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@EllenFitzp Thank you, Ellen! This is great.

The Kennedy Center was named for JFK to honor his vigorous defense of the arts. Since the current admin claims to value historical truth and fact, while ignoring it routinely, and seeks control over this space, they might wish to consider what JFK had to say.

The Kiss eji.org/news/the-kiss/

Lamar Smith was one of many Black leaders murdered in the 20th century in the South who risked their lives to ensure that Black Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote in places where that right had been denied to them for generations. eji.org/news/the-histo…

The History of Violent Opposition to Black Political Participation eji.org/news/the-histo…

@michelebgoodwin @JBHEdotcom @saigrundy Congratulations, Dr. Grundy!

Saida Grundy Wins Race, Gender, and Class Book Award From the American Sociology Association jbhe.com/2024/06/saida-… via @jbhedotcom BRAVA, @saigrundy

California’s Alien Land Laws eji.org/news/californi…

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“Texas Senate Bill 17, the recent law that outlaws diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at public colleges and universities in TX does not in any way affect content, instruction or discussion in a course at public colleges and universities in Texas… 2/4

🌟🌟Important update! To counter the chilling affect of anti-DEI Texas Senate Bill 17, the Texas Conference of the AAUP has put together a rider instructors of #highered at public colleges and universities in TX can add to their syllabi. Rider language and link follow…🧵 1/4

Historians @SharronWConrad and @EllenFitzp remember #JFK’s “remarkable televised speech on civil rights,” on June 11, 1963, “the first presidential address,” they write, “condemning at length #segregation as a moral wrong, unworthy of a great country.” time.com/6334795/jfk-ci…

Still today, no one—no local or state officials or the media—has ever apologized to Mr. Thompson or Mr. Simpson or their families, or compensated them for violating their rights.

"I always sit around and wonder if this hadn’t happened to me, you know, what could I have turned out to be?" Mr. Thompson later told his brother. "It just destroyed our life.”

Sixty-five years ago, police in Monroe, North Carolina, arrested, jailed, and beat two Black children after a white girl kissed them on the cheek. eji.org/news/the-kiss/ eji.org/news/the-kiss/

Could the Threads logo be an @ symbol? If so, it's yet another slight to the long suffering asterisk, which I detail in @mcsweeneys #AsteriskUnderappreciated @BethTeitell mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-a…

@BethTeitell’s hilarious take on #GwynethPaltrow’s marketing ploy w #airbnb to offer her #Montecito guesthouse—complete w #Goop gift bag—for one nite. bostonglobe.com/2023/08/14/lif… via @BostonGlobe

Great summer read by@bethteitell #Pickleball is bursting onto the stage, screen, and reality TV bostonglobe.com/2023/08/14/art… via @BostonGlobe

We have a student on Maui. I talked to her and wrote a thing. bu.edu/articles/2023/…

What a beautiful essay on baseball and getting older by the great 😆@Dan_Shaughnessy bostonglobe.com/2023/08/11/spo… via @BostonGlobe

Horrible decision today, but glad that Professors @emihouh and Mary Campbell and I could add to Justice Sotomayor’s dissent with our article.

It is so tiring & demoralizing to continuously declare that I'm hearing impaired....having to ask people (repeatedly) to speak up in meetings, to explain I'm the one that turned on Zoom closed captions, etc. @NPRKelly you know what I'm feeling? #inclusivity

Getting back to my New England days with this bizarre story: inquirer.com/news/philadelp…