Paul Robeson on the cover of the Lebanese communist magazine al-Thaqafah al-Wataniyya (1954)

GURU aka Keith Elam on Morehouse campus, 1980

Next Sunday, a month before my 50th birthday, I’ll be toeing the line for my first @nycmarathon. I’m honored to be running on behalf of @BroSis512, an awe-inspiring Harlem based youth organization. Please support if you’re able. fundraisers.hakuapp.com/josh…. Let’s go!! 👊🏽

My faculty colleagues and I have been banned from Widener Library for two weeks to punish us for reading quietly while displaying quotations from the Library's statement of values

Power's out in here, and the COs are hiding in their offices while we’re left in the dark. We’re shouting for meds and updates, but no one’s listening. Just trying to hold on and hope this storm doesn’t swallow us whole. -- FL inside #HurricaneMilton

"We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled." The 2024 state of the climate report: academic.oup.com/bioscience/…

In May 2023 the 12th edition of the Palestine Festival of Literature took place in cities across occupied Palestine. Here, three authors – Ta-Nehisi Coates, Maaza Mengiste and Eve Ewing - reflect on what they saw in Palestine. All interviews filmed in Palestine, May 2023.

“i’m standing with people who’ve been pushed out of the frame… i don’t believe you get to [invoke] shirley chisholm & fannie lou hamer—and then bankroll those bombs to be dropped on people” Ta-Nehisi Coates speaking on Gaza & our political conscience🔥

🚨 HEARTWRENCHING: A will found beneath the rubble of Rasha, a child only 10 years old, who was killed by the Israeli army in #Gaza: “Please don’t cry for me, as it would make me sad. I hope my clothes can go to those in need, and my accessories to Rahaf, Lana, and Batool. The bead boxes should go to Batool. As for my monthly allowance of 50 shekels, I want half to go to Rahaf and the other half to Ahmad. I’d like Batool to have my toys. Lastly, please don’t shout at my brother Ahmad. Please follow these wishes.”

Community members in Dearborn are mourning the death of resident Haj Kamel Jawad, reportedly killed by an Israeli air strike while aiding hospitals in his family’s hometown. Jawad was a US citizen who had spent his entire life in America. He leaves behind four children.

I believe this is what is known as “standing on business.” Nothing but respect and admiration for my colleague.

Nothing to see here -- just an internal report by Shell from 1989 precisely predicting the "violent weather" and "deluges" that just destroyed half of Appalachia, and summing up expected climate chaos with the comment, "Civilisation could prove a fragile thing."

New call: Katrina's America, guest edited by @andydhorowitz. "Katrina does not appear to be retreating into the past so much as resounding in the future. It is increasingly clear that we live, today, in Katrina’s America." More: southerncultures.org/call-fo… Image: Skylar Fein

Philly y’all have 24hrs to respond❕New Orleans rolled Frankie out right… on a Monday… R.I.H King🕊️🙏🏽

In a normal world, today 630,000 students from Gaza are supposed to start their educational year, but in the genocide era, today they lost the second educational year, and instead they are waiting in the water, food and aid distribution lines. Gaza, September 2024.

BREAKING: Up to 50% of Americans Expected to Be Infected in Current COVID-19 Wave. The current COVID-19 wave in the U.S. has resulted in approximately 24.3% of Americans being infected since May 2, and around 19.3% since the surge began on June 23.

Mohammad Abu Al-Qumsan, displaced from northern Gaza to Deir al-Balah, went to get birth certificates for his newborn twins. An Israeli airstrike then killed them, his wife, and her mother.

NEW: @cnn confirms a US-made GBU-39 small diameter bomb was used in an Israeli strike on a school and mosque compound in Gaza which killed at least 93 Palestinians according to local officials (h/t) to @easybakeovensz for helping identify the weapon

The utter lack of political imagination in this moment is depressing.

This was Palestine’s first ever flag bearer at the Olympics, Majed Abu Maraheel, in Atlanta ‘96. Abu Maraheel was killed in Gaza last month. Unable to receive adequate care at Gaza’s destroyed hospitals, he died of kidney failure. These killings don’t figure in the death toll.