No because why are you black in Wisconsin….

Using marginalized people to recruit other marginalized people & discarding them because they expect diversity, equity, & inclusion to be a real focus in an organization is a form of academic exploitation. Marginalized people are more than optics, checklists, & convenience.

Required reading. My god.

I don’t want to scare yall, but this is basically every US college right now. Across the board. Even the so called liberal states. We are expendable. And that’s the story.

RT @JeanJacquesDes7: They once tried to ban bachata for being ‘too Black, too poor’ in the Dominican Republic, until a whitepassing musicia…

Policies like this are so unnecessary and only serve to promote broader ideologies rooted in discrimination, racism, colonialism, and xenophobia. Friends, please continue to support multilingualism and stand up against all forms of linguistic oppression in your words & actions🖤

Mexico abolished slavery in 1829. Enslaved people were escaping to Mexico. The U.S. tried to get Mexico to sign a fugitive slave treaty to return escapees but Mexico refused to sign such a treaty, insisting that enslaved people were free once they set foot on Mexican soil. —Did you know that Juneteenth is also celebrated in a part of Mexico? Nacimiento Mexico was once home to thousands who escaped slavery in the US. As many as 10,000 slaves followed a clandestine Southern Underground Railroad to Mexico. —To date, many Black Mexicans from the Texas area retrace a portion of the same route their African American ancestors followed in 1850 when they escaped slavery. —Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions in the village of Nacimiento. —Slave hunters would patrol the southern border for escapees, led by the Texas Rangers but the Mexican army would be there waiting for them (the slave hunters) to turn them away.

I miss late-night coffee shops. They used to be so abundant (especially in college towns). Now you might find one or two that are still hanging on.

Today at the ABLE Institute: ACTFL's Immediate Past President, LJ Randolph, joined students, DCPS world language educators, DC’s WL Supervisor, and Gregory Jones, retired WL Supervisor from Fairfax County, for a powerful day of language learning in action! @LangConnectsFdn

The Amistad Research Center, one of the largest repositories of Black history, cut half its staff after the Trump administration ended four federal grants washingtonpost.com/nation/20…

Para mí, preparar una hora de clase me toma de 4 a 6 horas de trabajo. Una sesión de 3 horas implica 12-16 horas de preparación. Un curso de 15 horas como mínimo tiene 60-90 horas de trabajo detrás.

Sure thing: Rural hospitals rely heavily on Medicaid payments, because most people in rural areas do not have much money, so the uninsured population is higher; also, the population densities are lower, so fewer people to support the hospital. But thanks to Medicaid expansion (the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare), those uninsured people were able to get coverage, which allowed rural hospitals to recover costs for care. Otherwise, they just eat the costs. North Carolina lost 11 rural hospitals across the state in the 2010s, because Republicans refused to expand Medicaid. It was (and is) a disaster. If the GOP kills Medicaid expansion now, as the OBBB budget does, a major financial pillar for those hospitals disappears again.

If you’re an @actfl member, and a member of the African-American students SIG, JOIN US for this FREE WEBINAR! 🗓️ Tuesday, June 10th ⏰ 6pm ET! Check your email and register! Looking forward to seeing you!

Epic fail after a promising start 😔 Wordle 1,426 X/6 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟨🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩

The closure of world language programs is a wake-up call for our field. Join Benjamin Rifkin on May 19 at 7 p.m. ET for a webinar on the crises in US higher ed and what faculty can do to protect language and lit programs. Register Now: bit.ly/3EamnQD

Join us for an international online conference about #anti-#racist #language #teacher #education on June 12 & 13, 2025 with wonderful keynotes by Ryuko Kubota and L. J. Randolph Jr. (@ProfeRandolph). Participation is free, pre-registration via email: anglistik.uni-wuppertal.de/d…

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One of my biggest joys in this life is being a teacher. Read this statement from one my students' final assignments and see why I'm so THRILLLLLLLLLLED to do this work!🎓🥰🎓🥰📚📚📚

This is one of my favorite experiences. Please join me at UC Santa Barbara this summer! #langchat

Y’all hate DEI but using AAVE… interesting 🤔