Yesterday, four astronauts swung around the far side of the moon, traveling farther from the Earth than any humans had ever gone before, taking some spectacular photographs along the way. theatln.tc/19ze00pK 📸: NASA; Ronaldo Schemidt / AFP / Getty

The Aging Class | Trevor Jackson Retirement, like so much of the American economy, is a broken system that benefits private interests and exploits the most vulnerable people. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Dr. Maureen Mahon, a cultural anthropologist in the Dept of Music at NYU, made a "Soundtrack of America Family Tree".🎶 Her books, both Duke Press, are "Right To Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race" and "Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll" 🎸

Reclaiming the Banjo's Hidden Black History Follow Hannah Mayree, musician, banjo maker, and founder of the Black Banjo Reclamation Project, as they organize workshops and performances celebrating the banjo’s Black history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVv...

When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. (Published May 2023)

"Homeland Security Department pauses warehouse purchases as internal revolt, legal challenges, and political infighting cloud the program's future..." www.projectsaltbox.com/p/dhs-pauses...

Astronaut Victor Glover is set to become the first person of color in human history to leave low Earth orbit and embark upon a lunar mission. #ArtemisII

If you want to learn about the "mystery of blue and its alchemy in the lives of Black folk" (Perry) this book from the scholar and genius Dr. Imani Perry is a must read. Just started reading and already know it's 10/10. bookshop.org/p/books/blac... #BlackBookSky #WhatImReading

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Something tells me he didn’t agree with the possible upcoming ground invasion…. Sec. Hegseth has asked US Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement. -CBS News

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

Or are STS researchers press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

fresh off the press from yours truly: oecs.mit.edu/pub/b61joemo... I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study 1/

Most of you know I’m doing some new work on gentrification with Ryan Anders Whitney and David Navarrete, so I’m reading up. #RPVBooks

Views | #HigherEd leaders Dr. Millette King and Dr. Sandy L. Robinson recently shared three recommendations to address supporting Black women through their doctoral programs in their latest op-ed for The EDU Ledger: bit.ly/4uMR2ZC

When Will We Begin to Listen? On the Meaning of Black Silence in a Democratic Crisis Candis Watts Smith Considers the Historical Experiences of Black Americans In the Current Era of Rising Authoritarianism lithub.com/when-will-we... | Literary Hub

"The leading medical school accreditation body in the U.S. has removed language from its standards that had required schools it validates to teach about health inequities." Shame. We don't live in a vacuum. All physicians should understand the structural forces that impact their patients' health.

Funnily enough, I’ve been building a web platform to host the accounts of Black Marylanders during the Civil War, or are those not the primary sources he’s talking abt? 🤔

Remembering Pearl Bailey, an early queen of stage and screen www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

“WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit.”

Has anyone written about the impact that the transatlantic slave trade had on medieval and early modern West Africa? Seeing some “opinions” about Ghana’s case and wondering about effects on the Motherland. Thanks in advance for any readings.

So are the headlines saying the Democrats won this round, or nah? Cause they did. Funding for TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard, no funding for ICE. That’s the deal Dems have been offering over & over. Republicans caved.

Wambūi Karanja of Kenya is "one to watch," says the Alzheimer's Association. Coping with her dad's condition inspired her to develop a training program for families on the art of caregiving. n.pr/41sscAK

I'll be at UChicago April 13th to chat with Ron Lieber from the NYT and Lauren Rivera from Northwestern about college admissions. I need no new scandals to pop up between now and then please. ccct.uchicago.edu/events/aspir...

SENATE DEMOCRATS DEFEAT AMENDMENT FOR PHOTO ID REQUIREMENT TO VOTE www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Do they really just not like each other? #Verzuz

Didn't not even know Verzuz was still a thing.

Y'all know what to do: secure.actblue.com/donate/loc_j...

Kamala Harris to appear at Democratic events through the South in April www.cnn.com/2026/03/26/p...

Between 1941 and 1946, over 50,000 Panamanians —most of them Black— were stripped of their birthright citizenship. It was the first constitutionally sanctioned denationalization in the Americas. Yet, almost no one talks about it. 🧵👇 thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...

I actually really like both of these books. I am reading a lot of these lately to avoid repeating what other authors have already said in my own book. #RPVBooks

“…the 1st thing is that for truth & justice, truth & reconciliation, truth & restoration, truth & repair…we have to acknowledge that those things are sequential. You can't get the beautiful r-words like redemption &…repair unless you first tell the truth.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Long before today’s ruling, we knew social media was harming our young people. Teens, parents, advocates, even casual observers begged tech and elected leaders to take action. While we applaud this decision, we have more work to do to protect young people online and support their mental health.

A close look at the oral history interviews of chemical engineer Paula Hammond, biomedical engineer Anjelica Gonzalez, and physicist Shirley Ann Jackson https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/in-her-own-words-black-women-scientists-reflect-on-meaningful-accomplishments

>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.

NONE OF THIS WOULD BE HAPPENING IF SHE WAS IN OFFICE

JUST IN: Democrats tonight have flipped a GOP-held state House seat in Florida. And not just any seat: This is the district that contains Mar-a-Lago. (It voted for Trump by 11% in 2024). That's right: Trump will now be represented by a Democrat, Emily Gregory, in Tallahassee.

A decade ago, I did make a reading list to help scientists get started! 🧪 medium.com/@chanda/deco...

"Nonfiction books are a crucial bulwark against the surging public culture of “alternative facts,” outright lies, and the brazen embrace of ignorance." newrepublic.com/article/2076...

💉 Where can you find accurate information on vaccines❓ ✅ American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-... ✅ Medical societies: cmss.org/programs-and... ✅ CIDRAP for in-depth evidence review: vaxintegrity.cidrap.umn.edu/evidence-rev...

I'm delighted to be returning to UMass Amherst tomorrow, my alma mater, to give the distinguished annual history lecture in association with the Five College Grad Program in history.

"If the cultural appropriation of Black life and culture could be traced, at least, to Blackface minstrels in the early 19th century, The White Negro that Mailer conjured, was a more intellectual iteration of the phenomenon." medium.com/p/afb09b340e88

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I want to hear from you. Reach me via Signal at marisakabas.04

Meanwhile, the obvious solution to all this is to pull the plug on these tech broligarchs & invest in meeting human needs & wellbeing.

Day 8/8 and now finished. Recommend. Author is a gifted storyteller weaving together stories of what could be any soon-to-be gentrified neighborhood with a history of redlining, medical racism, and more. At 300+ pages. book a little long, but will likely re-read. #WhenNoOneIsWatching #BlackBookSky

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