Labor activist Chris Smalls has been released from an Israeli prison, a spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition said

September 30!

Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

Memorial Day Monday, May 26th at 4pm, I'll be hosting + reading at the Guggenheim alongside Imani Waweru & Ehima Ora for Rashid Johnson's Guggenheim Exhibit: A Poem for Deep Thinkers.

Arts organizations across the country saw their NEA grants pulled with little explanation, while a proposed federal budget sought to eliminate the arts funding agency altogether. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Trump Proposes Elimination of NEA and NEH www.americantheatre.org/2025/05/02/t...

NEW YORK (AP) — Rite-Aid files for bankruptcy protection for the second time in two years.

My piece is featured in Okay Donkey's March newsletter. "The Emmy Goes to the Seagull Flying off with a Hot Wing in front of the Chicken Spot?" Is honestly one of my favorite pieces. Catch me performing this and more pieces this summer near your picnic benches. okaydonkeymag.com/2023/01/27/t...

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That’s terror you’re feeling.

Please watch, share, do what she suggests… it is indeed v v urgent

Civil rights groups, labor organizations and politicians praised Alexis Herman as a "trailblazer" who fought for the rights of women, Black people and American workers over the course of decades.

Tony Koji Wallin-Sato’s poetry asks what it means to be free and reckons with the legacy of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

James Harrison, whose blood contained a rare antibody that helped him save more than 2 million babies through decades of blood donations, has died

Today is the publication day for Essex Hemphill's *Love Is a Dangerous Word: Selected Poems," out from @NewDirections, which Robert Reid-Pharr & I coedited! Essex Hemphill's work speaks both to its time & compellingly to our current moment. Please order a copy! www.ndbooks.com/author/essex...

In his inauguration speech Trump announced his fascist anti-immigrant raids and mass deportation attempts. We are not helpless. Here are 7 action items you can start to take now to help protect our immigrant neighbors: www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...

Hi, I'm Nic, and I'm happy to share that I'm now cancer-free.  But I recently learned that I'm ineligible for disability pay at my job. Donations will reimburse expenses and pending medical bills while on leave.  I'm grateful for any support. 
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My friend for over a decade recently beat cancer after I cannot express it enough *MONTHS* of self advocacy against medical professionals who refused to conduct the tests to find the cancer in the first place. Consider donating/sharing their recovery gofund.me/794a2b24

Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

We need to pay attention to this now before it’s too late.

If you’re a federal employee, you should know this is a lie. Congress hasn’t appropriated these monies and so it’s literally not there to be spent. Also, federal agencies are limited by law to a max $25K payout in the case of restructuring.

NEW: The U.S. just stopped giving out HIV medications to 20 million people around the world — even though clinics still have meds on the shelves. My latest for @npr.org: www.npr.org/sections/goa...

International Planned Parenthood, Amnesty International & other global organizations advocating for or providing family planning services are warning this will lead to millions of preventable maternal deaths, unsafe abortions and other—again, preventable—crises in poorer countries:

Of the nearly 1200 arrests that ICE made on Sunday, half of them "appear to be non-violent offenders or people who have not committed any other criminal offense than crossing the border." www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Im a multi-disciplinarian I talk about my food writing, media critique and my comedic pieces, but poet Djiah is my favorite. Here is a piece that was published on @havehashad.com back in 2023. It's a square poem and a sestina in one piece. Readable 3 ways horizontal, vertical & dates with sestina.

Tom Morello was right. And now, we are living in the bonafide Rage Against the Machine era. It is time to organize. Our government is not failing us, it is actively trying to destroy us. #ResistForRealThisTIme

Trump, Kavanaugh, Hegseth. A whole government of men who rape, attempt rape, & abuse women. What a depraved time we are living through.

The full implications of designating the cartels as terrorist organizations will depend, in large part, to how the administration follows through.

Hi! Quick note: The Onion accidentally posted a stock photo from a vendor with an AI generated image in it. We pulled the post down once we found that out. Our commitment to not using AI is very real. It's in the union contract to disclose it if we ever do. World is a slop minefield and we're sorry.

Poet Countee Cullen was Langston Hughes’s frenemy during the Harlem Renaissance. Countee’s lover was Harold Jackman, known as “The Most Handsome Man in Harlem”. When Countee got married to WEB Dubois’s daughter, he went on a honeymoon to Europe with Harold instead… and Countee’s dad. 👀

I wonder if white people ever feel like they only got Noam Chomsky left (morally), the way that Black people feel like we only got Stevie Wonder left (musically).

My new poem "Gossip" in this newest edition of Gulf Coast Journal. Thanks so much for accepting it!

Here’s the list of the 78 Biden-era executive orders that have been reversed by Trump.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration throws out policies limiting arrests of migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches.

Barry Michael Cooper, the famed writer and producer who wrote “New Jack City,” “Above The Rim” and “Sugar Hill,” has died at 66

Trump on Gaza.Not to be believed.How he might rebuild it.But of course not for “those people”.Anyway “most of them are dead,you know”—“most of them are dead”.The President.How many ways can I thank u Michigan Trump voters & the 19% of u who didn’t vote bc of Gaza. www.instagram.com/reel/DFGSZ8t...

i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated

He is so evil. Can we use that word? Is there another? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

At 100 years old, legendary saxophonist and Sun Ra leader Marshall Allen is releasing his debut solo album

T.S. Eliot died on this day in 1965. This photo of his mustard, from the Faber staff fridge in Russell Square, was taken not long afterwards

A federal appeals court has struck down the FCC’s net neutrality rules that prevented internet service providers from throttling or blocking content or charging more to deliver it

just learned of Michael's passing. he was my favorite teacher at Syracuse. i’m heartbroken. * I do not want to belabor invisibility, but if it isn’t there in the spaces among the people as a spiritual thread then I do not want to be there either. —Michael Burkard, from "The Summer After Last"

If you’re a poet, you should wear Jordans in June

Now I'm thinking about the episode of A Different World where they put on an entire performance set to "Ego Trippin'" by Nikki Giovanni. Whew. Black art has given us so much