Spotify hosted a listening part for 1619: The College Edition, a Howard University student-produced podcast series based on the popular book by Ida Bae Wells.
thehilltoponline.com/2024/04/22/spo…

PEN America has canceled its 2024 Literary Awards, after months of criticism over the org’s response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza

28 authors withdrew books from consideration. The $75K prize will be donated to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund
publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…

An absolute bombshell. Alameda County prosecutors allegedly kept Black people and Jews off juries in murder cases, believing they would not convict if the death penalty was in play.

Now dozens of capital cases from prior decades must be reviewed.

oaklandside.org/2024/04/22/ala…

Gaza: Over 200 Bodies, Including Children, Found in Mass Grave at Nasser Hospital democracynow.org/2024/4/22/head…

What.

Tell me you don’t know any Black people without telling me you don’t know any Black people 😭😭😭

Dozens of migrants that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis tricked into flying from Texas to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts for a $615,000 taxpayer-funded political stunt have now been granted visas as human trafficking victims of Ron DeSantis's actions.

newsweek.com/desantis-migra…

Khan Younis: More than 300 bodies found in mass grave at Gaza hospital, says Gaza Civil Defense | CNN cnn.com/2024/04/22/mid…

Columbia’s formidable Knight First Amendment Institute just issued this statement calling for an urgent “course correction” at the university:

knightcolumbia.org/blog/knight-in… Knight First Amendment Institute Columbia University

i'm sorry everyone i think my head is going to explode

Good day for this passage from my book, 'What Are Journalists For?' (1999, Yale University Press) where I try to explain what 'multiple perspectives' means in a way that most anyone can grasp.

We should have done the same with all Confederate monuments.

I’m resigning from the board of Columbia Global Reports (a nonprofit publishing imprint from Columbia University) in solidarity with Columbia University students, staff, and faculty, as well as the present academic boycott of the institution

NYTimes Editorial Board on Martin Luther King's opposition to the Vietnam War: 'The moral issues in Vietnam are less clear-cut than he suggests; the political strategy of uniting the peace movement and the civil rights movement could very well be disastrous for both causes.'

Take a listen to this podcast, by the The Pulitzer Prizes, spotlighting the great @itscaitlinhd and her devastating story on the Trump administration's Zero Tolerance policy in The Atlantic. I loved traveling w/her to the border, and to the city I call home. pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/pulit…

Here's the letter that Knight First Amendment Institute just sent to President Shafik about free speech at Columbia (with corrected URL) knightcolumbia.org/blog/knight-in…

On Wednesday, I am scheduled to give the 2024 Mamie Phipps Clark and Kenneth B. Clark Distinguished Lecture at Columbia University. In light of the university’s current repression and criminalization of students, as well as the present academic boycott of the institution, I have

Register for this one day event (in person or virtually) co-sponsored by Smithsonian’s NMAAHC in Washington DC
Harvard reckoning with its legacy of slavery
Keynote by Ida Bae Wells
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Award-winning journalists @Michaelpollan & Eric Schlosser have been exposing ugly truths about the food we eat for years. In #FoodInc2 , they show us why letting a handful of mega-corporations control the food distribution system is a “fundamental threat to democracy.” #Velshi

Feels notable that 95% of ppl who say “go to a state school” did NOT go to a state school themselves

Nate went to UChicago 😂