I'm begging y'all. Please don't post that video of Sonya Massey being shot by the police. She should still be alive. #SayHerName

Christopher Dunn should be home right now after serving 33 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. But Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is using his power and our money to keep him in prison.

This thread is one more example of how we need to remember that people will turn on not only strangers but friends for their own perceived self-interest. Don’t look at history and other countries and ask how people could let something happen. It can always happen here. And does.

Suggesting this when politicians want to get rid of faculty who teach about race and gender, and will likely soon be coming for all kinds of scholars who teach about politically inconvenient topics like, say, climate change and public health is an interesting choice.

And ALL of them have been beaten by other women.

To raise money for transport, Imane Khelif sold scrap metal for recycling and her mother sold couscous. Together they were able to afford the bus to the town for Imane to have regular boxing training sessions. unicef.org/algeria/en/sto…

Indeed. So incredibly disappointing.

There was no one, ever, as robbed as she was.

Interesting thread in terms of what people see as poor or working class (working class is obviously not always poor). I think the class divide plot is much more common in terms of representing working class people. Fallen Leaves is an interesting counter (and not U.S.)

"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…

Look at how Algerians turned out in Algiers to celebrate Olympic boxer Imane Khelif after she won gold at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Just to be clear: If you’re attacking or making fun of Tim Walz’ neurodivergent son for his reaction and love for his father, you are a terrible human being.

Enraging.

That New Yorker cover seems to be quite the Rorschach test.

Today, I attended a press conference at the apartment complexes where national and local media have falsely reported that gangs have taken over. Instead, we heard from residents who debunked this narrative and called out the slumlord responsible for forcing them to live in

This is an amazing story about the best documentary you may never see, Ezra Edelman’s nine-hour film on Prince. loom.ly/c_z1vSk