'Ella Baker, the great socialist and civil rights organizer, was born this day in 1903. Here's her classic 1935 article on economic exploitation and black domestic workers in Great Depression–era New York.'
The Bronx Slave Market | Ella Baker & Marvel Cooke
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The Trump administration is signaling it may be reversing course on a plan to build a border wall in and around Big Bend National Park, following pushback from locals and some prominent Texas Republicans.
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Child is raising hands and relishing the cool mist at a mist exhibit at the Durham Museum on a warm afternoon in March.
Mist at the Museum of Life and Science. Spring is springing.
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
The AAUP's core mission. We stay busy.
Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026
Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists.
STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Anyone you are currently following from Minnesota would be better served by investing in your local news. Or even better go to your grocery store and ask your neighbor what they think. Risk a conversation.
Robert A. Pape: When a president says he will choose the next leader of Iran, the war stops being about missiles. It becomes a regime change war. History’s warning: regimes don't collapse from air power alone. Those wars last months or years — not weeks.
Having spent my entire winter “break” editing my forthcoming book, without calling out the ostensible editors of the book, “Integra.” How do “we” note the work of editors who do not exist?
Alternate reality where JavaScript has a good in-built standard library and 90% of the excesses of the software industry and AI never come to pass
Improbably Famous, Then Perpetually Forgotten. Now, the Renaissance of Edmonia Lewis
A 19th-century sculptor of Black and Indigenous ancestry was acclaimed, then overlooked. But a groundswell of scholars and artists are keeping her flame alive in new projects.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/a...
How would you feel if a foreign country dropped a bomb on a school in Washington DC and killed 165 schoolchildren?
That’s the question we need to be asking our Congressmen right now.
Erica!
Erica Edwards joined #LeftOfBlack to discuss her book 'The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire' (@nyupress.bsky.social)
#WomensHistoryMonth
#BlackWomensHistory
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This one hits home hard.
WORD!
Blackout in Cuba leaves millions without power amid US oil chokehold
Latest outage darkens island facing dwindling oil reserves and increasing pressure from Washington
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
"Black men now represent only about 2% of teachers nationwide—a noticeable drop from 6.5% in the 2017-2018 school year. The declining presence of Black male teachers...tells us in no uncertain terms: the nation struggles to recruit & keep male teachers of color."
www.theeduledger.com/views/articl...
It began as a stylistic ‘swash’ variant of the letter 'I' to represent a consonant sound.
This is the reason ‘J’ was placed directly after ‘I.’
‘J’ is the most recent letter added to the alphabet.
"A strategic plan from the Vice Chancellor of Student Enrollment and Faculty Shaming."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...
“The whole idea was to create clarity and reassurance,” UNC Capel Hill chancellor Lee Roberts said during a Faculty Senate meeting Friday. “That policy clearly has not achieved that aim.” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Spare a thought today for the institutional researchers who are working to compile 7 years of disaggregated admissions data by March 18th. @kathrynpalmer.bsky.social reports that 81% of colleges still haven't submitted their data to the Department of Education www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
How some libraries are becoming “third spaces” where students find belonging, tutoring and connection to community. They’re more than just a place to study. By Joshua Bay www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
Yikes!! This isnt going to matter for the Talarico/Crockett race (his lead is too big). But it could definitely matter for local Dallas races. What a travesty.
It’s incredibly funny. “Vote for us! Whoever’s been in charge of all this have been fraudulent and wasteful stewards! I wonder who that’s been for the last thirty years!”
‘If Trump’s intention was to remove Khamenei from the political landscape, he may instead have fixed him in it, recast in the eyes of his devotees as a figure of sacrifice rather than failure.’
@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on the US war on Iran, new on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
This @pbsnewsclassroom.bsky.social lesson On the Ground in Tehran, gives students a firsthand look at tense conditions in Iran’s capital and includes questions to deepen understanding
👉 https://sharemylesson.com/todays-news-tomorrows-lesson/on-the-ground-tehran-tense-conditions @aftteach.bsky.social
