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📣It’s here! 📣 You can now pre-order A MAP OF MY WANT coming from @haymarketbooks July 9, 2024! Get your copy from @PilsenCommBooks today!

Pauline Copes Johnson, a descendant of Harriet Tubman, has died at 98. She spent a lifetime guarding that legacy from the small city where Tubman spent her final years kolumnmagazine.com/2025/12/11/the…

"Don't follow the existing research." To truly make an impact, this year's chemistry laureate Susumu Kitagawa advises young scientists to think independently and follow their own path. Kitagawa was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work developing MOFs, porous materials which are able to store and release small molecules, in an amazing array of uses. Learn more: nobelprize.org/prizes/chemist…

"To my knowledge, I’m the first formerly incarcerated Black man in U.S. history to earn tenure at a medical school," says Dr. Stanley Andrisse thedig.howard.edu/all-stories/pr…

Read more on @VChangPoet in this previous issue of the BLUE MOUNTAIN REVIEW alongside @FaylitaHicks and @revivalist_shaw : issuu.com/collectivemedi… #poetryinmotion SUBMIT NEW WORK FOR OUR NEXT ISSUE WITH PRINCE STASH: bluemountainreview.submittable.com/submit

@el_saulhdez Congratulations!

My debut poetry collection, How to Kill a Goat & Other Monsters, is nominated for a Lammy Award! 😭 I’m very thankful to be among these other amazing writers.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has ended key support for Black farmers and will no longer use the term “socially disadvantaged,” saying it has sufficiently addressed historic discrimination capitalbnews.org/usda-ends-dei-…

Delighted to see two Acre authors celebrated for their contributions to literary Chicago! Congrats James Stewart III (DEFIANT ACTS) and @FaylitaHicks (HOODWITCH)! 🎉🎉🎉 lit.newcity.com/2025/06/04/lit…

In 1913, South Africa passed the Natives Land Act, which forbid Black people from owning or leasing land in white areas. The act designated just 7 percent of farmland for Black people. 93 percent went to white people. The government also forcibly removed Black people from land they owned if that area was designated for white settlers. Today: White people own 72 percent of the private farmland in South Africa, despite being only 7 percent of the population. Do with that information what you will.

Fiona Apple releases new single, “Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)” in support of mothers affected by the cash-bail system. Stream: music.apple.com/us/album/pretr…

Wow. Fiona Apple is a real one. New song just out. About her years of court watching. She’s calling for donations to free Black mothers on Mother’s Day. Fans coming through w donations. Let’s help support even more. I just gave: givebutter.com/s9WDXn

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@HannahEBeachler This is wild lore to know! The Green Mill was pivotal to my career as a poet! I’m telling everybody!

The Green Mill Cocktail Lounge was my inspiration for the Juke & Sammy's Jazz Club, Pearlines. I use to go to the Green Mill from Cincinnati, OH in the 90s to see all kinds of bands. I never forgot it or all the stories about it. The history fit Smoke and Stack. #SinnersMovie

Congratulations to all Writing Freedom Fellows—especially our very own @FaylitaHicks whose work takes my breath away every time ✨✨✨

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So deeply honored to be part of this incredible cohort of writers! Especially beloved poets @MoonsAtDusk & @FaylitaHicks

One could not conceive of a more textbook First Amendment violation. It will be an important test of the judiciary and elite academic institutions to see whether they crumble in the face of fascism.

So this is happening:

I just received the first copy of Copaganda! It will be sold anywhere books are sold. I try to explain the role of the media, the police, and academia in how we got to this authoritarian moment.

Congratulations, @m7mdkurd! 💐 PERFECT VICTIMS is officially a New York Times Bestseller in its first week of publication