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Craig Eastman

@racialjustice.bsky.social
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Faith-based antiracist, antifascist, anti-religious bigotry, human rights advocate & co-conspirator with BIPOC communities. Proponent of mass nonviolent militant direct action.

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Critical Race Theory @crt-content.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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Colleges must stand up to the new segregationists (opinion)
In rushing to comply with Trump’s executive actions, universities support a segregationist agenda, Subini Annamma and David Stovall write.
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/crt-... Isaiah 1:17 makes it clear. It says: “Learn to do good. Seek justice. Oppose oppression.” And Isaiah 10:1-4 makes it clear that God will judge harshly oppression that originates behind the curtain in the voting booth. Read it for yourself.
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Critical Race Theory @crt-content.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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Adrien Wing leads panel discussion on critical race theory and intersectionality - The Tribune
On Feb. 12, Professor Adrien Wing, Director of the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights, explored the role of critical race theory (CRT) in challenging institutionalized oppression at a panel ho...
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Critical Race Theory @crt-content.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
libguides.umn.edu/antiracismlens This Guide is packed full of information, pointers, methodologies, & sources to aid in conducting research through an anti-racism lens. It will help detect and avoid unknowingly utilizing or conducting research centered in ubiquitous white ideologies and paradigms.
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Research Guides: Conducting research through an anti-racism lens: Home
This guide is for students, staff, and faculty who are incorporating an anti-racist lens at all stages of the research life cycle.
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Critical Race Theory @crt-content.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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The War on Critical Race Theory: How Political Fear and Historical Erasure Shape America’s Divide.
Yet, many Trump supporters and white parents who opposed CRT are unaware that they, too, will be hurt, and the betrayal is unfolding. The history those parents are trying to erase will remind them tha...
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/crt-... Faculty pressure, student protests, a joint AG lawsuit to challenge Fed funding cuts and boycotts of universities that cave could help to generate the political will in Blue States to preserve academic freedom and continue to teach #CRT and practice #DEI. ✊🏽 #Resist #BLM
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/crt-... Trump’s cuts to the Department of Education will keep MAGA children ignorant of this country’s history of racial oppression & discrimination. It’s about keeping them ignorant - not about hurting their feelings. It’s about reinforcing anti-BIPOC laws and policies. #CRT
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Critical Race Theory @crt-content.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
nyupress.org/black-histor... This is a fantastic selection of books from NYU Press! Save 30% on all titles when you use code HOLIDAY at checkout on nyupress.org. You’ll receive free domestic shipping for orders over $40.
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- NYU Press
In our Black History Month collection, you’ll find a reflection of today’s struggles. In a divided nation, enslaved people reclaimed symbols like the American flag, forcing the country to live up to i...
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/crt-... THIS 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽. If you’re white, this excellently written article should increase your empathy for Black professionals, and help you understand why DEI and CRT are so necessary today.
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Critical Race Theory @crt-content.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u... And it cancelled $600 Million in grants to support DEI, teaching about racial discrimination and support of BIPOC academic and cultural organizations. American law and policy are regressing into pre-1964 systemic anti-BIPOC racism again. #CriticalRaceTheory #CRT
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Education Dept. Gives Schools Two Weeks to Eliminate Race-Based Programs
The department’s Office for Civil Rights warned that it would penalize schools that consider race in scholarships, hiring and an array of other activities.
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u... It is impossible to overstate the seriousness of this breach of internal control.
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Top Social Security Official Leaves After Musk Team Seeks Data Access
The departure of the acting commissioner is the latest backlash to the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to access sensitive data.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/02/2025
taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Trump fires hundreds of FAA workers as one out of every three planes crash.
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Critical Race Theory @crt-content.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
brewminate.com/tag/racism/ This excelllently done site features a ton articles on systemic racism and Critical Race Theory. Highly recommended!
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Racism Archives - Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/02/2025
Just as relevant today… “The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” - Malcom X (1963)
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... The GOP’s war on DEI can be understood in two ways: 1) It is racist AF, and is used to turn back BIPOC progress in the USA to pre-1964 levels, and 2) It is being used to attack and destroy large swaths of the Federal Government itself —thus ensuring #1. #DEI
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We are witnessing the rise of a new Republican ‘Southern Strategy’ | Jason Stanley
How to make sense of the Trump administration’s attacks on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/vict... Count me and millions of allies in.
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/jame... Anti-Immutable is Anti-Black. No other way to describe it.
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/esqu... First, Nazis took their cues from the USA. Now, the USA is taking cues from the Nazis. And trying to force feed it back to Europe. Trump is spinning the Nazi loop like it’s a top.
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.
"Where Law Ends Tyranny Begins"
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 16/02/2025
hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
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Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
It’s bad if you like to keep ebook backup copies.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Spot on.
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/bria... The Lost Cause is back.
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/harr... It turns out, Democracy dies in the broad daylight with a whimper.
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Jeff Reihle @jeffreihle.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Whislerat @whislerat.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/crt-... Critical Race Theory posits that our laws create and perpetuate anti-BIPOC systemic inequities. This essay describes how that happens with school funding formulas, school district boundary lines and school capital and operating budgeting practices. #CRT is fact.
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/crt-... This Harvard Law Review article is a scathing indictment of the Roberts Court’s unwillingness to recognize newer forms of racial discrimination since the pre-civil rights era to protect BIPOC claimants, while allowing such forms to protect white claimants. #CRT
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/lind... The Trump-Kennedy plagues are spreading: Tuberculosis, Bird Flu, Measles, Flu . . . more added regularly.
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Mary Carpenter @emsee2.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
THIS. Despite the protestations of Trump’s white evangelical base - there ain’t no Jesus in your prosperity gospel & 7 Hills Dominionism calling for worldly domination thru “National Christianity”. Budgets are morality tales, & you have none, Nat Cs. You voted for Barrabas.
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/hrw.... Ethnic cleansing and genocide anywhere is a threat to life and peace everywhere. #DRCongo #Gaza #Palestine #EndGenocide #FoodNotBombs
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org
Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/crt-... Excellent article! For more daily CRT content, search for Critical Race Theory in your #Feeds and pin @crt-content.bsky.social to your #Feeds menu, or follow @crt-content.bsky.social.
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/crt-... This new report, sourced from government documents, describes the harm to students & teachers from the far-right’s attack on CRT and “divisive subjects.” And it exposes their end game — to end public education as it now exists & replace it with vouchers & charter schools.
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Critical Race Theory @crt-content.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/tizz... Although CRT deals with legal and structural, as opposed to personal racism, when the personal racist is a politician — his/her impact on legal & structural racism is front & center — and is in CRT’s wheel house. #CRT is needed now more than ever.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I won’t stop posting this.
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/crt-... Last night’s screening and panel discussion of “The Story of US” at the Sundance Film Festival” was compelling, informative and entertaining. Watch it here!
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/pete... The Trump-Kennedy Plagues have started. Day 24.
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/nyti... The Trump-Kennedy Plagues have started. Day 24.
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/crt-... For regular content on Critical Race Theory, and the laws and conditions it addresses, follow @crt-content.bsky.social.
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/alyd... Due to Trump’s wonderful work getting egg prices down:
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ImDavidDunn @imdaviddunn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The former chair explicitly said 16% of Kennedy funding is federal. Tickets & donations make up the major basis on which the Kennedy Center depends. Take a hint from the former chair. Other entertainment options, including theater options, exist in DC. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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New Kennedy Center board elects Trump as chair. Rutter departs as president.
President Trump’s refashioned board of trustees voted him chairman in a meeting Wednesday afternoon. President Deborah Rutter told staff she was departing the institution.
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/aapf... Click on the link below to register for tonight’s free online premiere of #TheStoryOfUs at 7:00 PM!
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Critical Race Theory @crt-content.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/edcast... In this podcast, Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings discusses the current politicization and tension around teaching about race in the classroom, and offers a path forward for educators eager to engage in work that deals with the truth about America’s history.
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Craig Eastman @racialjustice.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/crt-... Follow @crt-content.bsky.social to get regular CRT content on BlueSky.
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Critical Race Theory @crt-content.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
A great CRT resource guide: CRT is one of several modern theories used in legal education & practice since the 1970s. CRT has since been incorporated by scholars across the academy "as a conceptual construct, & methodology [to examine] the structures and systems that maintain White Supremacy.”
guides.lib.uconn.edu
LibGuides: Africana Studies Subject Guide: Critical Race Theory (CRT)
Interdisciplinary guide for Africana/African American Studies
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Critical Race Theory @crt-content.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
law.yale.edu/gerald-torres A compendium of works by Gerald Torres. Torres’s work has examined how U.S. regulations have created racially & ethnically marginalized communities that bear a disproportionate share of environmental burdens. He is also a leading scholar in critical race theory.
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Gerald Torres
Gerald Torres is Professor of Environmental Justice at the Yale School of the Environment, with a secondary appointment as Professor of Law at the Law School.
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Critical Race Theory @crt-content.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
A civics or American history education devoid of race consciousness is a miseducation, and America deserves better. The Executive Order “ENDING RADICAL INDOCTRINATION IN K-12 SCHOOLING” will result in the miseducation of America’s schoolchildren until it is repealed or judged unconstitutional.
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Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling
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 and
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