Faith Ringgold, Oct 8 1930-Apr 13 2024
“Picnic on the Grass...Alone,” 1997
I love her ease, her peace, her solitude.

Rest in peace forever, dear artist 🤎🪽

Professor Ruha Benjamin (Ruha Benjamin) using her honorary degree address at Spelman to denounce Atlanta’s Cop City, the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and the repression of student activists 💜

Also, Yazgı Genç presented her latest research on childcare subsidies in the US and the inequitable access to these subsidies by race. 📝EconUofU

#WSSA2024
Western Social Science Association

“DEI” is basically just a stand-in for the N word now

Alex de Waal has covered famines in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia. His prediction on Gaza:

'most intense famine since World War II.'

'Even if the shooting ends today and the aid trucks begin to roll, the dying will carry on for some time'

Grim. Accurate.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A New Orleans Community Confronts the Racist Roots of a Toxic Highway

Fed up with air and noise pollution, residents of Tremé, one of the nation’s oldest Black neighborhoods, are working to get the Clairborne Expressway taken down.
wordinblack.com/2024/03/new-or…

Historian Takkara Brunson wrote an important book about Black women in modern Cuba. It's #WomenHistoryMonth and a great time to read her book Black Women, Citizenship and the Making of Modern Cuba (@floridapress), check it out #slaveryarchive upf.com/book.asp?id=97…

I'm not dunking; I'm just adding that sometimes the use of biased metrics isn't accidental. Lots of people see these biases as creating the world as they want to see it and call that outcome meritocracy.

#OnThisDay in 1912, Charlotta Bass became one of the nation’s first Black female editor-owners. She renamed The California Owl newspaper The California Eagle, and turned it into a hard-hitting publication. She campaigned against the racist film “Birth of a Nation,” which depicted…

Meet my Uncle Greg.

For the last 34 years, he was imprisoned for a crime he did not commit.

Yesterday, he was exonerated. 🙏🏾

🧵

So Georgia out here asking for freedom papers in 2024. Ook

.Darrick Hamilton is an honoree of TIME's 'The Closers' list which recognizes 18 Black leaders working to end the racial wealth gap! He was recognized for his work on #babybonds . The first newborn in CT was set up with this bond in July 2023.

Learn more:buff.ly/3Ig8ezz

They starved them en masse then massacred them when they came to finally recieve some food. This is an evil crime atop a massive pile of evil crimes.

“Our most treasured resource on earth is people, and [Baby Bonds] is a program that’s going to demonstrate that.”

Darrick Hamilton joined APG US CEO Matilde Segarra to discuss the wealth gap in the U.S. and how #BabyBonds are part of the solution.

Watch: assetmanagement.apg.nl/publications/o…

I just saw Ava DuVernay’s Origin and left the theater struggling to hold back tears. This film will stand the test of time - a cinematic masterpiece - unlike some of the films nominated for major film awards this year.

Only 1 little girl came to my story time yesterday but she had such a passion for reading. She kept asking me to read more books & kept scooting closer to me. It was a great first reading experience!

This speech by Nada Tarbush at a United Nations conference yesterday will go down in history.

In front of a room filled with states from around the world, she exposes the racist ideology that underpins Western support for Israel.

What is the purpose of continuing to send arms to Israel,…

Not them getting caught running a racist account 25 minutes after that crocodile tears press conference 😭

Our very own!

Ed Clark, who led Boeing’s 737 Max program, is leaving the company after several recent safety failures. I’m confused because Fox News told me that Boeing was only failing because of women and Black people the company hired through DEI.

seattletimes.com/business/boein…