This is Annelise Orleck who is the head of the Jewish Studies program at Dartmouth and 65 years old.

On this day in 1963, hundreds of Black children began a movement peacefully protesting racial segregation in Birmingham as part of the Children's Crusade and faced intense police brutality, sparking nationwide outrage. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

The NYPD greatly restricted press access during their sweeps of Columbia and CCNY last night. But police apparently brought their own film crew into Hamilton Hall, where they even filmed on-site interviews with top brass, all overlaid with dramatic music

The decision for @wckitchen to restart feeding in Gaza is both the hardest and the simplest one we could make.

Hard, because only a month has passed since seven of our WCK colleagues were killed in an IDF attack. These humanitarian heroes risked everything to feed people they…

Thousands of students and others are engaged in mass demonstrations, peaceful and otherwise, over the war in Gaza on campuses across the country. To understand them, the public cannot depend on the police narrative alone. nytimes.com/live/2024/04/2…

In New York City, there is not a single public library left that is open 7 days a week anymore.
 
When it comes to our City budget, we cannot be penny-wise and pound-foolish by cutting critical programs that people rely on.

Everyday New Yorkers will bear the brunt of these cuts

“If the university cannot tolerate the heat, it cannot serve its primary mission.” nytimes.com/2024/04/29/opi…

Rooting so hard for this comeback.

How progressives won over the Democratic center, by Mara Gay.

Read: nyti.ms/3w0Q2HU

Our department just issued rules to protect people from hidden airline fees and to require airlines to give passengers automatic cash refunds when owed. No more having to fend for yourself and jump through hoops to get your money back—airlines will have to automatically do this.

Hi! I'm a journalist at Columbia Journalism School, and I have been covering the encampments. My colleagues and I have been working non-stop delivering excellent coverage for days. I can speak to what's been happening, or share photo/film for interested outlets.

How progressives won the Democratic center nytimes.com/2024/04/23/opi…

In his 70 years living in NYC Trump probably never went to a bodega once. And almost certainly never went to 139th & Broadway.

“Donald Trump, who relentlessly undermined the justice system while in office and since, is enjoying the same protections and guarantees of fairness and due process before the law that he sought to deny to others during his term.” nytimes.com/2024/04/17/opi…

Not enough people are talking about the fact that in Montgomery there is now a monument to formerly enslaved people that lists every one of their last names as it appeared in the 1870 Census, the first census to record Black people in this country.

legacysites.eji.org/about/monument/

Doing nothing isn’t an option nytimes.com/live/2024/04/0…

Faith Ringgold, who passed away this weekend at age 93, was an extraordinary artist, activist, and advocate for Black women. This St. Nicholas Park basketball court on 140th St near her Harlem birthplace, was based on her 1970s abstract work “Windows of the Wedding #1”.

I love that this story starts with Dean immediately giving the reporter a nickname, because he did the same to me — you’ll notice when he tosses to me from the anchor chair, I’m usually JJ, not Jillian
hellgatenyc.com/dean-meminger-…

Fun piece on nyc’s trash problem. Gross, Eric Lach ! newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

I AM STILL FINE