Edition of this Black Film Celebration!

“This guide contains 28 selections from Black Film Archive. You will find visions of resistance, childlike wonder, and unending imagination. We will survive the fire this time and the next, and the time after that”

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Review | A D.C. artist’s glowing monuments to Black lives Tsedaye Makonnen’s ethereal pillars at the African Art Museum pay tribute to victims of violence and the perils of migration.

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A National Day of Action for Higher Ed On April 17, higher ed unions, AAUP chapters, and student organizations across the U.S. are coming together to fight back against the coordinated assault on teaching and learning, and to mobilize for ...

On April 17, 2025 @aaup.bsky.social will bring together major higher ed unions, trade unions, student groups, and allied organizations in the fight to “Free Higher Education.” LEARN MORE: www.dayofactionforhighered.org?source=twitt...

Spend the Summer at Spelman University Researching Audre Lorde Call for Applications: The Audre Lorde Travel Grant for Summer 2025 The Spelman Archives is pleased to announce the Audre Lorde Travel Grant, offering two $2,500 travel awards to support PhD students...

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In this current time I would love to further investment in HBCUs.

They do an outsize job of educating Black people including Black health professionals - for example, 4 HBCU med schools graduate 10% of Black docs.

Would love to see Black celebs, etc increasing donations to these institutions.

This

Chile, let me outta here.

Farewell TikTok, I barely knew you.

Yes

The ethical case for resisting AI I had my moment of reality regarding generative AI in my chemistry and physics classes this past term. I’ve always had the student frustration “I can’t Google your homework problems!” as a point of…

“The thing that makes me worry is how much these people are giving up the very mental tasks that make them human.”
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That's your cousin?!!! I love Shelia! We had great times.

What is Apple Intelligence and do I want it or can I ignore it?🤨

Black Mamas Matter Alliance - Advancing Black Maternal Health, Rights & Justice We envision a world where Black mamas have the rights, respect, and resources to thrive before, during, and after pregnancy. We are a Black women-led cross-sectoral alliance. We center Black mamas to ...

For anyone to whom it may be useful: Black Mamas Matter Alliance focuses on every aspect of maternal well-being, and accepts donations (+ a few printed goods for purchase).
Although no such organisations should be necessary in this country.

Fifty Years Ago, the Combahee River Collective Wrote the Blueprint for Black Feminism. How Far Have We Come? We joined three living members of the Combahee River Collective to discuss the state of Black feminism and the history of the movement.

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This might be the creepiest pic I've seen in some time. Hums in Kendrick, "He a FAN, he a FAN, he a FAN..."