If you were teaching a course called “Black Radical Joy” what would be some of the material on the syllabus?

I actually read all 216 pages of Florida's new state social studies standards, and the enslaved-people-benefitting-from-slavery is not even the worst part. They basically created a K-12 course in Caucasian Race Theory Here's the top 10 problems I found: thegrio.com/2023/07/27/flo…

Texas Prisons Are Cooking People Alive. Are We Okay With That? (via Austin Chronicle) austinchronicle.com/news/2023-08-1…

Learn about a transformative performance at Stateville Correctional Center, using art to challenge the parole system in Illinois. This is what reshaping perceptions and advocating for change can look like. austinweeklynews.com/2023/07/18/a-p…

Deon Cole said if you ever around #kattwilliams ask him this…… #ClubShayShay

When programs and offices for what’s now called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) started to be created in the 1960s and 1970s, do you know what group opposed them the most? Jim Crow segregationists. Do you what Jim Crow segregationists renamed efforts toward diversity,

After a man broke into my house and raped me when I was 20, many of male friends got VERY emotional about it and I felt like I was babysitting THEM instead of being supported. Except one who came over, night after night, and slept on my couch so I could feel safe in my room.

It is to the shame of the sports page that Aaron Rodgers’ blather gets constant coverage while the IDF killing the Palestinian Olympic soccer coach and using Gaza’s Yarmouk stadium as an internment camp is met with silence. thenation.com/article/societ…

‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. Crusade - The New York Times nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The University of Texas will no longer hold welcome programs or graduation ceremonies for Black, Latinx, Asian, and LGBTQIA+ student groups — the result of our state’s forced shutdown of DEI programs. Texas students: Your identity is valued and you belong in our schools.

One day we’re gonna have a conversation about how the border crisis is essentially an economic problem and all our solutions are essentially about policing… One day.

Woodfin says if anti-DEI bill passes, he would urge athletes to leave Alabama al.com/news/2024/02/w…

Honest questions: when people who are racialized as White are in predominantly White spaces/places, is the room considered raceless? is it just taken for granted? Is race only apparent when someone of color is present?

These practices must end! Join us at a press conference this weekend to demand: • The Firing of Each Officer Involved in Stopping Dexter Reed • DisbandTACT Teams • End Racist Traffic Stops

There are a few problems with Byron Donald’s idiotic statement, notion of Black “conservatives,” and even how WE THINK of Jim Crow A thread

I think this one is hitting us all like a family loss right now. The voice. The stature. The body of work. But also the smile. That crinkle on the side of his eyes in his latter years that made us feel like we knew him. At this point it's redundant for me to talk about the

Congratulations to our 6 athletes who earned All-District recognition this year! Beyond proud of these young women, and we cannot wait to see what’s next for each of them. Go Mustangs! #MWT #AllDistrict

"Who are the folks on the margins? Now they need to be in the center of our analysis. Not this Band-Aid work but rather: These are folks who are central to the function of the city. They are not disposable. They are not throwaway people. We’ve got to do right by them." --