Friends, I'm back here because it's almost time for me to put a book in your hands. More here about The Defying Gentrification Playbook, its December 16, 2025, release date, and a major health update that's affected it's process over the decades -- theblackurbanist.com/im-autistic-...

My heart's no longer in leading my creative practice with urbanism and active defiance of gentrification. I will be sharing my creative art and of course, I'll be living happily in urbanized spaces for as long as I can afford to. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKFB...

While some products like cars and mattresses are still made in the US, China basically makes most consumer goods we buy in the US, including kitchen appliances, electronics, and personal care items. Things are gonna suck because of Trump's stupid tariffs.

I threatened to beat up my white neighbor recently if she called the cops on the young Black men standing on our street listening to music, eating food and talking. “They don’t live on this street” ass bitch. They were literally just enjoying each other’s company and not bothering anyone.

“In Ghana, Meta is displaying nothing short of a complete disregard for the humanity of its key safety workers upon whom all its profits rely: content moderators. They are treated as objects who can be used up, burned out and replaced with no care whatsoever...” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Back on the mic this week with some major updates on moving, and how I'm feeling now that we are nearly 100 days in and some of the dust is settling -- open.substack.com/pub/theblack...

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

….. they hate everyone and we gotta just say it

If empathy is a sin, sin boldly. Sin often. Sin with abandon.

I just reskeeted @prisonculture.bsky.social saying people don't know. I'm telling you people don't know. I keep having conversations, even conversations with people who are in media who are missing huge chunks of what's happening. People are busy and aren't directly impacted so they don't know

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

A man slated for deportation has captured conditions inside the Krome Detention Center in Florida. He says some people have been confined like this for up to 30 days. At least three men have died at Krome in the past five months. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8248mFR/

Good news! Protesting still works, so keep protesting 🗣️🗣️🗣️✨✨✨

I don’t see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy. Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Gift link, where the gift is “evidence that Columbia will need to get even more fashy in order to satisfy internal and external pressures to get more fashy” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/n...

"Actions like boycotts are a form of pastoral ministry for those who feel ignored or forgotten. They show that churches care about whole persons and the communities in which we live." -- Esau McCaulley www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...

In The Dawn of Detroit, Tiya Miles begins by teaching readers that long before the fort of Detroit & Sandwich (later Windsor) existed, the unceded Anishinaabe village of Waawiiya-a-ta-nong existed on both sides of our strait. In the beginning, this was one village. thenewpress.com/books/dawn-o...

As it’s now confirmed that Columbia is not getting their money back without collaborating with even more fascism, the only question at this point is whether the university’s leadership will roll back their fashy acquiescence or get even more fashy. Unfortunately I think we (still) know the answer.

100%.

Think it’s important to highlight how everyday violence of the U.S. criminal legal system is making what ICE is doing possible: this man was convicted of a crime at *16*; he was *pardoned*; when ICE came decades later they claimed the conviction made him a felon w/ no recourse against deportation

Urgent: Illegal Activity Underway Many undocumented immigrants file tax returns with the IRS, providing details about their residences, families, employers, and earnings. The IRS has historically encouraged tax compliance by issuing ITINs to those without Social Security numbers.

I'm going to say again: NYC doesn't function without the subway. The city doea not have the infrastructure to support the majority of residents (and suburban folks) commuting by car. I'm not going to debate its cleanliness etc. It's a naked fact that without transit NYC dies.

This is an example of how nostalgia for the old days is simply nostalgia for when you were younger. The idea that America was a post-racial society in the 1970s/1980s only makes sense if you were literally a child at that time and couldn’t observe what any adult was experiencing.

Really glad I could participate in this!

New op-ed out today! "We believe this rush to comply is a sign that universities are willing to become an institutional wing of the new segregationists." This op-ed was written with fierce love for our communities. That's who we serve. We will not be erased. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

Black scholars argued this incessantly after the war. Britain killed 10’s of millions of Indians, Belgium enslaved and genocided the Congo, France slaughtered its Algerian subjects. Nazi Germany was the logical extension of US and European colonialism, not an aberration.

The greatest business battle EVER to be fought will come when President Elon starts trying to implement AI for federal processes. The battle will be fought over which company’s AI will be used by the feds. This is a zero sum battle that will create more chaos than this country has ever seen

Luigi has a website www.luigimangioneinfo.com

We are nearing a precipice.

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Listen! Folks truly believe to the depths of their souls and their toes that Massa is all powerful... 🙄 Frankly, I expect better from EVERYONE because all of our recent ancestors went through hardships: slavery, colonialism, war, famine, disease, genocide, etc. No one's exempt from this fight.

You might have missed it, but Amazon warehouse workers in Raleigh, NC are voting this week on whether to form a union. If they win, they'll be the first unionized Amazon facility in the South. Remember that we can always find hope in the labor movement.

In 2011, Ronald “Kowboy” Jackson joined the Mental Health Movement, a coalition of organizations pushing to keep former mayor Rahm Emanuel from shuttering the city’s public health clinics, one of which was the Woodlawn Clinic where he participated in a men’s group. thetriibe.com/2025/02/chic...

So you can just say you work at DOGE and pillage anything from our documents you want. The law truly doesn't exist anymore! Cool!

If large scale issues (by design) feel too large to tackle, find something you can do ~ something small & tangible. As Mother Teresa said, "If you can't feed 100 people, then feed just 1." It may be a drop in the ocean, but oceans are made of drops. Exasperation is evaporation. Kindness compounds.

📸 On Wednesday night it snowed enough to cover the ground in Chicago, for the first time in two years. For at least one night my city in the winter looked like my city in the winter and I made the most of it. More here: flic.kr/s/aHBqjC2mb5 #Chicago #photography #ilwx

🚨 Movements thrive when people build power together. 🔹 Find your crew 🔹 Speak truth to power 🔹 Strengthen your foundation 🔹 Vision & innovate 🔹 Work with allies 🔹 Be like water—adapt & resist Stop reacting and start organizing. #PeoplePower #OrganizeToWin

Here is recording + transcript of this week’s webinar about court case attacking section 504 in the US. Section 504 is a core disability rights law that is more than 50 years old. Link in 1st comment with more info about how advocates can help. dredf.org/disability-c... #accessibility #disability

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

So the US is now kidnapping whole families and trafficking them to random countries that the US has coerced into imprisoning them for some unspecified period of time

On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

“Doing mutual aid I run into a ton of different types of people from all walks of life, but one of my favorite groups are the extremely supportive mothers and grandmothers of radicals.” ~ kolektiva.social/@temerity/11...

“Why won’t Black folks help!!!l” Oh I don’t know might have something to do with the constant centering of the people who enabled this moment So they can say “Well I know it was bad when it was happening to you.. but now it’s real people” Being treated as a “call to action”

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)