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Harriet’s Dreams @harrietsdreams.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Closing an SYEP site after a traumatic act of violence is the wrong response. TRIGGER Project serves 150+ DC youth through the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP). Young people are calling on DOES to reverse its decision & keep the site open. Sign the petition: bit.ly/Protect-Trigger

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Keep The TRIGGER Project Site Open: Stop Taking Resources From D.C. Youth

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Irie DC @iriedc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The goal of this is to re-establish and strengthen the Black teenager 'direct to prison pipeline' that the District has worked so hard to disrupt. It's racist, cruel, and evil.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15/05/2026

MPD does this every year and it’s literally a policy to surveil and police the Blackest parts of the city without concern for any constitutional protections.

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Critical Exposure @criticalexposure.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Behind every campaign is the work you don’t always see. Our Research, Documentation, and Outreach working groups have been heads-down in finalizing surveys, mapping out outreach strategy, and pulling together photos that capture exactly what this campaign is about. Big things loading.

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Critical Exposure @criticalexposure.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Last week, YOC sat down with the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council to talk about what young people actually need: Resources, support, and pathways that keep them OUT of the system in the first place. Decisions about youth shouldn’t be made without youth at the table.

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Critical Exposure @criticalexposure.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

TUESDAY WAS BUSY IN DC! We want to make sure you know what's up and what's next! Click through to get an update + learn how to help. 1/8

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Critical Exposure @criticalexposure.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

‼️Stop the Permanent Expansion of the Youth Curfew‼️ TOMORROW 🗣️ Tuesday 4/21, DC Council votes on the permanent juvenile curfew. Curfews aren’t prevention; they’re a failure to invest in youth. Call & email DC council & tell them to vote no! Youth need opportunities, not over-policing. 1/13

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Critical Exposure @criticalexposure.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Stop the Permanent Expansion of the Youth Curfew!!! INTIMIDATION AND THREATS WITH PEPPER SPRAY DON'T KEEP ANYONE SAFE! Call and email your councilmembers today! 13/13

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Critical Exposure @criticalexposure.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

A fast-tracked youth curfew extension in DC is being pushed as protection, yet it risks doing what policies like this have always done: over-police, over-surveil, and criminalize Black & Latine youth. We reject harmful curfew extensions! 1/8

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Critical Exposure @criticalexposure.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Curfews are proven not to work, and yet the city continues to enact them. Making sure that young people know where curfew zones are is a first step towards youth safety. Here are the curfew zones for this weekend. Stay safe, everyone. Love and Solidarity 💜

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Truthout @truthout.org · 19/03/2026

Libraries are spaces where people can gather without spending money, learn together, and build the kind of shared intellectual life that authoritarianism seeks to destroy.

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Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment

“If we lose this as a public good and as a free public service, we will have lost everything,” says Mariame Kaba.

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

It’s so weird spending 5 years working on something in service to others and then it’s out in the world and you have to spend all your time being like “hey will you buy this and read it bc it’s the biggest thing I’ve ever done and I would hate for it to go to waste” 😂 bookshop.org/p/books/let-...

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Let's Move the Needle: An Activism Handbook for Artists, Crafters, Creatives, and Makers; Build Community and Make Change! a book by Shannon Downey

Create change in the world with this inspiring guide to social activism, from the artist and craftivist behind Badass Cross Stitch. Craftivism, or the space where art and activism meet, is a powerful...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

when i spoke to people whose SNAP benefits were threatened in the fall by the government shutdown, the thing many of them were most concerned about was access to fresh produce.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

#tdih 1968, Howard University students took over the Admin Building with demands around discipline policies & African American history courses. One of many stories left out when textbooks end Civil Rights Movement in 1965. More + ‘68 doc, ”Color Us Black”⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ho... 🧵

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March 19, 1968: Howard University Protest

Howard University students seized the Administration Building, demanding changes in the discipline policy, the addition of courses in African American history, and more.

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the lakeshore monk @thecorlew.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

read a Gwendolyn Brooks interview and used it to write about writing: www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162658090

a book, Black Women Writers At Work edited by Claudia Tate, sitting on a shelf

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Critical Exposure @criticalexposure.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

“Art is dangerous… and that’s exactly why it matters.” - Toni Morrison This is legacy in motion. Through their lens, young people don’t just witness history, they claim it, reshape it, and carry it forward. *Photo by Alberto, CE Alumni

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Critical Exposure @criticalexposure.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

DC youth getting ready to speak truth to power. CE members gathered for a testimony writing workshop organized by Black Swan Academy to prepare for a March 19 youth roundtable at DC Council, where they’ll speak on housing, safety, mental health, access to resources, & the importance of their voice.

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The 51st @51st.news · 12/03/2026

Coop-curious? We’re joining Beloved Community Incubator (@dc-bci.bsky.social) tonight at 7 p.m. ET for a webinar on the benefits of cooperatively owned businesses and worker-directed organizations — for individuals and communities. RSVP here:

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Coops 101: Why Cooperatives? with The 51st

Join BCI and The 51st as we look at different cooperative structures and how worker-led newsrooms are creating sustainable local jobs!

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

#tdih 1971 A cab driver, day care provider, and two professors broke into FBI office in Media, Penn. They removed docs that exposed COINTELPRO campaign to disrupt & destroy a wide range of activist groups, especially civil rights orgs. Read⬇️ 🧵#TeachTruth www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/co...

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March 8, 1971: FBI's COINTELPRO Exposed

A cab driver, a day care provider, and two professors broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole more than 1,000 classified documents.

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D.C. Policy Center @dcpolicycenter.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

👏 Join the 2024-25 State of D.C. Schools event, featuring: 🌟 Dr. Antoinette Mitchell (OSSE) 🌟 Dr. Lewis Ferebee (@dcpublicschools.bsky.social) 🌟 @deniseedtrust.bsky.social (@edtrust.bsky.social) 🌟 Shannon Hodge (KIPP DC) 🌟 LaSheema Burnett (@dcpave.bsky.social) ➡️ Register: ow.ly/hWFW50YoJJL

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

"The program, known as the People’s Pan-African Wellness Front (PPFW)...provided services free of charge to community members — all with the promise of more to come." - Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. for @washingtoninformer.com www.washingtoninformer.com/cedar-hill-r...

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With Beleaguered Ward 8 Hospital in the Backdrop, Community Members Organize for Solutions, Alternatives

Discover how Pan-African Community Action is addressing healthcare challenges in Ward 8 with the People's Pan-African Wellness Front.

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Critical Exposure @criticalexposure.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

“You’ll see a lot of images of community, a lot of tenderness, empathy, things that are often not shown when you talk about the culture within the prison system"

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Washington City Paper @wcp.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Inside Out: Dignity and the Art of Seeing gives an in-depth look at the lives of incarcerated men. The exhibit, closing tonight with a 6 p.m. reception, contains photographs, videos, and more from the Arts in Prison program done at the shuttered Lorton Reformatory.

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Inside Voices: Lorton Prison Views

Closing on Thursday, this exhibition of photos by prisoners at Lorton Reformatory in the 1980s highlights the talent of incarcerated people.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I talked with @lewispants.bsky.social about the art and science of transformation, how people *really* let go of harmful beliefs, and how we can cultivate the conditions that make unlearning possible.

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The Science of Unlearning And Why Organizers Need It

“Nobody had a story about unlearning that didn’t include a connection with other people,” says Lewis Raven Wallace.

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Morning pep talk

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shaunmurphy66.bsky.social @shaunmurphy66.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

A Beech tree I have enjoyed visiting regularly over the years, Exmoor. #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Life is short, friends. Spend as much of it as you can loving people.

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micchiato 🎋 @micchiato.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

“Photography through the lens of SNCC activists and local people made the personal political, as communities actively sought to redefine their conditions and fight for economic, psychological, and political liberation. It combated racist media coverage … and worked to illustrate the facts”

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Photography Department - SNCC Digital Gateway

Working hand-in-hand with SNCC’s Communication Department, SNCC Photography helped define the southern Movement. “Public awareness was crucial to our...

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Critical Exposure @criticalexposure.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

“I think technology & social media create new challenges for truth telling... But I still think a camera can be a powerful weapon – in the hands of a gifted storyteller, which is what I saw Gordon Parks as. He was an artist beyond his skill at taking a photograph" www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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‘The camera is my weapon of choice’: Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation – and those who defied it

The visionary photographer captured the ugliness of racism in America, as well as the strength and dignity of those who opposed it – from cleaners in the corridors of power to Martin Luther King Jr pr...

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BlackskyNews 🗞️ @blackskynews.blacksky.app · 04/03/2026

“In a moment when content is being removed from cultural institutions across the United States, when there is resistance, even contempt, for anyone who tries to talk honestly about this history, this Gordon Parks exhibit is both timely and urgent. #BlackskyNews www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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‘The camera is my weapon of choice’: Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation – and those who defied it

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

#Photography by Gordon Parks (1912–2006) #art

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 05/03/2026

Tomorrow, my students and I begin Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece. This is my favorite novel to read and teach and this is the most perfect first page in all of literature. I’m nervous and excited to experience Janie’s world with this group. The conversation will be RICH. #TeachingTEWWG

Annotated copy of the first page of “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Take Janney Elementary in Tenleytown. On January 29, the Thursday after the storm, 90% of the school's 720 kids attended. But over at Beers Elementary in Ward 7, attendance was 16% of the school's 364 students.

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Critical Exposure @criticalexposure.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Yesterday, at DC Council’s oversight hearing, our program director, Talia, testified and shared a story from one of our members from the youth collective of Critical Exposure. We’re calling for reinvestment and accountability. Our youth are constantly wrestling against a system they can’t trust.

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Critical Exposure @criticalexposure.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Who gets to tell the story? At Worldview Wednesdays, our instructors, Orlando and Delonte, help young people explore photography as a tool for storytelling, critical thinking, and change. From camera care to photojournalism ethics, students are learning that their perspectives matter.

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Over the last year, MPD has started cooperating more than ever before with federal agents. It has had deadly consequences, and it's beyond time for DC Council to address it. Here are the 11 things we're asking for during DC Council's annual Performance Oversight Hearing on MPD.

11 things we’re asking DC Council to do during today’s MPD Performance Oversight Hearing

1. Prohibit facecoverings for federal officers operating in DC.

2. Require federal agents operating in DC to follow the same requirements for public identification as MPD, including name, badge number, and agency information.

3. Require MPD arrest reports to list all officers from all agencies present during the arrest along with officer names, badge numbers, and descriptions of their use of force.

4. Prohibit MPD from coordinating with federal agents in sensitive locations like churches and schools.

5. Repeal local qualified immunity protections for federal officers making arrests under DC law, as well as any law enforcement officer who enters a DC school, community center, or house of worship.

6. Require MPD to file a report on any interactions with a minor, including conversations on the street.

7. Conduct an independent investigation of all officer-involved shootings in 2025 and 2026 and release the names and body camera footage of all officers involved.

8. Restrict vehicular pursuits for all federal agencies.

9. Close the loophole in the Sanctuary Values Act so it applies to all DC agencies that contact residents outside of holding them in custody, including MPD.

10. Hold a hearing on the Safe Community Places and Policing Amendment Act of 2025.

11. Prohibit MPD from contacting federal agents over personal possession of cannabis.

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