Helen Octavia Dickens, MD, FACOG, FACS, lived a life defined by firsts and guided by an unwavering commitment to reproductive health, education, and equity. This #BlackHistoryMonth, read about her incredible legacy and how she changed lives: https://bit.ly/4tzgdhE

macmillan.yale.edu/stories/yale... An amazing, impressive book by an incredible scholar and fastidious researcher - congratulations Justene!

MOTHER JONES: “You should be paying attention to the race in Tennessee’s 7th congressional district”

This is why we need the humanities

Jamaica could face one of the strongest landfall storms in its recorded history as Hurricane Melissa moves through the Caribbean. Forecasters predict it will hit the island as an “upper-end” Category 4 hurricane on Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/w...

This one's hitting different. I'm sad, I cried, but I'm reacting mostly angrily, like something was stolen from me personally. D'Angelo really got inside of me all those years ago, I dunno. It hurts pretty bad.

What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.

www.statesman.com/opinion/colu... Great opinion piece by our AAUP chapter Vice President! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

"For many years, American shoppers have been able to buy inexpensive foreign items without paying tariffs and completing complicated customs paperwork. No more."

This is terrible.

“Fibroids impacted my career,” Williams said. “I never had enough energy most times to play a real match the way I wanted to, and, of course, it affected my results.”

10 years ago #tdih 2015, nine African American churchgoers murdered 💔 inside Charleston’s historic Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in act of white supremacist terrorism, one of countless (ongoing) massacres in the U.S. Read words of Rev. William Barber & Bree Newsome ⬇️ 🧵 Art by Panhandle Slim

When folks can afford fewer things at higher prices, economists describe this as a decline in real income, and a widespread fall in real income is called a recession.

By accepting the grant award, recipients are certifying that: (i) They do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, DEIA, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws…

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o... "This is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more...students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base."

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

“Whether engaging in political organizing, enhancing economic growth, or serving as a source of relaxation, Black beauty shops have curated a defiant history & unique experience. The women who own & work in these shops have done far more for the advancement of Black communities than meets the eye.”

New story from me: Imani* was in class when she discovered a scholarship program she relied on had been shut down. “I don’t come from wealth ... Ending the program puts a burden on individuals who don't have it like most of the wealthy people here at the University of Michigan"

www.nature.com/articles/d41... "Fodera, who studies fibroids—non-cancerous growths that affect 70–80% of women by age 50, and can cause severe pain and infertility—is just one of numerous scientists affected by the decision...to cancel $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia."

On this day in 2020, Louisville police officers shot and killed 26-year-old Breonna Taylor during a no-knock raid in the middle of the night.

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... "In our roles as editors [we will continue] to do what we think makes a difference: publishing the highest-quality research, analysis, opinion, and educational content that can improve patient health...even when topics are controversial."

Interesting and deeply depressing. Only set of physicians who live longer than their non-physician colleagues are...white men. "Black female physicians had higher mortality rates than all other physician subgroups and White females in non–health care occupations" www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

Great letter from my colleagues @sbagen.bsky.social, @mjschlanger.bsky.social and other legal scholars across the country explaining why it is not necessary to start eliminating university programs because Trump

In times of political defeat and civic annihilation, Black history/feminism directs us to nonetheless make space for recognition, critical thought, and even celebration. We will do so next month in honor of Michele Mitchell’s scholarship at the University of Michigan. lsa.umich.edu/history/news...

Gessen is indispensable right now. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...

Read our latest issue in full ➡️ tinyurl.com/2rz7b357 bsky.app/profile/thel...

6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance. For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.

According to this attorney, ICE detained a Black American citizen, of Jamaican heritage, and her 8 YO son and detained them for 24 hours Let that sink in…

African Americans who changed their racial identity and "passed" as white in the late 19th and early 20th centuries lived approximately 9.4 months longer, on average, than their non-passing siblings, from Hamid Noghanibehambari and Jason Fletcher https://www.nber.org/papers/w33394

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

Even with no drug or vaccine, eradication of Guinea worm is in sight -- a cause championed by the late U.S. President Jimmy Carter. www.nature.com/articles/d41... via @nature.com @gregggonsalves.bsky.social #GlobalHealth

Jimmy Carter was right about climate change. He was right about the Mideast conflict and apartheid in Israel and South Africa and the ongoing plagues of poverty and racism. It was he not Reagan who freed our hostages in Iran. A true man of God, he died beloved, which not many presidents do or will.

If ever there was a "Well done, thy good and faithful servant" given at the gates, I know it was given to President Carter.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/h... "Dr. Emily Von Bargen, a urogynecologist...often sees women who have undergone a hysterectomy but don’t know exactly which of their organs were removed. 'I would say 50 percent of patients don’t know the specifics around their surgery,' she said."

"We have two months before Trump takes office, though, so rather than panic, now is the time to prepare. Take a deep breath, allow yourself to process your feelings, then get to work." www.teenvogue.com/story/what-t...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... A colleague and I wrote this article after working on it for several years and unfortunately the interplay between reproductive oppression and mass detention during the period of Japanese incarceration feels more relevant than ever

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[*copied from Twitter 4/11/23*] My first book, Fit Citizens, is officially published today!! It chronicles Black women who exercised for health, beauty, leisure, and citizenship. Thank you to all who supported this project, especially UNC Press! See more here: uncpress.org/book/9781469...