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Non-tenure-track contract faculty at NYU went on strike this morning after over a year of bargaining (capped by a 24-hour+ marathon session). Big crowd of @uaw.org members and supporters, incl lots of students. They’re picketing over pay, workload, AI, a voice in faculty governance, & more.

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Take control of AI at your uni! @aaup.org now compiles guidance and tools for artificial intelligence, including working group reports, bargaining and union resources, auditing and public records request tools, and sample syllabus language. Please share widely: www.aaup.org/issues-highe...

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Our most recent seminar brought together a global cohort of scholars thinking through “Biocultural Anthropology for the 21st Century.” These meetings provide great opportunities for generating meaningful insights. There was even a cat! We’d love to receive your submission 🙂

The AFA is thrilled to announce that we are soliciting nominations for the following awards. afa.americananthro.org/grants-and-p... - AFA Senior Book Prize (May 4) - Dissertation Write-Up Grant (June 1) - Sylvia Forman Prize for Graduate and Undergraduate Papers (June 1) #AFA #femanth

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Toni Morrison:

A consistent truth, cops lie. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

So you don’t know anything at all about the type of preparation (mental, logistical) that it takes in order to actually pull off long term action, do you? Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma didn’t just happen out of the blue. Getting people to the point of sustained collective action takes practice.

True values come out in times of crisis. Some organizations are leaning in, others are leaning out.

A group of mostly Quaker religious organizations succeeded in temporarily preventing federal immigration agents from operating around their places of worship across the U.S.

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Recent events have reminded me once again how ridiculous it sounds when I hear folks complaining that “Defund the police” is not a viable or realistic political message.

Transforming Anthropology, the flagship journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists, seeks to advance scholarship across the four fields of anthropology and beyond. www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/tra...

More of this please: CA State Superintendent saying, “Not today, Satan.”

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

JOB: The Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina Wilmington invites applicants for an Assistant Professor in Religion position in the area of American Religions, Race, Social Justice, or Africana Studies. Deadline: 2/27

I need to find a dabke class. They be getting it!

I spoke to @washingtonpost.com about reports that AI tools are being used with federal data noting that this is occurring without transparency, consent, or attention to privacy and security concerns, and heightening the American public's mistrust of AI www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Palestinians have a right to their land, a right to return, a right to self-determination, and a right to liberation.

Somebody had to say it. This is at the heart of why it’s so difficult for so many people to get enthusiastic about supporting the Democratic Party. They simply don’t do enough when push comes to shove to distinguish themselves from the folks they (rightly) demonize.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, before she was known as an author, Toni Morrison was a Random House trade editor who almost singlehandedly introduced black radical activists to mainstream American readers.

Y’all, @haymarketbooks.org is offering 40% off their Black Liberation books—including my new book, “Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education” and the book I coedited “Balck Lives Matter at School.” www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/65-40-...

When it comes to these executive orders, I need more states with Democratic governors and majorities saying, simply, “That shit is illegal. We ain’t doing that. Sue us,” and go on with business as usual.

Everyone can organize. Everyone can contribute to social movements. Everyone can do something, from somewhere. None of this is about "professionalism" or policy"expertise. That is counterinsurgency, demobilizing logic. Everyone can organize and has something to offer.

It’s that time of the year again! #Ramadan is coming up quickly (I can’t believe it either!) and many of us are looking for ethical dates. I love this Black-owned California date farm: www.samcobbfarms.com/PRODUCT.html Pesticide-free, and you can’t get his Black Gold dates anywhere else.

I keep saying this…

NEW: workers at a Philadelphia Whole Foods won the first major union election of the second Trump era. They told me about the work it took to get there—and the ways Amazon-owned Whole Foods tried to stop them. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I generally shoot a healthy side-eye and stone cold heart at repentant cheater songs, but nobody can resist Mr. Kenny Edmonds singing “Never Keeping Secrets.” That man was begging for his life and it’s highly effective 🤣🤣🤣

This is only the beginning.

I wonder how much of that 40% feel like they've failed, when they absolutely haven't because a vast majority of career advice is still coming from academics that "made it".

Most people who use these stores and have access to both probably use both, often for different things. Their inventories don’t perfectly overlap. Also, though I carried a Costco membership for many years, at this point in my life I don’t need to buy in those quantities anymore.

As much as I love Tabitha Brown’s public persona—what good to us is her individual success if the price of it is our collective silence? I ain’t mad at folks for trying to make a living in general, but this is one reason why we can’t “entrepreneur” our way to liberation.

Costco shareholders have overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal as other U.S. companies retreat from their diversity policies

The Mayor of Newark says ICE detained citizens and a military veteran in a warrantless raid there today. www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...

THANK YOU NEW JERSEY for full service gas stations. Cause this cold? No ma’am 😭

If you got your PhD in the last 4 years, these look good:

We should not be the least bit surprised when people who’ve built entire careers out of calling Black women bitches and hoes show us (once again) that they do not have liberatory politics.

We must all strenuously fight the horrors of anti-Palestinian racism.

A deeply moving conversation about the incredible losses we’ve seen here in LA due to the wildfires, how they’ve disproportionately impacted Black and Asian communities, and the pain of losing history and seeing beloved memories go up in smoke. Give it a listen.

this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

GRANT OPPORTUNITY The Spelman Archives is pleased to offer two travel awards of $2,500.00 each for two currently enrolled PhD students to research in the Audre Lorde Papers during Summer 2025. The deadline for applications is 3/1. Happy to share program contact with interested folx