.Hanif Abdurraqib Joins University of Texas Press as Series Editor publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in… via @publisherswkly

College Feels Transactional to Many Students. Who — or What — Is to Blame? | Beth McMurtrie Students increasingly see themselves as customers and college as a means to an end. Faculty members are wrestling with the consequences. chronicle.com/article/custom…

Danzy Senna Is Amused by Your Mixed Feelings For decades, the novelist has found humor in the ever-changing ways that biracial people are questioned, fetishized, or ignored in America. newyorker.com/culture/person…

“To be sure, depending on the zip-code, incarceration rates, school test scores and availability of work, you are likely to find Black children without fathers. But that fact doesn’t represent the totality of Black fathers.” —  No Comps link.medium.com/cPEdvSVvCMb

Auburn University’s basketball coach is not a fan of Kamala Harris | Michael Harriot Bruce Pearl shared some thoughts about Kamala Harris’ “socialist, woke progressive beliefs.” We all know what he meant. thegrio.com/2024/09/03/aub…

Tables Turned: Why Black Male IPV Victims Don’t Speak Up | Jennifer Porter Gore | Word In Black 'The thorny issue of intimate partner violence, long a problem in the Black community, gets even thornier when women, not men, are the perpetrators.' wordinblack.com/2024/08/tables…

Sisterhood And Community Thrive At Tash Haynes' Transformative Creator Retreat | Travel Noire 'Through a curated weekend of experiences, Tash Haynes wants to bring more creators together to bond, collaborate, and inspire one another.' travelnoire.com/tash-haynes-cr…

A River of Stuff or How Samuel R. Delany Predicted Generative AI | Nettrice link.medium.com/XI8KK5bwCMb

Sarah Vaughan - Misty “There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.”

'The Great Migration transformed the nation—but millions of African Americans never left their Southern communities. Their unlikely success makes their stories all the more remarkable.' smithsonianmag.com/history/how-bl… | Smithsonian Magazine

HBCUs Are a Safe Haven—But LGBTQ+ Students Don’t Feel Like They Have a Space On Campus "I think my expression of being queer really affects how I am perceived by others on campus.” rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/09/04/hbc…

Civil rights icon Pauli Murray’s childhood NC home is opening to the public heraldsun.com/news/local/cou…

James C. Scott, the Ambivalent Anarchist The radical anthropologist offered not only incisive studies of the state but also a vision of what life looked like beyond it. thenation.com/article/societ…

The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case Hachette v. Internet Archive was brought by book publishers objecting to the archive’s digital lending library wired.com/story/internet…

Recess Duty | Slate How we tried—and failed—to get our kids more outside time during the school day slate.com/life/2024/09/i…

Can the US census keep up with climate-driven displacement? | grist Four years after a string of disasters plagued one Louisiana town, its residents are still on the move. grist.org/extreme-weathe…

The Outsized Cost of Expanding US Roads A new study quantifies the fallacy that adding new roads produces an economic benefit. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Audre Lorde Has More to Tell Us Than a Handful of Quotes | The Nation A conversation with @AlexisPauline s, one of the world’s foremost experts on the Black feminist writer, on her biography Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. thenation.com/article/cultur…

NICKEL BOYS | Official Trailer | Amazon MGM Studios youtube.com/watch?v=-2qZ42…

The Piano Lesson | Official Trailer | @Netflix youtube.com/watch?v=cZwjt0…