I saw this last week and I felt extremely emotional. 10 years. That's how long this took and it should not have taken this long. www.nrdc.org/press-releas... - I thought also of all of the activists including Little Miss Flint who have CONTINUED to fight for all of these years.

Science is stitched into the fabric of every town, both urban and rural. @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social is encouraging scientists to write opinion pieces in their hometown newspaper, advocating for investment in American #science, especially the NIH and NSF. Learn how to participate: buff.ly/e3Bjd28

🚨We have launched our @globalvoices.org donation campaign! This is really important for us to continue providing free, ad-free and tracker-free independent journalism from around the world. Please consider donating if you can.

For your consideration. THE GRAPHIC HISTORY OF HIP HOP. A Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics finalist. #BlackSky

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Black Alabamians Sue State Department of Transportation Over Repeated Flooding Residents in the Shiloh Community have fought for years to remedy excessive stormwater runoff caused by an elevated highway. Now they’re suing. insideclimatenews.org/news/0807202...

When I offer workshops on crafting values-driven and strategic careers, I help academics create a “H€>l No/Sacred Yes Practice” based on questions like: “What energizes me? What enervates/depletes me?” Knowing that up front allows you to say NO to whole categories, and redirect people too.

"We have to make sure we know what our history is so we don't repeat the crazy, nasty, racist mess," said Reena Evers-Everette, the daughter of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers.

When I offer workshops on crafting values-driven and strategic careers, I help academics create a “H€>l No/Sacred Yes Practice” based on questions like: “What energizes me? What enervates/depletes me?” Knowing that up front allows you to say NO to whole categories, and redirect people too.

A Yahoo News/YouGov poll finds that Mamdani's proposals (freezing rent, free universal child care, taxes on the rich) are overwhelmingly popular, especially among Democrats – and that's nationally, not just in deep-blue NYC. www.yahoo.com/news/poll-zo...

Carla Hayden, the ex-Librarian of Congress who was fired by Trump, has a new role as senior fellow with the Mellon Foundation

Marronage as a Guide to Police Abolition On the latest episode of #LeftOfBlack, critical geographer Dr. Celeste Winston joined me to discuss her book,'How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World Beyond Policing' (Duke University Press) www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W0A...

It’s gotten lost in the deluge of news over the past few months, but abortion has gotten dramatically less accessible and more expensive. Women are losing freedom over their own bodies, lives, and futures. The freedom and dignity this country promises should be women’s freedom and dignity, too.

In 1852, Frederick Douglass asked: “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?” Inspired by Douglass’ famous question, 20 people ensnared in the sprawling US criminal legal system answered this variation: “What, to the currently or formerly incarcerated American, is your Fourth of July?”

Read Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's full dissenting opinion in #trumpvcasa SCOTUS case on #birthrightcitizenship here: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Organized, robust, discussions of democracy were taking place as post Civil War amendments were added to the Constitution. We love hearing how Colored Conventions counter the majority’s take on originalism + its limits by @jamellebouie.net @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @sifill.bsky.social

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LL Cool J said that he will not perform at Wawa Welcome America in Philadelphia on July 4th because of union strike “There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”

For reference the New York Times was among the outlets that declined to publish hacked materials from the 2024 Trump campaign www.cnn.com/2024/08/13/m...

NEW: University of California President Michael V. Drake sent a letter to all campuses today saying student governments are banned from boycotting Israel: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Happy 30th Anniversary to D'Angelo’s debut album ‘Brown Sugar’ originally released in the UK July 3, 1995 | Listen to the album + read our tribute here: album.ink/dangeloBS

Goodnight, friends. I'm still a bit under the weather, but there was more fox cuteness tonight as I started winding down. Don't forget to look for joy, to play, to explore this world. There is still beauty to be found amid the madness. I love you.

Help! I need to climb into other worlds. What’s the best new novel you’ve read this year? For me it was The Road to the Salt Sea samuelkolawole.com/the-road-to-...

Help! I need to climb into other worlds. What’s the best new novel you’ve read this year? For me it was The Road to the Salt Sea samuelkolawole.com/the-road-to-...

Big news! I'm heading to the National Humanities Center as the next president. I'm proud to be the first woman, the first Black person, and the first person of color to lead it. Honored to start this new chapter. #Humanities #BlackWomenLead #BlackSky

So pleased to see Dr. Blair LM Kelley as the new director of the National Humanities Center! Thank you for your leadership! @profblmkelley.bsky.social nationalhumanitiescenter.org/national-hum...

Beyond the (central) human toll, where do your fruits and veggies come from? Also, support the UFW ufw.org.

Due to the ongoing U.S. measles outbreak, a Texas man worried that his young son was at risk and took him to get vaccinated. The cost of the shot? $1,400.

I worked at Planned Parenthood. They diagnose cancers while still treatable. They help women decide what birth control works for them. They help those working through mental health challenges.   Defunding them just harms people who already struggle to find places to get care.

Echoes www.loc.gov/item/2021771...

Trump promised not to cut Medicaid and his signature legislation cuts Medicaid by nearly $1 trillion.

Cooking in the Archives is 11! 🎉 I still love the first recipe on the site: Maccarony Cheese. rarecooking.com/2014/06/30/m...

So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...

So excited to see this payoff of the Colored Conventions Project in stakes that really matter! History matters! What we preserve and disseminate has real stakes! Big congrats to @profgabrielle.bsky.social and the @ccp-org.bsky.social team

You know you’re Black (or your mind is slipping 🧐) when you ask for the “smothered Brussels” and they say, twice, you mean the “loaded Brussels.”

Any person, not any “citizen.”

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

Why School Has More Black Kids Thinking About Suicide | Quintessa Williams New national data shows steep rises in Black youth suicide, and experts say racism in schools is a major factor that’s costing them their lives and learning. wordinblack.com/2025/06/scho...

“Dog chases down ambulance that owner is being transported in. When EMS realise, they let the dog in.” Love this 🥰❤️ #DogSky #Reddit r\NextF***ingLevel

"Historians have shown that there are numerous state and federal court decisions that affirm the common law idea that anyone born in this country is a citizen of this country." Kate Masur, Northwestern University Watch:

Abslutely riveted by @profgabrielle.bsky.social's talk about the Colored Conventions Project – @ccp-org.bsky.social. #dgfa2025

The #DGfA2025 is off to a great start with @profgabrielle.bsky.social s keynote on Colored Conventions & Black political organizing with Frederick Douglass presiding over us.

"I've never heard of anything like that:" the Trump administration sends a startlingly large data request regarding elections to Colorado www.npr.org/2025/06/11/n...

"Our obsession with the loss of Black generational wealth exposes an unspoken paradox: The source of that wealth — rising property values and gentrification — is responsible for the Black community’s evisceration… “ ~Robin D.G. Kelley hammerandhope.org/article/los-...

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

The politicization of the army is the first step towards dictatorship as any historian of the post colonial global south will tell you www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"

The CDC is rehiring more than 400 people who had received layoff notices. Around half of those employees are in the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD and Tuberculosis Prevention. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...