Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger endorsed a constitutional amendment to automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions when they leave prison. State lawmakers passed the amendment and it will now appear on the state ballot.

Just a note of appreciation for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's fierce devotion to the rule of law.

When the birthright citizenship decision comes out, people will say it could never have gone any other way, that the law was obvious. But the mere fact that SCOTUS took on the case is evidence enough that we are living in a time of democratic precarity.

Ohio’s “Black Laws”—measures passed in the early 1800s to curtail Black immigration—codified white supremacy in the state. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m6K...

So many Black folks saw what his dreams of racial domination were and knew there was so much commitment to white supremacy in the white population that it could all come true. We weren't Cassandras. We were Octavias then and now.

Sign from segregated Nashville bus number 351 https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2008.3

If you missed the opening reception for Quilting Is An Art: A Showcase of South Side Quilters, you missed us geeking out over this great little logo quilt that curator Doris Barnes surprised us with - here's board member Ian celebrating our keepsake. But the good news is you can still see the show!

THURS, APRIL 2: “Free Joan Little” (2025) at Maysles #Documentary Center, 343 Malcolm X Blvd, 7PM. Directed by Yoruba Richen, it “tells the story of the murder trial of the first woman in U.S. history acquitted for using deadly force to resist sexual assault.” www.maysles.org/calendar/fre... #NYC

THURS, APRIL 2: Distinguished scholar of African American literature Mary Helen Washington in conversation with Edwidge Danticat and Farah Jasmine Griffin at Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton Street, #Brooklyn, 7:30PM. FREE! www.eventbrite.com/e/mary-helen... #books #BlackWomen #ReadBlackWomen #NYC

The dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four was drawn from George Orwell's lived experience, not prophecy Raoul Peck, director of stunning new documentrary, Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5, interviewed by @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Link in post below ⏬

police lie, and have no duty to protect you

DHS agents are still abducting Chicagoans. Instead of chaotic raids and armed goons demanding to see ID from any brown person, DHS has reverted back to targeted stops and keeping a low profile. @djbyrnes1.bsky.social has more: southsideweekly.com/months-after...

Pedro Pascal and Mark Ruffalo among celebrities uniting to shut down Texas ICE detention center

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.

In this week's episode of "The Evergreen," OPB producers Nora Colie and Dan Evans join us to tell the story of how white supremacy grew in Portland and how young people fought to push neo-Nazis out of the city.

Portland 💪🐟

Nonchalant animal noises This is what the internet is made for 😭😭🤣🤣

Based on what I’ve read in recent months, I’m grateful for the words of June Jordan and Toni Morrison that feel like instructions on how to live in this world, especially as a Black woman. I’m also thankful for familial ancestors, whose support (and protection) I feel from beyond the grave. 🙏🏾

On this day in 1914, a white lynch mob in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, seized a Black teenage girl named Marie Scott from the local jail, dragged her screaming from her cell, and hanged her from a nearby telephone pole.

During the 2020 BLM protests, millions of Americans got a real-time education in social justice online. And while people were sincerely eager to learn, virtually no U.S. institutions made meaningful changes, argues @angryblacklady.blacksky.app. This week on B*tch, Listen, she asks: What happened?

Sucks that the library is closed. Love the reason, though.

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.

A bunch of legal podcasts and analyses will be discussing today's SCOTUS decision with lawyers who are neither queer nor trans, so if you want to talk to an attorney who (1) is actually trans, and (2) experienced conversion therapy, hit me up. [email protected].

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! To celebrate and resist, we're offering 40% off select books and 20% off select shirts. Use coupon code VISIBILITY until 4/3/26: pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

It’s been 5 weeks since NYU Langone ended care. Mamdani’s office has not directed H+H to absorb patients or enforced NYC human rights law against the hospitals stopping care. He also has not answered multiple trans journalists questions on if he will commit to doing so.

The Stonewall National Monument in the West Village is more than just landmark to LGBT rights. This site contains objects that showcase many different historical eras and forms of remembrance. More in our latest podcast — Pride and Preservation: The Streets of the West Village.

Caster Semenya is mounting a class action lawsuit against the Olympics for their patently discriminatory ban on trans and intersex athletes

This new piece on the Olympic ban on trans women is a good start on looking at the “science” used for the ban. There will be more pieces and there can’t be too many, until this iteration of the IOC’s need to “protect” women also fails. theconversation.com/sex-test-use...

Absolutely! Arugula is all I buy for salad greens lately. 🥗

WAR! WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? HUH! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

APNewsAlert: MADRID (AP) — Spain says it has closed its airspace to US planes involved in the #Iran war.

Hearing that 900+ acres of land in the Adirondacks was being returned to the Haudenosaunee confederacy really made me happy! #landback www.paulsmiths.edu/news/histori...

Native Americans didn’t “let” Europeans in. Cherokee Nation fought white encroachment on our land, first militarily & then through diplomacy for over 250 years. We lost that fight when the US army rounded us up at gunpoint and put us into concentration camps. That’s not letting someone on your land.

Charlotta Spears Bass (1874-1969) one of first Black women to own & operate a newspaper & first to run for VP of U.S., crusaded for 40+ years against racial violence, & discr. in schools, housing, labor. Watch 12 min. doc ⬇️ with Susan D Anderson & Nikole Hannah-Jones. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

This is Harold Washington Library State and Van Buren

THURS, APRIL 2: Distinguished scholar of African American literature Mary Helen Washington in conversation with Edwidge Danticat and Farah Jasmine Griffin at Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton Street, #Brooklyn, 7:30PM. FREE! www.eventbrite.com/e/mary-helen... #books #BlackWomen #ReadBlackWomen #NYC

“For me, the ideas come when I’m in the bathtub or when I’m swimming. Water, it does something.” —Ishmael Reed

Before I donate books, I flip through them to make sure nothing’s inside. In these, I found bookmarks: one from Time Tested Books, which I visited on a Sacramento day trip in 2019; the other from St. Mark’s Bookshop, long closed in NYC. Also found: year 2000 printout of job ads in the Village Voice.

It was a pleasure speaking with @allyfield.bsky.social about her incisive new book LABOR OF LOVE: BLACK PERFORMANCE AND THE KISS THAT CHANGED FILM—a work I find to be equally revealing and thrilling. Our conversation via LA Review of Books.

I’m watching this on repeat. #OscarsonBlacksky

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

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WE UP

Turning 50 today has us feeling a bit nostalgic. 🥹🤎 It’s been an honor of a lifetime being America’s Metro system. 🚇🚍🚐 Here’s to the next 50 years! 🥳

Since the Metro opened in 1976, DC has consistently had some of the highest transit use among any big US city—higher than Chicago, Philly, or SF. The share of residents using cars to get to work is the lowest in the country outside of NYC. That's been made possible thanks to Metro.

These people are not actually scared of cities. They're doing in-group virtue signaling to say "I too, hate Black and brown people."

Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23. She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24. Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method." It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her.

When applying for colleges, I got accepted into Spelman but decided to stay close to home, becoming a student at the University of Maryland-College Park. I have no regrets about being a Terp, but every now and then I wonder how my life would've been different had I gone to Spelman. #HigherEd #HBCUs

SUNDAY, MARCH 29: Who Inspires You? 7th Annual Claudette Colvin Festival, 1:30-3:30PM, at the NY Society for Ethical Culture, 2 W 64th St in Manhattan. FREE! ethical.nyc/events/who-i... #CivilRights #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #NYC