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DID YOU KNOW: The University of California is the largest landlord in the state, controlling nearly 150,000 beds in university housing. UC also manages at least $8 billion dollars in real estate investments. Real estate 🤝 public universities 🤝weapons manufacturers

What websites do you all use to look for faculty job postings?

Proximity to Inglewood Oil Field may increase risk of preterm birth, with racial disparities highest between Black and white parents‼️ Study conducted by UCLA for 2nd Health Impacts and Environmental Justice Assessment for Baldwin Hills Community Advisory Panel.

Yesterday, students in my course Critical Black Masculinities and Education course hosted an interactive showcase for a self-published zine curated and designed by them. Their theme was “Defining Love”. So proud of them. This creative work is truly a curriculum! Brown University Education Department

Unreal what we are witnessing. Impossible to process the gravity of the crime, and they’ve not even finished yet.

Florida students are giving up Saturdays to learn Black history lessons their schools don’t teach apnews.com/article/florid…

Climate scientist Peter Kalmus (Peter Kalmus) talks about leaving Los Angeles two years ago due to the risk of climate-fueled wildfires. He says the devastation unfolding in Southern California now is even worse than he feared and warns, "This is still just the beginning."

When the Paris Accord was signed, climate scientists expected that under a business-as-usual scenario the planet might see 1.5C warming over pre-industrial times in 2045 or so—not 2024 ft.com/content/fd9142…

Today, more people showed up for distro than ever. That means more time invested in fostering community. Mutual aid is NOT charity—it’s about creating lasting relations, building networks of care, and addressing systems of oppression. In short: WE TAKE CARE OF US!

Meanwhile, every organizer I know is stretched beyond their limits, trying to support as many people as possible.

Study the Reconstruction Era. Then, you will know precisely how white backlash operates in America. Any racial progress or even too much noise about potential progress will be followed by White people using the law and violence to suppress racial progress.

We know now that what they're coming after is not one form of thinking. It's not Black history, it's not intersectionality, it's not critical race theory. They're coming after the entire infrastructure that has been created from the civil rights movement.

Do not allow ICE to come inside and snatch people in your schools, hospitals, and churches. Hold the line, because your turn will come soon. For breakfast or for lunch, you will eat the oppression you allow for your neighbor.

In class, I asked the students, why the resistance to Trump has been underwhelming this time, and one interestingly said because a chunk of it was brutally put down last spring on college campuses during the Biden admin. Def generated discussion.

trumps storm troopers are going to train at cop cities built by democratic municipal governments. we cannot get swept up in their partisan drama. we have to pursue our own agenda: finish reconstruction, destroy the racial state, abolish the police.

thousands of seniors went hungry because the mayor + 12 city councilmembers defunded a senior meals program to pay for cop raises latimes.com/california/sto…

AERA 2025 in the books! AERA season is truly my favorite time of the academic year, it’s always such a joy and blessing to be able to share my work and break bread with friends and colleagues. Looking forward to welcoming everyone to my home in LA next year!

Here’s an excerpt from the second chapter of my book “Engendering Blackness” featured in Ill Will!