BTW, Jean Seberg, one of the stars of "Breathless," died tragically young, perhaps driven to suicide by the FBI's vicious harassment campaign against her. Her "crime." Supporting the Black freedom struggle. www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

I knew he was going to look like this.

Watching Godard's "Breathless" ("À bout de souffle") for the 1st time in 50+ years. Can't remember much except that I liked it & thought Jean Seberg was hot (still do). I know I didn't get that it's both an homage to & send-up of US film noir. French ambivalence about the US as art & entertainment.

@doodlyroses.com Festival International Victor Hugo, à Besançon (son lieu de naissance), 25-28 février 2027. 😄 👇🏽 www.instagram.com/p/DWlBxVfioM...

lol, lmfao even

This. Jus soli citizenship law was part of the revolutionary attack on inherited privilege in the 18th and 19th centuries. Also, lol this map “with no data” for all of Africa, Asia, and South Asia. Looking up basic shit is so hard

To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. (@eji.org) calendar.eji.org/racial-injus... “[In] 1804, Ohio’s all-white state legislature approved “An Act to Regulate Black and Mulatto Persons.” Three years later, it was amended to strip Black residents of their rights in the courts.”

"We all want our schools to be safe spaces. Oftentimes people conflate safety and policing, but policing our kids disproportionately negatively impacts Black, brown and neurodivergent kids and enters them quickly into the school-to-prison pipeline," said Mimi Fitzpatrick, a CCS parent.

An insult that might be too subtle for Trump to notice.

This is 100% ethnic cleansing. And Israel will keep doing it as long as the world keeps looking away with their eyes while reaching out their hands to help fund it.

Springsteen's very vocal dissent highlights the cowardice (or complicity) of far too many of our pop stars — of all colors & genders.

"Do we really need permission from an occupying authority?" Palestinian theologian Munther Isaac condemns Israel for blocking the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday. Palestinian Christians “have been worshiping here for centuries."

Annie Oakley was a lot more interesting than most people know. Here she's talking about her adoptive father, Sitting Bull. (Part of a thread.)

Tomeka Reid interview now also published on our column on Jazz In Europe 'We don't have that burden of huge lineage so everyone really brings their own unique sound to this music, to jazz and improvised music, which I think is really awesome.' Tomeka Reid jazzineurope.mfmmedia.nl/2026/03/tome...

RIP to Melvin Edwards, one of our finest sculptors. I was honored to have had the opportunity to talk with him on The Modern Art Notes Podcast in 2015. manpodcast.com/portfolio/no...

Rest in Power Melvin Edwards. www.frieze.com/article/melv...

March 31, 1926: Harold von Braunhut, a mail-order sales innovator who created Amazing Sea Monkeys and X-Ray Specs, is born in Memphis. His “monkeys”—in reality brine shrimp—were notorious for in no way resembling the humanoid pets seen in comic book ads. Ethnically Jewish, he supported neo-Nazis.

Not what you think about when you think about a Lewis Hine photo. But here it is, posted to celebrate the Eiffel Tower's birthday. Dedicated on this date in 1889. (Lewis Hine, 1919. Library of Congress.) www.loc.gov/item/2017666...

The Israeli defense minister threatens an illegal occupation and crimes against civilians www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Two things. Both true: 1) I agree with Steven's long-term optimism for the reason he gives in his short thread. 2) I picked the right time to retire from teaching, no doubt about it.

A few seats the GoP has secured by letting state republicans ram thru redistricting mid-decade without voter input. In VA fight back by VOTING YES on the amendment by 4/21. Temporary redistricting to guard against others doing the bidding of this regime.

It was a triple-header today at Greenstone with Community Bikes, Jackson-Via teacher Mrs. Herman, and representatives from IRC Charlottesville! Kids enjoyed picking out books, pencils, bookmarks, getting their bikes fixed, and of course, yelling into the bus fan 😊 more pics in comments

"Conversion therapy" doesn't work. It never has and never will. All it does is teach a young person to feel shame for who they are and that repression later manifests into unhealthy behavior. Today's Supreme Court ruling will result in a generation of shame and subsequent harm.

And no books...

Charlottesville's new zoning code opened the door for intensified displacement & gentrification in historically Black neighborhoods. But we're fighting back.

Trans 👏 Rights 👏 Are 👏 Human 👏 Rights 👏 Today is Transgender Day of Visibility and a reminder to love, support, protect and defend our trans family, friends, and neighbors. 🏳️‍⚧️ #TDOV #transdayofvisibility

"It’s not acceptable for one side of Congress to resemble a Klan cookout, and it’s also not acceptable for journalists to treat it as non-news. Because it’s getting worse all the time." open.substack.com/pub/stopthep...

“A Banquet for the Birds,” my Iliad-inspired suite for piano and big band featuring Aaron Diehl, has a couple of NYC performances coming up. The first is this Friday, April 3 at MSM (free, no tickets required): www.msmnyc.edu/performances...

Thank God the Black community still honors its Elders. It's a status I was happy to achieve. White folks should take notes.

Maybe a decade ago, our local senior center decided that "senior" and every single synonym for "senior" was Bad, and they renamed themselves to "The Center." Their website never identifies that it's for seniors. It's the demographic of which we dare not speak. I don't get it!

I mean there it is.

I hope these men don't actually exist. It would say terrible things about the country if true. Chick-fil-a isn't even a good place to get a chicken sandwich.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

Looks like the Supreme Court will be deciding if the are a complete joke or not.

"What Israel is effectively doing is, it's trying to break the will of the people of this community." Beirut-based reporter LyllaYounes shares how Lebanon is mourning the three journalists killed in an Israeli strike on Saturday.

Spain has a spine.

The cost of a contemporary artwork often has little correlation with its artistic, intellectual or historical value.

Hold on. Duke lost twice in one day? Blowing leads to both UCLA & UConn? Golly, what a shame.

Listening now to this hour of baroque music for guitar. I can feel all the stress flexing my body & dissolving into the air. Highly recommended. 👇🏽

My least favorite protest march is the march to social media to complain about the protest march

My advisor, Jennifer Bugos, who in addition to being one of the best people I’ve ever met is beyond brilliant, works & publishes extensively on music & aging, and how musical interventions can assist cognitive functioning in older adults. All of that stuff is very very very very important!!

Burn them all down

If you are wondering what's next, please know that there is a role for every single one of us in this movement. If you want to get involved, or your just want to learn more, join us at an upcoming action or event!

I bought a jar of pickled jalapeño slices without noticing that the label says "candied." It means that the brine is loaded with sugar. The result is predictably awful. Why would anyone do this?

NEW YORK (RNS) — Just ahead of Passover and Holy Week, clergy invoked the biblical stories of liberation and resistance to mobilize faithful ahead of the city's march.

"A grave precedent." Israeli police prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, as well as a priest from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, from entering the holy site to celebrate Palm Sunday Mass—"for the first time in centuries."

I need the black women of Bluesky to know that Rio de Janeiro is the kind of place where you can look up at a mural or a statue in many parts of the city and see someone who looks exactly like you, your mom or your grandma, and this doesn’t really happen anywhere else and it is amazing.

No Kings in Utqiaġvik (Barrow) Alaska!

The Great KitKat Robbery of 2026. Twelve tons (12!) of KitKat bars have been stolen somewhere between Italy & Poland. That's 413,793 chocolate bars! And just before Easter! There may be shortages in some stores.