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DEVELOPING: New College of Florida dumped hundreds of library books this afternoon. The school also emptied the college’s Gender and Diversity Center, tossing hundreds of their books. Working to file a story now.

Rest in peace Sonya Massey.

Anyway, more about Project 2025: Did y’all know that FAFSA and Pell Grants ($ for students from low-income families) are issued by the US Department of Education? Project 2025 will eliminate the US Department of Education, FAFSA, and Pell Grants. This is a Trump-Vance policy.

It is all part of a decades-long conservative campaign to co-opt the language of the civil rights movement and use it to dismantle any programs that might actually help bring about equality for descendants of slavery by claiming these efforts amount to anti-white “reverse” discrimination. As sociologist Stuart Hall once wrote, “Those who produce the discourse also have the power to make it true.”

What we are witnessing, once again, is the alignment of white power against racial justice and redress. We now have a legal landscape that takes the very laws created to eliminate the anti-Black caste system and uses them destroy racial justice efforts. The Supreme Court has determined actual school segregation is fine, but efforts to remedy it are unconstitutional.

Faith Ringgold, quilt and visual artist, dies at 93 npr.org/2024/04/13/685…

@JTRoane Ok. So I'm in Boston, but my office shook sightly. 😬😱

Yo did nyc just have an earthquake my whole apartment swayed 😬

Republicans in Tennessee just voted 66-25 to vacate the entire board of Tennessee State University, a historically Black college that has been underfunded by the state for decades.

Praying for those who are missing and the impact this collapse will have on my city.

What in the world!!!!! Get me outta here! npr.org/2024/03/22/123…

Irony's edge

FREE PALESTINE! 🇵🇸💔 Genocide and war crimes.

New Today! Queer Childhoods by Mary Zaborskis explores how the institutional management of children’s sexualities in boarding schools affected children’s future social, political, and economic opportunities.

@blkfemtaughtme Will check it out next time I'm in town.

@blkfemtaughtme @blaqueerflow Where? I love the Bun Shop in Baltimore, but always looking for great places to work when I visit home!

@ItsDanaWhite A word

The Writing Center, Office for Faculty Development, and Dean of Faculty invite faculty members, staff, and post-docs from all disciplines and ranks who identify as people of color to a weekly writing group. Our first meeting is a week from today! Registration link in bio.

Excellent resource shared by a former student of mine during her capstone presentation today. Get informed. Take action. palestinianfeministcollective.org/wp-content/upl…

@blaqueerflow @hystericalblkns @imaniperry Yessss! Congrats!!

🎶 Forever, they said yes!!!! I couldn’t believe it no, no, no. I looked in their eyes, they said yesssssss yessssssss yesssssssssss! My baby said yes to me! I started crying! 🎶 so thankful to our bestie for planning this surprise! And my mentors @hystericalblkns & @imaniperry for helping me choose the ring 🖤🖤🖤 only not tagging bae bc ppl been crazy