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Joshua Benton
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Senior writer + founder of at . I write about (a) digital journalism, (b) southern history, mostly. Cajun. Takes mine, not Harvard's.
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And I love this idea that he recalibrated anything, as if he’s not known already for spewing conservative shit and talking down on Black people. He wrote a whole book portraying Howard (!!) students as thuggish and aggressive to “high” culture.
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This is funny because Thomas Chatterton Williams is so insultingly stupid, and has the audacity here to present the nation of France as unified in this argument, as if there’s not a history past and present of Black French intellectuals/philosophers that are easily accessible.
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Do people ever get tired of reading this shit
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Does anyone maintain a list of streets, parks, or other public infrastructure named for LGBTQ people? As in : Harvey Milk Plaza (SF) Bayard Rustin Way (Nyack, NY) Audre Lorde Way (NYC) James Baldwin Court (SF) ...and so on?
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Customer: FAMILY INITIALS DMV: AC AD LLOKS LIKE AIR CONDITIONING AFTER DEATH.. WITH ALL THE PEOPLE DIEING IN HOT CARS JUST SEEMS A LITTLE MORBID. Verdict: ACCEPTED
California license plate with text "AC AD".
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stolen valor, marmot edition
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Today’s your annual reminder that Georgia has a groundhog named General Beauregard Lee who comes out of a plantation house that should’ve been burned to the ground by Punxsutawney Phil on his March to the Sea… but here we are. He’s not to be trusted.
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This is a travesty. and her team are doing important, critical work, and the should be embarrassed about how it's turning its back on controversy. It's a terrible message for future leaders it's supposed to train.
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If Harvard is “committed” to scholarship about misinformation they shouldn’t be pushing out Donovan or ending the project — it’s work NO ONE else was doing. Disappointing leadership from yet again:
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!!?!?!?!!?!?!?!??!?!?
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Harvard @Kennedy_School Dean Doug Elmendorf is forcing out misinformation expert Joan Donovan from her role at the Shorenstein Center and ending her research project, according to three HKS staffers with knowledge of the situation Read more in @thecrimson thecrimson.com/article/2023/2
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Watch for "cops save baby ducks" stories in the next few months. Media collaborates with police to produce these puff pieces after every police brutality incident. Literally every dept does these after police killings, it's amazing. Thread
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NEW: Rep. Alyce G. Clarke, who became the first Black woman elected to the Mississippi Legislature in 1984, announced she's retiring at 83. “Hopefully I’ve made a difference in the community, in the county, and even in the state of Mississippi,” she said.
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It’s not only happening in Florida… A librarian was ordered to remove posters with Elie Wiesel quotes because they violated a “new policy banning educators from ‘advocacy activities’ in the Central Bucks School District.”
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The power to tell another group what they can and can't learn about themselves; which of their authors and scholars can and can't be used in an elective study of themselves. A one-way power: black folk have very little input on AP European History.
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"Americans don't know x" polls are among the more underrepresented in the discourse. Lots of people don't know about the things they're supposed to be politically activated about!
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Half of women are unsure if medication abortion is legal in their state, and a third don’t know if they are allowed to access emergency contraceptive pills, per a new @KFF poll 19thnews.org/2023/02/where-
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Ending, as a Beyoncé tour should, in south Louisiana
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Beyoncé announced the Renaissance World Tour, her first solo tour since 2016. It will start May 10 in Stockholm and run for at least 47 dates. nyti.ms/3HsOo38
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