Donating the $75K prize money to PCRF wasn’t even PEN America’s decision btw

In an attempt avoid their tents from being seized, students put their tents on chairs as to “comply” with administration. When police and UNC facility crew came to forcibly remove the tents, protestors collectively lifted up their tents and marched around the quad.

Protest organizers told the News that Yale police have notified them they would be issuing three “dispersal or arrest” warnings to the crowd before beginning arrests. Police did not provide a timeline for these warnings.

Follow for live updates: yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/04/1…

I have never seen anything like this happen before at Columbia. There is no fear left among students. Organizers were arrested en masse & when I got out of jail, I was told students occupied another lawn on their own. Hundreds are willing to risk arrest. I am so filled with hope.

.Jay Hartzell: “It’s not just are we compliant with SB 17 in the short run, but also what are the choices we make and how do we demonstrate to our state and others that we are good stewards of the resources for which we’ve been entrusted.”
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🌟 Our gala speaker for Saturday, April 27th is Dr. Ashanté Reese! Dr. Ashanté M. Reese is Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies UT Austin, & author of Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, & Food Access in DC. Grab your gala ticket: blackinenviron.org/register

Hey, UT Austin faculty, see y’all on Zoom at 2:15 today!👇👇

Thanks to everyone who listened to & shared the short clip from the 2024 Spelman Founders Day address. In case you'd like to hear the full 15min talk, here's a captioned version. The spicy section that's circulating is towards the end: bit.ly/RuhaSpelmanTalk

That's my book!!!

Professor Ruha Benjamin (Ruha Benjamin) using her honorary degree address at Spelman to denounce Atlanta’s Cop City, the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and the repression of student activists 💜

The remains of more than 100,000 Native Americans are held by prestigious U.S. institutions, despite a 1990 law meant to return them to tribal nations. Here’s how the ancestors were stolen — and how tribes are working to get them back. propublica.org/article/repatr…

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the Blackecologies Zine is an open resource containing sixty-six pages of essays, interviews, short fiction, poetry, experimental field notes, and original art globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/sites/default/…

Whew some of y’all’s racism is real strong right now.

God, I’m teary eyed like these women are my nieces. So proud of them!

Caitlin Clark got the refs blowing the whistle more than an Alpha probate

Paopao with the POW POW and Raven “pick pocket” Johnson with the steal!

TESSA MUTHAFUCKIN JOHNSON!