'Reproductive Racial Capitalism,' a special issue of HistoryOfThePresent is online! Read the intro by editors Jennifer Morgan & Alys Eve Weinbaum, & Weinbaum's article 'Hortense Spillers and the Ungendering of (Re)productive Racial Capitalism - both free: ow.ly/BICo50Rf6XR

Jewish faculty at Columbia denounce the weaponization of anti-Semitism and call for the defense of the university as a 'site of learning, critical thinking, and knowledge production.' Really good letter, worth reading in its entirety. columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…

It’s so cool that there’s a kind of bear who are uncles

Missouri teen Ralph Yarl copes with life after wrong-door shooting: “It is a constant uphill battle” - NBC News apple.news/AkcliyYapSJSqi…

Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade | Slavery | The Guardian theguardian.com/news/ng-intera…

My only comment is: Johnnie Cochran had a long career that included repping the Black Panthers, getting Abner Louima his measure of justice from the NYPD and helping get Geronimo Pratt out of prison, and should not *just* live on in public discourse as 'OJ's lawyer'

The OJ Verdict was definitely one of those moments where I think most people from my generation can say where they were. Truly a weird pre-internet mass event/saga lol

while i personally have not been nominated for any prizes from any problematic institutions recently, i feel like we need to come up with some kind of new framework of mutual aid for these divest & refuse actions

Chadwick Boseman. I felt like I had lost a friend.

Keep forgetting a lot of ya’ll were not alive in 94/95😂

(Anti-)Colonialism and its Afterlives: Renewing and Rethinking the Debate | April 27–28, 2024 | The New School for Social Research | Register Here: event.newschool.edu/anticolonialis…

Just remember a Black woman got sentenced to 5 years for voting the way she was instructed. An unhoused Black Woman served 5 years for enrolling her kid in the wrong kindergarten

Daughter of working-class immigrant parents w a hs education who graduated college at 20, got a PhD before 30 and got tenured at an Ivy before I turned 40. Ive been guided by those who came before me. They more than anyone made me possible ✨

LA Times with quite the typo in its obituary for OJ Simpson

I feel like the OJ trial is going to be relitigated on Twitter today and I can’t live through that again

LOAN?

The audacity of the British

“Bad Friday”: 61 years ago today on 12 Apr 1963, following a violent clash at Coral Gardens, Montego Bay, #Jamaica which resulted in deaths of 3 Rastafari, 2 policemen, 3 civilians, #Jamaica n police, soldiers detained Rastafari throughout the island, abusing and torturing many.

This is the dialysis department.

🚨, WOW! It's Dean Meminger’s New York City, We’re Just Living in It - Hell Gate. Well, 30+ years of covering NYC, a lot of stories to tell. Take a read! hellgatenyc.com/dean-meminger-…

Congrats to all the winners especially Misha Chowdhury one of the most brilliant people I have ever had the pleasure to teach ✨✨