Opinion | During covid, loneliness engulfed us. Here's how I escape it. - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

Texas Students for DEI and SDS are holding a sit-in this Thursday at the UT Regents meeting downtown.

Danté Stewart’s “Shoutin’ In The Fire: An American Epistle” is the book I needed while attending a PWI in the Midwest. All the “nice” white students and professors who make you feel like you should be grateful to be there, who say you are not like all those “other” Black people.

If you’re a black queer who “appreciates black male studies”…get back to your roots and actually read the writings of black queers specifically on black men’s sexuality. These cishet men aren’t saying much of anything new. They just don’t read gay niggas. Why don’t you?

"Across the political spectrum, Americans whitewash the working class and exclude labor struggle from black history. Blair LM Kelley, PhD's 'Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class' is a necessary corrective — and provides lessons for struggle today." jacobin.com/2023/09/black-…

The Long History of Universities Displacing Black People chronicle.com/article/the-lo…

Suicide rates among Black Americans are increasing by double digits A conversation with DrJoe, one of the leading experts on suicide in the Black community andscape.com/features/suici…

In Chicago, Environmental Justice Was Birthed by a Black Woman. A New Podcast Tells Her Story. An audio docuseries about Hazel Johnson recognizes the community organizer's importance in developing the growing movement. capitalbnews.org/hazel-johnson-…

The first episode of the Torn Apart podcast drops tomorrow! Read about the podcast and find a link to the trailer 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

The Association of Black Anthropologists has released a statement in solidarity with Palestine: aba.americananthro.org/aba-statement-…

In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing." The state then spent $6,200/month to house her kids in foster care. A must-read by Stephannie Stokes propublica.org/article/georgi…

A morning word on Nikki Haley and protecting our children.

Kelsey Moore —"We Just Don't Trust Our Memories to Stone" A remapping of flooded black cemeteries in the Santee-Cooper Basin storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/26a073…

My whole heart is so sad. 💔As a black student at the University of Texas new black student weekend and black graduation were the introduction AND the outgoing Highlights of my career there as a student. Is it 2024 or 1924?? What a shame… #UT Texas Exes UT Austin

#NotOurTexas

✴️Responding to overwhelming concern among UT faculty about increasingly untenable teaching and learning conditions, UT Austin AAUP has begun circulating an open letter intended to gauge support for a vote of no confidence in UT President Jay Hartzell. 1/x

SBA Office Hours | Dr. Alicia Odewale ✨

There were enslaved and free Black people in places that now comprise the U.S. before 1619. Everyone should know this, especially historians of Black America.

New Doc Features Elder Black Gay Women Farming Harriet Tubman’s Ancestral Lands Filmmaker Charlyn Griffith-Oro hopes “The Aunties” will serve as a possibility model for folks “imagining resisting enslavement.” wordinblack.com/2025/02/new-do…