In 1933 Adolf Hitler shook down German industrialists for millions of Reichsmark to establish what he called the Adolf-Hitler-Spende der deutschen Wirtschaft—a slush fund he used to pay off Nazis whose violence got them into legal trouble. In 2026, Donald Trump is quietly doing the same thing.

Women spend much of our lives receiving messages about aging. We are encouraged to fight it, conceal it, slow it down, and disguise its visible signs. Entire industries depend on our willingness to believe that aging is a problem requiring intervention.

Black hair has always functioned as a cultural text, encoding economic aspiration and spiritual practice, generational memory and political positioning. It moves through entertainment and into the market and back into the community, carrying meaning at every stop. www.linkedin.com/pulse/hair-c...

Starved of cash, the U.N. has made historically large spending cuts and embarked on an efficiency drive. It has closed offices and eliminated a record 3,000 secretariat posts. It has powered down escalators and ignored loose cladding on its 75-year-old headquarters in NY. www.wsj.com/world/the-u-...

Hurston saw adornment as artistry. Modern America often interprets the same impulse as failed discipline. That distinction matters because the policing of Black style has never been merely aesthetic. It is also about regulating who gets to occupy public space comfortably and under what conditions.

"The photographs from Osaka's dinner offered a glimpse of belonging. What they did not offer was a ranking system. The difference matters. One creates community. The other creates a world in which people are valued according to how closely they resemble an ideal."

Fonseca came to play against Djokovic today. Fifth set upcoming. He is 19. His legs and nerves seem to be steady!!

Djokovic, Fonseca has turned into a great match.

Academia is organized around ways of knowing. Popular and mass culture, and shaping cultural appetites are not so much engaged except in “studies” fields. Scholars in there understand exactly why this matters in a four alarm fire, this is not a drill, speak or forever hold your peace, kind of way.

“The National Design Studio was created by executive order in August 2025. Its job, officially, is to redesign how Americans experience their government. Its leader is Joe Gebbia, cofounder of Airbnb, which is to say he is a man who looked at the American home and saw an untapped revenue stream.”

When most people think about fascism, they think about governments, leaders, and state violence. They think about censorship and repression. Those elements matter, but they are not where authoritarian projects begin. They begin with stories about belonging.

When most people think about fascism, they think about governments, leaders, and state violence. They think about censorship and repression. Those elements matter, but they are not where authoritarian projects begin. They begin with stories about belonging.

Dear cash-strapped universities, please see below and budget accordingly: “corporate leaders are scrambling to bring down expenses by finding ways to ration AI use in their organizations, steer workers toward cheaper, homegrown tools and help them hone their skills to improve returns. “

Beginning in 1958, Eunice Johnson built a traveling couture spectacle featuring Black models, audiences, and designers moving through 200 cities across the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. Black were worthy of glamour. www.linkedin.com/posts/noliwe...

I’m honestly not sure these young people are listening to the NAACP about where they should go to school. Or is the organization more impactful for them than I understand?

This part of summer is so good for watching sports. Tennis and basketball are very good right now.

My Bethune book is out in paperback. I am so very proud of it!

My Bethune book is out in paperback. I am so very proud of it!

I mean the whole thing is a destructive scam that’s fun to play with and streamlines tasks. It’s hardly the holy grail!

Talarico: I’m an eighth-generation Texan. I’ve been eating barbecue since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment. And if all they have on me is lying about me being a vegan, I feel pretty good about our chances this November.

Folks steady regret it when they fail to understand what mass and popular culture tells us about politics.

A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers in recent months, in some cases using the names of real professors at top universities without their knowledge.

Just tone deaf and why in the midst of the decline of democracy so many are still uninspired by corporate Dems.

Well...at least I'm not important enough for scammers to do this?

Watching the new PBS documentary W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause, I kept thinking not only about Du Bois’s politics but about Black fashion at the turn of the twentieth century. Black freedom struggles were never only legislative. They were also aesthetic. www.linkedin.com/pulse/du-boi...

And now they are all gone. RIP Sonny Rollins.

@nycsanitation.bsky.social I’d like to report a sweep

“This era demands a new framework for Black politics—fresh strategies, tactics, leaders, and goals. We need a “Double Front” approach. And we should be clear-eyed: Even before Callais, the existing models of Black politics were growing stale. The” newrepublic.com/article/2106... via @newrepublic.com

I honestly don’t remember a time when so many people tried to shoot at the White House in such a short period of time.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

What is this?

Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Since when have they not??? Clinton and Obama were big fans. Democrats, It’s Time to Embrace School Choice www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/o...

“The new report concludes that the Supreme Court decision reduced the number of students of color at institutions with the highest graduation rates and largest median incomes after graduation, a result that the authors said could lead to persistent racial inequities in income.”

"They pulled her out of Clinton High and moved to Los Angeles at the urging of an uncle of hers who lived there. After finishing school, she began a long career as a pediatric nurse in California."

At Johns Hopkins, a once-robust diversity office has quietly withered, shrinking from 14 staffers to three, pausing programs for underrepresented scholars and restricting race-based initiatives on campus. The disappearing diversity programs at Hopkins: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

Grateful to see Integrated on the Best of 2025 list from Fresh.Air.Reads

CNN is covering the manhunt for the Brown shooter!

Integrated is long listed with some great books for the 2026 Pen Galbraith Award!

Integrated is long listed with some great books for the 2026 Pen Galbraith Award!

This is why it’s hard to hit reset.

Gotta say it's mindblowing to me that the Brown shooter is still at large and they don't even seem to have identified who they're looking for.

Too many of us have had the experience of our employer, or educational institution writing, texting and calling to say that a shooter is among us, run to safety, barricade the door. And if that’s doesn’t work, fight like your life depends on it. Too many of us have received this message.

For a couple of years now, I've been fascinated with what's happening at small liberal arts colleges, which are running out of money for reasons unrelated to Trump funding cuts. Businessweek let me go deep on the problems, and one college that's trying to blaze a new trail.

The most embarrassing thing about me is I love academia despite its toxicity. For years I’ve been unable to recommend it as a career path. But today as more institutions are relinquishing what ever made these institutions worthwhile I am not sure the enterprise as a whole will last much longer.

👀 Alex Vitale is a sociologist who wrote a very good book called The End of Policing.