'The Nakba has also a lesser-known environmental dimension, the complete transformation of the environment, the weather, the soil, the loss of indigenous climate, the vegetation, the skies. The Nakba is a process of colonially imposed climate change.'

Actor LeVar Burton sent a letter to NYPL members today urging them to sign a petition calling for a reversal of Mayor Adams' library cuts.

Burton's known for starring in 'Roots' as Kunta Kinte, a character Adams took to comparing himself to last year.
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very humbled to be teaching 'writing about family' for the nth time in may with the incredible Briallen Hopper!! dm me if you'd like the syllabus & sign up through yale summer session at summer.yale.edu

It's almost like the academy is the perfect hiding spot for folx allergic to accountability

Governor Kathy Hochul has the chance to make prisons call free! which wouldn’t only save Black & Latino women $20 million annually, it’s better for EVERYONE because incarcerated ppl who can communicate w/ their loved ones outside are more likely to successfully reenter society

In 1831, Freedom fighter Nat Turner saw a Solar Eclipse, which he believed was a sign from God and he started what is considered the most deadly slave revolt, the Nat Turner Rebellion, which sparked the events leading to civil war.

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We must cease deportation flights to Haiti IMMEDIATELY. Returning people to such dire conditions is unconscionable and a violation of human rights #StopHaitianDeportations

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April 4th is the deadline to apply to work on our team! Untangling Ecology and British Empire. So many fantastic applicants so far. 🌱🫚🌊🌊

We’re deeply saddened to hear that Maryse Conde has died. The Grande Dame of Caribbean literature, she was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize twice, in 2015 and 2023, and leaves behind an extraordinary body of work. We send our heartfelt condolences to her family.

RIP Maryse Condé (1937-2024) 🪴

Shout out to NYPL’s very own Joy Bivins, whose work as SchomburgCenter director was recently featured in a celebratory profile of Harlem women “fortifying and expanding their organizations in spite of funding cuts for libraries and arts programs.” on.nypl.org/43FwKUI

We can’t go without a fight. For many of us it’s not just personal grief at our jobs, it is about saving an institution we love & has so much to offer 💜✊🏿🔥

I love how African riverine communities, especially fisherfolks, don’t give af about colonial borders. I learned that from my research site close to the Senegal/Mauritania border. Nobody decolonizes borders better than transboundary transboundary riverine folks.

57 years after Josie Fanon insisted on the removal of Sartre's preface from Wretched of the Earth, I try contextualise her demand within her decades-long commitment to Palestinian Liberation.

My first piece on Josie ❤️
Verso Books

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Constellations of co-resistance

Eric Adams not only revived police units that were disbanded in 2020 for their disproportionate abuse against Black and brown New Yorkers, he revived stop and frisk. Since he became mayor, 97% of all stops and searches have been on Black and Latino New Yorkers.

So many of us are in professions where unoriginality is rewarded but creativity is desired.

Join us May 3-4 for the conference 'Slavery in New Netherland and the Dutch Atlantic World' presented in partnership with the New-York Historical Society and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

More info at nyhistory.org/programs/slave… and ow.ly/WmZc50R54v3

“Wait, adults don’t get spring break from work?” My interns are amazing + have the best ideas!

A wonderful cohort fr Yale working at my AFRO-ASIA GROUP this year. I’m so proud of their accomplishments + vision of a radically liberated sovereign future for the global majority.