Anyway, I wrote. Please read. newsone.com/6417747/heal...

Full article: Hope and struggle in the policed city: Black criminalization and resistance in Philadelphia, by Menika B. Dirkson www-tandfonline-com.proxy.library.upenn.edu/doi/full/10....

The great Kelli Anderson will be joining us for this event to showcase her 🌟 pop-up books (incldg her new, virtuosic Alphabet in Motion), index-card riso animations, and manually-operated mechanical signs! kellianderson.com/index.html Please RSVP and join us on Sept 10!

Philly-specific zine on responding to ICE raids

I just got an email informing me that my Annual Review on structural racism with @tyson-brown.bsky.social and @pahoman.bsky.social is open access. So, download away.

The woke college students were right but we can't acknowledge this because then we'll have to consider whether they're right about other things too. That I'm a big stupid moron for instance

What a mess www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

Great, new work across my radar today: Kim, Palm, Hand @njklein.bsky.social "strong evidence for intersectionality between traditional indicators of sociodemographic vulnerability (i.e., gender, immigration status, disability, ethnic minority status) and greater time stress" doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

For decades, the Amistad Research Center in NOLA has served as 1 of America’s largest repositories of artifacts on Black history, featuring a collection of 15 million rare documents dating back to the 1780s, as well as a fine art collection. Its future is uncertain. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

We’ve lost ten times that many students since 2014/2015. Those savings are gone. The problem wasn’t and isn’t capacity utilization. It was, is, and will be, what stabilizes and grows enrollment. If the intervention provided doesn’t promote enrollment growth, it doesn’t matter what the utilization is

It is regularly shared that the School District of Philadelphia saved 20M a year by closing 23 schools in 2012/2013. If the figure of 13,000 dollars of enrollment driven funding per student is right, then losing 1,500 would negate those savings

Harvard has been undermining and repressing not only student movements on campus but also Palestinian Studies as a site of academic inquiry (the repression of both is the same project)

Thousands of Philadelphia renters could be displaced without a deal to preserve affordable units. Here's what to know ↓

I have a chapter in the New Planning Histories edited volume. Lots of great chapters covering a range of topics and cities! link.springer.com/book/9789819...

Soft launch docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Give Standing Up for Philly Schools a follow and share a story with them on your Philly school building story! www.instagram.com/standupforph...

Really good roundup on what has happened so far in the facilities process (still no data sharing 😡,community meetings in the summer 🙃) and what is coming more meetings in the fall and closures (tho they don't save money or cause better outcomes 😔). whyy.org/articles/phi...

inquirer.com/education/philadelphia-school-closing-facilities-master-plan-meetings-20250708.html By December we will know which schools the district plans to close.Closures save no money, and lead to lower academic achievement and attendance.We need more people to come out to these meetings in July!

"Talking Walls moves through the Black queer spaces of Detroit, Philly, + NYC, tracing the architecture of queer resistance + joy. Through voice + archival fragments, the 📽️ honours the remnants of homes + hidden places where touch, language + memory hold defiant histories of survival + belonging."

POLICT DIGEST: Sustainability and climate plans for public K-12 districts have the potential to address infrastructural gaps that produce outdated, unhealthy, and unsafe school facilities. This digest from ‪‪@akirarodriguez.bsky.social & Samantha Shasanya takes a deeper look at several plans:

Philly's school district wants the community to participate in its closure/modernization process. But members of their advisory groups say their time has felt wasted by bureaucratic presentations. They worry the district is using them to add credibility to a flawed process.

Concerns grow over potential plan to close Philadelphia schools https://www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia/2025/06/10/community-leaders-concerned-about-school-closure-process/

tabling for NYC PLAN outside MS 35/TBBS this morning!

National Black Radical Organizing Conference " #NBROC: Closing Plenary - Is there an Electoral Strategy for Building Political Power" #BlackLiberationMedia www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSm-...

National Museum of Public Housing leaders hope visitors see there’s more to life in public housing than what's on the news.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... new book review in @housingjournal.bsky.social by @katrinanacker.bsky.social

The city of New Orleans didn’t agree to pay a settlement to Groves’ children until 2018. www.nola.com/news/courts/...

More about Kim Groves, a 32-year-old mother of three. veritenews.org/2024/10/14/k...

Len Davis is one of the death row prisoners whose sentence was commuted by Biden. A New Orleans police officer, he ordered a hit on Kim Groves in 1994 for filing a complaint about him. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/u...

Municipal swimming pools and urban amusement parks flourished in the 20th c. However, their success was based on the exclusion of African Americans. The history of recreational segregation is a largely forgotten one, but it has had a lasting significance. theconversation.com/the-forgotte...

Testimony from the Board of Education public hearing meeting yesterday…demands laid out for safe, healthy, and welcoming Philly school facilities www.instagram.com/p/DKAlh20xcPe/

New episode up! We talk with Charles T. Brown about his essential new book, Arrested Mobility: Overcoming the Threat to Black Movement, out now from @islandpress.bsky.social. We get into how to repair our cities, the importance of Black leadership, and what it truly means to “love thy neighbor.”

We're all trying to find the guy who did this! 🌭

I'm afraid I've confirmed that The Philadelphia Inquirer ran the same "Heat Index" supplement that the Chicago Sun-Times did

On this day before the 71st anniversary of the Brown v Board of Education decision that declared school segregation inherently unequal, sharing a new publication written for the 70th anniversary examining why integration is eroding (open access): 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

At yesterday’s University of Michigan Regents meeting, I was promoted to full professor, effective July 1. 🎆 Full professor is the highest rank in US academia. 26% of faculty are full. Among those, 4% are Black; 2% BW. Started my PhD 20 years ago this fall. What a journey! A fantastic voyage.

Belatedly introducing a new piece on racial capitalism, redlining, causality, and public health that I was lucky enough to work on with coauthors @snmarkley.bsky.social, Shannon Whittaker, and Amy Hillier! ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/... 1/

Interested in Philly school facilities and its new planning process? Go follow @ standupforphillyschools on IG for updates and opportunities to advocate and fight for improving Philly schools

Interested in Philly school facilities and its new planning process? Go follow @ standupforphillyschools on IG for updates and opportunities to advocate and fight for improving Philly schools

The latest issue of Dialogues in Human Geography is out now! Including three regular article forums; two further engagements forums; and two book review forums. More details in a short thread that follows! See the latest issue here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/DHG/curr...

ARTICLE FORUM 3: Keavy McFadden draws together social reproduction and infrastructure — theorizing education as an infrastructure of social reproduction and struggles over education with commentaries by Dan Cohen, Akira Drake Rodriguez, and Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz.

Book Review: J. T. Roane, Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Life and the Politics of Place journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Pleased to share this review of #DarkAgoras by @jtroane.bsky.social in @cicojournal.bsky.social -One of those books where you find something new/useful each time you read it!

In dead of night without public scrutiny, Indiana legislators passed legislation giving the governor sole appointing power over Indiana University's board of trustees, subjecting tenured faculty to "productivity" quotas that could lead to termination, and dissolving governance power of faculty.

THE SOCIAL NETWORK was not harsh enough toward zuck

They’re taking *our* investment—the money that we spent months writing grants for, the hours and hours we all spent reviewing each others’ work, the money that was supposed to go to libraries and community groups—and blowing it on this nonsense.