Five worrying employment trends buried in the latest jobs report The latest federal jobs report reveals rising unemployment among Black workers, disappearing factory jobs and lopsided growth in the health care sector.

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YouTube video by Carolyn Mackie Labelle All Girl Band

From Zohran Mamdani re: his transition team: youtu.be/U8yAAy2u4ms?...

Starring Angela Bassett NewFest celebrates the 37th anniversary of its annual New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival.

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Historic town founded by Black Colombians fleeing slavery eyes second ‘independence’ San Basilio de Palenque calls itself ‘the first free Black territory in the Americas’ – a referendum next month could win its own local government

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Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.

It is clear that mainstream institutions and media organizations are running away from their mandates to talk about race, society and power.

I decided to build @resistanceschool.bsky.social as a way to work around the cowardice and censorship.

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More guns than people…

Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?

The legacy of Zero-Tolerance Part 2: The search for alternative responses  Restorative justice is a process that involves repairing harms between victims and offenders, rather than simply or only punishing offenders.

BLACKLIGHT: When 15-year-old Josh Marte was caught with a gun at his high school in Harlem, no one offered him counseling or support. Read more here: https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2025/04/24/the-legacy-of-zero-tolereance-part-2-the-search-for-alternative-responses/ 

There Was an Actual Conspiracy to Redefine CRT and DEI. Now They Have a New Target The billionaire-funded propaganda group that demonized CRT and DEI just released a plan to make universities white again.

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60-year-old Black history archive faces uncertain future after federal cuts For decades, the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans has served as one of America’s largest repositories of artifacts on Black history, from 15 million rare documents dating back to the 1780s to a ...

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Lauryn Hill Performs Strongly in Nearly Empty Stadium Until 3:37 a.m. After Essence Festival Runs Way Behind The artist took the stage at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans as the last of eight acts Friday night.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-n...

A Guide to Free Jazz in 10 Albums Free jazz isn’t noise; it’s unchained, boundary-pushing expression. Explore the genre here.

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YouTube video by Gwen Guthrie - Topic Getting Hot

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Lessons From Decades of Black and Palestinian Organizing How activists are building solidarity in battleground states and beyond.

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New study confirms that more than 50% of Puerto Ricans have suffered trauma due to weather events According to the research paper “Enraizando ante la Crisis Climática” by Amigxs del M.A.R., most people associate the impact on their mental health with Hurricane María

New study confirms that more than 50% of Puerto Ricans have suffered trauma due to weather events
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LOVEBOMB | A Feature Thriller A young, queer marriage is torn apart by a monstrously charismatic narcissist.

Check out LOVEBOMB | A Feature Thriller by James Kautz & Morgan O'Sullivan on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/933...

Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

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.

"Today the legacies of both Hall and Rodney demonstrate the imperative of organic intellectuals to confront authoritarian nationalism and forge global solidarity."
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Susan Rogers on Recording with Prince - Berklee Online Take Note Hear from Susan Rogers—who teaches the graduate course Psychoacoustics in Music Production for Berklee Online—about recording with Prince.

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These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸

Vision Festival 2025 — Arts for Art Arts for Art presents the annual Vision Festival celebrating Roscoe Mitchell.

www.artsforart.org/vision/

The Overlooked Black History of Memorial Day Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865

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Essential African Albums That Redefined the Electric Guitar Discover how African musicians revolutionized the electric guitar, from Franco Luambo’s Congolese soukous to Ali Farka Touré’s desert blues.

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39 Colleges That Can Afford To Resist Trump’s Demands The president has frozen federal research funding for a host of American colleges and universities—even issuing specific demands of some top schools in exchange for federal dollars. These 39 instituti...

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