In the 1960s and 1970s, students transformed how and where universities allocated resources for minoritized and marginalized students and reshaped university curricula, and thus academia writ-large. —Elise A. Mitchell forummag.com/2024/05/04/to-…

This is my sister-friend, my colleague, my Black mother/co-mother. Tiffany stands on principle and love. She’s dedicated to freedom and justice. She’s an amazing teacher, mentor and author. She’s embodies all she stands for!!

In coverage of A24's Civil War, the director says repeatedly: he’s not taking sides, he’s simply showing polarization in action. He shows up in the very media invisible in his movie, saying the same things. He can’t shut up about how he has nothing to say. forummag.com/2024/05/01/mak…

Those of us who have ever studied Black, Native American, Latin American, Ethnic, or Gender Studies, or have been employed as the result of a DEI initiative—have inherited the fruits of multiracial coalitions of leftist student activists and protests past.
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Remember the president of ⁦Columbia University⁩ canceled graduation after arresting 200 of her own students? Today those same students stood strong by holding a beautiful alternative graduation ceremony at St. John the Divine near campus.

Major display of student power.👊⤵️

In their lyrics, hip-hop artists have long reduced Tina Turner's abuse to a metaphor for violence, aggression, and dominance. Erasing the nuance of her lived experience stalls our collective understanding of domestic violence & abolition. By @ankhdelillo

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both schools protested, but students at CUNY were charged with class D felonies (up to 7 yrs in prison) while students at Columbia were charged with class B misdemeanors (90 days in prison). ofc this is because cuny students are black/brown, low-income, first gen, undocumented...

What did she do all this for I wonder.

Alex Garland's film “Civil War” capitalizes on the idea of polarization without politics, like the press it valorizes, writes A S Hamrah
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Pretty extraordinary moment in US labor history, I think.

Thanks to the early career academics in UAW and BDS organizers within the union, UAW has declared that investments in Israel are a workplace issue related to the labor rights of workers.

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Shirley from Mercedes is dripped out and voted YES for the Union! 🔥

This year marks the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. The 74 interviewed me regarding my work on the connection btw former sundown towns & current patterns of white student segregation. This is an unimportant but under-examined issue. Take a look here 👇🏾

There’s a sign in my neighborhood put up by the city celebrating the Young Lords and I stood in front of it and stared today. The cooption of radicalism while the radicals are literally still in your prisons is truly a special feat.

Bracing & inspiring essay from Elise A. Mitchell for The Forum on student activists, past & present (h/t 𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒕!):
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UNC Diverting DEI funds to police sends one helluva symbolic message. The summer of 2020 “racial reckoning” cost way more than we received in return. The backlash is leading to a bona fide police state & unearthing virulent anti-blackness. newsobserver.com/news/local/edu…

it’s amazing how some kids set up tents on college campuses and suddenly a lot of liberals sound like chris rufo

Thank you Carly Goodman for understanding the need for this historical corrective. MLK understood the need for disruptive protest to disturb the material comforts of the status quo & critiqued the the police in repressing dissent & faced similar criticism to young people today.

Arms manufacturers have embedded themselves in STEM programs across the country, creating engineering degree to defense industry pipelines. In 2020, the gov gave more $ to Lockheed Martin than the Dept. of Ed. My 2022 investigation for In These Times
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