Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same
bbc.com/future/article…

UNC-Chapel Hill Provost Promises Rules for Recording Professors

'After The Assembly reported that business school administrators had secretly recorded a controversial professor’s lectures, the provost said the university would develop a policy.' theassemblync.com/education/high…]

'A group that began as 23 Black fathers from London on WhatsApp is now a worldwide digital space where 40,000 men discuss being Black and a parent'
theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…

Meet three Black women who arebuilding a more equitable society for all.
theatlantic.com/sponsored/delo…

“I came up with slap bass out of necessity. I was basically trying to play drums on the bass”: Larry Graham recounts the birth of “thumpin’ and pluckin’”
guitarworld.com/features/how-l…

No one cares anymore about cancel culture, but it is a heckuva marketing tool for some comics
salon.com/2024/05/16/com…

Kelly Rowland’s Cannes slight is typical to Black women in entertainment | Tayo Bero theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

What’s better for the climate: A paper book, or an e-reader?
npr.org/2024/05/25/125…

Remembering alto saxophonist David Sanborn

npr.org/2024/05/24/125…

How do fireflies get their glow? We finally have some answers. nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl… via National Geographic

Please amplify: Faculty at ⁦Brooklyn College⁩ call on ⁦Félix V. Matos Rodríguez⁩ to drop the charges on students at the Gaza encampment. As charges are dropped on NYU and many Columbia students, 22 CUNY students still face felonies—shameful race-class bias.

No Comps Absolutely wonderful documentary.

No Comps Houston Democrat Calls Trans Health Care ‘Black Genocide.’ Here’s My Take. link.medium.com/94tsOmMpTJb

The Duke University Press Spring Web Sale ends today so go ahead and purchase a copy of Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius—

I heard someone say it is a halfway decent book…

dukeupress.edu/stay-black-and…

Building Carcerality | Inquest

Architects and designers must reckon with their role in the past and future of mass incarceration.
inquest.org/building-carce…

'Anthony Pinn Explores How James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Others Embraced a New Black Humanism'

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Four years later, has the racial-justice movement lost the fight?

Four years after George Floyd’s murder, two @WashingtonPost reporters reflect on the retrenchment of the racial-justice movement sparked by his death.
washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05…

The siblings who changed how we party

Harvard grads’ digital invite company, Paperless Post, has sent 650 million invitations since its inception.
bostonglobe.com/2024/05/24/lif…

'In its earliest incarnations, the sitcom was almost exclusively focused on family life. Subsequent genre-defining shows like I Love Lucy, All in the Family, and The Cosby Show invented new hooks with which to narrate the interpersonal dramas of that life'
lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-w…

The Moms Still Fighting Segregation in California Schools

The Golden State isn’t usually a place associated with “separate but equal” policies, but it’s historically been a problem in cities like Pasadena.
capitalbnews.org/brown-v-board-…