Sonya Massey was shot and killed inside her home by a sheriff’s deputy who responded to her 911 call, and the deputy is now charged with murder in the case amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/18…

Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of The Freedom Singers & Sweet Honey in the Rock, has died at 81. A singer & composer, Reagon provided a gospel soundtrack for the Civil Rights Movement & continued her work as a scholar & activist. nytimes.com/2024/07/19/art…

Sonya Massey’s family says she is a descendant of William Donnegan, who was lynched by a white mob during violent racist attacks that led to the creation of the NAACP. Massey was taken to the same hospital as her ancestor Donnegan, the family said theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

Oh wow. ⁦Public Books⁩ has informed me that this interview has already made the “most viewed” list and was also mentioned on @LitHub Daily. What an honor, y’all. Thank you so much for reading and sharing. publicbooks.org/public-thinker…

I wrote a thing about maps! rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tr…

PARIS (AP) — Simone Biles and the US women's gymnastics team complete 'redemption tour' by winning team gold at Paris Olympics.

It’s so crazy that they’ve had to post Imane Khelif childhood pictures to prove that she was born a woman because she packed a white woman with one punch in 40 seconds. White women tears ruin lives.

TRINITTTYYY !!!!!!!!!!!!!

they had my mans tebogo in a t-shirt in SPRINT & he came through to clean the 200m 🤌🏾

So the breakdance lady from Austria(lia?) was doing a social experiment talking about yt access to breaking and social hierarchy, etc. She wrote a paper about it, somehow she made it through to the Olympics with all her nonsense. Which shows that she was playing in our faces.

So Penn installed a monument to honor me and my confidantes, we smiled. When Cesaire’s imperial boomerang returns, they’ll attempt to pay us to do speeches, and we’ll say this too ain’t reparations.

who “we”? —Sylvia Wynter

year 2 on the tt just as chaotic but the fits fit

The “Palestine exception” exposes the betrayal of normative principles and policies at the expense of Palestine/Palestinians. Jairo I Fúnez-Flores’s article comes to mind. And, Palestine has clarified for me and many a higher standard of integrity, solidarity, pedagogy, even theology

Came upon this chilling statistic while working on a story today: 60% of all young people currently detained, directly in King County's youth jail in Seattle or via electronic home monitoring, are Black. Black people make up only 7% of the county's total population.

Dying to Succeed: Unveiling the (Un)Hidden Toll of Academic Advancement for Black Women - Ebony O. McGee, 2024 (sagepub.com)

Femicide. Rest in Peace Rebecca Cheptegei. We are so so sorry 💔