1/ Starting with the headline: "Hijack" implies illegitimate seizure rather than organized public advocacy or opposition. "Developer presentation" centers the event as belonging to the developer rather than as a required public engagement meeting designed to garner community feedback.

#ByteSizedPedagogy is an informal zoom series where we take 30 minutes to have a snack and discuss a freely available digital pedagogy reading. Please join and share!

Since the Bluesky club is now popping off, gonna reintroduce myself as an author. Last year I pubbed my first book, WANNABE. It’s about my/our relationship w/pop culture and it makes a great gift for your culture-obsessed loved ones! www.harpercollins.com/products/wan...

The eleventh issue of Hammer & Hope is now live! We are besieged by a ruling class focused on maintaining white power. They represent one tradition in the United States. But there is another, found in 250 years of resistance, rebellion, and refusal. One that continues today — because it must.

live right now. the morning show with Open Mike Eagle: 8Ball & MJG tiny desk | my raps were used to train AI | 100 things that defined indie rap twitch.tv/open_mike_ea...

The first verse of Pop Smoke's song "What You Know Bout Love" starts with the couplet: "Shawty go jogging every morning/And she makes me breakfast almost every morning," Over the course of the song we never find out why she has time to run every morning but cannot always cook for him. In this essay

I love tennis!!!

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Coming up tonight at 6:30ET! Still time to register. This will be a wide ranging conversation on the past and future of our university lives, publishing included, along with advice for writers!

Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

Today's delight: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVv...

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

“As the global musical phenomenon turns 50, a hip-hop professor explains what the word ‘dope’ means to him (March 2023)” theconversation.com/as-the-globa...

Me and William Edward Burghardt was classmates. He even signed my yearbook.

I love how picking the wrong one on the right day & picking the right one on the wrong day mean the same thing. You will bow before the innovations of AAVE!

The book has a playlist and it is a wonderful listen, in my extremely biased opinion 😀 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

"American culture encourages you to delay feeling proud of yourself until external validation has been granted. Practice this and you get to the point where you cannot feel proud until that validation materializes."

If you think I’m failing you right now, boy am I failing me right now!

Movies and TV greatly overestimate how many people would simply follow you if you said "can I talk to you privately for a moment" as a way to disengage them from a group conversation before things get bad.

I don't know if we will win. But it's worth trying cuz we deserve better. And I agree with Angela Y. Davis, who said, "We can never predict the outcome of our work. As Stuart Hall said, 'There are never any guarantees.' At the same time, you have to act as if it were possible to change the world."

Writers! Read! Respect your medium!

If you have friends or family who deal with depression or anxiety, you really just have to think outside of yourself. It might seem like folks went dark and don’t want to talk to you but they might just be in the mud at that moment.

Your interpretation of what you read is more precious than what any critic or scholar has said about what you read, & far more precious than any kind of summary AI can give you of written material. The work is supposed to go inside of YOU & work with what's inside of you to have a home there.

"Across 24 tracks and 101 minutes, The Fall Off is full of technical proficiency, raw lyrical skill, citation, interpolation and sampling, and it attempts nothing less than to embody a half-century of hip-hop." ~ @aydeethegreat.bsky.social ❤️🖤💚

How your email finds me during #BlackHistoryMonth:

#BookSky, this impacts not just writers but also readers.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

I'm not going to complain about this, but I'd be a lot happier if it were a large public university system making this announcement.

Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can.

My twin* wrote another book and it's realllllly good Preorder today!!!!

“A longtime Elyria resident is finally set to bring the story of Elyria football phenom Ike Maxwell to life on film, after a half a decade of work and a lifetime of hearing the tales of Maxwell, his family and the city that made him.“ chroniclet.com/news/455695/...

Non paywall link archive.is/WZNib

Hello editors, our leaders lying to our face is a big story to write multiple articles about.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... The Dean “also clarified that faculty may assign textbooks with chapters that cover transgender identity, so long as they do not talk about the material or include it on assignments or exam questions.” And they call this an education?

Now this hits

“No kingdom can maintain itself by force alone.” —James Baldwin

This is a pretty good reading list if I do say so myself…

@aydeethegreat.bsky.social, check this out. You're in great company.

The University of Virginia professor drops a new book. https://bit.ly/4qF4EDs

Who is publishing film criticism, reviews, and commentary these days with moo-lah? An exciting creation just arrived in my inbox and I want to write and file this story.

“You know, I feel like it’s remarkable that, not just that a professor of hip-hop exists, but also that the University of Virginia gave somebody tenure as a professor of hip-hop.”