Seems like fair play, but I confess feeling sympathy for the intern who was asked by coaching staff to do this! www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

About sums up the nexus of the school and housing crisis in much of the United States today. www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...

Something about this story feels like a taste of Chicago and midwestern history too often overlooked, a love of bowling. blockclubchicago.org/2026/05/13/c...

Marco has been incredible with Fulham. I also think the conclusions of two seasons narrowly missing European play late may indicate the need for change? www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Faust is widely credited with introducing this sort of personalized and often spontaneous “walk-up music” to Major League Baseball. chicagoreader.com/music/the-se...

One of the fascinating, funniest, and perhaps tragic for Middlesborough, story lines in a sport of stories: www.sbnation.com/soccer/11144...

Today is the anniversary of the ruling of Brown v. Board and the silence is telling. Good time to reflect on that longer history with Dr. James Anderson, who wrote in 2004: The promises of Brown are unfulfilled, and the nation has to face up to this reality." journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

“ Let’s be clear: Fifa has long been a shameless purveyor of greenwashing.“ www.theguardian.com/football/202...

“The prison is the frontline war in a society that seeks to censor and control people & ideas. The current wave of censorship in schools & public libraries is an extension of the more highly advanced structures of control that have & are being developed in prisons.“ inquest.org/lighting-the...

“The dream is to merge the athletic side of Los Angeles with the organizing side,” Eric Sheehan said, “and hopefully radicalize people into understanding how life in the imperial core is connected to these spectacles.”https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/soccer-fifa-world-cup-activism/

The first thing the editor in chief of the Roosevelt school newspaper did when she got home was hug her father. Then she opened her computer and started to type. Her article went viral. Lila Dominguez said running the newspaper during the ICE surge showed her “the power of truth.”

The question discourages people from applying to college. In Illinois 10 of 12 public institutions still have the question on the admissions and the “campus safety” argument that institutions make to justify the practice is not supported by evidence. www.theeduledger.com/latest-news/...

The summer reading group books are in! Excited to read Andrew Diamond’s Mean Streets with our Education Justice Project students at Danville Correctional Center this summer.

Recently enjoyed seeing my students participate in the Undergraduate Research Symposium here on campus, one of my favorite events of the year. It is always inspiring and rewarding to see all the outstanding work students are doing.

The strike was paused last week, according to the advocacy group No Detention Centers in Michigan, but continued over the weekend at North Lake, an 1,800-bed facility owned and operated by private prison firm GEO Group. www.mlive.com/news/2026/04...

St. Paul Teachers Strike for Better Wages, high school students marching on downtown St. Paul (MN) December 11, 1946.

Batione Hotel, in Cedar-Riverside (607 19th Ave. S), taken by Bonnie Miller as part of the Urban Arts program of Minneapolis Public Schools in 1973.

Map of Model City area, Southside Minneapolis, 1970, an area subjected to intense urban renewal and interstate construction throughout the postwar decades. Note “New South High” (bottom right) and Central High (34th and Clinton) for those familiar with the area and its history.

“NABS was deeply impacted this past year when the Trump administration ordered the NEH to cancel over $1.5 million of funding for boarding school archival research and for interviewing boarding school survivors." www.hcn.org/articles/tri...

A Brief History of Incarceration in the U.S. whyy.org/articles/a-t...

"I think history tells us that this is just another- this is the same thing with a new face, a new name. For us it was really important that we called it what it is data colonialism and really push back on the physical and the material impacts on our lands." truthout.org/video/indige...

“Concealed infrastructure created by capitalists adapted by fascists. A disappearing machine. You dont need to know the history of warehouses to oppose their transformation into concentration camps. There are ways to slow down that machine jam it up break it apart.” placesjournal.org/article/the-...

Really enjoying Rashad Shabazz’s new book on Prince (Race, Place, and Music)

Daryl Baldwin told Miami officials he credits the unique relationship between the two Miamis -the sovereign tribal nation and the public educational institution- with playing a key role in supporting the Miami Tribe in language revitalization & cultural awakening www.journal-news.com/local/25th-a...

"There are 600,000 people that we know are coming home from state and federal prisons every year. And I'm asking myself, how do I want them to return?” www.wvxu.org/2026-04-09/n...

“Education ... slowly gave me the ability to begin asking different questions — not just about what I had done, but about why I had lived the way I did, and what had shaped those choices,” Mike Pierce EJP alumni and incoming PhD student at University of Illinois. chicago.suntimes.com/2026/04/19/f...

“Education is liberation and your freedom is what I want to celebrate this morning,” Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice. Initiative.https://www.wbez.org/education/2026/04/18/northwestern-prison-education-program-holds-first-graduation-since-stateville-closure

“I believe these graduates are manifestations of someone’s choice to affirm their humanity and their dignity,” -Commencement speaker, Human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson, author, the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. dailynorthwestern.com/2026/04/14/c...

“To have classmates from the University of Illinois is the closest thing to freedom I have experienced while incarcerated.” dailyillini.com/news-stories...

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

CNN cuts to reporter Sara Sidner, who is in distress: "I'm trying to breathe"

Watching these videos of ICE attacking children, I can’t help but think about how many of these men first practiced their violence in their own homes. Domestic violence teaches our oppressors to dehumanize the most vulnerable among us.

The Oglala Lakota Nation unanimously voted to ban ice from their reservation. www.netnewsledger.com/2026/01/23/o...

Federal agents are repeatedly using gas to disperse the crowd at the scene in south Minneapolis where agents shot and a killed man. Agents are deploying an irritant each time residents reappear in the intersection. Video by Elliot Hughes, Susan Du, Louis Krauss and Josie Albertson-Grove

The entire immunity ICE is being afforded is not from Trump, it is from the local leaders, the mayor and the governor who refuse to confront them or stop them in ANY way, not even the big ways but all the small ways, they are willing to do nothing.

things are horrific on the ground at the scene in mn right now, and another upside of the signal chat network is that people are learning what is happening in real time. find yours. join it. build it before you need it.

It’s also striking in the video how many of the agents jumped back after the first shot was fired. This suggests they were surprised, which means they had no reason to believe lethal force was necessary. Their own body language tells the story.

I'm honestly just sick. If you can stomach watching any of this footage & still let the words "more training" escape your mouth, I cannot ever forgive you. These are state-sanctioned street executions. This is the training.

The killing marked the second fatal shooting by federal agents in the city in less than a month. Neither victim appeared to be the target of immigration enforcement.

ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement. "I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish. Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature. Minneapolis, MN

Been thinking a lot about how these students in Minneapolis have grown up with consecutive crises from Covid & George Floyd to school shootings & the killing of Renee Good. They are leading a great grassroots change that we will see the fruits of for years to come. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Been hearing this from our students in IDOC for some time... but its good to see this circulating publicly. Allegations include that Centurion has deliberately been indifferent to patience health needs and repeatedly ignored, denied care and misdiagnosed patients. www.wbez.org/prisoncast-i...

3.) If you’re an academic with a research fund or a book buying budget from your institution, spend that money with us, not Amazon! Put that institutional wealth towards a local worker cooperative not Bezos. 4.) Come out to our moving celebration, date TBD!

Really thankful to have had the opportunity to present my research and share dialogue with fellow researchers last week in DC.

Super excited to be hosting this virtual book talk with Derek Taira on Wednesday April 30th (4pm cst). If anyone is interested, please reach out and I will get you a zoom link!

Really grateful to be in dialogue with some really generous, brilliant, beautiful people in Denver.

Always happy to present alongside and learn from such incredible people.

So apparently this is the place to be virtually speaking. Welcome friends, always happy to be in the best of company.

A good reminder for today: Central High handwashing area, December 1952. Collection on the Minneapolis Public Schools (M/A 0318), Hennepin County Library Collections.