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I don’t think Baltimore will ever reach its full potential because, from an institutional level, it appears as if the goal is to cater to everyone BUT its majority Black population (which accounts for over 62%). How can you thrive on any level if you cut out most of the ppl here?

A Republican state representative asked Rep. Justin Jones what he means by the chant “No Justice, No Peace.” His response is worth hearing in full:

Congratulations to our colleagues at Rutgers! 🥳✊🏻 “Rutgers and unions reach deal to end historic faculty strike” nj.com/education/2023…

This is the whole thing right here

“Poverty is an injury, a taking. Tens of millions of Americans do not end up poor by a mistake of history or personal conduct. Poverty persists because some wish and will it so.” — Matthew Desmond bookshop.org/p/books/povert…

30 years ago former chief justice Warren Burger, a Republican appointed by Nixon, called the idea that the 2A guarantees an individual's right to own a firearm "one of the greatest pieces of fraud... that I have ever seen in my lifetime" and it's a thousand times more true today

Children with asthma whose families participated in a Baltimore program that helped move them from high-poverty neighborhoods to low-poverty ones saw their disease get significantly better, according to a study published last week. baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-a…

Great morning read on a neighborhood that captures a lot of what to love and lament about Baltimore

Perhaps the fiction writer I read most. I always slow down reading McCarthy. He makes me want to linger. Reading is an experience of the macabre, elegiac, beautiful, awful wreck of humanity. I’ll miss having new works and relish the ones we have.

SCOTUS inverts 14th amendment to strike down affirmative action. Now to see all the specific ways this decision is terrible

8/8 One more point: back in 1978, Justice Marshall warned in Bakke that the diversity rationale was the wrong foundation upon which to ground affirmative action. He argued affirmative action should be the start of an an honest accounting of the legacy of slavery. He was right

As Bell noted in 2003, once affirmative action arguments moved away from a corrective action for racial equity and towards a cost-benefit analysis for diversity, the courts would eventually decide the perceived costs were too much...didn't even get the 25 years O'Conner promised.

Derrick Bell (2003). Diversity's distractions. Columbia Law Review issue 103, p. 1622. [and I wrote a little about in as well - Examining post-racial ideology in higher education. Teachers College Record, 117(14), 5-26.]

The argument that white folks are falling back on about how Roberts said race can still be mentioned in a college essay is annoying me for a number of reasons. Particularly: Why should a Black student have to WASTE SPACE explaining "how racism works" to a white admissions officer

Gonna walk around tomorrow and look for Artscape. The weather forecast is telling me it should instantaneously materialize once the heat index hits 100

The front page of tomorrow's The Daily Tar Heel – I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours. Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on October 16, 1859.

Really so honored to have Dr. Johnson as a colleague. This thread is evidence of a big reason why. Couldn’t agree more.