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Conservative Anglican leaders meet in Nigeria, facing debate on a possible breakaway Anglicans face a looming choice about whether their global church family can stay united. This week, conservative leaders will meet in Nigeria where they are expected to debate a plan that could loose...

Good article on tensions within the Anglican Communion. (Episcopal Church in the US is a member.) The fault lines concern the place of women & LGBTQ+ people in the church. The churches of the global north are mostly liberal on this, while the global south is conservative. apnews.com/article/angl...

Indeed.

What China's response to the US attack on Iran says about its foreign policy BEIJING (AP) — The day the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, China waited several hours before taking its first official position.

In case you've been wondering what China's been thinking about all this... apnews.com/article/chin...

Wolf launches sheep safety campaign.

Considering History: The Groundbreaking Women of the 1932 U.S. Olympic Team | The Saturday Evening Post No past U.S. women’s Olympic team had a more complex and compelling story than the athletes who took part in the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympics.

So for a special Considering History column, bringing together Black History Month & Women's History Month, here are the groundbreaking women of the 1932 U.S. Olympic team! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social

www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/03/cons...

“Those who fail to learn from history are bound to repeat it. Those who learn from history are bound to watch others repeat it”.

“Promise them anything, give them what they get, and f… them if they can’t take a joke.” Kissinger to a staff member regarding the Kurds, 1975. - theinsightinternational.com/kissingers-k...

Charlottesville folks: Who do you recommend for shoe repairs? I'm looking to resole a pair of Blundstone boots.

Union members in Puerto Rico demand answers after Haitian women murdered Puerto Rico’s labor movement is demanding answers after the murders of four Haitian women recently deported from the island.

Puerto Rico’s labor movement is demanding answers after word spread about the horrific murders of four Haitian women recently deported from the island.

"'We are reduced to collateral damage': Under the missiles, the Arab part of Jerusalem has no shelter."

Scratch A weekly newsletter of interviews, essays, and real conversations about how writers are surviving. Launching March 2026.

As a worker-owned literary collective, we've drawn inspiration from @theflytrapmedia.com, @aftermath.site, @hearingthingsco.bsky.social, @404media.co and other independent publications (*cough* @coyotemedia.org). We hope you'll join us! www.talkscratch.com

These are really outstanding because it’s as though someone was like “design me a chair, Art Nouveau, whatever you want, the only requirement is that it not function as a chair.” And he did it 🤯

Number two is like a cathedral for your living room. I want it.

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MoCo bill would prohibit ICE building permits The Montgomery County Council announced its latest step Monday to counter the federal campaign to deport immigrants, which has disrupted the lives of hundreds of county residents.

Montgomery County wants to ban permits for ICE facilities after seeing warehouses turned into detention centers in other parts of the state. My latest: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Congrats!

Paperback edition of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone

Today the paperback of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out.

It's arriving in a country once again waging war—a country that can spend tens of billions on bombs without blinking, while millions of Americans are one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from homelessness.

Let's take stock of where we are.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Picture Me As I Am Mirror and Memory in the Age of Black Resistance

The second one is this really great Story Maps put together by the Jefferson School - I just taught on this last week and we took 2 days to do it because the kids were so into it.

storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/096a...

Yep. Majority. It's truly a day to celebrate as well as commemorate.

‘Visions of Progress’ photographs 1920’s Black Charlottesville residents The “Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style and Racial Uplift” exhibit is on display at the local Trinity Episcopal Church until Mar. 11.

Last week UVA's Cavalier Daily published an excellent story about our exhibition of African American portraits. A traveling version is making stops throughout the region. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026...

Holsinger-Visions-of-Progress-catalog-accessible.pdf | Powered by Box

It's Freedom & Liberation Day in Charlottesville, commemorating the day Union soldiers commanded by George Armstrong Custer ended slavery in this region. Many freed people became prominent citizens. Some of their portraits & stories are in our catalog. The pdf is free!👇🏽
at.virginia.edu/vop-catalog

Freedom Has a Face <div><p>In his examination of a wide array of court papers from Albemarle County, a rural Virginia slaveholding community, Kirt von Daacke argues agai

Happy Freedom and Liberation Day!

There is a fantastic book about Black history in Albemarle, Freedom Has A Face.

www.upress.virginia.edu/title/3533/

For sure.

Nike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of Indonesia After moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country and...

NEW: Over the last decade, Nike has sharply expanded production in regions of Indonesia where workers don’t earn a living wage while cutting its workforce in places where they do.

With @oregonian.com

Jody was last night's speaker. He was great.

So many of us have spent years warning about the dangers of Christian dominionists in the U.S. government...

March 2, 1926: Thousands of striking workers are dispersed while marching to the Botany Worsted Mills in Passaic, N.J., as police hurl tear gas and firefighters blast them with hoses. Although the strikers appear to move peacefully, police say it’s an illegal gathering.

How White Elites Drained Ancient Art of Its Color The publication of “Chroma” represents an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with white supremacy.

The Greeks and Romans were not without ethnic bias, but our modern definitions of race and space don’t map directly onto the ancient Mediterranean past. A new book on polychromy helps dispel the “myth of whiteness in classical sculpture” that still persists.

YouTube video by Abh N Sinners - Buddy Guy - Electric Guitar

Buddy Guy is the man. A one and only. One of the immortals. (from Sinners)
music.youtube.com/watch?v=S33c...