Toni Morrison and Angela Davis in Discussion: Literacy, Libraries, Liberation - Live from the NYPL
"Black history is about understanding the CONTEMPORARY moment." - Keeanga Yamhatta-Taylor
I'd hoped the segment - with Ruth Ben-Ghiat the historian & scholar on authoritarian states & Julian Castro anchoring - on how what Florida is doing with education right now, removing books from library shelves and trying to make their strong-arming of the College Boards a model for every red governor wanting to dumb its citizens down (as that makes them more pliant for control) is mirrored in several historical authoritarian "parties" trying to take over countries would be up by the time this post was ready, but they they just shot it at 7p so it's not up yet. If it comes up tonight I'll put it in comments
Meanwhile -- BANNED AUTHORS Speak
TaNehisi Coates on the RightWing Backlash to Teaching Black History
I won't bore this literate crowd with the pile of accolades these banned professors & authors have accumulated; I think it's sufficient to say that if you're banning James Baldwin from your so-called "educational" curriculum at the same time you're losing money because the predictive putative value of your so-called "standardized" testing has been questioned to the point where institutions of higher ed no longer fully utilize them as admissions prerequisites -- your institution's motives in so doing are past the point where they deserve to be thoroughly interrogated
Hopefully, nobody has any outdoor gigs tonight
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