Black August is going to be 🙌🏽

The South Carolina Department of Education said AP African American studies will not be offered in the state’s schools anymore wsav.com/news/local-new…

I just received notice that I am suspended through the entire fall semester for my participation in the first Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia. Admin silently went back on their own deal with students in which they agreed to reverse our mass suspensions due to the outrage.

Hand off Arundhati Roy!

Destroying a people’s ability to sustain life is genocide.

Black/Indigenous/Disabled communities+our Elders responded to HarperCollins+HarperOne reiterating urgent concerns re Be A Revolution. Signatories incl: Alice Wong 王美華 @DrSamiSchalk HEARD (behearddc.bsky.social) H. Tubman Collective DisabilitySolidarity me & others We again urge this book be pulled.

Today is July 20, 2024, the start of the first chapter of Octavia Butler’s #ParableOfTheSower Happy Parable Day.

The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement condemns the police m*rder of Sonya Massey, a 36 year old Black mother in her Illinois home. Disarmed, Massey’s Blackness and womenhood were perceived as weapons, despite calling for help. 📍 bit.ly/MXGMSonyaMassey

🖤Today, we honor & give gratitude for #VeronzaBowers, former Black Panther& former political prisoner! Captured in 1973, Verronza was sentenced to life serving 46 yrs in federal prison. After a fierce campaign to #FreeVeronzaBowers, he was released from prison on May 7, 2024.

🇭🇹✊🏿 Join us TONIGHT for We Will Not Obey!: Commemorate the Haitian Revolution in the Spirit of Black August! We’ll be in convo w/ Haiti Action on the legacy of the #HaitianRevolution and the current struggle of the Haitian people for self-determination. bit.ly/BAHandsOffHaiti

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everyone knows I get so nervous I vom before every public talk I give… so please consider attending this Workshops4Gaza I am leading on behalf of Othman, a brilliant media worker, and his family who are trying to survive Israel’s genocide. They have already lost far too many…

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The curators and fellows of Conversations in Black Freedom Studies join dozens of guests from over the years in Hammer & Hope to call on the leadership of AAIHS to take a stand against Zionist genocide and cut financial ties with Tel Aviv University. hammerandhope.org/article/palest…

Coming soon ✨