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KEW

@kidadaewilliams.com
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I read, tell stories, mind my business, and write--I SAW DEATH COMING is now in paperback. Talk to me nicely because I run a strict program; I block early and often.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Had bookmarked this and just now listened. Fantastic episode. The enslavement of Native Americans was based on *where* they were. They were on land that settler Americans wanted. It was qualitatively distinct from the enslavement of African Americans and those differences need to be understood.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 13h
How is it possible that we’re still here twelve years later
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 13h
They have one move: criminalize their victims
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18h
This is so important. They’ve broken the economic models that fund journalism is because they recognize the *purpose* of journalism threatens their bullshit-based valuations, ie, the sources of their wealth and power. Yet actual-existing journalists were instead crucial for creating their myths.
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NPR @npr.org · 18h
A historian who studies wage gaps between races and a saxophonist whose live performances include a chef are among the latest recipients of the philanthropic group's annual, no-strings-attached $800,000 grants. n.pr/4hsdMIs
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Meet the 20 scholars and artists who've just won MacArthur Fellowships
A historian who studies wage gaps between races and a saxophonist whose live performances include a chef are among the latest recipients of the philanthropic group's annual, no-strings-attached $800,000 grants.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 18h
Everyday is some new form of comic book supervillain shit in a culture soaked in this exact lore. It’s bananas.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 19h
Nicki Minaj isn’t a U.S. citizen, so she can’t even vote herself. For a network that pushed false claims about noncitizens voting, you’d think they’d mention that. If this is about getting Black women to vote red, I’m here to tell you that black women are smarter than all of us.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To put it another way, you can’t just tell your sons they need to take accountability—you need to hold them accountable. Start with small stuff. Don’t shield them for the consequences of their actions. Walk them through the process of doing the wrong thing and turning it into the right thing.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h
It's hard to read, but the "gotcha" texts seem to be his staff asking if their seats for the game are reserved. Like, that's it. Even if this were the Hawks game, there's absolutely nothing to it. What an incredible clown show.
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TeeJay 🦋 @notthatimportant66.eurosky.social · 21h
Sellers of nostalgia for a time that never existed.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 21h
Also and should be noted… when people reference something from “fifty years ago “ They don’t mean fifty years ago They mean 70 to 80 years ago
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 21h
They don’t even believe in unions… how are they imagining American prosperity without workers rights
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 22h
If the grand American pitch is the previous pitch Dig the mines Work in the mills Drill baby drill Who gone work them???
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 22h
Monster is right.
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Chris Williams @gaffa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As Professor @jeffjarvis.bsky.social is fond of pointing out, the only poll that matters is the one that occurs in November.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nearly 40% of survivors who report to their schools are pushed out in one way or another—usually, at the urging of school staff who want them to leave. (In comparison, less than 1% of perpetrators are suspended or expelled.)
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Darin Self @darinself.com · 28/09/2026
I wish there was a more serious movement within the academy to reform our institutions to create mechanisms of actual accountability so students, faculty, and staff can rid ourselves of leadership that regularly fails everyone but their donors.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 28/09/2026
The nor’easter that battered the East Coast over the weekend unearthed a fragment of maritime history on the small Massachusetts island of Nantucket. It washed ashore a new piece of a shipwreck, which historians say is probably from 1884.
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Nor’easter uncovers shipwreck remnant on Nantucket
The wooden piece is believed to be from a schooner that wrecked on the island in 1884.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...
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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case. It hurts my heart to think about how little has changed. It’s been nearly twenty years since I published Yes Means Yes! how is it possible that we’re still begging for the same scraps of humanity?
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Carrying That Weight—Again
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
fucking really
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"the more we dug into Rubin’s claims and data, the more we realized that the assessments should not be kept confidential. The claims were too extreme, the institutions behind it were too prominent, and...media attention to the...project and to sociology’s supposed 'politicization' was too immense"
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We Are Being Priced Out Of Normal We are being priced out of a house, car, groceries, childcare, and insurance. Those were not extravagant expenses 20 years ago. #GetReadyToVote #VoteBlue #Blues go.bsky.app/PUKJD1T
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Truth About the Everglades Concentration Camp www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJST...
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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Seleucid Dreamer @smollusk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Republicans are evil and want to kill and terrorize millions but Democrats are annoying and that's worse" is so incredibly predictable the mating call of people who have never had any actual problems
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Are Black Democrats not a thing or…
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 27/09/2026
These boys have a very promising future waiting for them headlining Turning Point USA conferences and writing in the NYTimes and Atlantic about campus cancel culture run amok.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Every three weeks it’s like but white supremacists who mostly care about testosterone and killing minorities were supposed to fix the economy
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dictatorships thrive on the promise of putting imagined enemies in "the box." But here's the thing about dictators: they want everyone in the box.
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Why does every authoritarian system inevitably sink to solitary confinement? In this episode of Next Comes What by Andrea Pitzer, Andrea examines the history and grim mechanics of "The Box"—from the...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
MICHIGANDERS, you know: Straight Dem ticket Cavanagh and Hood for Supreme Court NO on Prop 1 YES on Prop 2
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 27/09/2026
The Howard Academy 160th Anniversary Homecoming Celebration saw graduates dating back to 1947 gather to celebrate the legacy of Ocala’s (FL) first African American school. www.ocalagazette.com/the-heritage...
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The heritage of Howard Academy
The Howard Academy 160th Anniversary Homecoming Celebration saw graduates dating back to 1947 gather to celebrate the legacy of Ocala’s first African
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 27/09/2026
For students and HBO’s ‘The Gilded Age,’ Emory historian, Erica Dunbar, makes past feel present saportareport.com/for-students...
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For students and HBO’s ‘The Gilded Age,’ Emory historian makes past feel present - SaportaReport
Read For students and HBO’s ‘The Gilded Age,’ Emory historian makes past feel present by Emory University for SaportaReport here.
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 27/09/2026
“Strengthening Our Legacy Through Unity” was the theme of the 163rd Gallia County Emancipation Celebration, held over the weekend at the University of Rio Grande. www.wvnews.com/rivercities/... #freedomdays #emancipationday #notjustjuneteenth
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163rd Emancipation Day Celebration held in Gallia County
RIO GRANDE, Ohio — “Strengthening Our Legacy Through Unity” was the theme of the 163rd Gallia County Emancipation Celebration, held over the weekend at the University of Rio Grande.
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 27/09/2026
Timothy Pigford, the Iconic Black Farmer Advocate Who Stood Against the USDA, Dies at 74 www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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Timothy Pigford, the Iconic Black Farmer Advocate Who Stood Against the USDA, Dies at 74
N.C. farmer Timothy Pigford, whose landmark lawsuit challenged discrimination against Black farmers and led to a multibillion-dollar settlement, has died. The post Iconic Black farmer advocate Timothy...
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 27/09/2026
A task force is working to expand higher education offerings in Oakland by bringing a historically Black college or university to the city, with Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee central to the effort. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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Oakland explores plan to bring California its first undergraduate historically Black college
A task force is working to bring a historically Black college or university to Oakland, with Mayor Barbara Lee being central to the effort.
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 27/09/2026
A new marker in Penrose honors 5,000 Black U.S. Army troops who trained in Arlington during the Civil War. www.arlnow.com/2026/09/22/n... #USCT
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New historic marker in Penrose honors Black troops during Civil War | ARLnow.com
A new marker in Penrose honors 5,000 Black U.S. Army troops who trained in Arlington during the Civil War. From 1863-64, two military regiments trained at Camp Casey: the 2nd and 23rd U.S. Colored Inf...
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 27/09/2026
“Strong Men & Women in Virginia History,” a traveling exhibit highlighting the contributions of pioneering African Americans in VA, is making its way across VA, allowing communities to learn about individuals whose work reached far beyond the pages of history books. www.nvdaily.com/nvdaily/exhi...
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Exhibit highlights African Americans who shaped Virginia communities
A traveling exhibit highlighting the contributions of pioneering African Americans in Virginia is making its way to libraries and historical institutions across the Commonwealth, allowing communities ...
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 27/09/2026
The Springs Preserve will host 'Rhythm and Resilience: Black Vegas' beginning Sept. 26, featuring the history, achievements, and challenges of African Americans in Las Vegas from 1905 through the 1980s. www.fox5vegas.com/2026/09/22/s...
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Springs Preserve to open Rhythm and Resilience: Black Vegas exhibit
The Springs Preserve will host Rhythm and Resilience: Black Vegas beginning Sept. 26.
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 27/09/2026
Harvard Law School Acquires Oral History Collection on the Legacy of TransAfrica jbhe.com/2026/09/harv...
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Harvard Law School Acquires Oral History Collection on the Legacy of TransAfrica | The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
The new collection at Harvard features more than 120 oral histories recorded by Ronald Williams II for his forthcoming book on this history of TransAfrica, a former foreign policy advocacy organizatio...
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 27/09/2026
10 Books by Black authors that explore what it means to be Black in the classroom thegrio.com/2026/09/22/1...
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10 Books by Black authors that explore what it means to be Black in the classroom
As social media debates what Black children need from schools, these books examine the history and systems behind those conversations.
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 27/09/2026
Black cotillion historian and cultural curator Dr. Nikita Y. Harris joined host Dr. Dee on the Wake Up With Dee Morning Show to highlight the rich, 130-year history of African American cotillions and her work documenting these enduring cultural traditions. www.audacy.com/waok/news/lo...
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Preserving Legacy & Tradition: Dr. Nikita Y. Harris Discusses the National Black Debutante Project on Wake Up With Dee
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 27/09/2026
"The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our history." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 27/09/2026
The ‘Blacksonian' museum shows the power of never giving up www.ajc.com/opinion/2026...
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African American history is American history: The power of never giving up
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture emerged from decades of work by members of Congress, including the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis.
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