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Reuters @reuters.com · 10/10/2025

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

NEW: In the last few hours, Minnesota authorities warned people against attending protests, with a killer on the loose. This is the current view of the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul. DEFIANCE. 👏 #NoKings #50501Movement (📸 Daviss)

Thousands of people and placards are seen in front of the state capitol. This photo is a credit to Minneapolis photojournalist that goes by the handle Daviss on X

A woman protestor holds up a sign that reads “In honor of our beloved Melissa”

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/06/2025

Officials in Minnesota were searching for the person who shot and killed State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, in what Gov. Tim Walz described as a politically motivated attack. The suspect also shot and injured another Democratic lawmaker and his wife. Live updates: nyti.ms/3HGa3cc

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/06/2025

Massive #NoKings march in New York City!

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Ananda Lewis' death makes me so sad and mad because it didn't have to happen so young. Homeopathy does not treat or cure breast cancer. She was misled by the pervasive misinformation around health and it cost her lief itself. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

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Ananda Lewis, Former MTV VJ and Talk Show Host, Dies at 52

Lewis revealed in 2020 that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer

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AAUP @aaup.org · 12/06/2025

"Intellectuals often expose the lies of governments and provide challenging analyses of our society and culture. When they are silenced and their institutions crippled, critical thinking disappears—and with it, the foundation of a free Republic." #DefendHigherEd

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And Then They Came for the Intellectuals

“Our colleges [have] become dominated by Marxist Maniacs and lunatics.” Donald J. Trump, July 17, 2023“We need to … aggressively attack the universities in this country; the professors are the enemy.”...

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Samantha E., Ph.D., BCC @almaafrolatina.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Soul-nourishing conversations + energy-shifting reflections @ the 8th Qualitative Research in Management & Organization Conference. Thx to co-organizers @drshawna.bsky.social & Dr. Jamie McDonald for creating an intellectually energizing + restorative experience! #BirthdayMonth #Albuquerque #QRM2025

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Samantha E., Ph.D., BCC @almaafrolatina.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Nothing like being told to stop “being slaves” by a white woman at a #qualitative research conference. Casually using slavery metaphors is not about “good intentions/ poor wording.” These words some of you apparently think are neutral carry centuries of pain, kidnapping, torture, rape, and erasure.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/03/2025

Breaking News: Columbia University’s interim president resigned, one week after the school accepted demands from the Trump administration.

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Columbia University’s President Resigns

Katrina Armstrong said she was stepping down a week after the university agreed to a list of demands from the Trump administration.

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Samantha E., Ph.D., BCC @almaafrolatina.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The AACSB (the largest accreditation body for business schools) has purged DEI in favor of “community and connectedness” as one of its 10 “Guiding Principles and Expectations for Accredited Schools.” 🤦🏽‍♀️ www.ft.com/content/5551... #academicchatter #businessschool #dei

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Business school group scraps diversity and equity targets

Trump’s campaign against ‘wokeness’ reaches institutions that train next generation of managers and entrepreneurs

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Planned Parenthood @ppfa.org · 08/03/2025

To achieve true reproductive freedom, we need to include queer, trans, nonbinary and intersex people in the conversation. This #IWD, we’re celebrating aaaallll the trailblazing folks who have tirelessly worked to protect reproductive rights. 💙

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Samantha E., Ph.D., BCC @almaafrolatina.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Passionate about researching social responsibility, sustainability, inequality & business as a force for good? Check out UMass Boston’s PhD in Business Admin - Orgs & Social Change. 4 years of full funding + ocean views! Apply by March 15 (rolling admissions). Details: www.umb.edu/academics/pr...

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Business Administration PhD

The program’s distinguishing feature is the collegial spirit and noncompetitive nature of the community, where students collaborate on projects and assist each other and participate in joint research ...

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Mitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org

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AAUP @aaup.org · 12/02/2025

In the context of the second Trump administration’s numerous assaults on academic freedom in higher education, the AAUP urges universities, whose educational mission is to serve the public good, not to hide behind the pretense of remaining neutral.

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Happy Black History Month! Kendrick Lamar, Sza, Serena Williams, and Samuel L. Jackson in the Super Bowl halftime show. And Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles up 24-0 at halftime. ✊🏾

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Mr. Brock @brocklee.me · 10/02/2025

“The Revolution bout to be televised. You picked the right time, but the WRONG guy.” 😂😂😂

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Serena Williams!

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/02/2025

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

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Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’

The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.

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Samantha E., Ph.D., BCC @almaafrolatina.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The CDC is forcing researchers to retract/revise work based on politically “forbidden” terms. This threatens public health + academic freedom. We need journal editors to uphold integrity, universities to protect faculty, funders to defend scientific inquiry, and org leaders to recognize the stakes.

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 03/02/2025

Beyoncé has won Album of the Year for the first time ever at the #GRAMMYs .

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/02/2025

Beyoncé wins the Grammy for best country album for “Cowboy Carter,” becoming the first Black artist to win the award. “Wow, I was really not expecting this,” Beyoncé said, thanking God, country artists and her family. wapo.st/42Fp6LB

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Samantha E., Ph.D., BCC @almaafrolatina.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

“We have to emphasize that the Ph.D. is about knowledge creation. . .But knowledge creation can benefit so many areas of the culture—not just higher education. You can train people in knowledge creation and then release them into the world to create knowledge.” www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

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Universities do little to support PhDs who leave academia

More than half of those who earn Ph.D.s now decide to leave academia after graduation. Why, then, do so many graduate programs still assume their students will become professors?

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Samantha E., Ph.D., BCC @almaafrolatina.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Whew—Week 1 of the spring semester is in the books! I’m mentally preparing for Week 2 after a student said he felt attacked by the “harsh” titles of readings—by scholars I admire like @victorerikray.bsky.social & @tsedalemelaku.bsky.social. Honored to teach their work + inspire critical thinking. 🤎

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Oubao Moin 𓆏𓆌𓆉𓆈𓆚 🇵🇷🇱🇧|🍉🌻🌿 #VivaPuertoRicoLibre @astrophobia.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Please go and watch this amazing video by Bianca Graulau, about the impact of colonialism in Hawai’i and Puerto Rico’s diet and the agroecological movement fighting to fix that www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0WG...

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How the U.S. Changed the Puerto Rican Diet

YouTube video by Bianca Graulau

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/02/2025

When you comply you increase your tolerance for compliance and help normalize violations of important norms That’s how even a little compliance helps usher in fascism A little compliance in 1933 set the stage for the Holocaust. Remember that

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Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

GA Tech complying in advance. Apparently "justice" is a bad word. "Equality," too. #UGA & the entire #Georgia university system. @academic-chatter.bsky.social #GATECH #academicsky @aaup.bsky.social #GAPol #Edusky #HigherEd

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 01/02/2025

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Your daughter has died serving her country, and now you have to hide her identity because the President and his supporters will predictably scapegoat her for the accident.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

"DOGE does not have power over established government agencies, and Musk has no role in government. It does not matter that he is an ally of the President. Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."

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Holly 🇺🇸🦅 @msdesignerlady.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The highest positions of the FBI are being purged tonight. Elon Musk is a private citizen trying to seize control of the treasury, having access to taxpayers money. Trump cannot eliminate an appropriated federal agency by EO, we are in another Constitution crisis. newrepublic.com/post/190983/...

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Elon Musk Is Trying to Get Control of Key Payment System—at Any Cost

A top Treasury official plans to resign after a fight with Elon Musk’s allies over access to a sensitive payment system.

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CNN @cnn.com · 25/01/2025

Some of the biggest brands in America, including Amazon, Meta, Walmart and McDonald’s, have recently changed or ended their DEI programs. But e.l.f. Beauty, a popular cosmetics brand, is a rare company vocally touting its diversity efforts and inclusive marketing

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Companies are running away from DEI. One of America’s biggest beauty brands is standing firm | CNN Business

Some of the biggest brands in America, including Amazon, Meta, Walmart and McDonald’s, have recently changed or ended their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. But e.l.f. Beauty, a popular...

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

See language from the EO Universities need to lawyer up and give faculty & admin training on this ASAP Lots of potential liability here!

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Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Political attacks on higher education will undoubtedly intensify beyond their already heightened levels. Understanding the authoritarian inspirations for those attacks is crucial. Re-upping my recent IHE article on this subject. #EduSky www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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Tracing the roots of anti-university rhetoric (opinion)

Bradford Vivian writes that growing anti-university sentiment can be traced to pro-authoritarian movements abroad.

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Makes perfect sense to discontinue medical research right after a global pandemic that killed millions. This is the kind of strategic thinking we need!

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We should be clear that the language in the anti “DEI” executive order and the subsequent letter sent to federal employees to turn in colleagues who try to “disguise” DEI under other names means hires and promotions of Black and other POC will be deemed suspicious. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Ending Illegal Discrimination And Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity – The White House

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1. Purpose.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

This. And journalists must not allow them to have us calling civil rights DEI, because that is part of the propaganda.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I and many others warned that the anti-CRT, anti-DEI propaganda campaign that so many embraced or down played was always about creating the narrative for and paving the way for a larger attack on civil rights. We are here.

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Samantha E., Ph.D., BCC @almaafrolatina.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Grateful to spend this snowy #MLKDay2025 with my Sorors 🩷💚 and UMass Boston colleagues at the 55th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast in #Boston! “Freedom Isn’t Free” was the call to action I needed, with an unforgettable keynote by Dr. Angela Davis. A selfie would’ve made it perfect!

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Samantha E., Ph.D., BCC @almaafrolatina.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Happy End of Semester to #UMass #Boston students! Looking forward to reading my students’ final papers and seeing where their hard work, dedication, and #management insights take them in the future. 🌎 #HigherEducation

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Samantha E., Ph.D., BCC @almaafrolatina.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Rest in Peace, Ms. Nikki Giovanni! What an honor to have met you this year. 💔🕊️🙏🏽 #AcademicChatter #NikkiGiovanni #BlackSky

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Samantha E., Ph.D., BCC @almaafrolatina.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I’m thrilled to share that our article “𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗺𝗶𝗱𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀: 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗡𝗼𝗻𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝘁 𝗖𝗘𝗢𝘀,” is now published in 𝘌𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘋𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘈𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭. 🧵 doi.org/10.1108/EDI-... #AcademicChatter #WomenofOB

How do Latina CEOs navigate identity threats?
By Drs. Samantha E. Erskine, Robert Bonner, and Verónica Caridad Rabelo

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/11/2024

A wave of offensive text messages and emails has gone out to Hispanic and LGBTQ people in recent days, according to the FBI, coming on the heels of a barrage of racist texts that were sent to Black people in the wake of the election.

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New Wave of Offensive Texts Targets Hispanic and L.G.B.T.Q. People

The F.B.I. is investigating messages that told people they would be deported or transported to a “re-education camp.” They came after racist texts were sent to Black people.

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Samantha E., Ph.D., BCC @almaafrolatina.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Fueling the future of #DEI and #entrepreneurship through research, venting, boxing, and food! 🍴 Grateful for spaces that nourish connection, collaboration, and strength. This was a great weekend! 🍴💪🏽🥊 @victorerikray.bsky.social @tsedalemelaku.bsky.social #selfcare #community #academicchatter

Business school professors connecting, collaborating, and decompressing

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Samantha E., Ph.D., BCC @almaafrolatina.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Testing the waters on Blue Sky—literally. 🌊 Hello! I’m a New Yorker, tenure-track management professor, and executive/life coach, currently based in Boston. While I’m not sure what to expect on this app, I’m (hoping it’s better than Threads and) always up for new experiences! 👋🏽💃🏽

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