Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn (1983). A summer block party on Madison Ave btwn Tompkins Ave & Throop Ave. Photographed by Robert Madden of National Geographic.

cereal for dinner while my taxes fund an ethnostate's four-country-war

In solidarity with the writers boycotting the PEN America World Voices Festival; PEN America United; Writers Against the War on Gaza; and all the other writers who have declined PEN awards this week––

Eid in Harlem 🗽🌍

Happening right now - Students for Palestine are starting an occupation of Sydney University. Acting as they can to try and stop a genocide, and acting at an institution that shamelessly benefits from weapons $$$

the actual encampment at Columbia—i'm here after teaching my final class of the semester—is downright tranquil, impossibly sweet. there is a "nut zone" for the safety of kids with allergies.

I was a third-year college student before this genocide started, but I'll never be able to finish my studies because Israeli occupation forces bombed my university and every other university in Gaza. Thanks to the brave college students who are protesting and advocating for us,

The Refaat Alareer Memorial Library is now open at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at UCLA, Royce Quad.

No, no, no, no. Refaat’s daughter, Shimaa and her new baby and the husband got killed in an airstrike today. Just a few days ago, I mentioned that Refaat became a grandfather. 💔💔💔💔💔

Aw man. At Columbia they named the occupied building after Hind. ❤❤❤

Six months today 💔

BREAKING| Israel's army kills 6 relatives of Dr. Refaat Al Areer, including an 8-month-old fetus and its mother, and two children, in an airstrike on a house in Al Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.

Professor Ahmed Abu Labda, based at the Islamic University of Gaza, and his mother and daughter were killed at home by an Israeli air strike. I'll not speak about the lack of academic solidarity when a Palestinian academic is killed because we all know that's a given by now.

🖤Hurricane Beryl🖤 A list of resources to support communities across the Caribbean impacted by Hurricane Beryl ⬇️ docs.google.com/document/d/1it…

“The current cohort of migrants (arriving to New York City) includes the largest number of African Muslims entering the U.S. since the end of the slave trade.” hammerandhope.org/article/atlant… Hammer & Hope

"When both were participating in an anti-apartheid poetry reading in 1986, June Jordan approached Adrienne Rich and said, 'I completely and absolutely detest your views on Israel and I love you.'" Marina Magloire examines a Black feminist falling-out. lareviewofbooks.org/article/moving…

Atlanta’s Refaat Mobile Library - Atlanta has sent nearly $30K and is *still* raising money for Gaza Funds. Give at least $10 to refaatlibraryatl on Venmo and we’ll mail you art designed exclusively for the library by Palestinian artists. 100% goes to vetted, stagnant campaigns. #WeKeepUsSafe ✊🏾