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BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Opinion | Democrats, It’s Time to Embrace School Choice

Since when have they not??? Clinton and Obama were big fans. Democrats, It’s Time to Embrace School Choice www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/o...

UT to consolidate gender and ethnic studies programs into one new department Affected departments include those that focus on African and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican American Studies, Women and Gender Studies and American Studies.

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Colleges See Major Racial Shifts in Student Enrollment

“The new report concludes that the Supreme Court decision reduced the number of students of color at institutions with the highest graduation rates and largest median incomes after graduation, a result that the authors said could lead to persistent racial inequities in income.”

Do people know that there are almost 1 million Muslims in NYC? Where are the stories about how Muslims are feeling about the first Muslim Mayor in NYC?

Image of four books listed as top nonfiction

"They pulled her out of Clinton High and moved to Los Angeles at the urging of an uncle of hers who lived there. After finishing school, she began a long career as a pediatric nurse in California."

The disappearing diversity programs at Johns Hopkins University Under Donald Trump, Johns Hopkins University has changed policies and scaled back its diversity office.

At Johns Hopkins, a once-robust diversity office has quietly withered, shrinking from 14 staffers to three, pausing programs for underrepresented scholars and restricting race-based initiatives on campus. The disappearing diversity programs at Hopkins:

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I'm thrilled about it

Fresh air reads list of books for best of 2025.

Grateful to see Integrated on the Best of 2025 list from Fresh.Air.Reads

CNN is covering the manhunt for the Brown shooter!

Covers of books nominated for the award

Integrated is long listed with some great books for the 2026 Pen Galbraith Award!

Thank you. You kicked the whole thing off with me!

Covers of books nominated for the award

Integrated is long listed with some great books for the 2026 Pen Galbraith Award!

This is why it’s hard to hit reset.

Gotta say it's mindblowing to me that the Brown shooter is still at large and they don't even seem to have identified who they're looking for.

Too many of us have had the experience of our employer, or educational institution writing, texting and calling to say that a shooter is among us, run to safety, barricade the door. And if that’s doesn’t work, fight like your life depends on it. Too many of us have received this message.

Why a College Fighting for Survival Is Slashing Econ and Physics Majors At Albright in Pennsylvania, the new president is cutting programs, selling art and real estate, and vowing not to hire anyone with tenure. Is this the way forward for liberal arts colleges?

For a couple of years now, I've been fascinated with what's happening at small liberal arts colleges, which are running out of money for reasons unrelated to Trump funding cuts. Businessweek let me go deep on the problems, and one college that's trying to blaze a new trail.

The most embarrassing thing about me is I love academia despite its toxicity. For years I’ve been unable to recommend it as a career path. But today as more institutions are relinquishing what ever made these institutions worthwhile I am not sure the enterprise as a whole will last much longer.

👀 Alex Vitale is a sociologist who wrote a very good book called The End of Policing.

NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announces transition committees New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani​ announced Monday the creation of 17 transition advisory committees made up of more than 400 people.

Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Digging into the data of what's taking place with Black women unemployment and this graph is pretty damning.

You can see the EXACT month Black women's unemployment begins to splinter and that what hit us FIRST is now coming for all other women. This is #TheDoubleTax.

#blacksky #news #econsky

Why is startup culture always “I am inventing a coffeeproof phone you can put in your coffee cup to keep it warm with cell radiation” and never “I’m inventing a new library wholesaler to replace the single company that is shutting down and sending libraries into crisis”

I honestly don’t understand why those people thought condemning socialism was job 1 today. This is the problem most in need of solving? Really?

I honestly don’t understand why those people thought condemning socialism was job 1 today. This is the problem most in need of solving? Really?

Agree with them or not, so far his choices are purposefully thought.

Moms for Liberty Shut Out Nationwide with Every Candidate Losing in 2025 Elections - UOMOD In a stunning rebuke, Moms for Liberty candidates failed to win a single contested race in the November 4, 2025 elections.

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This weekend, artists are speaking out across the country Artists in more than 40 states are spending Friday and Saturday participating in the "Fall of Freedom" – which they say represents a creative resistance to authoritarianism.

Fall of Freedom starts today. Here’s NPR on the initiative www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...

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Great book! I passed my copy on to a friend who got another friend to read it whose spouse read it afterward…. I lost track at that point but I bet the recommendation kept making the rounds!