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I'm excited about this talk at @ConnCollege on Thursday night, as part of their amazing symposium on a right to housing. For anyone local, please roll through!
For anyone else, the event will be livestreamed, registration link here: welivehere.site/event/housin….
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Big news! The @HPE_Project is thrilled to invite applications for two residential fellowships at the @RemarqueNYU for AY 27-28, in our Histories and Futures of Global Governance Initiative. Info and call for applications here: hpeproject.org/hfgg-cfa
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This is not careful stewardship. It is a 200-year-old public institution being treated as a liability on a university balance sheet.
The reasons for the closure of the Academy do not withstand scrutiny. Opinion inquirer.com/opinion/comment… via @phillyinquirer
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My friend Natasha Gordon-Chipembere & her friend Yndia Lorick-Wilmot published a volume of writers from their yearly retreat in Costa Rica, Tengo Sed. They had a book launch @ the Free Black Women’s Library in Bed-Stuy & it was beautiful ✨
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@AkiraDrake Along with a Puerto Rican landlord from nearby city, a developer from Atlanta, GA is up here in CT arguing that the response to predatory real estate is simply Latino & Black landlords and developers that "care" more their tenants and offer greater accountability. 🧐
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In 2024 we received 'an ultimatum to remove the section on Palestine if we wanted [our SI intro] published'. We refused. Here, @DrJennaMarshall, @RobtelNeajai Kamna Patel (@dpu_ucl), @AltheaMRivas & I consider how writing on race in Development is policed. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Happy to share my new article, “The Reach of Latino Capitalism,” out today in History of the Present (@DukePress), which offers a new account of NAFTA’s origins. doi.org/10.1215/21599785-125…
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New from me in @HammerandHope, co-published with @econhardship: In 2021, Philadelphia educator Sharif El-Mekki set out to train 9,100 new Black teachers in 12 years, across 10 cities. How he's rebuilding a pipeline this country tore out 🧵 hammerandhope.org/article/bl…
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As district enrollment has declined, enrollment in brick-and-mortar charters has grown slightly while cyber charter enrollment has skyrocketed. chalkbeat.org/philadelphia/2…
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in a world of Jerrys be a George
Jason Alexander says he feared visiting Palestine as a Jew until 10 Palestinians protected him during an Israeli army raid in Ramallah
“How much of a risk would I be taking as an American Jew walking into Palestinian cities? And Mohammed said, ‘The greatest dishonor that could happen to a religious Muslim is to allow harm to come to an invited guest’”
“And he said, ‘Jason, if they had to, they’ll take a bullet for you.’ And what was so interesting about that trip is, we were having lunch in Ramallah with a bunch of actors and artists at a sort of outdoor restaurant”
“And the Israeli army was conducting a raid on a bank that they thought had terrorist ties a couple blocks away. And they must have, to announce themselves, just shot into the air. And I remember 10 of those guys at the table surrounding me. And I went, ‘Oh my God, he wasn’t kidding. They’re not going to let me get hurt’”
On Thursday November 12, I will be one of the interlocutors (with musician Karen Smith) at a Reparations Salon hosted by reparationWorks and Rough Drafts podcast. See below flyer and spread the word, come out and lets chat!
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In the new issue of @readhammerandhope, the scholar @emitchelleaton explains, “Puerto Ricans’ rejection of ICE is a response — often an organized one — to more than a century of U.S. colonialism and more than 500 years of foreign occupation."
hammerandhope.org/article/pu…
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My new essay "Translating in the Wake" about translating the "lost" archive of epistemic negotiations performed by African and Afrodiasporic translators and interpreters in the transatlantic slave trade. Link gives free access for the next 2 months:
read.dukeupress.edu/comparat…
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If all continues to go well with my healing journey, I’ll have my first book talk for From Infinite World on Pub Day, December 1st, which is also World AIDS Day, in Atlanta at @chariscircle Charis Bookd & More! I will be joined by Rev. Duncan E. Teague—ATL folks, come see me!
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In the past seventy years, the U.S. has had one single month where Black unemployment was below 5%. This is why I, like others, consider the operations of the NAIRU as a form of racial politics.
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Today marks 10 years since the founding of Progressive City: Radical Alternatives! Thanks to all the contributors & editors who have made this possible! Stay tuned for more posts relating to our "Keeping the 'Public' in Public Space series" and other critical analyses
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Abbott Elementary Is Entertaining. The Damage Is Real. schoolfinance101.com/2026/10…







































