Today is Week 1 of the #DuBoisChallenge2025! Go to buff.ly/3QjOsaF to re-create the viz in this week’s folder. Share your work on social media with #DuBoisChallenge2025. Don’t forget to share it in the DVS Slack for a chance to win prizes!

The great Jonathan Lemire does a terrific job here explaining what the White House press pool does and why it matters that it remain independent and not controlled by the government. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Thursday, 3/13, 6:30 PM: You’re invited to join an inaugural event in a multi-year public programs series honoring Seneca Village, an African American community located in what is now Central Park. #SchomburgCenter Central Park ow.ly/AVs150VcpWk

Although the photographer Flo Fox was legally blind and paralyzed, she still managed to capture what she called the “ironic reality” of New York City on film. She has died at 79. nyti.ms/3DvdyjP

Good resource here: x.com/emzorbit/statu…

"I AM AN AMERICAN." A striking image from the Library's Prints and Photographs Division to mark the anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt establishing the War Relocation Authority to oversee the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. 🧵

Not sure how to use our #ArchivesSpace portal to conduct #research? Watch this short tutorial for search tips: on.nyc.gov/3PIKHZJ. And then begin your research here: on.nyc.gov/3Ejg2g4.

8/10: The Disappeared IN this essay, we review how 238 Venezuelan men—most with no criminal record—were forcibly disappeared by the US to El Salvador without due process, triggering Black Saturday—an ongoing constitutional crisis. theintellectualist.com/the-disappeare…

A bi-partisan common sense solution to super speeders: “Virginia will become the first state in the nation to allow judges to order anti-speeding devices to be installed in the cars of the worst speeders…approved by Republican(!!) Gov. Glenn Youngkin…” usa.streetsblog.org/2025/04/01/fin…

I wrote for The Baffler about Brian Goldstone’s devastating new book “There is No Place for Us,” America’s engineering of housing insecurity, and the rising crisis of working homelessness thebaffler.com/latest/invisib…

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Boasberg says he believes the Trump administration "acted in bad faith" on the day of the Alien Enemies Act deportations. Boasberg says his impression is that "if you really believed everything you did that day was legal and would survive a court challenge,

Thank you, Indivisible Guide ❌👑. A map showing over 1,000 events planned for Saturday across the US (plus Canada, England, France, and Portugal). This is the Hands Off! map for Saturday. Nearly 400,000 people have signed up to attend over 1,000 events in all 50 states. We hope to

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) on President Trump: "Each and every time he issues an illegal executive order I am going to stand up to him because he represents to me sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

Mary Anne Hunting, Kevin D. Murphy’s Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism details the erasure of women in modernism as much as their contributions—it’s a necessary if painful symbiosis. ow.ly/Fxws50VuTy3

In recognition of the Yale Center for British Art’s reopening following a major conservation project and gallery reinstallation, read Vincent Scully’s 1977 review of the Louis Kahn–designed museum. architecturalrecord.com/articles/17469…

Ruth Ann Buzzi July 24, 1936 - May 1, 2025 Each day with love and laughter — Happily, ever after.

A relief worker talks to Isaac Chotiner about how, exactly two months since Israel suspended all aid to Gaza, hundreds of thousands of people in the territory have grown desperate for food and are struggling to survive. nyer.cm/NcxVyZV

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After the Southern California fires, FORT: LA launched a competition to reimagine buildings lost to the flames. Two winning projects, one by USC Architecture students and the other by architect Finn Bradley, blend durability, sustainability, and memory. ow.ly/WaJN50VJYjG

On May 13, meet the Black Brooklynites who defined New York City's most populous borough through their search for social justice when author Prithi Kanakamedala joins us to discuss her book "Brooklynites". Learn more & RSVP: on.nyc.gov/4iawmn2 #NYCHistory #BlackHistory