"But Gil taught us that the blues remembers everything the country tries to forget..." Jesse Hagopian: open.substack.com/pub/jessehag...

Semiquincentennial Blues

For Gil Scott-Heron

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"But it is a mistake to confuse the diversification of inquiry with the abandonment of rigor. The more pressing question is whether our conception of objectivity has kept pace with the changing realities of the academy itself..." Dwight McBride: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

The Question Haunting the Vanderbilt/Wash U Report (opinion)

A new report criticizes a turn toward politicized scholarship in the humanities. But could it be that a more diverse academy is asking different questions?

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"Debemos cambiar el rumbo El sistema no sirvió Nada, Nada es verdad Todo es un sueño escrito por la sociedad..." Los Cojolites ft. Natalia Lafourcade: youtu.be/38L5soYeEz0

Los Cojolites ft. Natalia Lafourcade. Nada es Verdad

YouTube video by loscojolites

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"This isn't about doing less or backing down, it's about redesigning approaches, building unexpected partnerships, and standing firm in equity commitments even when the conditions make it harder..." National Equity Project: drive.google.com/file/d/1fmCA...

"One risk is mistaking modernization for liberation: scaling technical reforms while leaving intact the deeper architecture that determines who holds power, whose knowledge is valued, and who is protected or pushed to the margins..." National Equity Project: drive.google.com/file/d/1e617...

"If held to the same standards, 27 private schools identified by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune through tax filings likely would have violated state law..." ProPublica: www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.

An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state law...

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"At a certain point you start wondering when curiosity stops functioning as inquiry and becomes avoidance, when complexity becomes an excuse, when understanding becomes a way of indefinitely postponing judgment..." Erin Williams: substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Problem With Pema Chodron

This piece is in conversation with an earlier essay on Ezra Klein’s method.

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"Liberalism has long produced a familiar reflex... it moves from structural causation to personal psychology, replaces analysis & action with resilience, & shifts attention from what produced the harm to how individuals might endure it..." Erin Williams: substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Problem With Pema Chodron

This piece is in conversation with an earlier essay on Ezra Klein’s method.

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"Dyfi Groms" is an artful, insightful, & serious short film about youth, community, & youth culture in Wales. It also gets at the core of the whys & why-would-you-do-thats of mountain biking. Just "wow." www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE9p...

Dyfi Groms - Official Film

YouTube video by Tiny House Creatives

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"What white supremacy promises its adherents is a life without challenge--the right to be free of competition and judgment, the right to be shielded from new ways of thinking, to be insulated from diverse cultural practices that challenge their hegemony..." Ifill: open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

White Supremacy Is an Antidemocracy Movement

If You Want Democracy in this Country You Have to Fight White Supremacy

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"I burn down your cities-how blind you must be I take from you your children and you say how blessed are we You all must be crazy to put your faith in me That's why I love mankind You really need me That's why I love mankind..." Randy Newman: youtu.be/XwC1HDaw6s8

God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind) (2002 Remaster)

YouTube video by Randy Newman - Topic

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"Louisiana v. Callais is not about Republicans versus Democrats in the battle for control of Congress. It’s about white folks trying to take political power away from Black folks. And the Supreme Court ruled “whites win”—again..." Elie Mystal: open.substack.com/pub/elienyc/...

The Return of Jim Crow

Elie v. U.S.

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PEN's Educational Principles | 1 of 6 Education must: Amplify students’ voice, choice, and participation as learners and citizens. progressiveeducationnetwork.org/about/missio...

"Nothing bad ever happens to me Nothing bad ever happens to me Why should I care? Nothing bad ever happens to me..." Oingo Boingo, "Nothing Bad Ever Happens to Me" www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpjH...

Nothing bad ever happens to me - Oingo Boingo

YouTube video by Boingo Vision

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Digable Planets, "The May 4th Movement," LIVE on KEXP: youtu.be/Sn3SYaDqml8 & you're welcome.

Digable Planets - The May 4th Movement (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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The National Equity Project, "Six Forces the Education Field is Facing Now" drive.google.com/file/d/1fmCA... via @ntlequityproj.bsky.social

The Progressive Education Network is "proud to introduce our new mission, vision, and principles of progressive education, intended to reflect back to our network what we’ve learned and proudly built with you over time..." progressiveeducationnetwork.org/about/missio...

Mission, Vision, & Educational Principles | Progressive Education Network

Our Mission We support a network of educators to advance the practice of progressive education and to cultivate equity and justice in public and private schools. Our Vision Progressive education and p...

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"Callais opens the door for states to gerrymander Black and Brown majority districts out of existence, suppress those communities' votes and representation, and write them out of government of, by, and for the people..." indivisible.actionkit.com/mailings/vie...

Mood: youtu.be/EfOW9QrLs0o

I'm Not Dead (yet)!

YouTube video by driver49

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"As we said a year ago, they can arrest us for praying, but they cannot stop our prayers. The work of this year is to turn our prayers into votes..." Rev. Barber & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: substack.com/@williamjbar...

One Year Later, Our Prayers Still Rise

Watch now | A conversation about the policy violence of the 119th Congress

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"Say what? All in line, all in line (oh) For a slice of the devil's pie (yeah)..." D'Angelo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fNt...

D'Angelo - Devil's Pie

YouTube video by kordtyb

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"I don't really mind if it's over your head 'Cause the job of resurrectors is to wake up the dead..." - Tribe, "Jazz (We've Got)" www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlA0...

Jazz (We've Got)

YouTube video by A Tribe Called Quest - Topic

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"Some of your favorites may be missing. This is because I look not to the songs w/the largest pop-culture footprint but to those that tell me the most about him & how he made music... A cheat code into why Prince was, is, & will always be genius." - Questlove: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

The Prince 100

Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson counts down his top Prince songs.

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"You cannot see when you look back: too dark behind me. And the song says, merely, with a stunning matter-of-factness, 'There's a light before me. I'm on my way...'" - James Baldwin, Just Above My Head

^^^ "We the kids that they don't like to talk about... We the kids who come from mining for cobalt We the kids that were abandoned and trafficked and sold off We the kids underneath all the rubble in Gaza We the kids that are missing all their mothers and fathers." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BAp...

WE THE KIDS

YouTube video by The Neighborhood Kids - Topic

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Hey! The Neighborhood Kids' new album came out this morning. Get to it. youtu.be/4MWD5I0MHHw

The Neighborhood Kids – VOICE OF THE REVOLUTION (Full Album Lyric Video)

YouTube video by The Neighborhood Kids

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May the memory of this righteous one be a blessing. #RIP And how did I not hear this until last month... and why are there so few views? Incredible: youtu.be/KcOEd72IxeM

The Truth

YouTube video by Prince - Topic

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📌 Compose yourself. One day the cosplay Nazis will be purged from the White House, the anti-acronym campaign will have failed, and all those school leaders & boards you're grinding molars about will have lost their excuses to capitulate on the commitments they never championed in the first place.

"Back in the days when I was a teenager Before I had status and before I had a pager You could find the Abstract listening to hip hop My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles..." - ATCQ All of it: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The Low End Theory - YouTube

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New walk-on music for workshops/presentations. ;) youtu.be/cIxPzqaCmEc

Able Heart - Masterpiece (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Able Heart

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