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Brad Lander
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This is Yasir. He’s 21 yo. He fled Sudan after he was kidnapped & tortured by the RSF. Thx to his legal team @Door_NYC he walked out of his ICE check-in today (unlike too many others). The best of birthday presents to have been there to meet him. Amazing what a New Yorker he’s already becoming.
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Audrey Truschke
5 months ago
I shall be sending this article in response to every university admin who spams my inbox with “How to use AI in your teaching” nonsense:
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Goes Full Nazi, Calls Itself 'MechaHitler'
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot unleashed a slew of antisemitic commentary and praised Hitler after apparent change allowed it to be 'politically incorrect'
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-grok-chatbot-antisemitic-posts-1235381165/
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Cynthia Leitich Smith (Native Books for Young Readers & More)
5 months ago
Heartdrum cover reveal! A GOOD HIDE, written by Karina Iceberg & ill. by
@navabear.bsky.social
(Heartdrum, Jan. 13, 2026). Ages 4-up. Pre-order:
bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...
@harperkids.bsky.social
@harperstacks.bsky.social
@weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social
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Hudson Valley Writers Center
5 months ago
Vivid characterization makes a story memorable, rich, and real -- join author
@olugbemisolabooks.bsky.social
to work together through exercises to connect interior life to actions, and foster the creation of full-bodied, authentic, and memorable characters.
#amwriting
#writingsky
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It's pub day for SYNCLAIRE FIELDS KNOWS THE SCORE, the latest book in the Kids in Mrs. Z's Class series! Coordinated by
@katemessner.com
, illustrated by
@katfcomix.bsky.social
. What happens when your THING isn't working for you anymore? Here's a bit from the opening. Check out the whole series!
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I'll be presenting on children's books centering Black joy with some brilliant people at
#ALAAC25
on Sunday; please also stop by the LBYR Booth 205 at 4:30 to grab a copy of SYNCLAIRE FIELDS KNOWS THE SCORE!
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#sistersuptown
in Harlem and
@lisaysbooks.bsky.social
are excited to welcome
#Johnniemae
,
@olugbemisolabooks.bsky.social
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#AlliahLAgostinigo
, and
#MalcolmDill
to our Summer Saturday Storytime. Scan the QR Codes and bring the kids in for some spirited read alouds!
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"The best literature does not exist to reinforce easy answers, but to push, prod, and unsettle—so that young readers learn to think for themselves....Children...don’t need to be shielded from these realities. They need stories that help them navigate them."
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Madeleine L’Engle’s Books Were Never Meant to Be “Safe” - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
The granddaughter of beloved writer Madeleine L’Engle, author of one of the most banned books of the last 60 years, advocates that books should build courage, not keep us “safe.”
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/madeleine-lengles-books-were-never-meant-to-be-safe/
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Bill Grueskin
6 months ago
This is a good moment to recognize
@thecity.nyc
, a nonprofit newsroom that covers stuff that other organizations (even really large ones that are based in New York City) often miss
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/n...
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Join us for Summer Saturday Storytime! I'll be there July 19th.
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Zinn Education Project
6 months ago
Prep for whats ahead. "We want to recall lessons of 2020 & to practice what Olurin called for: Remember our history, that we've been here before, so we can learn from the past & keep building toward a different future." -- by
@leximcmenamin.com
via
@teenvogue.com
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www.teenvogue.com/story/organi...
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What the 2020 Protests Can Teach Us About Protesting Today
"It is up to us to change everything. But, against the doomers, I believe in this moment we may be uniquely poised to do so."
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/organizers-and-thinkers-share-lessons-from-the-2020-protests
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Kate Messner
6 months ago
If you're going to a protest Saturday, consider bringing extra supplies - water, sunscreen, first aid, etc. There will be people out this weekend who have never protested before, including elderly folks. Let's welcome & take care of them.
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School Library Journal
6 months ago
The Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc. and School Library Journal have revealed the winning titles in the 2025 Children & Youth Literary Awards, which celebrate the diversity of the Black experience. (Jan.)
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BCALA, SLJ Announce 2025 Winners of the Children & Youth Literary Awards
The Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc. and School Library Journal announce the 2025 Children & Youth Literary Awards, which celebrate the diversity of the Black experience.
https://www.slj.com/story/BCALA-Black-Caucus-SLJ-Announce-2025-Winners-of-the-Children-and-Youth-Literary-Awards
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Celeste Pewter
6 months ago
This is a quick explainer re: Iran also worth watching today re: the IAEA vote -
youtu.be/_ewd9wdybbQ?...
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Iran says it'll create new uranium enrichment facility after vote at IAEA
YouTube video by Associated Press
https://youtu.be/_ewd9wdybbQ?si=bo_fftCJDUPAuUOG
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I would absolutely love to be in conversation with YOU about developing vivid, dynamic characters who drive their stories. Join me on Zoom July 12 for an interactive workshop--we'll talk, we'll write, and we'll have a great time:
www.writerscenter.org/event-detail...
#writing
#writers
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Kweli Journal
6 months ago
Join us tomorrow in-person or online! Kweli’s SING THE TRUTH Book Tour continues w/ award-winning author
@susanmd.bsky.social
at
@eastcitybooks.bsky.social
on THURSDAY 6/12 @ 7PM. 🎟️ RSVP at link in bio 👆🏿👆🏾👆🏽
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I'll be in conversation with Amber O'Neal Johnston and Desira B. Stewart for SUMMER SOUL SCHOOL on July 14 at 7pm ET--join us, it's virtual! Hosted by Baltimore Read Aloud:
online.baltimorereadaloud.shop/events
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London Review of Books
6 months ago
‘In circumstances where systemic violence is designed to fragment and isolate populations, community health work has become a form of resistance. It is not only a model for survival, but a way to assert the right to live in dignity.’ Mejd Azzeh in the West Bank:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
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Mejd Azzeh | In the West Bank
When I walked through the shattered streets of Tulkarem refugee camp the day after a military incursion last November,...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/may/in-the-west-bank
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Equal Justice Initiative
6 months ago
On this day in 1892, a white mob destroyed Ida B. Wells's newspaper office while she was away and threatened bodily harm if she returned because she challenged the myth of Black criminality.
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May 27, 1892 | White Mob Destroys Office of Ida B. Wells's Memphis Newspaper
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/may/27
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Lisa Stringfellow
7 months ago
KINGDOM OF DUST is a 2025 Children’s Africana Book Award honoree! I had no idea! I’m thrilled that the committee felt my West African-inspired fantasy honored and respected Nigerian culture. 🙏🏾📚
cfas.howard.edu/outreach/cab...
#CABAbooks
@harperkids.bsky.social
#QuillTreeBooks
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American Library Association
7 months ago
Join ALA next Monday (5/12) @ 3pm ET for a free, public webinar to hear about this year's push to
#FundLibraries
in Congress. We need EVERY advocate making their voice heard. Register & join us Monday:
elearning.ala.org/local/catalo...
Take action NOW:
bit.ly/Call2FundLibraries
#ForOurLibraries
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Joy-Ann Reid
7 months ago
Gotta say, I struggle on some days to reconcile the fact that millions of Americans actually WANT to live in a country with viruses spreading freely, thousand of people getting kicked out of their jobs, billionaires feasting on the government & people being snatched off the street by secret police.
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Jeff Sharlet
8 months ago
A tiny, easy thing you can do: wherever you’re traveling, buy the local paper and boost the news of how fascism is trickling down and how everyday people are pushing back. From today’s Caledonian-Record of St. Johnsbury, VT.
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Celeste Pewter
8 months ago
Morning, please call your House reps. This is one of those small victories that CFPB won last year which actually makes a quiet but powerful different for people. If you've ever been hit with overdraft fees, you know.
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Senate Overturns Rule Limiting Bank Overdraft Fees to $5
Lawmakers voted to invalidate a rule adopted last year by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It now moves to the House.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/overdraft-fees-limit-cfpb.html
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Joshua Weitz
8 months ago
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP:
scienceimpacts.org
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Authors Against Book Bans
8 months ago
Many libraries have Friends of the Library organizations that work as fundraisers & advocates. Libraries are going to need more friends than ever, so be sure to join your local chapter.
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Doghouse Reilly
8 months ago
Literally every Black person who comes to DC visits the NMAAHC and it’s a big source of pride among a very broad swathe of people. Censoring the work there won’t be as frictionless as people imagine.
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Kweli Journal
8 months ago
As we count the days to our Color of Children's Literature Conference
#Kweli25
, we're taking a look back at a wonderful convo between
#kidlit
artists + sisters Yuyi Morales and Magaly Morales in 2022! 🤩 Be sure to check out this year's lineup of authors on our website via the link in bio! 👆🏿👆🏾👆🏽
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NPR
8 months ago
The rising harpist explores spirituals, musical ancestors and the influence of church on her new album, Take Me to the Water.
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Ashley Jackson brings spirituals to the harp
The rising harpist explores spirituals, musical ancestors and the influence of church on her new album, Take Me to the Water.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5272887/ashley-jackson-harpist-new-album
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Lisa Ko
8 months ago
Build your own time capsule with me on April 2 at Interference Archive as an analog antidote to digital authoritarianism. When histories are rewritten and collective memory is contested, personal archiving can be a mode of resistance. RSVP:
www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your...
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Celeste Pewter
8 months ago
Okay, all. I have a call to action for all CA residents. If you're not a CA resident, please help share and boost? 1. Most of you know what happened to me last month. If not, my
@calmatters.org
op-ed was posted this morning. I'm working on changing the penal code.
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How a well-intended California domestic violence law results in victims being arrested | Opinion
The California Penal Code requires officers to make an arrest in domestic violence incidents, sometimes leading to victims being detained.
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/03/domestic-violence-law-victims-arrested/
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Jake Rosenfeld
8 months ago
"If the new law is passed, teenagers would be able to work overnight jobs on school days." Should do wonders for FL's test scores.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/b...
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Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants | CNN Business
Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wag...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/business/florida-child-labor-laws/index.html
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"Libraries remain non-partisan, practical institutions focused on ensuring equitable access to information, learning and civic participation." Take action, and
#showupforlibraries
:
www.ala.org/advocacy/sho...
#ala
#libraries
#publiclibraries
#IMLS
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Brittany J. Thurman
9 months ago
1 month away from Opal Watson: Private Eye! Thank you @kirkus_reviews for the beautiful words & all who helped bring Opal to the page. Dig into Opal’s life and the hidden gems of this mystery. Preorder from your fav indie!
@galltzacker.bsky.social
#harperkids
#mysterynovels
#opalwatson
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Ansley Erickson
9 months ago
#edusky
colleagues, higher ed or K-12, please share. We are at Columbia, but we know that this struggle matters for education across the lifespan. A Statement from Teachers College Faculty on the Attack on American Education
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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adhdwonderwoman
9 months ago
Have you ever heard the phrase, “ act local, think global”? One Million Little Experiments focuses on exploring community based projects that keep us all safe. It’s a wonderful initiative, full of inspiration and hope for our local communities . It’s The Good Place
millionexperiments.com
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One Million Experiments
Exploring snapshots of community-based projects that expand our ideas about what keeps us safe.
https://millionexperiments.com/
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It was a true joy!! 🥰
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Catch me and these fabulous writers on
#BlackAuthorsMatterTV
-- March 11th at 9:30 ET. Sponsored by the National Black Book Festival!
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ElieNYC
9 months ago
Hello friends. I'm launching a weekly newsletter for
@thenation.com
. Check out my first installment, where I have, among other things, *all the smoke* for Elissa's Slotkin's pathetic, Republican-coded nonsense.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Introducing “Elie v. U.S.”
A preview Elie Mystal’s new weekly newsletter.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/elie-v-us-newsletter/
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9 months ago
Here is something that can be done in school districts across the country. Hold a banned book or other read-in in a local church or community hall.
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Anna Gifty
10 months ago
In today's episode of doomerism isn't a strategy, here's a list of things you can do today to make the world around you suck a little bit less: Pick ONE thing and do it.
bsky.app/profile/itsa...
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Beth Popp Berman
9 months ago
This spreadsheet tracks university hiring freezes as well grad admissions pauses in the biosciences. I shared it before but didn't see the second tab. Thanks
@mayakaul.bsky.social
and
@katiecorker.bsky.social
for the info.
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Democracy Now!
9 months ago
The Palestinian-Israeli film "No Other Land" has won the Oscar for best documentary feature at this year's Academy Awards. Watch our interviews with two of the co-directors. Basel Adra:
www.democracynow.org/2025/2/18/ba...
Yuval Abraham:
www.democracynow.org/2024/4/5/no_...
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS
9 months ago
Rest in Power, Ancestor Dr. Alvin Poussaint. When affirmative action began in the late 1960s, Dr. Poussaint played a pivotal role in recruiting Black students to Harvard Medical School. He traveled to HBCUs across the South, personally seeking out and encouraging students to apply.
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Alvin Poussaint, Advocate for Black Mental Health and Social Justice, Dies
Psychiatrist, civil rights activist worked for more than 50 years at Harvard Medical School
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/alvin-poussaint-advocate-black-mental-health-social-justice-dies
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Jenn Baker - Offline Oct. 2025
9 months ago
Creative Capital has a lot of helpful seminars for Artists! Please also stay updated on DOGE and methods of trying to keep your information private Including this one on tax preparation:
youtu.be/X06vu4BHx1Y?...
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Artist Lab: 2024 Tax Preparation for Artists and Creative Entrepreneurs
YouTube video by Creative Capital
https://youtu.be/X06vu4BHx1Y?si=VYteM0NAx_cZ2nWG
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9 months ago
Your source for reviews of Black authored MG & YA books:
blackcottonreviewers.com
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Black Cotton Reviewers
"Literacy lets youpick your own dreams."
https://blackcottonreviewers.com/
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Timnit Gebru
9 months ago
Every single philanthropic institution needs to do this rather than retracting right now.
abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/abcnews....
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MacArthur Foundation to increase giving for two years in response to 'crisis'
The John D
https://abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/macarthur-foundation-increase-giving-years-response-crisis-119231509
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choir Collaboration
9 months ago
MUTUAL AID ALERT: Stand with our community in Astro+ adjacent fields impacted by the attack on DEIA, support our community by giving aid through our GoFundMe. See links in thread! - choir collab,
@blackinastro.bsky.social
, Astro Poverty Survey Team, MVMT Consulting
@dranicole.bsky.social
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