"Gaza is already an open abyss in Western consciousness." The kind of anti-colonial and radical critique of the West I hoped to read in deep and powerful words comes today from a voice of my loved Martinique, Patrick Chamoiseau. Spread the world www.madinin-art.net/que-peut-la-...

I'm Francophone... 😂

Breaking News: Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan is about to begin with jury selection. Trump, who faces 34 felony charges in the case, is accused of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal. Follow live updates.

Live Updates: Trump Trial Poised to Begin, a Criminal Case Without Precedent

Jury selection is set to start as Donald J. Trump faces charges he faked business records to cover up a sex scandal before winning the presidency in 2016. It is the first criminal trial of a former pr...

Duke University announced it is ending a full-ride scholarship program for Black students in the wake of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling

Duke ends full-ride scholarship program for select Black students in wake of affirmative action ruling

The scholarship is named in honor of Reginaldo “Reggie” Howard, Duke’s first Black student government president who died in an automobile accident during his sophomore year in 1976.

University of Kent confirming dissolution of six departments. Who needs anthropology, philosophy, or art history in today’s world, anyway? t.co/FznxXivzHp

Future plans for Kent

Ce bel hommage à Maryse Condé, écrivaine inclassable, pour moi romancière de la liberté des afrodescendantEs, femme libre et rebelle. Lonnè ek respé — www.liberation.fr/culture/livr...

Mort de l’écrivaine guadeloupéenne Maryse Condé, plume de la fierté noire

Des Caraïbes à l’Afrique, la romancière guadeloupéenne, révélée avec sa saga «Ségou» et couronnée en 2018 d’un «prix Nobel alternatif», a questionné au fil d’une œuvre foisonnante la question de l’ide...

University of Chicago's guidelines for managing an online attack are clearer than ours. Not a bad page to bookmark, because you never know when or if it will happen to you. There are some good commonsense principles here, along with general advice. provost.uchicago.edu/handbook/cla...

Since lots of my twitter mutuals have moved here, I thought I’d share the website and presale info for my forthcoming book, #Blacksoundblacksoundbook.com

Blacksound Book

Official Presale: 2.26.24 Official Publish Date: 3.26.24

Chicago has filed a climate lawsuit against Big Oil, joining more than three dozen jurisdictions in the US that have turned to the courts seeking to hold the oil & gas industry liable for climate harms More in my news piece here www.climateinthecourts.com/news/chicago...

Chicago Sues Big Oil Over Climate Deception

The city of Chicago filed a climate accountability lawsuit against half a dozen major oil and gas companies and their chief lobbyist group the American Petroleum Institute , charging them with...

Rather than recognize their workers choice to unionize the growers banded together to sue the state and stop the law.

They target the fact that many workers who want to unionize are H2A workers. They want to overturn the whole law and strip ALL NY farm workers of their rights.