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Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on From Rights To Lives: The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle. aaihs.org/online-roundta…

Fresh new article out today in New Media & Society! We propose content creation platforms as mediators for self-discovery at the intersections of disability, health, and identity. Link to PDF/ePub below! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

seems clear that the Republicans have finally succeeded in stripping basic services from the poorest members of our society because the Ds have so completely stopped caring for or even talking about this constituency. two-party system but only occupying one quadrant of the graph

Barthes: ‘The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.’

It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:

When I survived a 1 in 1 million chance disease as a teen, the same U.S. health system that saved my life ABANDONED me when I needed 24/7 care for a year post-discharge. If not for Medicaid and SNAP, I would have been SOL and that medical miracle would’ve been totally wasted.💔

Lukewarm take I know but it’s depressing how incurious we’ve become as a society at exactly the point in history when knowledge became so easily accessible

Until reading a post by Corey Robin, I didn’t know NYC is home to over 800k Muslims. That’s only 100k shy of the city’s Jewish population. It is remarkable that the establishment keeps hammering how many Jews there are—as if they all fear Mamdani—but completely silent on Muslims

RIP Mom - love you and miss you.

Latin Quarter view for the next month.

Companies that walk away from DEI may avoid short-term pressure—but the long-term consequences are real. When you turn your back on communities, people notice. Values aren’t just a statement—they’re a commitment. fortune.com/2025/07/14/sta…

Wow. Justice Sotomayor wrote a chilling dissent: “When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary's duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.” We should all be alarmed.