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Derrick R. Brooms

@drbrooms7.bsky.social
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working through my reading lists... writing what I like.

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
'On weekends, Stanford University professor Adam Banks flies from the California campus to Cleveland, on a mission to teach a college-level African American studies class to the Black community — for free.' wordinblack.com/2025/02/brin...
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Bringing Black Studies to Black People
Dr. Adam Banks flies from the Bay Area to Cleveland most weekends to teach. Black studies in a neighborhood cafe.
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Derrick R. Brooms @drbrooms7.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Excited about an “accept with minor revisions” we received this week for a paper a brilliant grad student is leading. Also excited for this essay I co-wrote w a dope colleague. Look forward to moving the paper along and getting the essay out.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
For our annual @nytimes.com “The Lives They Lived” issue, I wrote about how Frankie Beverly created the song that became the Black cookout anthem. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Frankie Beverly’s ‘Before I Let Go’ Became a Cookout Anthem
How the R&B hit ‘Before I Let Go’ became an enduring anthem.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
"Black men born between 1951 and 1970 accounted for nearly 38% of the city’s opioid fatalities in 2022, while only making up about 4% of D.C.’s total population. This disparity is worse than in any other jurisdiction in the data analysis." @51st.news 51st.news/opioid-overd...
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Opioids are killing older Black men in D.C. at some of the highest rates in the country
Black men in their mid-fifties to mid-seventies accounted for nearly 38% of the city’s opioid fatalities in 2022, while only making up about 4% of D.C.’s total population.
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Derrick R. Brooms @drbrooms7.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
In the news…
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Brown faces $46 million budget deficit
Brown University, one of the nation’s wealthiest institutions, is facing a $46 million structural deficit, prompting efforts to limit growth in hiring and doctoral programs.
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Derrick R. Brooms @drbrooms7.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Celebrating the life and legacy of the incomparable Nikki Giovanni... May you rest in peace and power. We appreciate you and we send Love to you, your family, and your Loved ones. “i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live” ― Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
“Harvard Law enrolled 19 first-year Black students, or 3.4 percent of the class, the lowest number since the 1960s, according to the data from the American Bar Association.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...
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Black Student Enrollment at Harvard Law Drops by More Than Half
After a Supreme Court decision ended race-based admissions, some law schools saw a decline in Black and Hispanic students entering this fall. Harvard appeared to have the steepest drop.
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Derrick R. Brooms @drbrooms7.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
we climb to higher ridges to gain better perspectives clouds are settling in perhaps there's a storm or maybe the clouds are playing their game defying gravity maybe i can hide in the shadows listening to the birds wrap me in their songs like blankets creating new horizons...
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