Antonia Randolph
@baldwinvidal.bsky.social
Black queer feminist jawn. And how. She/They pronouns.
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Kevin Curry, a food influencer and a former SNAP recipient, explains where SNAP recipients can get the most up-to-date information on their benefits, and how anyone can find free or affordable food. n.pr/47Awavd
9 strategies to find free or low-cost food when money is tight
Kevin Curry, a food influencer and a former SNAP recipient, explains where SNAP recipients can get the most up-to-date information on their benefits, and how anyone can find free or affordable food.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Kevin Curry, a food influencer and a former SNAP recipient, explains where SNAP recipients can get the most up-to-date information on their benefits, and how anyone can find free or affordable food. n.pr/47Awavd
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Funding alert: @grist.org is offering grants of up to $5,000 for reporting on rural climate issues and environmental justice in the United States. Newsrooms and freelancers are welcome to apply. Please share! grist.org/updates/gris...
Grist opens applications for new rural reporting grants on climate and environmental justice
Applicants can request up to $5,000 per project.
grist.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Funding alert: @grist.org is offering grants of up to $5,000 for reporting on rural climate issues and environmental justice in the United States. Newsrooms and freelancers are welcome to apply. Please share! grist.org/updates/gris...
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'Vibe magazine is merging with Rolling Stone to help bolster its hip-hop coverage.
Duke University Prof Mark Anthony Neal joins Here & Now to discuss what this merger means for the future of Black cultural criticism.'
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Duke University Prof Mark Anthony Neal joins Here & Now to discuss what this merger means for the future of Black cultural criticism.'
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Inside Vibe's merger with Rolling Stone
Vibe magazine is merging with Rolling Stone to help bolster its hip-hop coverage to include podcasts, long-form journalism and social media.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
'Vibe magazine is merging with Rolling Stone to help bolster its hip-hop coverage.
Duke University Prof Mark Anthony Neal joins Here & Now to discuss what this merger means for the future of Black cultural criticism.'
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
Duke University Prof Mark Anthony Neal joins Here & Now to discuss what this merger means for the future of Black cultural criticism.'
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
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The 2025 National Book Award Finalists answer our questions about their books, their reading habits, and their writing lives.
Meet the 2025 National Book Award Finalists
The winners of the 76th National Book Awards—given every year in Young People’s Literature, Translation, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction—will be announced next week in a ceremony hosted by Jeff Hil…
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November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The 2025 National Book Award Finalists answer our questions about their books, their reading habits, and their writing lives.
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NEW: The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services cannot reduce Medicaid payments to providers of a service to children with autism, a Superior Court judge ruled Monday. ncnewsline.com/briefs/nc-ju... By @lbonner.bsky.social #ncpol #autism
NC judge freezes Medicaid rates for autism treatment, blocking DHHS cut • NC Newsline
NC judge prevents NC Department of Health and Human Services from cutting Medicaid rates paid to providers of autism therapy.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
NEW: The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services cannot reduce Medicaid payments to providers of a service to children with autism, a Superior Court judge ruled Monday. ncnewsline.com/briefs/nc-ju... By @lbonner.bsky.social #ncpol #autism
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@muhammadshehada.bsky.social chronicles the history of the decades-long siege on the people of Gaza.
The History of the Relentless, Decades-Long Siege on the People of Gaza
My first memory of Gaza is an airstrike. My second is an Israeli checkpoint. My third is of frequent demonstrations. And my fourth is of my overcrowded UNRWA school for Palestinian refugees. Gaza i…
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November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
@muhammadshehada.bsky.social chronicles the history of the decades-long siege on the people of Gaza.
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
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Dear god.
“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…”
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
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Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Dear god.
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OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
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I stand on the shoulders of giants and Dr Morgan is was a giant intellect, leader, scholar. May the road rise to meet her, may she rest in power.
NYT: Marcyliena Morgan, Founder of Harvard’s Hip-Hop Archive, Dies at 75
By Alex Williams
Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music.
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By Alex Williams
Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music.
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Marcyliena Morgan, Founder of Harvard’s Hip-Hop Archive, Dies at 75
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM
I stand on the shoulders of giants and Dr Morgan is was a giant intellect, leader, scholar. May the road rise to meet her, may she rest in power.
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A Retrospective of Trailblazing Artist Faith Ringgold Centers Narratives of Black Americans
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/fait...
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A Retrospective of Trailblazing Artist Faith Ringgold Centers Narratives of Black Americans
Faith Ringgold is renowned for her story quilts, which combine fabric and embroidery with painted tableaux of scenes around Harlem and beyond.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
A Retrospective of Trailblazing Artist Faith Ringgold Centers Narratives of Black Americans
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/fait...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/fait...
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Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth.
Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”
(Published Dec. 2022)
Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”
(Published Dec. 2022)
She Says Doctors Ignored Her Concerns About Her Pregnancy. For Many Black Women, It’s a Familiar Story.
Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a B...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth.
Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”
(Published Dec. 2022)
Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”
(Published Dec. 2022)
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For people who are interested in and working to develop abolitionist interventions and groups to help keep each other safe, we have a new resource that aims to help demystify a few things about how we create these organizations and formations, and how we sustain them.
Read it here:
Read it here:
Loving and Protecting Us — Interrupting Criminalization
A resource for people interested in and working to develop abolitionist crisis response rooted in transformative justice. This offering aims to help demystify a few things about how we develop, think ...
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
For people who are interested in and working to develop abolitionist interventions and groups to help keep each other safe, we have a new resource that aims to help demystify a few things about how we create these organizations and formations, and how we sustain them.
Read it here:
Read it here:
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We're hosting "Writing and Resistance" a workshop and conversation with KIESE LAYMON, ROBERT JONES, JR. and DEESHA PHILYAW on Dec. 14! All proceeds will go to the Sameer Project. Join us!
Register:
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Register:
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November 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
We're hosting "Writing and Resistance" a workshop and conversation with KIESE LAYMON, ROBERT JONES, JR. and DEESHA PHILYAW on Dec. 14! All proceeds will go to the Sameer Project. Join us!
Register:
www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/wri...
Register:
www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/wri...
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@colorado.edu Journalism professor @angiechuang.bsky.social just wrote a brilliant piece for @us.theconversation.com -- and you should check out her just released book "American Otherness in Journalism"
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Overwhelm the public with muzzle-velocity headlines: A strategy rooted in racism and authoritarianism
The unrelenting diet of chaotic, contradictory headlines that Americans face today echoes an antidemocratic playbook from the past.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
@colorado.edu Journalism professor @angiechuang.bsky.social just wrote a brilliant piece for @us.theconversation.com -- and you should check out her just released book "American Otherness in Journalism"
theconversation.com/overwhelm-th...
theconversation.com/overwhelm-th...
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My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
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Do yourself a favor and read this excellent wide-ranging interview with the activist-scholar Cathy Cohen!
“We have to be building political homes while also doing the door-knocking and organizing that builds power and changes lives. The duality of that work can be hard to hold.”
An interview with activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen:
An interview with activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen:
Building a Political Home - Boston Review
Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen on winning power in the midst of a “generational war.”
www.bostonreview.net
November 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Do yourself a favor and read this excellent wide-ranging interview with the activist-scholar Cathy Cohen!
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How Trump’s government shutdown is fueling anti-Black propaganda
Under the boot of an administration that would rather foment racism than end its manufactured crisis, the authoritarian president is willing to let millions of real people—regardless of race—starve.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/o...
Under the boot of an administration that would rather foment racism than end its manufactured crisis, the authoritarian president is willing to let millions of real people—regardless of race—starve.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/o...
How Trump’s government shutdown is fueling anti-Black propaganda - The Boston Globe
Under the boot of an administration that would rather foment racism than end its manufactured crisis, the authoritarian president is willing to let millions real people — regardless of race — starve.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
How Trump’s government shutdown is fueling anti-Black propaganda
Under the boot of an administration that would rather foment racism than end its manufactured crisis, the authoritarian president is willing to let millions of real people—regardless of race—starve.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/o...
Under the boot of an administration that would rather foment racism than end its manufactured crisis, the authoritarian president is willing to let millions of real people—regardless of race—starve.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/o...
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Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Some context from @stevevladeck.bsky.social on what KBJ is doing www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-w...
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Some context from @stevevladeck.bsky.social on what KBJ is doing www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-w...
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This afternoon's clear statement from Lee Roberts that UNC cannot and will not sign Trump's Compact, because of issues with academic freedom, came about in part because of the pressure from students, faculty and alumni✊
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This afternoon's clear statement from Lee Roberts that UNC cannot and will not sign Trump's Compact, because of issues with academic freedom, came about in part because of the pressure from students, faculty and alumni✊
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