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This woman and her husband were stopped at a light at Montgomery & Bush yesterday morning when a tow truck comes out of nowhere & tries to hook onto their Toyota!

I spoke to Joanne today who says her car is paid off, paid her registration & doesn’t get why her car was targeted.…

'The requirement of standardized test scores provides the “fairest admissions policy for disadvantaged applicants.”

Common sense says this isn't true given especially how expensive standardized test prep courses are- disadvantaged applicants usually cannot afford these.

Congrats to MPG on his Guggenheim Fellowship!!

Archival shouting — Karin Wulf, director and librarian of the John Carter Brown Library and Professor of History, penned this feature for American Historical Association's newsmagazine on 'archival silence' and 'archival shouting' in collections and institutions. historians.org/research-and-p…

Government agencies are withholding grants to the University of California at San Diego because one retired scientist didn’t turn in reports. The Chronicle estimates the university has about $700 million in affected grants. chroni.cl/3vUOiQ8

If archives can be silent, can they also shout? Karin Wulf reflects on the noisier archives for #AHAPerspectives . historians.org/research-and-p…

Happening now in the BassPas in Africana@Brown. Tony Bogues telling us about the archive of the “idea of Haiti” in relation to the archive of Black freedom vs, The Imperial Archive.

noliwe rooks “I am going to tell you things about myself that no one would want anybody to think was true of them.”

@ 400-odd pages this is the best way to write a barn burner imho 📚

Robin D.G. Kelley: “We must tap the well of our own collective imaginations, that we do what earlier generations have done: dream. … Without new visions we don’t know what to build, only what to knock down.
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karla fc holloway noliwe rooks Ditto!!

“Racism Without Racists”

In no state has the FAFSA submission rate equaled or increased over last year. In no state has the rate decreased by less than 25%. It hurts to think of how this will compound losses in diversity from the SCOTUS decision.

I hope this research matters. I really do. None of it is surprising. Broader representation in school governance is better. Localizing control under the mayor is alienating and inefficient. In these times though, truth does not always sway politicians and the way they govern.

State Education Department Releases Report on Mayoral Control of New York City Schools: bit.ly/3Ua2pdH

Looks to be a barn burner-“Loury details a litany of public scandals and private misdeeds: a crack-cocaine addiction; abandoning a child; myriad extramarital liaisons; soliciting prostitutes; multiple arrests. And on and on.” Glenn Loury Comes Clean chronicle.com/article/glenn-…

What a horrifying disaster

onedtech.philhillaa.com/p/visualizing-…

I hope this research matters. I really do. None of it is surprising. Broader representation in school governance is better. Localizing control under the mayor is alienating and inefficient. In these times though, truth does not always sway politicians and the way they govern.

I admire Gregg Mitman for a number of reasons, and his efforts to support conversations between African scholars of critical environmental studies and US scholars of Black Ecologies and Black Geographies is one of them.

Racial diversity among college faculty lags behind other professional fields, report finds

Black professionals in industries like law, science and engineering make up roughly 9.1% of the workforce, compared to 7.1% of college faculty
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