The friend who witnessed Michael Brown’s death was shot and killed Sunday morning less than a mile away from where a police officer killed Brown.

On #InternationalDayofCharity we celebrate the incredible generosity of people like you who make our work in #Haiti possible. 💙Your support creates lasting change! 👉 Donate today and be part of the movement: give.hopeforhaiti.com/campaign/711...

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The fire sale at the end of the empire www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

"Quebec-based GardaWorld, which has [..] been awarded a US$8-million contract for work on ['Alligator Alcatraz'], has also been awarded more than $100 million in Canadian government contracts since Carney won the Liberal leadership." #Canada #Florida #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

“The achievement of this volume is nothing less than a new approach to literary criticism. TPN takes seriously that poetry pedagogy is impt & needs reshaping. Contributors report from the front lines, giving a whole & accurate picture of the stakes of humanities teaching today” - @mmvty.bsky.social

René Johannes Kooiker focuses on the magazine Watapana, which published poetry, criticism, fiction, and translations from the Dutch Caribbean between 1968 and 1972, and hosted debates about the politics of language in the Papiamento- and Dutch-speaking islands. Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/ycxah3bx

“This isn’t a coincidence. It’s the result of federal policy choices — most immediately, sweeping job cuts across public-sector agencies where Black women have long held the strongest foothold in middle-class employment.”

Thank you, Bee 🥰

Chair of the 2025 OCM Bocas Nonfiction Prize Judges, Denise deCaires Narain, introduces the winning title in that category, Village Weavers by @myriamjachancy.bsky.social deCaires Narain says the book has become part of her life, calling it a work of "remarkable fluency" @tinhouse.bsky.social

Heralding her as a "master weaver", Erna Brodber, Chief Judge, announces the winner of the 2025 OCM Prize for Caribbean Literature, Village Weavers by @myriamjachancy.bsky.social #OCMBocasPrize #bocas2025 @tinhouse.bsky.social

A beautiful moment 🧡

🏆 Congratulations to the winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, @myriamjachancy.bsky.social! 🏆 She has won the 15th annual award for her book, Village Weavers (@tinhouse.bsky.social) #bocas2025 #OCMBocasPrize

💐Congratulations @myriamjachancy.bsky.social ! Winner of the 🏆2025 OCM Bocas Literary Prize for Best Caribbean Book of the past year! www.bocaslitfest.com/2025/05/03/h...

#bocas2025 Day 3 featured author panels with @myriamjachancy.bsky.social, Wendell Berkley Semple, @justinhayneswriter.com, and more! Full album: facebook.com/media/set?va... #alwayscominghome

Personal Narrative's submission window is extended! You now have until 5/4 to submit your longform personal narrative essays. Submit: buff.ly/VDL6a2k

FRIENDS - we're raising money for @hopeforhaiti.bsky.social today! Come hang out while we raise money for a good cause! ❤️ www.twitch.tv/oodlesofnood...

Happy Independent Bookstore Day. Support indies any change you get! You can pre-order the Village Weavers paperback from Bookshop, they are offering a discount and free shipping. bookshop.org/p/books/vill...

Join us at the 2025 Awards Ceremony! Be there for the exciting moment when the overall winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature is announced, and witness the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award being presented to the @jwilonline.bsky.social! Doors open at 6 pm! #bocas2025 #alwayscominghome

🌻Coming next week in paperback!🌻 Village Weavers by @myriamjachancy.bsky.social! The Winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction! 🌻Read more & preorder: bit.ly/VillageWeave... cc: @bocaslitfest.bsky.social

May is going to be lit 🔥

"I get the sense that 'bookseller' is Josh Cook’s dream job. It is for a lot of people; it’s an easy job to romanticize. For myself, I do not dream of labor." Revisiting this excellent essay, "There's No Such Thing as a Good Book," in Public Books: www.publicbooks.org/there-is-no-...

Beginning in 1940s Port-au-Prince, ranging across decades and continents, @myriamjachancy.bsky.social's Village Weavers by — winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction — explores connections and disconnections across lines of class and family. #bocas2025 #alwayscominghome @tinhouse.bsky.social

Hello & thank you Bocas, Trinidad & Tobago for recognizing _Village Weavers_! I will be seeing you soon!

Congrats @beequammie.bsky.social !! 🥰🥰

Congrats @myriamjachancy.bsky.social! www.bocaslitfest.com/2025/04/06/t...

💐Congratulations @myriamjachancy.bsky.social! Winner 🏆2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Fiction! #bocas2025 #bocaslitfest www.bocaslitfest.com/awards/ocm/

"U.S. customs officials can look through a mobile phone, check comments made on social media and look through a laptop, she said. They can also take devices or download all of their contents, she added." Why would anyone travel to this country? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I spoke to an expert in authoritarianism, who explained to me that things like this are extremely meaningful and they help protect democracy, even if there’s not a straight line between this and actual legislating

It was so lovely meeting @myriamjachancy.bsky.social at #AWP25 😁💛 Get her latest, Village Weavers, out now! Family drama, estranging secrets, Haitian dictator. And preorder How To Be Unmothered: a Trinidadian memoir. Family drama, estranging secrets, Trinidadian abuse of power #readCaribbean

AWP is around the corner, LA! Here's what I will be up to:

@awpwriter.bsky.social’s conference in LA too. & while i’ve always talked there of poetics & politics of art-making, excited to moderate panels on the more pragmatic aspects of writing this year with a fab group of peers incldg @myriamjachancy.bsky.social & @writemadhushree.bsky.social. join us! 🤎👇🏾

Join me next month @pw.org? 21st century writers who don’t come from money, there’s sooo much I’ve to say that institutions won’t. And early bird discounts end on March 28. 👇🏾🙏🏽

It's my birthday!

💐Congratulations @myriamjachancy.bsky.social ! Finalist for the 🏆2025 OCM BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Literature, Fiction Category! www.bocaslitfest.com/awards/ocm/ #BocasLitPrize

Happy to see _Village Weavers_ with @tinhouse.bsky.social on the fiction shortlist for the Bocas Lit Prize! Kudos to all those recognized in three categories for 2025:

Next week, Pittsburgh! Get tickets to my talk/reading in support of the Latin American Museum of Pittsburgh- Friday, May 21st, in collab with the Pittsburgh Arts & Lecture Series

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." -- Virginia Woolf

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE. (President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)

🔥 Rep. Al Green is not new to standing up

What the existential f* - why hasn't this been stopped yet? They obviously have no idea what they are doing.

Presentación del libro DE HUELGA A PANDEMIA EN PUERTO RICO: UNA DÉCADA DE INTERVENCIONES PERIODÍSTICAS INTERNACIONALES de Maritza Stanchich por Sandra Rodríguez Cotto. DÍA: martes, 4 de marzo de 2025 HORA: 4:30pm LUGAR: Sala Jorge Enjuto (Sala A), Facultad de Humanidades, UPR Río Piedras

A great loss for the Haitian people, and for Latin America, the Caribbean, and the world as a whole www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/w...

“No Other Land” has won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. “This is a big deal,” Alexandra Schwartz writes: the film, directed by a team of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, still does not have American distribution. #Oscars nyer.cm/sQYyjO0

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

We are excited to bring YA back to Portland this May with our inaugural Spring YA Workshop. Applications for our BIPOC Scholarship are now open. Apply today! #thya tinhouse.com/workshop/ya-...

The tools the U.S. used to contain previous bird flu outbreaks just aren't working this time, according to some agricultural experts. Some egg farmers have called for vaccinations for poultry.

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Jasmine Crockett: Russia invaded Ukraine. Facts matter.

A new $15 million jazz fellowship is granting 50 artists over the age of 62 a $100,000 grant, professional support and performance opportunities